Gentle hedgehogs in tomato sauce is a tasty meat dish, equally suitable for adults and children.
The combination of rice and meat make it full of protein and carbohydrates. There are hedgehogs can be separately, and with a side dish.
Hedgehogs in Tomato Sauce - General Cooking Principles
Clean dried meat fillets for delicious soft hedgehogs in tomato sauce should be grinded as small as possible. It would be nice to skip the minced meat minced a second time so that it becomes more tender. You can take any meat, and beef, pork, lamb, rabbit and even chicken will do.
The obligatory component of any hedgehogs is white rice. The specialty of the dish, unlike meatballs, is that rice must be raw. It must be thoroughly rinsed either under running cold water, or by changing the water several times in the bowl. You can even soak for an hour and a half, so that the grains are swollen and boiled soft.
Sometimes, when it comes to feeding the child, you can add vegetables to the stuffing. For example, if a child without enthusiasm belongs in carrots, cabbage, onions or zucchini, twist the vegetables and mix with rice-meat base.
Tomato sauce for this dish is usually prepared from ready-made tomato paste. You can take and ketchup, but it is less useful and does not give the desired taste. Sometimes you can substitute pasta with tomatoes preserved in your own juice or take fresh tomatoes. The skin of the tomatoes in this case must be removed.
Cooking hedgehogs in tomato sauce can be stewed on the stove, in the oven, multi-cooker. The main thing is that there is a lot of sauce: it will soak the meat, filling it with wonderful tomato juiciness, and give good rice to boil.
Hedgehogs in tomato sauce in a pan
Tasty meat hedgehogs for this recipe need to be cooked just in a frying pan. Choose dishes with high sides so that the sauce does not spill out when boiling. Instead of minced pork, any other or mixed of several types of meat will do. Ingredients:
• half a kilo of minced pork;
• half a cup of rice;
• one onion;
• one egg;
• two tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• salt and pepper to your taste;
• medium carrot;
• A glass of tomato juice;
• a tablespoon of tomato paste;
• tablespoon flour;
• glass of water;
• a third cup of sour cream.
Preparation:
Chop the onion.
Rinse the rice to clear water.
Carrot cut into thin strips.
Heat the butter, toss the onion cubes and fry until transparent.
In the minced meat, drive an egg, put fried onion, salt, season with pepper to taste and knead the homogeneous sticky meat dough.
Fry carrots in the same pan, where the onions were fried.
In a bowl, pour tomato juice, put sour cream and tomato paste, salt to taste, add spices, if you want to give the sauce a savory taste.
Place flour in hot water, pour into the sauce and mix well.
Form hedgehogs from meat dough and send them to the pan to roasted carrots.
Pour tomato sauce on hedgehogs, turn on the heat and wait for boiling.
Make sure that the sauce covers all the whole meat balls. If the liquid is not enough, add water.
As soon as the sauce boils, reduce the fire to minimum and simmer the hedgehogs until tender. This will take half an hour, no more.
Hedgehogs in tomato sauce in the oven
It is convenient to cook hedgehogs in the oven. Their taste will be different from what you cook on the stove. In addition, the dish will be less high-calorie and more useful, since you will not have to fry anything in butter. In addition, the recipe does not use an egg.
Ingredients:
• seven hundred grams of mixed ground beef;
• incomplete cup of rice;
• medium carrot;
• small onion;
• big juicy tomato;
• glass of water;
• a tablespoon of tomato paste;
• salt and spices to taste;
• half a teaspoon of pepper.
Preparation:
Clean washed clean rice. Grate carrots on a fine grater.
Chop the peeled onion as small as possible.
Tomatoes pour boiling water, make cuts and remove the skin.
Grate the grated tomato.
Put vegetables and rice in minced meat, salt and sprinkle with pepper and knead.
Fold the balls into the baking dish.
To dissolve the whole amount of tomato paste with water, add salt to taste, add pepper, dried herbs and spices, if you want to get some special shade of taste.
Pour the hedgehogs in sauce and send to the oven for 50 minutes.
Hedgehogs in tomato sauce in a slow cooker
With the help of the slow cooker, you can cook the meat hedgehogs in tomato sauce so that they are the most delicate. A special aroma and taste attached to the dish Bulgarian pepper.
Ingredients:
• about six grams of minced meat, best mixed;
• one multi-rice;
• medium carrot;
• large onion;
• large Bulgarian pepper;
• half a cup of tomato paste;
• two tablespoons of sour cream;
• tablespoon of vegetable oil;
• salt;
• three teaspoons of flour;
• half a liter of water.
Preparation:
Wash white rice thoroughly so that the water is clear.
Mix the prepared minced meat and rice to make a homogeneous mass.
Grate the onion or carefully cut into very small cubes.
Carrot rubbed large or cut into small strips.
Pepper Bulgarian pepper, cut into thin strips.
On the frying program, heat the butter, throw the carrots and onion puree, fry for 7 minutes without latching the lid.
Put pepper strips in the slow cooker.
Form hedgehogs and lay them on top of a layer of vegetables.
Dilute flour in half a glass of water so that there are no lumps.
Prepare a sauce of flour, water, tomato paste, sour cream.
Pour the hedgehogs, snap the cover of the slow cooker and cook the hedgehogs in tomato sauce for about an hour.
Hedgehogs in Tomato Sauce with Barley
An interesting version of the dish will turn out if, instead of rice, we put pearl barley in the hedgehogs. The taste, of course, will change, but the hedgehogs will still be very tasty. In addition, pearl barley is very useful, and it is worth knowing how it can be used as food.
Ingredients:
• half a kilo of minced pork and beef;
• a glass of boiled pearl barley;
• two eggs;
• large onion;
• half a cup of tomato paste;
• one and a half glasses of water;
• small carrots;
• three tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• salt;
• spices to taste;
some fresh or dried herbs (optional).
Preparation:
Boil the barley and let it cool slightly.
Grate the carrot on a fine grater.
Dill and chopped parsley.
Bulb with a sharp knife nashinkovat smaller.
Combine minced meat with cereals and eggs, season with salt and spices, knead the meat "dough".
To make hedgehogs the size of a large walnut.
Heat the oil in a pan and fry the balls on both sides.
Separately fry the onions with carrots and lay out over the meat balls.
Dilute tomato paste with water, salt to your taste, add spices and pepper.
Pour the sauce into the pan.
Stew hedgehogs for about forty minutes.
Five minutes before the readiness sprinkle hedgehogs with cut greens.
Hedgehogs in tomato sauce with potatoes and rice
If you want the hedgehogs to be not just tender, but gentle, try cooking them according to this unusual recipe. Together with rice, you will need to add mashed potatoes to the minced meat. It is grated raw potatoes and give the dish an unusual texture.
Ingredients:
• three hundred grams of ground beef;
• two hundred grams of fatty pork minced meat;
• incomplete cup of rice;
• three large potatoes;
• four medium sized carrots;
• four onions;
• three eggs;
• incomplete glass of tomato paste;
• one and a half liters of water;
• salt;
• spices to taste;
• two tablespoons of white flour;
• vegetable oil for the pan. Preparation:
Rice grains, rinse under running water, pour cold water (not more than a glass), bring to a boil and stir for ten minutes at a slow boil.
Drain rice in a colander, rinse again.
Two peeled carrots finely grated - they will go into the minced meat.
Two remaining carrots grate larger or cut into strips for vegetable cushion.
Shred half the onions very finely for minced meat, cut the second half into small rings.
Clean peeled potatoes with a grater or blender.
Mix minced meat with rice, carrot and mashed potatoes, finely chopped onion, eggs, season with spices and salt, mix well.
On hot oil, fry the onion rings and carrots for five minutes.
Put the frying on a baking sheet or in a baking dish.
Form hedgehogs from mincemeat and spread them out on top of the vegetable “air”.
Dissolve the flour in a glass of cold water so that there are no flour lumps.
The remaining water is poured into a saucepan, bring to a boil and put the tomato paste.
Stir, salt to taste and add flour water.
Pour the sauce in a dish for baking.
Cook the hedgehogs in an oven preheated to 230 ° C until cooked. As a rule, after forty minutes the tender meat balls are ready.
Hedgehogs in tomato sauce with cabbage
To combine vegetables, rice and meat in one dish, you can serve unusual meat balls - with cabbage. The aroma of these hedgehogs in tomato sauce is spicy and piquant. Very tasty for those who love cabbage.
Ingredients:
• a pound of mixed stuffing;
• seven hundred grams of fresh cabbage;
• a third cup of rice;
• two medium carrots;
• a raw egg;
• large onion;
• liter of tomato juice;
• half a glass of water;
• salt and pepper to your taste.
Preparation:
Very finely chop cabbage, mash your hands so that juice goes.
Wash rice in five waters.
Cut carrots into strips. The onion with a sharp knife is very thin and cut into small cubes.
Prepare the basis for hedgehogs by mixing the meat with rice, cabbage, onion cubes, egg.
Mince salt and sprinkle with pepper.
In a pan in vegetable oil, fry carrots.
Blind hedgehogs and send them to the pan to the carrot.
In tomato juice, pour water, mix.
Pour the sauce over the hedgehogs and cook in a frying pan for 40 minutes at a slow boil.
Hedgehogs in Tomato Sauce - Tricks and Useful Tips
- Rice for this dish will fit long-grain. Round varieties will be so hot that they will not be felt.
- When filling the rice with meat, make sure that there is no water. Watery mince poorly molded, and the taste of the dish will become worse.
- If you cook hedgehogs with pearl barley, then it would be nice to fill this grits with water for a few hours before cooking. Then drain the first water and boil the cereal on the second water: so the barley will be crumbly and tasty. On one part of the barley you need to take two and a half parts of water.
- In order for the meat “dough” not to stick to the hands, they should be periodically moistened in cold water.
- You can serve hedgehogs in tomato sauce with mashed potatoes or squash, pasta or gray porridge.
