Meatballs in tomato sauce - Hungarian version

This meal is very popular in  Hungary. It's great for kids too, they like it. Delicious, easy to cook and can also be stored in a freezer.

Ingredients: 6 serves


For the meatballs:
750 g minced pork meat
150 g rice
2 tsp salt
grounded black pepper
1 onion 30 g (egg size)
1 tbsp grounded paprika (red pepper)
1 egg

For the sauce:
4 tbsp all purpose flour (80 g)
750 ml dense tomato juice or 150 g tomato purée + water
1/2 tsp salt
100 g sugar
1 strand of celery green
2 slices of green pepper

Method:

1. Wash the rice and cook in boiling hot water in 5 minutes. Filter and cool.
2. Peel the onion and chop it very finely.
3. Take a bowl. Put in the meat, add egg, salt, grounded pepper, paprika, chopped onion, and mix them together well.
4. Finally add the rice too and mix.
5. Shape a piece of the mixture into a ball (approx size double eggs)
6. To cook the meatballs boil the 750 ml tomato juice, add celery, salt and 2 slices of green pepper. Put the meatballs into hot juice. Boiling them  in 30 minutes.
7. Remove the meatballs to a bowl. Throw the celery and green pepper off.
8. Stir the flour with a little water smoothly in a cup. Pour it into the tomato sauce and boil it for 3 minutes. Add the sugar too, boil with it still 1 minutes. Power off the heating.
9. Place the meatballs to the sauce.

This food usually serving with diced cooked potato or only with slice of bread.

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Paprika potatoes

Ingredients:
1 kg potatoes
1 large onion
1 large clove garlic
1 tablespoon ground paprika
1/2 tomato
1/2 green pepper
20 cm smoked sausage (or wiener or hotdog sausage)
pinch of ground cumin
10 whole black pepper
1 tablespoon oil (or fat of roasted bacon)
salt



1. Peel the potatoes and slice prisms of them.



2. Chop the onion and the garlic finely.



3. Braise the onion and the garlic in oil until pale yellow.

4. Pull the pan from the fire, add the paprika, mix in, add 1 dl of water.
Put the potatoes, green pepper, tomato, smoked sausage into the pan.
Add a pinch of cumin, the black peppers and salt.



5. Add some water but not too much: some potatoes should stand out because potatoes contain water too. Paprika potatoes are the best if they have only little and dense gravy.



Cook for 20 minutes under the cover.



6. Put the wienie on the top of the potatoes and cook them in the steam for 5 minutes under the cover.

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