How to cook and freeze meatballs for future use at home

How to cook meatballs

There are a lot of options for preparing meatballs. They can be prepared from any type of meat (lean pork, beef, chicken or turkey) or fish.

Before cooking, meat or fish is filleted and passed through a fine meat grinder. If you are preparing meatballs for feeding a baby, you can pass the minced meat through a meat grinder several times.

To make the meat balls more tender, add white bread soaked in milk.

Onions and garlic are crushed together with meat in a meat grinder. Some housewives replace fresh vegetables with dried ones. According to their reviews, the taste of the finished meatballs only benefits from this.

For spices, you can add ground black pepper and salt. The amount of salt is taken at the rate of: 1 teaspoon per 1 kilogram of minced meat.

To prevent the meatballs from falling apart during cooking, add an egg to the minced meat. There is a proportion: the amount of meat weighing up to 500 grams is 1 egg, up to 1 kilogram is 2 eggs, and so on. To prepare children's meatballs, a chicken egg can be replaced with a quail egg.

You can additionally add grated carrots or zucchini to the minced meatballs frozen for feeding children.

Before forming the meat balls, the minced meat is thoroughly kneaded along with all the ingredients.

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How to freeze meatballs

Form the meatballs with wet hands so that the minced meat does not stick to your hands.

To quickly form meatballs by hand, you need to take a small amount of minced meat in one hand, and then pinch off small portions with squeezing movements of your thumb and forefinger.

Use your other hand to remove the finished meatballs.

To prevent the meatballs from sticking together in the freezer, they are first frozen on a cutting board covered with cellophane. After freezing, the meat balls are poured into a sealed bag or container.

You can use ice cube trays to freeze minced meat. To make it easier to remove the frozen semi-finished product from the mold, it is first covered with cling film. After freezing, the workpiece is transferred to bags for storage.

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How to freeze meatballs for a child

To feed your baby, meatballs can be frozen raw or already cooked.

Frozen raw meatballs are prepared without defrosting, by steaming or adding to vegetable soups.

Ready-made frozen meatballs - first defrost at room temperature, and then before serving, immerse in boiling water for one minute.

How to freeze cooked meatballs in a vacuum

You can freeze cooked meatballs in a vacuum. This method significantly increases their shelf life and completely protects them from weathering.

Pre-boiled meatballs are placed in special bags, from which air is removed using a home vacuumizer. The packages with the workpiece are stored in the freezer.

Shelf life of frozen meatballs

The shelf life of meatballs in the freezer is relatively short. It lasts from 1 to 2 months, provided that the container is completely sealed and the temperature is maintained at -18ºС.

In order to know exactly the date when food was placed in the freezer, bags and containers containing the product must be marked.