Minced hedgehogs with rice in a pan are incredibly juicy and tender.
This is a great addition to any side dish.
Minced hedgehogs with rice in a pan - the basic principles of preparation
Cooking delicious and tender hedgehogs is extremely simple. The ingredients for this dish can be found in the refrigerator of every housewife.
These meatballs got their name for rice, which imitates thorns. It is added to the minced meat raw or boiled until half-cooked. Long rice looks especially impressive. In the process of cooking, the rice grains are completely steamed, but at the same time, the hedgehogs do not lose their shape.
You can prepare the dish in a slow cooker, pan, oven or saucepan. In the latter case, they are cooked with gravy, which makes meatballs especially juicy and tasty.
Forcemeat for meatballs can be any: pork, beef, chicken or mixed. If you are preparing this dish for a child, it is better to cook the minced meat yourself. So you will be sure of its quality.
Spices, salt, finely chopped onions and rice are added to the minced meat. Then everything is thoroughly kneaded. Small balls are formed with wet hands from the resulting mass. They are placed in a saucepan and poured with gravy, which is prepared on the basis of tomato paste, cream, sour cream or fresh vegetables.
Then the saucepan is sent to a low heat and cooked until cooked.
Recipe 1. Minced hedgehogs with rice in a pan
Ingredients
half a kilogram of minced meat;
two eggs;
half a stack. boiled rice;
two bay leaves;
two onions;
table salt.
Cooking method
1. Peel the onion head and twist it through a meat grinder. Add to the minced meat. Drive an egg here. Salt and knead well until a dense mass is formed.
2. Rinse the cereal until clear water. Then place in a saucepan, pour boiled water and cook until cooked. Throw the groats into a colander and rinse.
3. Add boiled rice to the minced meat. Beat another egg. Knead again. Roll out balls of the size of a chicken egg from the resulting mass and put on the bottom of the pan. Fill them with water to half.
4. Peel the second onion, and cut into half rings. As soon as the hedgehogs pop up, add laurel leaves and onions to the pan. Continue cooking until the onions are cooked. Put the hedgehogs with the broth into a deep bowl and serve with mayonnaise or sour cream.
Recipe 2. Minced hedgehogs with rice in a saucepan with vegetable sauce
Ingredients
510 g of minced meat;
carrot;
a pinch of black pepper;
three large tomatoes;
half a glass of rice cereal;
30 g flour;
two pinches of shallow salt;
hops-suneli;
two onions;
800 ml of drinking water;
egg;
a bunch of fresh greens.
Cooking method
1. Rinse rice cereal until clear water. We spread it in a saucepan, pour boiled water and boil over low heat until half cooked. We recline on a sieve and cool.
2. Rinse the meat and cut it into small pieces. We clean the onion. Pass the meat and one onion through a meat grinder. Add chilled rice to the minced meat, salt, slightly pepper and knead well.
3. From the minced meat we form small balls and put them into a wide pan with a thick bottom.
4. Peel the carrots and peel large three. Rinse the tomatoes, wipe with a towel and cut into small pieces. In a pan, heat the oil. Put the chopped onion in it and fry until transparent. Then add the grated carrots and tomatoes. Stir and simmer until soft carrots. Now add the flour, mix and cook for about a minute.
5. Pour boiling water into the pan, constantly stirring at the same time, so that the flour is completely dispersed. We wait until the gravy boils, and remove from the stove. Salt, add chopped herbs, slightly pepper.
6. Pour gravy hedgehogs and put on the smallest fire. Stew, covered with a lid, for about 20 minutes. Serve with a vegetable side dish or boiled pasta.
Recipe 3. Minced hedgehogs with rice in a saucepan in cream
Ingredients
minced meat - 900 g;
two yolks;
rice - 100 g;
garlic - two cloves;
bulb;
oil drain. - half a pack;
homemade cream - half a glass .;
milk - half a liter.
Cooking method
1. Remove the peel from the onion. Cut it into four parts and place in a blender bowl. Kill the onion until mashed and add to the minced meat.
2. Wash the rice groats. Then boil it until half cooked, fold it into a colander and rinse. Add rice to the minced meat and knead well until a homogeneous, dense mass is obtained.
3. Form from the forcemeat small koloboks, five centimeters in diameter.
4. Put a piece of butter on the bottom of a thick-walled pan. Send her to a low fire and wait for it to disperse. Put the meat balls in the pan and pour them halfway with water. Cover and bring to a boil. Then reduce heat to a minimum and simmer for 45 minutes. Turn the hedgehogs periodically.
5. In a saucepan, melt the remaining butter and fry the finely chopped garlic in it. After a minute, pour in the cream, keep it on fire for a couple of minutes and add milk. Simmer the mixture over low heat for about five minutes, without boiling.
6. Thoroughly beat the yolks and put them into the stewpan. Stew for another ten minutes, stirring constantly. Salt. Do not bring to a boil.
7. Remove the prepared meat balls from the heat, pour them with sauce and let it brew for ten minutes.
Recipe 4. Minced hedgehogs with rice in a pan in sour cream sauce
Ingredients
Minced meat
minced pork and beef - 600 g;
fresh parsley;
rice - 100 g;
vegetable oil;
egg;
salt;
large onion head;
freshly ground pepper;
carrots - 150 g;
spice;
garlic - two cloves.
Sauce
hot water - half a glass .;
sour cream - glass .;
flour - 30 g;
tomato paste - 30 g;
garlic - two cloves.
Cooking method
1. Rinse and boil the cereal until half cooked in slightly salted water. Instead of salt, you can add a broth cube to the water. Then throw the rice in a colander and leave.
2. Rinse the meat, cut off all the excess and cut into small slices. Twist in a meat grinder.
3. Peel onions and carrots. Chop the onion finely, and chop the carrots into small chips.
4. Put chopped onion in a pan with heated oil and fry until golden brown. Add the grated carrots and continue to fry until soft. Remove the pan from the heat and refrigerate.
5. In a deep bowl, combine rice, minced meat and vegetable fry. Add the egg, after beating it slightly. Here, pass through a press a couple of cloves of garlic. Season with spices, salt, pepper. Knead until smooth.
6. With wet hands, form round meatballs with a diameter of approximately five centimeters, and put them in a pan with a wide thick bottom.
7. Pour hot water from the kettle so that it covers the meatballs to about half. Salt and simmer for half an hour over low heat, covered with a lid.
8. Combine sour cream with tomato paste and chopped garlic. Salt, add flour and mix so that there are no lumps left. Add half a glass of hot water and mix until smooth.
9. Pour the meatballs with sour cream sauce, season with spices and simmer for another half hour on low heat. Serve by watering the sauce and tapping with chopped herbs.
Recipe 5. Minced hedgehogs with rice in a saucepan in cheese sauce
Ingredients
egg;
salt;
a pound of pork pulp;
black pepper;
medium onion;
tomato paste - 30 g;
processed cheese;
drinking water - 200 ml;
garlic - two cloves;
wild or golden rice - 100 g.
Cooking method
1. Rinse the pork, dry with napkins and cut into large pieces. Sort garlic into slices. Free the onion from the husk, and cut it into pieces.
2. Pass the meat, onions and garlic through a meat grinder. Pepper and salt.
3. Rinse the rice. Then boil the cereal until half cooked. Fold the rice in a colander and rinse. Add the rice to the minced meat. Drive an egg here and knead well.
4. Wet hands, form small balls from the resulting mass and put into a wide pan with a thick bottom.
5. In boiling water, dilute the tomato paste, add the sliced cream cheese and beat everything with a blender. Pour the balls with cheese sauce and simmer for forty minutes. Serve the hedgehogs with a side dish of vermicelli or boiled potatoes.
Recipe 6. Minced hedgehogs with rice in a pan with bechamel sauce
Ingredients
two pinches of nutmeg;
half a kilogram of minced pork and beef;
flour - 30 g;
rice - 100 g;
oil drain. - 50 g;
bulb;
350 ml of milk.
Cooking method
1. Rinse the rice. Then place the groats in a saucepan and boil until half cooked. Seven minutes after boiling will be enough. Fold the rice in a colander and leave to get rid of excess moisture.
2. Peel the onion and chop finely.
3. Combine the minced meat with boiled rice and chopped onions. Beat in an egg and pour in 150 ml of milk. Pepper, salt and knead well.
4. From the resulting mass, form small balls. It is better to do this with wet hands so that the stuffing does not pester them. Fry the resulting balls in hot oil on all sides.
5. Fold the hedgehogs in a pan with a wide bottom and fill in half with boiled water. Crush half the chicken bouillon cube and simmer for half an hour over the slowest fire.
6. Melt the butter in a pan. Sift flour into it and fry it, constantly stirring with a spatula, until golden brown.
7. Pour in milk a little, without stopping mixing, so that lumps do not form. Do not let the sauce boil! Season with nutmeg, salt and cook over low heat for another ten minutes. Put the prepared hedgehogs on a plate and pour the sauce.
Minced hedgehogs with rice in a pan - tips and tricks
- The taste of hedgehogs largely depends on the quality of the stuffing, so it is advisable to make it yourself.
- For hedgehogs, it is better to take long-grain steamed rice.
- Form meatballs by wetting your hands in cool water.
- Hedgehogs will turn out much softer and more tender if the minced meat is repelled several times.
- Serve the dish with crushed potatoes, buckwheat porridge or vegetable salad.
