Meatballs, meatballs, burgers - favorite delicious dishes of minced meat. We suggest you to move away a bit from the usual recipes and cook something resembling the listed dishes, but slightly different from them, namely hedgehogs made from minced meat with rice in a pan.
This dish got its name because of its unusual appearance: first, meatballs are made from minced meat, rice grains are stuck in meat balls, and stewed, baked, or steamed. But you can not complicate your life and mix the stuffing with rice, it turns out no less funny and tasty. Let's start?
Hedgehogs made from minced meat 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.
Stuffing you can buy already ready or scroll by yourself. Pork, veal, turkey or chicken will do. Often use mixed mince.
Rice you can take any if the cereal is added directly to the stuffing, or large, whole - if stuck in the meatballs.
Ready hedgehogs spread in a greased buttered pan, lightly fried, then poured sauce. Here you can not limit yourself in fantasy: cook pouring from sour cream, cream, cheese, tomatoes, pasta, browned vegetables, broth and any other products. It is important that the sauce covers the hedgehogs completely, so they will be tender and juicy.
Hedgehogs from minced meat with rice are served as a separate dish or with a side dish of boiled, baked, fresh vegetables.
1. Hedgehogs from minced meat with rice in a pan
Ingredients:
• half a kilo of minced meat (pork with beef);
• rice cereal - 200 g;
• 3 onions;
• egg;
• 1 carrot;
• 30 g of tomato;
• salt - 20 g;
• Allspice in powder - at will;
• flour for sprinkling.
Preparation:
1. Wash the washed rice in a small saucepan and cook for 20 minutes. Throw back in a colander, wash. 2. Spread the boiled rice in the stuffing with two chopped onion heads.
3. Add the egg to the mince, salt, pepper, stir thoroughly and let it brew a little.
4. While the stuffing is infused, put the chopped onion head in a cast-iron skillet, carrot on a fine grater and cook with vegetable oil on moderate heat for 3 minutes.
5. Shape minced balls, sprinkle with flour.
6. Put the meatballs on a hot frying pan with butter and fry until slightly crisp crust, turning it over three times.
7. Fried “hedgehogs” are shifted to the cast iron skillet with stewed vegetables, well stirred.
8. Fill tomato puree diluted in water to almost full coverage, add some salt, turn on low fire and simmer for 20 minutes.
9. Stewed “hedgehogs” we put 2 pieces on each portion plate, next we lay out mashed potatoes, pour sauce over.
2. Hedgehogs of minced meat with rice in a pan in sour cream sauce
Ingredients:
• 600 g of pork and ground beef;
• 1 carrot;
• 3 onions;
• chicken egg;
• sour cream - 300 g;
• a few cloves of garlic;
• salt - 20 g;
• allspice - on request;
• long grain rice - 250 g;
• parsley leaves - 1 bunch;
• a little oil for frying.
Preparation:
1. Cut two heads of onion into small crumb, put in minced meat, add rice, chopped garlic, parsley, egg, washed and boiled until half cooked, add salt, pepper, stir well and let it brew for 25 minutes.
2. Prepare sour cream sauce: carrot - grated, the remaining onion - fine crumbs, spread in a cast iron skillet and fry with a little oil.
3. Pour some water into the sour cream, stir to a semi-liquid consistency and pour it into the vegetables, add some salt, pepper and stew for 15 minutes.
4. Make balls of minced and pre-boiled rice, sprinkle with flour and spread on a hot frying pan, fry in butter from all sides.
5. Fried “hedgehogs” put in sour cream sauce and cook for 15 minutes.
6. When serving on a serving plate, put 2 “hedgehogs” in a row, next to any side dish (boiled buckwheat, macaroni or mashed potatoes), sprinkle with chopped parsley leaves.
3. Dietary hedgehogs from minced meat with rice in a chicken pan
Ingredients:
• 3 medium chicken breasts;
• rice groats - a floor a glass;
• a piece of butter;
• A couple of garlic cloves;
• 3 onions;
• 1 carrot;
• olive oil for frying - 30 ml;
• defatted sour cream - 300 ml;
• parsley - 1 bunch;
• salt - 10 g;
• allspice - 1 teaspoon;
• chicken egg.
Preparation:
1. From the breast, separate the meat and scroll through a meat grinder, add 2 chopped onion heads, garlic, boiled rice, butter, egg, pepper, salt, mix thoroughly and leave for 20 minutes.
2. In the meantime, we cook sour cream diet sauce: 1 onion is cut into small pieces, carrots are grated, fry in olive oil for a few minutes, pour sour cream diluted in water, stir well, simmer over moderate heat for 10 minutes.
3. From the present mince, form small balls, sprinkle with flour, put them immediately without frying in hot cream sauce and simmer under the lid closed for 15 minutes.
4. Ready diet "hedgehogs" served on a la carte plates with boiled buckwheat.
4. Hedgehogs from 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;
• broth from meat - 2 glasses;
• a pair of onions;
• 1 carrot;
• sour cream - 30 g;
• 2 tbsp. spoons of tomato;
• 1 egg;
• allspice in powder - 30 g;
• salt - 1 teaspoon.
Preparation:
1. In the stuffing we fill in raw rice, add onions, chopped finely, crush an egg, add some salt, pepper, mix everything thoroughly, let it brew for 25 minutes.
2. Prepare the gravy: finely chop the carrot and onion, put it into a cast-iron deep pan, combine them with sour cream and tomato puree, pour all the meat broth.
3. We form meat balls, sprinkle with flour and lay them in the prepared vegetable mixture.
4. Put the pan on low heat, simmer with the lid closed for 25 minutes. 5. We put the ready-made “hedgehogs” 2 pieces per serving plate with any side dish (it is possible without a side dish), pour with sour cream sauce, and sprinkle with chopped parsley leaves.
5. Spicy minced hedgehogs with rice in a frying pan
Ingredients for minced meat:
• half a kilogram of pork and beef mince;
• incomplete cup of long grain rice;
• chicken egg;
• large onion head;
• 1 carrot;
• A couple of garlic cloves;
• dry basil, coriander - 20 g each;
• allspice powder - 30 g;
• salt - 1 teaspoon;
• a floor of a bunch of parsley.
On sauce:
• medium fat sour cream - 1 cup;
• 2 tomatoes;
• a few cloves of garlic;
• flour - 10 g;
• incomplete glass of boiling water.
Preparation:
1. Boil pure rice in lightly salty water for 10 minutes, throw in a colander to drain the liquid.
2. A small piece of beef and pork scrolls through a meat grinder with onions, carrots and garlic.
3. Add the egg to the minced meat with onions and carrots, add some salt, pepper, add basil, coriander or any other spices, thoroughly mix it with your hands and leave for 25 minutes.
4. After this time has elapsed, we form small balls, spread them into a cast iron deep pan.
5. Fill the “hedgehogs” with boiling water up to half of their coverage, add some salt, and we wean for half an hour under a lid on moderate heat.
6. In the meantime, prepare the sauce with sour cream: wash my tomatoes, peel, grate and mix them with sour cream and chopped garlic, stir well, add some salt, add a little flour, and stir it again to prevent lumps.
7. Pour an incomplete glass of boiling water over sour cream and tomatoes, stir well again to a homogeneous thick consistency.
8. After 30 minutes of stewing the hedgehogs, pour sour cream sauce to them, and pour in a little dry basil, oregano or other spices, simmer again on moderate heat for 20 minutes.
9. When serving, lay out “hedgehogs” on a batch dish, decorate with leaves of parsley and dill.
6. Hedgehogs from minced meat with rice in a pan with cheese
Ingredients:
• slightly less than a kilogram of chicken lean 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.
On Fill:
• “Hochland” cheese - 2 pcs .;
• sour cream - 300 ml;
• cream - a little less than a glass;
• parsley leaves - a bunch floor.
Preparation:
1. Cook rice 8 minutes, recline in a colander.
2. In the finished chicken mince, break the egg, add finely chopped onion, garlic, parsley, pepper, nutmeg, cooked rice.
3. Make mince balls, in the middle of which we wrap 1 cube of Hochland cheese.
4. Lay the "hedgehogs" with cheese in a cast iron skillet.
5. Prepare the sauce: put sour cream, 1 pack of Hochland cheese, cream in a blender container, mix well. Pour the chopped parsley leaves, add some salt, pepper to taste, mix again.
6. Fill the hedgehogs with the prepared sauce, simmer for 30 minutes on moderate heat.
7. Serve on a serving plate, sprinkle with parsley.
Hedgehogs from minced meat with rice in a pan - the secrets and subtleties
• So that when forming hedgehog balls, the stuffing does not stick to your hands, do not forget to periodically dip your palms in cold water.
• Cook, covering the pan with a lid, over low heat, otherwise the sauce will boil out quickly, and the hedgehogs will turn out not so juicy.
• Instead of rice, you can add any other cereal, such as buckwheat or barley, instead of rice. They will also need to first bring to half.
