A tasty dish, combined with almost any side dish, which is loved by both adults and children - meatballs or hedgehogs with rice. Although these two dishes are similar, they differ slightly in that they often put raw rice into the hedgehogs, and when stewing or baking, the grains swell and the “meatballs” look like small hedgehogs. Using pre-boiled rice is not a mistake either. We present you a variety of recipes for meat hedgehogs, so that you yourself can choose the one that you prefer.
Meat hedgehogs with rice - general principles of cooking
For the preparation of meat hedgehogs fit any meat: veal, pork, chicken. You can use several types. It is advisable when scrolling to add to the meat a little bit of fat, so hedgehogs get juicier.
Rice will suit any variety, as long as it is not steamed. Rice can be put in minced raw or semi-prepared, depending on your preferences and recipe.
In addition to rice and meat, onion is often put in minced meat. It should be either finely chopped with a knife, or rolled through a meat grinder along with the meat. Spices and spices are used to a minimum.
From the finished meat mass form balls of large or medium size. Prepare hedgehogs for a couple, in a frying pan, in an oven or a slow cooker, bay sauce. You can meat balls with rice pre-fry.
The sauce is obligatory, without them the hedgehogs are not so soft, juicy and tasty. Prepare a sauce based on tomato paste, sour cream or vegetables.
1. Meat hedgehogs with rice
Ingredients:
• pork and beef mince - half a kilogram;
• long grain rice - 250 g;
• a little tomato paste;
• egg - 1 pc .;
• onion head;
• a glass of sour cream;
• crushed black pepper - 30 g.
Cooking Method:
1. Pour the washed rice cereal with water, boil on low heat until half cooked. Rinse with cold water in a colander. 2. In the ready stuffing add onion cut onion, chicken egg, salt, pepper.
3. Put the washed rice in the minced meat and mix thoroughly.
4. Form balls of about 3 cm in diameter from cooked minced meat.
5. Prepare the sauce: put a glass of sour cream, tomato paste in a thick-walled pot, pour in a little filtered water, salt and pepper (you can add a pinch of dry basil), stir well until a homogeneous, watery texture.
6. Put the hedgehogs in a container with cooked sour-tomato sauce, put on moderate heat and simmer for 40 minutes.
7. Serve finished hedgehogs with a side dish of buckwheat, pasta or vegetables, sprinkled with chopped greens.
2. Meat hedgehogs with rice baked in the oven
Ingredients:
• a pound of any stuffing (can be chicken);
• rice cereal - 250 g;
• 1 egg;
• medium onion;
• sweet pepper pod;
• a few cloves of garlic;
• some cooking oil;
• 30 g sour cream;
• crushed black pepper and seasoning for meat - 20 g each;
• salt - pinch;
• parsley - the floor of the beam.
Cooking Method:
1. Smash an egg into minced meat and add washed, washed rice.
2. Cut the onion into small pieces, pepper into small cubes, add to the mince, put in a little salt, pepper and seasonings, mix everything thoroughly.
3. Put the sour cream in a small cup, mix it with the chopped parsley and garlic squeezed through the garlic.
4. Form medium sized meatballs, place them on a greased sheet.
5. Pour cooked sauce over hedgehogs and bake in the oven at not very high temperature for about 40 minutes.
6. Serve on a serving plate with mashed potatoes, garnished with parsley leaves.
3. Meat hedgehogs with rice in a pan
Ingredients:
• 200 grams of pork and beef;
• 250 grams of rice;
• 1 egg;
• 1 carrot;
• ground crackers - half glass;
• 1 onion;
• parsley - bouquet floor.
On sauce:
• ketchup and sour cream - 130 g each; • salt - pinch;
• ground hot and black pepper, seasoning for meat - 30 g
Cooking Method:
1. Twist the prepared meat through the meat grinder.
2. Break egg into mincemeat, add washed rice.
3. A little salt, pepper, season with spices.
4. Chop the carrots, onions and parsley leaves with a knife, put in the mince, mix everything thoroughly to a soft texture.
5. Shape balls, sprinkle them with breadcrumbs, put them on a hot frying pan with butter and fry until golden brown.
6. While the hedgehogs are fried, make the sauce: in a cup, mix the sour cream, ketchup and a little boiled water, add pepper, salt, stir well again.
7. Pour sauce hedgehogs. Simmer on low heat for about half an hour.
8. Put the hedgehogs on a plate, pour the sauce.
4. Meat hedgehogs with rice in a slow cooker
Ingredients:
• 0.5 kg of minced meat (pork with beef);
• slightly less glass of long grain rice;
• salt - 30 g;
• 1 egg;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 onion;
• a few cloves of garlic;
• 3 medium tomatoes;
• some oil for frying;
• hot and black ground pepper, any spices for meat - 0.5 hour spoon.
Cooking Method:
1. Squeeze the mince into a mince garlic, break an egg, pour out the washed rice, salt and pepper.
2. Thoroughly mix the stuffing with your hands (you can beat off a little culinary hammer so that the hedgehogs will not fall apart during the quenching in the slow cooker).
3. Form small balls.
4. Pour some oil into the multicooker container, place the prepared hedgehogs, set the “frying” mode. Fry for several minutes on all sides.
5. After frying, switch the slow cooker to the “quenching” mode, set the timer to 30 minutes.
6. Fill the meat balls with the prepared sauce: for this, fry the shredded onions and carrots on the stove in the pan, put the chopped unpeeled tomatoes to them, add a small amount of water, mix well.
7. Serve with boiled buckwheat, watering with sauce and garnished with parsley leaves.
5. Meat hedgehogs with rice, stewed with cabbage
Ingredients:
• minced pork with beef - 500-600 g;
• 2 small carrots;
• onion head;
• 4 tbsp. spoons of long grain rice;
• a small piece of cabbage;
• sour cream - 150 g;
• semolina - 30 g;
• tomato - 20 g;
• oil for frying.
Cooking Method:
1. Two carrots and onion cut into small cubes. Pass on the oil until softened.
2. Cabbage chop large straws.
3. Boil washed rice in plenty of water for 10 minutes. Drain the water, wash the rice.
4. In a fried carrot with onions add tomato paste, stir.
5. Add the rice to the minced meat, add the semolina, break the egg, salt and mix.
6. From the cooked mince form balls with a diameter of 6 cm.
7. At the bottom of a deep pan or broiler, lay out the cabbage to one third of the volume.
8. On the cabbage, put a little roasted carrots with onions and tomatoes, grease the surface with sour cream.
9. On sour cream, put the meat hedgehogs.
10. Put the remaining cabbage on top.
11. The last layer will be roasted vegetables with tomato.
12. Pour 400 ml lightly salted water and bring to a boil over high heat.
13. After turning the heat down, simmer until all ingredients are softened for about 40 minutes. As required in the process of extinguishing pour boiling water into the dish.
14. Put the hedgehogs on a plate, next to put the stewed cabbage, pour all the sauce.
6. Meat hedgehogs with rice, baked with potatoes and cheese
Ingredients:
• 0.5 kg of any stuffing;
• onion head;
• potatoes;
• 1 egg;
• 9 Art. spoons of any rice;
• Dutch cheese - a small piece;
• salt, black pepper - on a pinch;
• garlic - 4 cloves.
Cooking Method:
1. Add minced egg and onion in minced meat, salt, pepper, put boiled rice, mix well.
2. Form balls, place them on a greased baking sheet, at a distance of 1 cm from each other.
3. Between hedgehogs lay out the peeled and sliced potatoes, add salt and pepper. 4. Powder everything thoroughly with cheese.
5. Put the sheet in a hot oven and bake for 40 minutes.
6. Serve hot, putting 2-3 hedgehogs and baked potatoes on a plate.
7. Meat hedgehogs with rice under cheese crust
Ingredients:
• half a kilo of minced meat;
• 175 grams of cheese;
• 100 grams of rice;
• onion;
• egg;
• salt;
• to taste garlic.
Cooking Method:
1. Add an egg or minced onion and garlic in minced meat in a blender.
2. Boil the rice in a separate saucepan until half cooked, rinse, drain in a colander.
3. Mix rice with minced meat, salt.
4. Form balls.
5. Put the hedgehogs on the oiled baking sheet, bake at a low temperature for 50 minutes.
6. For 20-25 minutes until ready, pour in some boiling water.
7. 8-12 minutes until cooked, sprinkle hedgehogs with cheese chips.
Meat hedgehogs with rice - secrets and tricks
• If you use purchased and not minced meat for cooking hedgehogs, it is better to twist it again: in semi-finished products you often come across large pieces of meat and fat, which undoubtedly negatively affect the taste of the finished dish.
• Stuffing will not stick during the formation of hedgehogs to hands, if you periodically dip your palms into cool water.
• Make a dietary version of the dish is simple: instead of roasting or baking, choose steaming. After transferring them to the pan and pour the sauce, made from skimmed sour cream and water, stew for 5 minutes.
• Hedgehogs are served with a side dish of buckwheat, boiled vegetables, as well as various salads and greens. You can serve the dish without a side dish, plentifully watering meat balls with sauce. Enjoy your meal.
