Meatballs, meatballs, meatballs - many delicious ground meat dishes loved by many. We suggest you move away from the usual recipes and cook something reminiscent of the above dishes, but slightly different from them, namely hedgehogs from minced meat with rice in a pan.
The dish got this name because of its unusual appearance: first, meatballs are formed from minced meat, then rice grains are inserted into meat balls, and stewed, baked, or steamed. But you can not complicate your life and mix the minced meat with rice, it turns out no less funny and tasty. Let's get started?
Minced hedgehogs with rice in a pan - general principles of cooking
Cooking hedgehogs is surprisingly simple and not troublesome. All you need is minced meat, rice and ingredients for the sauce.
Minced meat You can buy it already ready or scroll it yourself. Pork and veal, and turkey or chicken are suitable. Often use mixed minced meat.
Rice you can take any one if the cereal is added directly to the minced meat, or large, whole - if you stick into meatballs.
Ready hedgehogs are spread in a pan greased with butter, lightly fried, then poured with sauce. Here you can not limit yourself to imagination: prepare a fill of sour cream, cream, cheese, tomatoes, pasta, sauteed vegetables, broth and any other products. It is important that the sauce covers the hedgehogs completely, so they turn out tender and juicy.
Served hedgehogs with minced meat with rice as an independent dish or with a side dish of boiled, baked, fresh vegetables.
1. Minced hedgehogs with rice in a pan
Ingredients:
• half a kilogram of minced meat (pork with beef);
• rice groats - 200 g;
• 3 onion heads;
• egg;
• 1 carrot;
• 30 g of tomato;
• salt - 20 g;
• allspice powder - optional;
• flour for sprinkling.
Cooking method:
1. Pour the washed rice into a small saucepan and cook for 20 minutes. We recline in a colander, rinse.
2. Put the boiled rice in the minced meat along with two chopped onion heads.
3. Add the egg to the minced meat, salt, pepper, mix thoroughly and let it brew for a bit.
4. While the minced meat is infused, put the chopped onion head in a cast-iron pan, carrot - on a fine grater and simmer with vegetable oil over moderate heat for 3 minutes.
5. We form balls of minced meat, sprinkle with flour.
6. Put the meat balls in a hot frying pan with oil and fry until slightly crusty, turning three times.
7. Fried "hedgehogs" are transferred to a cast-iron pan with stewed vegetables, stir well.
8. Pour tomato puree diluted in water almost until completely covered, slightly add salt, turn on a low heat and simmer for 20 minutes.
9. Put the stewed "hedgehogs" 2 pieces on each serving plate, lay the mashed potatoes next to it, pour over the sauce.
2. Minced hedgehogs with rice in a pan in sour cream sauce
Ingredients:
• 600 g of pork and ground beef;
• 1 carrot;
• 3 onion heads;
• chicken egg;
• sour cream - 300 g;
• a few cloves of garlic;
• salt - 20 g;
• allspice - optional;
• long grain rice - 250 g;
• parsley leaves - 1 bunch;
• some frying oil.
Cooking method:
1. Cut two onion heads into small crumbs, put in the minced meat, add the washed and boiled rice until half cooked, chopped garlic, parsley, egg, add salt, pepper, stir well and let it brew for 25 minutes.
2. Cook the sour cream sauce: carrots - on a grater, the remaining onion - small crumbs, put in a cast iron pan and fry with a little oil.
3. Pour a little water into sour cream, stir to a semi-liquid consistency and pour into vegetables, add salt, pepper and simmer for 15 minutes.
4. We make balls of minced meat and pre-cooked rice, sprinkle with flour and spread in a hot pan, fry in oil on all sides.
5. Fried "hedgehogs" put in sour cream sauce and simmer for 15 minutes.
6. When serving on a serving plate, put 2 "hedgehogs", next to any side dish (boiled buckwheat, pasta or mashed potatoes), sprinkle with chopped parsley leaves.
3. Dietary hedgehogs with minced meat and rice in a chicken pan
Ingredients:
• 3 medium chicken breasts;
• rice groats - half a glass;
• a piece of butter;
• a couple of cloves of garlic;
• 3 onion heads;
• 1 carrot;
• olive oil for frying - 30 ml;
• nonfat sour cream - 300 ml;
• parsley - 1 bunch;
• salt - 10 g;
• allspice, ground pepper - 1 teaspoon;
• chicken egg.
Cooking method:
1. Separate the meat from the breast and scroll through the meat grinder, add 2 chopped onion heads, garlic, boiled rice, butter, egg, pepper, salt, mix thoroughly and leave for 20 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, we prepare sour cream diet sauce: 1 onion, cut into small crumbs, carrots on a grater, fry in olive oil for several minutes, pour sour cream diluted in water, stir well, add salt, simmer for 10 minutes.
3. From the minced meat, we form small balls, sprinkle with flour, put them immediately without frying in a hot sour cream sauce and simmer for 15 minutes under a closed lid.
4. Ready-made dietary “hedgehogs” are served on portioned plates with boiled buckwheat.
4. Hedgehogs with minced meat with rice in a pan (with vegetables in meat broth)
Ingredients:
• any stuffing - half a kilogram;
• long-grain rice groats - 12 tbsp. spoons;
• meat broth - 2 glasses;
• a couple of onion heads;
• 1 carrot;
• sour cream - 30 g;
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of tomato;
• 1 egg;
• allspice powder - 30 g;
• salt - 1 teaspoon.
Cooking method:
1. Pour raw rice into the minced meat, add the onion head, chopped into small crumbs, break the egg, add some salt, pepper, mix everything thoroughly and let it brew for 25 minutes.
2. Prepare the gravy: finely chop the carrot and onion, put it in a cast-iron deep frying pan, combine them with sour cream and tomato puree, fill everything with meat broth.
3. Form the meat balls, sprinkle with flour and put them in the cooked vegetable mixture.
4. Put the pan on a slow fire, simmer with the lid closed for 25 minutes.
5. Ready “hedgehogs” put 2 pieces each on a serving plate with any side dish (you can even without a side dish), pour with sour cream sauce and sprinkle with chopped parsley leaves.
5. Hedgehogs from spicy minced meat with rice in a pan
Stuffing ingredients:
• half a kilogram of pork and ground beef;
• an incomplete glass of long-grain rice;
• chicken egg;
• large onion head;
• 1 carrot;
• a couple of cloves of garlic;
• dry basil, coriander - 20 g each;
• allspice powder - 30 g;
• salt - 1 teaspoon;
• half a bunch of parsley.
On the sauce:
• sour cream of medium fat content - 1 cup;
• 2 tomatoes;
• a few cloves of garlic;
• flour - 10 g;
• an incomplete glass of boiling water.
Cooking method:
1. Boil clean rice in lightly salty water for 10 minutes, fold in a colander to drain the liquid.
2. Scroll a small piece of beef and pork through a meat grinder with onions, carrots and garlic.
3. In the prepared minced meat with onions and carrots, add the egg, add salt, pepper, pour the basil, coriander or any other spices, mix thoroughly with your hands and leave to brew for 25 minutes.
4. At the end of this time, we form small balls, put in a cast iron deep frying pan.
5. Pour “hedgehogs” with boiling water to half their coverage, add some salt again, and simmer for half an hour under the lid over moderate heat.
6. In the meantime, prepare the sauce with sour cream: wash, peel, grate and mix them with sour cream and chopped garlic, stir well, add salt, add a little flour, stir again so that no lumps form.
7. Pour an incomplete glass of boiling water to sour cream and tomatoes, stir well again until a homogeneous, thick consistency.
8. After 30 minutes of stewing the hedgehogs, pour in the sour cream sauce, and pour a little dry basil, oregano or other spices, and simmer again for 20 minutes on moderate heat.
9. When serving, put the “hedgehogs” on a portioned dish, decorate with parsley and dill leaves.
6. Minced hedgehogs with rice in a pan with cheese
Ingredients:
• slightly less than a kilogram of low-fat chicken minced meat;
• rice groats - 7 tbsp. spoons;
• onion head;
• garlic - 4 cloves;
• parsley - 1 bunch;
• egg;
• salt - 20 g;
• nutmeg - 20 g;
• pepper - half a teaspoon.
To fill:
• Hohland cheese - 2 pcs.;
• sour cream - 300 ml;
• cream - a little less than a glass;
• parsley leaves - half a bunch.
Cooking method:
1. Cook rice for 8 minutes, recline in a colander.
2. In the prepared chicken meat, break the egg, add the finely chopped onions, garlic, parsley, pepper, nutmeg, boiled rice.
3. From the minced meat we make balls, in the middle of which we wrap 1 cube of Hohland cheese.
4. We lay the "hedgehogs" with cheese in a cast-iron pan.
5. Prepare the sauce: put sour cream in a blender bowl, 1 pack of Hohland cheese, cream and mix well. Pour the chopped parsley leaves, add salt, pepper to taste, mix again.
6. Pour the cooked sauce “hedgehogs", simmer over moderate heat for 30 minutes.
7. Serve on a serving plate, sprinkled with parsley.
Minced hedgehogs with rice in a pan - secrets and subtleties
• To prevent forcemeat from sticking to your hands when forming hedgehog balls, be sure to periodically dip your hands in cold water.
• Cook, covering the pan with a lid, over low heat, otherwise the sauce will boil away quickly, and the hedgehogs will turn out not so juicy.
• Instead of rice, you can add any other cereals, such as buckwheat or barley, instead of rice. They will also need to be preliminarily brought to semi-preparedness.
