Meatballs in Milk Sauce

Ingredients:

• 2lb meat (50×50 pork and beef mix or other to taste)
• 1/3 cup of rice
• 2 medium size onions or a big one
• 1/4-1/3 cup of cold water
• 1/4 cup flour for sauce + more for dusting
• Milk 2-3 cups, to taste
• 2 tablespoon of butter
• 2 bay leaves
• 5-7 allspice peppercorns
• 7-10 black peppercorns
• Dry dill to taste
• Ground black pepper to taste
• Salt to taste
• Oil for frying

How to make, step-by-step:

1. Prepare ingredients:

   

2. Bring a pot with water to boil, add rice and cook rice until almost cooked thought (see step-by-step instructions), let it cool down till room temperature:

   

3. Peel onions, chop them either using food processor or simple grate them on big slots of grater, add to the mixing bowl along with meat:

   

4. Add cooked rice:

   

5. Add salt and ground black pepper to taste:

   

6. Mix enough of cold water to make mixture juicy but not too liquid:

   

7. Mix everything:

   

8. Warm up oil in a skillet. Pour flour for dusting into a bowl. Using a spoon scoop a portion of meat mixture and form a meatball:

   

9. Dust it in flour from all sides:

   

10. Move to a warmed up skillet and repeat with remaining meat mixture. Fry all meatballs from all sides evenly:
    

    

    

    

    
    
11. Transfer colored meatballs in to thick sided cooking pot, add bay leaves and allspice and black pepper corns:

    

12. Season with dry dill (and any other spices you like to taste):

    

13. Set pot with meatballs aside while preparing roux sauce:
    

    

    

    

    
    

    

    

    

    
    
14. Cover pot with a lid, bring to light simmer and cook for about 15 mins, stir and move meatballs from time to time to prevent sauce from burning, then serve: