Hedgehogs with boiled rice. Minced hedgehogs with rice and gravy

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Minced meat hedgehogs with rice are peculiar, which everyone is familiar with and many love them. I will cook them with gravy in a saucepan, which is very convenient. It turns out a large portion of hedgehogs, which you can feed everyone: from kids to adults. It is important for me to feed the whole family in the evening, so meat hedgehogs with gravy are eaten instantly. It turns out peculiar cutlets, and a delicious gravy is attached to them, which goes perfectly with any pasta or even with.
I cook hedgehogs in several stages: I cook minced meat with rice, then fry lightly so that the cutlets take the desired shape. I cook vegetable gravy with tomato paste and then all together the carcass and bring it to the desired state. Since I cook hedgehogs for children, I don’t add pepper to minced meat, only salt. You, if you cook for adults, put the necessary spices that you like.




- 400 grams of minced meat,
- 100 grams of rice,
- 1 chicken egg,
- 1 onion,
- 1 carrot,
- 200 grams of water,
- 2 tables. l. tomato paste,
- vegetable oil for frying
- salt to taste.

Recipe with photo step by step:

Cut off half of the onion and chop it into small squares.




Mix the minced meat with the chopped half of the onion, and also drive in the chicken egg. It will help hold the hedgehogs together so they don't fall apart. Salt minced meat.




Boil the rice to such a state that it is “by the tooth”, which means half-cooked. We wash it and recline it on a fine sieve so that the water drains. Salt the rice a little during the cooking process so that it is not completely bland.




Add half-cooked rice to the minced meat and mix, even knead.






We form hedgehogs with moistened hands and fry them in oil until they form a permanent shape. I do not advise putting them in a pan right away, as they can fall apart. And frying in a pan with the addition of vegetable oil, they will immediately stick together.




We also finely chop the remaining onion, and rub the peeled carrots with a metal grater.




Saute vegetables until soft.




Add tomato paste, fry everything together for 5 minutes, then add water and bring to a boil. We get tomato sauce for hedgehogs.






We shift the hedgehogs into a pan in which we will stew them.




Pour the hedgehogs with gravy and simmer for 25 minutes over low heat. During the stewing, the rice will cook and become not only soft, but will also be visible on the surface, like needles.




We serve hot hedgehogs to the table and invite everyone to have dinner or lunch. Bon Appetite!
It might be easier for you to cook

We offer you a recipe for a very simple, but very tasty dish - hedgehogs with rice in tomato sauce. This is the main daily dish. For cooking hedgehogs with rice, you can use any minced meat that you prefer. You can also use sour cream as a sauce.

• To prepare the dish we need:
• Minced meat - about 400 grams
• Rice (preferably round-grained) - 100 grams
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Carrot - 1 pc.
• Flour - 2 tbsp.
• Tomato paste - 2 tbsp.
• frying oil
• Salt, spices to taste

Recipe for minced hedgehogs with rice in tomato sauce

To prepare hedgehogs, we need about 400 grams of minced meat. We took homemade minced pork and beef. Minced meat must be salted and peppered. We also need 100 grams of round-grain rice, which must first be washed in water. Combine minced meat and rice and mix well.



Place about 2 tablespoons of flour on a plate. From the minced meat we form hedgehogs - round small balls. Each such hedgehog is well rolled in flour.



Pour oil into the pan, heat it up and lay out the resulting hedgehogs to fry on all sides.



Peel the onion and cut into cubes. Peel the carrots and rub on a coarse grater. Fry the vegetables in a little oil.



When the vegetables are ready, add a little flour to them, literally 1 teaspoon without a slide, 2 tablespoons of tomato paste, mix well. Immediately pour about 1 cup of boiled water.



In the resulting tomato sauce, lay out the fried hedgehogs from minced meat and rice. If necessary, add more water so that it practically covers our hedgehogs. Salt, add spices to taste and cook the hedgehogs, periodically turning them over, for about 35-40 minutes over low heat. The finished dish can be sprinkled with herbs. Bon appetit!

meat hedgehogs

Ingredients:

Minced meat - 700 g

Onion - 1-2 pcs.

Rice (basmati) - 100 g

Spices (salt, pepper) - to taste

1. It is necessary to soak the rice for 2 hours, then drain the water so that it dries out a little, and you can do minced meat.

2. In a meat grinder, we grind our minced meat, onions, add spices to taste, after which we form round meatballs, roll each in rice and send it to a double boiler.

3. We set the timer for 40 minutes and observe how, after some time, the rice grains begin to rise and real thorns are obtained.

"Hedgehogs" -meatballs

For cooking it took:

Beef - 250 g

Pork - 250 g

Rice - 150 g

Carrots - 5 pcs.

Onion - 8 pcs. (medium)

Potatoes - 4 pcs. (small)

Egg - 3 pcs.

Tomato paste - 100 g

Flour - 2 tbsp. l. (with slide)

Vegetable oil - 100 g

Spices (salt + pepper + dried dill + suneli hops + etc.) - to taste

Water - 1.5 l

Cooking method:

1. We wash the meat, cut it into small pieces, scroll in a meat grinder until minced meat is formed, mix until smooth, salt, pepper, break three chicken eggs into it and mix everything again. For 1 kilogram of minced meat, I have about 2 teaspoons of salt (without a slide), and pepper - 1 teaspoon. But be careful, salt, alas, is different in salinity. Therefore, it is better after the first spoonful of salt - mix and try a piece of minced meat "on the tongue with salt", and then, if necessary, add more salt.

2. My carrots, clean and 2 pcs. (the remaining 3 are left on the gravy) rubbed on a fine grater. Pour it into the minced meat and mix everything.

3. Potatoes (4 small pieces) are also washed, peeled and rubbed on a fine grater. Also add to the minced meat and mix everything well. Many do not add potatoes, but my relatives and friends who have tried this dish believe that it is tastier this way, and the meatballs are soft and very juicy.

4. Onions, clean, wash, and 4 pcs. (the rest will go to the gravy) cut into small pieces and add to the minced meat. So that the eyes do not pinch, cut the onion in half, and pour hot water over it, after which we chop. Most recipes indicate that the onion must be fried, but I believe that we do not need excess fat, it (the onion) will cook well in the process of baking meatballs.

5. We wash (several times) rice in cold water until the water that you drain from it becomes transparent, without starch whiteness. Pour hot water (water should be 3 times more than rice, i.e. 1 cup of rice and 3 cups of water), cook it over low heat for 10 minutes, drain into a colander, rinse with cold running water, drain excess water ( we defend in a colander for about 5 minutes), and add to the minced meat. We mix everything.

Rice is better not cooked, as it will still be stewed inside the meatballs during baking.

6. To minimize the cooking time of the whole dish, the whole procedure with cooking rice, I advise you to start even before you start cutting vegetables, because if you do it first, then during its cooking you will have enough time to fuss with vegetables.

7. Well, here we are at the finish line))). Mince is ready. We make meatballs out of it. The size of meatballs should be no more than a girl's fist, because if they are large (high), then when baked in a pan, they will not be completely covered by the sauce, and they will dry out.

Small advice, so that the minced meat does not stick to the hands when sculpting meatballs, hands should be moistened in cold water, before each "tuck" of minced meat.

8 . Add a small amount of vegetable oil to a hot frying pan, bring it to a boil, and put the "raw" meatballs on it. Fry on all sides, until the state of "grasped" and "brown" meat. And then put it on a baking sheet.

9. As an option, for lovers of "healthy" cuisine, meatballs can not be fried, but immediately put on a baking sheet, and the baking sheet should not be greased beforehand, since the meatballs themselves will give fatty juice. The only BUT is that they will not acquire a golden sheen as a result of cooking, but will be more faded than fried.

Moreover, both options have the right to exist, it certainly will not be worse. But at home we like toasted meatballs more)))

10. It's time for vegetables for watering.

11. The remaining carrots (3 pcs.) We rub on a coarse grater.

12. Onion (4 pcs.) Cut into half rings.

13. Sliced ​​onions and grated carrots are evenly distributed over the meatballs laid out on a baking sheet.

14. cooking gravy.

15. In a glass of cold water, dilute 2 tbsp. tablespoons of flour, until a homogeneous white liquid mass is formed. Boil the rest of the water, reduce the heat, add 100 grams of tomato paste to it, mix, slowly, stirring constantly, pour the flour mixture into the tomato water, salt, pepper, add spices to taste and cook, stirring, gravy.

Recipe Hedgehogs with rice

Ingredients:

500 g beef

300 g pork

garlic clove

400 g sour cream

2 spoons of tomato paste

large bulb

0.75 cup rice

Pepper, salt, herbs

Cooking method:

1. Grind meat with onion in a meat grinder. You can also use ready-made minced meat. Add finely chopped garlic to the minced meat, break the eggs and season with spices.

2. Rinse the rice several times until the water runs clear. Put the washed rice in minced meat. Mix the minced meat well. Next, form balls, future hedgehogs.

3. sauce preparation: In a separate deep plate, mix mayonnaise, sour cream and tomato paste.

4. Place the hedgehogs in a baking dish, which is lightly greased with oil beforehand. Pour in the sauce. If you have a small form, then you can lay the hedgehogs in two layers, and add a little water in addition.

5. Send to a preheated oven (180 degrees) for an hour.

6. It is advisable to serve the dish immediately, hot, decorate with herbs.

7. You can serve meat hedgehogs with rice with mashed potatoes, pasta, vegetable salads, and also as an independent dish.

A hedgehog is not a hedgehog, a cabbage roll is not a cabbage roll ...

The recipe is based on a wide pan with a volume of 4 liters.

So we need a very small grocery list:

- 800gr. ground beef (or another one that you make, for example, hedgehogs or cabbage rolls);

- 2 pcs. medium-sized carrots;

- 1 onion;

- 0.5 st. rice

- white cabbage (by volume enough to fill 2/3 of the intended capacity);

A real hostess must constantly develop and surprise her loved ones with new delicious dishes. Hedgehogs are usually meatballs with rice. They are named so because they look like forest dwellers.

In this article we will tell you about this unusual and very tasty dish.

How to cook hedgehogs?

There are many recipes for how to cook hedgehogs. However, in most of them, rice is added to minced meat, which, as a result, does not even make meatballs look like real hedgehogs. To achieve maximum similarity, rice should stick out like thorns.

To prepare this interesting and tasty dish, you will need the following ingredients:
Minced meat - 600 -700 grams (you can take minced meat from one type of meat, you can mix it, if you wish);
rice - 1/2 cup (you can take a little more);
one fairly large bulb;
one egg (in extreme cases, you can do without it);
salt, pepper - to taste.

First of all, you need to prepare rice. That is the whole secret of success. To do this, rinse the rice three times in cool water, rubbing it with your palms. Then place in a saucepan and cover with cold water. Now rice should be left for 2 hours.

At this time, prepare the minced meat. If you have ice cream, be sure to defrost it naturally first. Then transfer to a dish and add finely chopped onions to it. It will be even better if you pass the onion through a meat grinder or grate it. So you can achieve maximum uniformity of minced meat consistency.

When the rice is ready, drain the water and dry the cereal a little. Add egg, salt and pepper to taste and mix well. Then we begin to sculpt balls from minced meat.

After that, each ball must be thoroughly rolled in rice. Then put them in a low pan with thick walls. It is necessary that there is very little space between the balls. As soon as all the balls are ready, you need to pour water into the pan, about half the height of the hedgehogs. Put it all together on fire. Let it boil, then reduce the gas and cook for 20-25 minutes. Then turn it off and serve the dish hot with sour cream and herbs.

During the cooking process, the rice will rise and stick out like the needles of a real hedgehog. The only fact is that it is better to take rice with long grains, and not round. This dish will not leave anyone indifferent. In addition, you must agree that it is not at all difficult to cook it. You just need to try a little, and you will be rewarded with the beauty of the new treat and the enthusiastic phrases of loved ones.

Hedgehogs with meat and rice

It is even better to cook this dish in a double boiler, there you don’t have to add water at all. The hedgehogs will steam well, and you can even follow the process of how their needles gradually rise.

How to cook hedgehogs with gravy?

Those housewives who do not care about the similarity of meat hedgehogs with real ones can easily cook another equally tasty dish - hedgehogs in sour cream. In their finished form, they look like meatballs with sauce. Also a very tasty treat! For their preparation, the following components are needed: 600-700 g of minced meat, 1/3 cup of rice, onion, 1 egg, 3-5 tbsp. tablespoons of flour, salt and pepper to taste, half a glass of sour cream, vegetable oil for frying.

Rice must be thoroughly washed and mixed with ready-made minced meat. Then add salt and pepper to taste. Add a beaten egg (then the hedgehogs will not fall apart). Mix well again.

Place an oiled frying pan with high sides on the fire to heat up. While it is heating, form the minced meat into balls. Then start frying the balls, on both sides until a light golden crust appears.

When all the hedgehogs are fried, put them in a pan and pour sour cream (you can dilute it with warm water) so that it covers the hedgehogs. Then close the lid, bring the mass to a boil and, reducing the gas, leave to simmer for about half an hour.

Hedgehogs in cream sauce

After that, serve ready-made hedgehogs with sour cream sauce. They can be very well combined with vegetable salads and stews.

baby hedgehogs

Hedgehogs are one of the favorite treats for kids. They are delicious, tender, juicy and beautiful. It is convenient for mothers - there is no need to decorate the dish. It is enough to blind the hedgehogs not round, but slightly oblong, so that they look like an animal, make eyes and a nose. However, the dish can be called meatballs or lazy cabbage rolls, since it is their dish that resembles.

So, for the dish you will need: 300 grams of meat (you can chicken, turkey, veal or beef), 1 egg, 1 onion, 1 carrot, 1 bell pepper, half a glass of long-grain rice.

First boil the rice. Before pouring it into boiling water in a saucepan, rinse thoroughly. Cook until half cooked. By the way, it is not forbidden to cook rice in a double boiler.

The next step is to make minced meat. We pass meat, carrots, onions and bell peppers through a meat grinder. Next, add grits to the minced meat and vegetables. We break the egg there, for the stickiness of the hedgehogs.

Mix the mass thoroughly. With wet hands we form oblong meatballs from it. Do not forget about the eyes and nose from the crust of rye bread. Properly cook baby hedgehogs for a couple. Therefore, we alternately put them in a double boiler. There they have to prepare for 30-35 minutes.

When the recipe is already familiar to you, you can fantasize. So, you can cook tomato sauce or add various spices to sour cream: sweet pepper, parsley, basil and green onions. You can add finely grated carrots or chopped dill to the minced meat. One way or another, there is room for imagination, which means that there is an opportunity to develop and surprise your loved ones.

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If you have not yet decided what to cook for dinner, then this hedgehog recipe will be a real find! Hedgehogs are a tender meat dish in a thick, aromatic sauce. They look like large meatballs. The difference is that boiled half-cooked or raw rice is added to the minced meat. Before stewing, unlike ordinary cutlets, they do not need to be fried. Therefore, hedgehogs are a more dietary dish and require less time. This, of course, will appreciate any hostess.

You can combine the dish with almost any side dish. Mashed potatoes, various cereals or spaghetti are perfect. These meatballs are loved by both adults and children. For children, you can use sour cream as a gravy. So any "nehochuha" will eat them with great appetite. For adults, there is a huge selection of various seasonings and spices that will help diversify the taste of the dish. For stewing, you can use a mixture of fresh sour cream with thick tomato paste. Below, we will describe in detail the recipe for hedgehogs cooked with just such a sauce.

For hedgehogs:

• beef pulp - 600 g;
• pork pulp - 300 g;
• egg - 1 pc;
• onion - 200 g;
• rice - 100 g;
• garlic - 5-6 cloves;
• vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l.;
• salt, pepper, spices, aromatic herbs - to taste.

For sauce:

• meat broth - 250 ml;
• sour cream - 200 g;
• tomato paste - 50-70 g.

For the broth:

• meat bones;
• carrots - 1 pc;.
• onion - 1 pc;
• bay leaf - 1 pc;
• peppercorns - 3-4 pcs.

The traditional combination of meat for a recipe for hedgehogs with gravy is beef and pork. Moreover, beef should be about twice as much as pork. The tenderest parts of beef are the rump, thin or thick sirloin. The stuffing from them is especially tender and juicy. The neck part of beef is less suitable for minced meat. She's too wiry and tough. The brisket doesn't fit at all. A lot of veins that are difficult to grind, bones, cartilage. Take pork for minced meat with fat. The neck part is ideal for this dish. A ham or shoulder blade is also good, but when cooking minced meat, then you need to add a little lard. Otherwise, the stuffing will turn out dry. Please note that chilled meat contains a lot of liquid, which can make the minced meat watery. It will be difficult to form hedgehogs from it, they may lose their shape. Therefore, it is recommended to take frozen meat of a fresh cut on the bone. The bones will also come in handy for us - they will go into the broth for stewing hedgehogs.

Rice for hedgehogs is better to choose golden, basmati or similar varieties. Such rice keeps its shape perfectly, it will not turn into porridge when stewing. Krasnodar rice may become too soft during cooking. This will spoil the look and taste of the dish. Opt for firm, non-starchy rice varieties.

Sour cream is suitable for any fat content. Preference, of course, give thick, and also not very oily. Tomato paste should be thick and bright. The color of the sauce will then be very beautiful. Prepare the broth for the sauce rich and strong, adding spices, carrots and onions. Then the taste of the dish will turn out to be as fragrant and rich as possible.

Defrost beef and pork. Separate the bones from the pulp, leaving some meat on them. Also, remove the veins and excess fat. Place the bones in a saucepan, fill with water, put on the stove to prepare the broth. While the minced meat is cooking, the broth will be ready. Rinse pork and beef, freed from sinews and bones. Then cut into small pieces.

Pass the meat through a meat grinder with a fine grate. The finer the structure of minced meat, the softer the hedgehogs will turn out.

Peel the onion and garlic, rinse with running water.

Chop the onion coarsely and pass through a meat grinder directly into a bowl of minced meat. Garlic should also be ground together with onions.

Rice preparation

You don't have to take a lot of rice. For a pound of meat, take about 70 grams of rice. This is maximum. Pour the rice into a saucepan, rinse well with cold running water. Change the water until it becomes completely clear. Pour rice with clean water and cook until half done. Stir the rice during the cooking process. Do not cover with a lid. When the grits soften a little, but the rice is still firm, turn off the gas. Throw the rice in a colander, rinse it with cold running water.

Pour rice into a bowl with minced meat, break an egg into it.

The egg is necessary for a good coupling of minced meat with rice. Hedgehogs cooked this way will be easier to shape. Add salt, freshly ground black pepper and mix well. Form them with a tablespoon. The amount of minced meat that fits in a heaping tablespoon is just the right size hedgehog. Form the minced meat into a round shape with wet hands. It is better to moisten your hands with warm water, so the hedgehogs will be easier to form and stick to your fingers less. Lay the meatballs out on the board. It is better to lay them in a patch to extinguish them at the same time.

broth for gravy

Meat bones, filled with water just above the level of the bones, bring to a boil over high heat. Remove the foam with a slotted spoon or spoon, turn down the heat. Peel one carrot and one onion. Do not cut them, dip them whole into the broth. Cook for about an hour at a slow boil, covered. At the end of cooking, add bay leaf, a few peppercorns and salt. So the fragrant and rich broth we need for the recipe for delicious hedgehogs will turn out perfect.

To prepare hedgehogs, take a thick-walled patch. In a saucepan, they can burn from the bottom, and in a pan there is not enough room for a delicious meat sauce.

Heat a tablespoon of vegetable oil in a patch. Lay the meatballs in a circle, side by side tightly to each other.

Don't worry, they won't stick together, the sauce won't let them. Pour the hedgehogs first with meat broth. Strain it before pouring into a patch to remove any small bones.

Mix fresh thick sour cream with tomato paste. This recipe for hedgehogs with just such a sauce. Add the mixture to the patch to the broth, pouring it evenly in a circle to cover all the meatballs.

Sprinkle with your favorite spices or aromatic herbs on top, cover the patch with a lid. Bring the dish to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for about 30 minutes without opening the lid. The gravy should gurgle a little.

Serve hedgehogs hot. The side dish can be any of your choice or just with fresh vegetables and soft bread. Pour the garnish generously with fragrant gravy. Sprinkle with chopped herbs, if desired. Onions, parsley, dill or cilantro are very good for sour cream tomato sauce. This dish always turns out juicy and extraordinarily tasty! Your loved ones will certainly appreciate the delicate taste and aroma of hedgehogs in sour cream and tomato sauce. You will definitely hear - “thank you very much, it was very tasty. Can I have hedgehogs again tomorrow?”

• If you are preparing a dish for young children, do not make the gravy too thick and rich. Replace the rich broth with boiled water or exclude garlic and spices from the recipe.
• Do not fry hedgehogs before stewing. Then the dish will turn out to be more dietary.
• Instead of pork with fat for baby food, you can take poultry or veal.
• Don't be afraid to experiment with different spices. This dish is in perfect harmony with all herbs, various seasonings for meat, hot peppers. Instead of tomato paste with sour cream, you can mix tomatoes, finely chopped and peeled. To do this, grind the tomatoes with a blender until smooth. Or you can take a can of peeled tomatoes in their own juice and chop them up.
• Sprinkle the gravy with Provencal herbs and do not add sour cream to the sauce. Then you get an Italian-style dish. Serve it with a fresh vegetable salad drizzled with olive oil and fresh ciabatta. So you get an Italian dinner for the whole family. Pasta is perfect as a side dish.
• If you want the rice grains to stick out of the hedgehogs like thorns, then knead well-washed raw rice into the minced meat. In this case, you will have to increase the stewing time so that the rice even inside the meat balls has time to cook.