All meatball lovers must learn to cook hedgehogs with rice.
In the original, the hedgehog itself is formed from minced meat, and rice grains are stuck on top.
Hence the name of the dish.
Hedgehogs in sour cream are obtained with a delicate creamy taste.
Hedgehogs in cream sauce - the basic principles of cooking
Cooking hedgehogs is not much different from the recipe for ordinary meatballs. For them, chicken, pork, beef or mixed beef is also used.
To begin to start cooking minced meat. Onions are peeled and crumbled as small as possible. Spread it in minced meat in a meat grinder, add eggs to the same place. Usually, rice is put in minced hedgehogs. For this, it is better to take long grain rice. It is pre-boiled until half cooked, reclined in a colander and washed under the tap. This is done so that your hedgehogs do not fall apart.
Rice spread in stuffing and well knead his hands. Then from this mass we form balls, the size of a chicken egg. Hedgehogs are cooked in a pan or baked in the oven.
Usually, they are cooked in cream sauce with the addition of broth. The sauce should completely cover the hedgehogs. This cooking method will make the hedgehogs juicy and soft.
Recipe 1. Hedgehogs in cream sauce in the oven
Ingredients
half a pound of minced pork;
ground black pepper;
rice - 100 g;
salt;
egg;
fresh greens;
carrot;
butter - 40 g;
bulb;
tomato paste - 50 ml.
Sauce:
sour cream - 200 g;
kitchen salt;
half a liter of broth;
butter - 40 g;
flour - 30 g
Method of preparation
1. Wash the rice and boil it until cooked. Then lay down in a colander, and once again rinse under a faucet. Leave that all liquid glass.
2. Peel carrots and onions and chop vegetables as small as possible. Melt the butter in a pan and fry the chopped vegetables in it. 3. Break an egg into a deep plate and beat it lightly with a whisk. Rinse greens, dry and finely chop.
4. Put rice in the mince, add to it fried vegetables, tomato paste, beaten egg and chopped greens. Salt, pepper and mix well with your hands.
5. From the prepared mincemeat form oblong meatballs and lightly fry them in vegetable oil.
6. Pour the flour into a hot red-hot frying pan and fry it until golden brown. In a separate bowl mix sour cream with broth. Pour it into the chilled flour and mix thoroughly with a whisk so that there are no lumps. Salt
7. Put the hedgehogs in a deep form at a short distance from each other and pour them with sour cream sauce. Send form to medium level oven. Bake forty minutes at 180C. Sprinkle the ready dish with finely chopped greens and serve with a salad of fresh vegetables.
Recipe 2. Hedgehogs in sour cream with cheese
Ingredients
Beef - 800 g;
sunflower oil;
half a cup of rice;
fresh salad leaves;
sour cream 15% - 300 ml;
tomato paste - 30 g;
two large onions;
salt;
egg;
marjoram, black and red pepper and coriander;
cheese - 120 g;
fresh parsley and dill.
Method of preparation
1. Beef tenderloin, rinse well, peel off excess fat and films and cut into chunks. Twice through a meat grinder.
2. Peel the onion and chop it finely.
3. Rinse the rice under the faucet, boil it to half-ready, drain it in a colander and leave until all the liquid has drained.
4. In the stuffing add finely chopped onion, egg and boiled rice. Salt and season with spices. Stir the minced meat thoroughly with your hands. Cheese cut into small pieces.
5. Take a little stuffing, make a cake from it and put in the center a piece of cheese. Connect the edges and roll the stuffing into a ball. Grease the baking pan with oil and put the hedgehogs in it. Send the form to the oven for 20 minutes. Bake at 200C. 6. Finely chop the remaining onion. Just chop the greens. In a deep bowl, combine the sour cream with tomato paste, add the onion and greens to the mixture, salt and season with spices. Beat the cream sauce with a whisk.
7. Remove from the oven hedgehogs, pour them with sour cream sauce and put in the oven for another 35 minutes. Continue cooking at the same temperature. Put the hedgehogs on a plate covered with lettuce and serve with red wine.
Recipe 3. Delicate hedgehogs with rice in sour cream sauce
Ingredients
ground beef - 400 g;
two glasses of beef broth;
carrots - two pcs .;
ground black pepper;
rice - 80 g;
salt;
bulb;
butter - a small piece;
egg;
a mixture of dried roots - 25 g
Sauce:
broth - three glasses;
flour - 40 g;
sour cream - half a cup;
dill umbrella;
sugar - 10 g
Method of preparation
1. We wash the rice under the tap and boil it until half cooked. Then we lean back on the sieve and leave to get rid of excess fluid.
2. Fry the chopped onion in butter, adding a spoonful of dried roots to it. Clean the carrots, three on a coarse grater and also fry until soft.
3. Slightly beat the egg with a fork and add it to the stuffing. Here we lay out the cooled rice and fried vegetables. Salt and season with pepper. Mix the mince thoroughly and form hedgehogs from it. Put them in a greased form, pour broth up to half, cover with foil and set for forty minutes in the oven. Cook at 180C.
4. Fry the flour in a dry frying pan. Gradually pour half a liter of broth into it, stirring vigorously to prevent the appearance of lumps. Then add sour cream and sprinkle with sugar. Salt and dip the dill into the sauce for a couple of minutes.
5. Pour hedgehogs with sour cream sauce and leave to stew in the oven for five minutes. Served with fresh vegetables.
Recipe 4. Hedgehogs with rice in sour cream sauce in a slow cooker
Ingredients
three multi-cups of drinking water;
garlic clove;
bulb;
Mixed minced meat - 400 g;
carrot;
on a pinch of cooking salt and black pepper;
flour - 30 g;
sour cream - 200 g;
multi-rice
Method of preparation
1. Clean, wash and crumble the onion. Rinse peeled carrots and grate finely.
2. Wash rice well under tap. Cut the garlic clove from the husk and chop finely.
3. Put the vegetables, garlic, rice in the mince, salt, season with pepper and mix until smooth.
4. Take a little stuffing and form a ball, the size of a chicken egg.
5. Pour two multi-glasses of drinking water into a separate dish, add sour cream and flour to it. Well all whisk whisk.
6. Put the hedgehogs on the bottom of the multicooker tank and pour them with sour cream sauce. Turn on the unit in “extinguishing” mode. Set timer for an hour. After the beep, remove the hedgehogs on a serving dish and serve with vegetable salad.
Recipe 5. Hedgehogs made from minced meat in sour cream sauce in a pan
Ingredients
200 grams of rice;
spice mixture;
300 grams of minced meat;
ground black pepper;
table salt.
Sauce:
200 ml of sour cream;
clove of garlic;
some lemon juice;
200 ml of drinking water;
parsley, basil, dill and onion;
80 ml of olive oil;
salt, sugar and ground black pepper.
Method of preparation
1. Rinse well under rice with running water, boil it until half cooked. To prevent the croup from boiling over, cook it uncovered. In the process of cooking salt. Then we recline on a colander and rinse under cold water. Leave until all the liquid is drained.
2. Salt minced meat, season with Provencal herbs and pepper, add egg, rice and knead until smooth with hands.
3. From the resulting rice-meat mass form small balls and roll them down in flour. Sprinkle the board with flour and spread ready-made hedgehogs on it.
4. Greens are well washed, dried and finely crumbled. We shift in a deep cup, add to it finely chopped garlic, lemon juice, sour cream and olive oil. Stir until smooth. Add pepper, salt and sugar to taste. 5. Put the saucepan on the fire, pour the sauce into it and bring it to a boil. Then reduce the heat and spread into the sauce balls of minced meat and rice. Stew for five minutes, then turn and cook for the same amount of time.
Recipe 6. Mince Hedgehogs in Sour Cream Sauce with Tomato
Ingredients
minced pork - 600 g;
sunflower oil - 50 ml;
Basmati rice - half a cup;
dill greens;
bulb;
salt and black pepper;
carrot;
egg.
Sauce
sour cream - a glass;
egg;
tomato paste - 50 g
Method of preparation
1. Peel and finely chop the onion. Peel carrots, wash and coarsely grate them. Put the vegetables in a pan with hot oil and fry until soft.
2. Rinse the rice under running water until the water is clear. Throw it on a sieve to get rid of excess moisture.
3. Put rice and fried vegetables in mince. Add to it an egg, finely chopped dill, salt and pepper and mix well.
4. Form small balls of minced meat with wet hands. Pour a little sour cream on the bottom of the heat-resistant form and put the hedgehogs in it.
5. In a bowl, mix tomato paste with sour cream and egg. Salt, pour a little drinking water and whisk slightly.
6. Pour the meat balls into the cream-tomato sauce. Send the form to a preheated oven for forty minutes. Bake at 180C. Serve with Chinese cabbage salad.
Recipe 7. Hedgehogs in sour cream sauce with mushrooms
Ingredients
700 g of minced meat;
three quarters glass of drinking water;
half a cup of rice;
sunflower oil;
two eggs;
salt and spices for meat;
400 g frozen mushrooms;
250 g sour cream;
three onions.
Method of preparation
1. Rinse well under the tap fig. Fill it with hot drinking water and leave for forty minutes.
2. Peel and wash the bulbs. Two bulbs chop thin quarter rings, and one into small cubes. Defrost the mushrooms and place in a colander to drain excess water. In a deep frying pan, heat the oil, put the onion, chopped into quarter-rings, and fry until golden. Then add the mushrooms and fry for another ten minutes, stirring occasionally. At the end lightly salted. 3. Throw soaked rice on a strainer, leave to water. In mince add finely chopped onion, egg, rice, salt and pepper. Stir until smooth. Make balls of mince and place them on the top of the onion and mushroom roasts.
4. Dilute sour cream with boiled water or broth, salt, pepper, mix and pour the meatballs with the resulting sour cream sauce. Cover the pan with a lid and simmer for about forty minutes on moderate heat.
Hedgehogs in sour cream sauce - tricks and tips from chefs
- Make the stuffing for the hedgehogs yourself, if you still use the purchased one, then choose not the frozen, but the cooled product.
- Before you start shaping the balls, wet your hands in water so that the stuffing doesn't stick to your palms.
- To make a dietary dish, cook the hedgehogs for a couple, then pour sour cream diluted with water and hold on moderate heat for five minutes.
- Rice preferably pre-cook until half cooked.
