How to cook hedgehogs from meat and rice. Meat hedgehogs with rice - a second dish in a hurry

Meat hedgehogs

Ingredients:

Minced meat - 700 g

Onions - 1-2 pcs.

Rice (basmati) - 100 g

Spices (salt, pepper) - to taste

1. You need to soak the rice for 2 hours, then drain the water so that it dries a little, and you can start mincing.

2. Grind our minced meat and onions in a meat grinder, add spices to taste, then form round meatballs, roll each one in rice and place in a steamer.

3. We set the timer for 40 minutes and watch how, after some time, the grains of rice begin to rise and you get real thorns.

"Hedgehog" meatballs

To prepare you needed:

Beef - 250 g

Pork - 250 g

Rice - 150 g

Carrots - 5 pcs.

Onions - 8 pcs. (average)

Potatoes - 4 pcs. (small)

Egg - 3 pcs.

Tomato paste - 100 g

Flour - 2 tbsp. l. (with a slide)

Vegetable oil - 100 g

Spices (salt + pepper + dried dill + hops-suneli + etc.) - to taste

Water - 1.5 l

Cooking method:

1. We wash the meat, cut it into small pieces, grind it in a meat grinder until minced meat is formed, mix until smooth, add salt and pepper, break three chicken eggs into it and mix everything again. For 1 kilogram of minced meat, I add about 2 teaspoons of salt (without a slide), and 1 teaspoon of pepper. But be careful, the salt, alas, varies in salinity. Therefore, after the first spoonful of salt, it is better to stir and taste a piece of minced meat “on the tongue for salt,” and then, if necessary, add more salt.

2. Wash and peel carrots and 2 pcs. (we leave the remaining 3 for gravy) grate on a fine grater. Pour it into the minced meat and mix everything.

3. We also wash the potatoes (4 small pieces), peel them and grate them on a fine grater. Also add to the minced meat and mix everything well. Many people do not add potatoes, but my relatives and friends who have tried this dish think that it tastes better, and the meatballs turn out soft and very juicy.

4. Onions, peeled, washed, and 4 pcs. (the rest will be used for gravy) cut into small pieces and add to the minced meat. To prevent your eyes from stinging, cut the onion in half, pour hot water over it, and then chop it. Most recipes indicate that the onions need to be fried, but I believe that we don’t need extra fat, it (the onions) will be cooked well during the process of baking the meatballs.

5. We rinse the rice (several times) in cold water until the water that you drain from it becomes clear, without starchy whiteness. Fill it with hot water (there should be 3 times more water than rice, i.e. 1 glass of rice and 3 glasses of water), cook it over low heat for 10 minutes, drain it in a colander, rinse with cold running water, drain off excess water ( let it sit in a colander for about 5 minutes) and add it to the minced meat. Mix everything.

It is better to have rice undercooked, as it will continue to cook inside the meatball during baking.

6. To minimize the cooking time of the entire dish, I advise you to start the entire procedure with cooking rice before you start cutting vegetables, since if you do it first, then during the cooking period you will have enough time to fuss with vegetables.

7. Well, we have reached the finish line))). The minced meat is ready. We make meatballs from it. The size of the meatballs should be no larger than a girl’s fist, since if they are large (tall), then when baked in a baking pan, they will not be completely covered by the sauce and they will dry out.

Small advice, so that the minced meat does not stick to your hands when making meatballs, your hands should be wetted in cold water before each “pinch” of the minced meat.

8 . Add a small amount of vegetable oil to a hot frying pan, bring it to a boil, and place the “raw” meatballs on it. Fry on all sides until the meat is “seized” and “browned.” And then put it on a baking sheet.

9. As an option, for lovers of “healthy” cuisine, you can not fry the meatballs, but immediately place them on a baking sheet, and you should not pre-grease the baking sheet with fat, since the meatballs themselves will give off a fatty juice. The only BUT is that they will not acquire a golden tint after cooking, but will be more faded than fried.

Moreover, both options have the right to exist; it certainly won’t be worse. But at home we like browned meatballs better)))

10. It's time for the vegetables for watering.

11. Grate the remaining carrots (3 pieces) on a coarse grater.

12. Onion (4 pcs.) Cut into half rings.

13. Distribute the chopped onion and grated carrots evenly over the meatballs placed on a baking sheet.

14. Preparing the gravy.

15. In a glass of cold water, dilute 2 tbsp. spoons of flour until a homogeneous white liquid mass is formed. Boil the rest of the water, reduce the heat, add 100 grams of tomato paste to it, mix, slowly, stirring constantly, pour the flour mixture into the tomato water, salt, pepper, add spices to taste and cook, stirring, the gravy.

Recipe for Hedgehogs with rice

Ingredients:

500 g beef

300 g pork

Garlic clove

400 g sour cream

2 spoons of tomato paste

Large onion

0.75 cups rice

Pepper, salt, herbs

Cooking method:

1. Grind the meat and onion in a meat grinder. You can also use already purchased minced meat. Add finely chopped garlic to the minced meat, break the eggs and season with spices.

2. Rinse the rice several times until the water becomes clear. Place the washed rice into the minced meat. Mix the prepared minced meat thoroughly. Next, form balls, future hedgehogs.

3. Preparing the sauce: In a separate deep plate, mix mayonnaise, sour cream and tomato paste.

4. Place the hedgehogs in a baking dish, which has been lightly greased with oil. Pour over the sauce. If you have a small shape, then you can lay the hedgehogs in two layers and add a little extra water.

5. Place in a preheated oven (180 degrees) for an hour.

6. It is advisable to serve the dish immediately, hot, garnished with herbs.

7. You can serve meat hedgehogs with rice with mashed potatoes, pasta, vegetable salads, or as a separate dish.

A hedgehog is not a hedgehog, a cabbage roll is not a cabbage roll...

The recipe is based on a wide 4 liter pan.

So we need a very small product list:

— 800g. ground beef (or whatever you use to make, for example, hedgehog rolls or cabbage rolls);

— 2 pcs. medium-sized carrots;

- 1 onion;

- 0.5 tbsp. rice;

— white cabbage (enough in volume to fill 2/3 of the intended container);

This is a very popular recipe in our latitudes, each housewife has her own, because almost everyone who has children prepares hedgehogs from minced meat and rice. Due to the fact that the dish contains rice, meat, and vegetables, and also because of the ease of preparation, delicious hedgehogs are an ideal dish for children and adults in every family.

After the main recipe you will find several variations. They will come in handy if only because they will help make a familiar dish new. They will also be useful for those who do not like tomato juice. In any case, hedgehogs with rice are always tasty and satisfying.

TIME: 60 min.

Easy

Servings: 6

Ingredients

Minced meat (pork or mixed) – 0.5 kg;
Rice – 0.15 kg;
Oil (sunflower or olive, refined) – 50–60;
Juice (tomato, unclarified) – 0.4 l;
Onions – 1 pc.;
Carrots – 1 pc. (large);
Salt - to taste, but not less than 0.5 tsp;
Pepper (ground) – approximately 0.5 tsp;

Cooking time: 20 minutes + 40 minutes for stewing.

Preparation

The recipe for hedgehogs made from minced meat and rice differs from similar meatballs in only one way - to prepare them, the rice is not boiled first, and therefore after stewing, the rice funny sticks out of the meatballs, reminiscent of hedgehog spines.

For this dish I used mixed minced meat - pork and chicken 2:1. It is ideal if you prepare the minced meat yourself. This way you will be confident in the quality of the meat, especially if the dish is prepared for children.

Peel the onions and cut into small cubes. Pour 1/2 the amount of vegetable oil according to the recipe into the frying pan (I use refined sunflower oil for frying, odorless), place the onion in it and fry it until transparent. And then add the peeled, coarsely grated carrots and fry together until the carrots are soft.

Place the prepared minced meat, dry uncooked rice, and fried onions and carrots in a wide and deep bowl. Add salt and pepper to taste - it is better to use fresh, only ground salt and pepper, they highlight the taste of the dish more clearly.

Mix all the ingredients of our hedgehogs thoroughly. It’s most convenient to do this with your hands, so you can really feel how well the minced meat is brought to homogeneity. Some people add an egg to the minced meat to help bind the ingredients together, but I don’t use it as the white makes the hedgehogs tougher. The minced meat molds perfectly even without adding an egg.

Heat the remaining vegetable oil in a frying pan. With wet hands, form small balls 4-5 cm in diameter and place them in the hot oil. Fry on one side over medium heat for 3-5 minutes.

Turn the future hedgehogs over to the other side and fry for another 3 minutes. We do this so that after stewing, the hedgehogs keep their shape and do not fall apart.

Place the fried hedgehog balls in a thick bottom pan. If your frying pan is wide, you can stew the hedgehogs in it.

Pour tomato juice over the balls and add salt to taste.

Simmer the dish after boiling over very low heat for 40 minutes, the balls will increase in volume due to the fact that the rice absorbs the liquid.

Serve minced hedgehogs with rice in portions, hot with a side dish of fresh or baked vegetables. Top with sour cream or your favorite sauce.

Hedgehogs with rice in the oven in tomato sauce

Here, instead of tomato juice, we will pour a specially prepared sauce over the hedgehogs and simmer them in the oven. Our hedgehogs will be more “adult”, since children cannot eat a lot of spices. But they taste amazing and are very soft.

Ingredients for hedgehogs we will take the same amount of products as in the main recipe.

But let’s prepare the filling differently, for it you need:

Tomatoes (canned, non-spicy) – 1 can (0.4 kg);
Pepper (sweet, preferably red) – 0.15 kg;
Garlic – 2 cloves;
Onion – 1 pc. (large);
Greens (basil, dill, parsley, cilantro) - 1 bunch, if not, you need to take - 1/4 tsp. each dry seasoning.
Oil (olive, unrefined) – 40 g;
Broth (vegetable, whichever you like best) – 0.4 l.;
Coriander – 1/4 tsp.
Salt (at least 0.5 tsp), and black pepper - at your discretion.

Cooking method:

We prepare the hedgehogs themselves as in the main recipe, and then prepare the sauce separately.
And we do it this way: first, fry the garlic in well-heated oil, but not for 1 minute. Then add tomatoes and spices (if they are dry), coriander, salt, pepper, simmer for 5-7 minutes, then rub through a sieve and put back in a hot frying pan, add finely chopped pepper to the mixture and simmer for another 7 minutes. After Add 2 cups of vegetable broth and if the greens are fresh, add them after chopping them.
Now pour our sauce over the hedgehogs so that they are just covered. Place in the oven and simmer over low heat for no more than 40 minutes.

Serve the hedgehogs hot, topped with the remaining gravy or sauce. It will be very tasty and spicy.

Hedgehogs with minced chicken rice and sour cream sauce

Not all kids love tomato paste; many refuse it. For those picky eaters, I suggest preparing tender hedgehogs with minced chicken and sour cream sauce. Minced chicken hedgehogs with sour cream sauce will turn out tender, juicy and incredibly tasty.

Ingredients for hedgehogs:

For sour cream white dressing you will need:

Sour cream (not thick) – 150 ml;
Broth (vegetable, thick) – 0.4 l;
Flour – 20 g;
Onion - half a large one;
Salt, spices at your discretion;
Butter (butter) – 40 g.

Cooking method:

Chicken fillet needs to be ground into minced meat; if you have ready-made minced meat, you can use it. Add pepper and a couple of spoons of sour cream to the minced meat, and the same amount of softened butter (preferably butter) and leave to stand.
Meanwhile, cook half the onion and carrots in a frying pan. Fry them until golden brown.
Now add together the minced meat, onions and carrots fried in a frying pan, and dry rice. Salt everything and mix well, let stand for a while.
Then roll into balls with wet hands and fry on both sides in a frying pan.
While the minced meat is standing, prepare the sour cream sauce. For it, take the onion and fry it with oil in a frying pan until transparent. Then rub the onion with flour and mix well, carefully pour the sour cream on top in a thin stream and immediately add the boiling broth. Simmer everything in a frying pan for 10 minutes over low heat. Attention, add salt and spices only before removing.
After the hedgehogs are fried on both sides, put them in a pan or pour sour cream sauce over them, and then simmer for 20–25 minutes over very low heat.
Serve the meat hedgehogs with rice hot, pour over the remaining sauce. If you don't have it, just add sour cream. It will be very tasty.

Hedgehogs with rice and gravy in a frying pan

If you don’t want to bother too much with preparing the gravy, you can prepare this option; it will make the cooking shorter and require less time and effort.

Ingredients:

For homemade red gravy you need:

Tomato juice – 0.4 l;
Onion - half if large or 1 medium;
Carrots – 1 pc. (small);
Bell pepper – 150 g (1 large);
Salt – 0.5 tsp;
Pepper (ground) – 0.5 tsp.

Cooking method:

For this recipe we need a deep frying pan with a thick bottom. It is important that our rice urchins do not burn. And we can only cook as many hedgehogs as will fit in it.

Cooking hedgehogs:

First, fry the onion until transparent, then add finely grated carrots to it and also simmer in oil.
Next, in a large bowl, mix the minced chicken, dry rice, frying and 2 tbsp. l softened butter. Salt and pepper the mixture. Let our minced meat stand.
At this time, prepare the dressing in a frying pan. To do this, fry the onion again and add coarsely grated carrots to it. Fry until golden.
Then add very finely chopped bell peppers and spices, and salt the mixture. When the mixture begins to boil, reduce the heat slightly to medium.
Next, we roll the meat mixture into hedgehogs and place them in our gravy in a frying pan. Now fry everything in a frying pan. Be careful not to burn the seasoning.
When the hedgehogs are fried on both sides, pour tomato juice into the frying pan and add spices, again salt to taste. You can put 1-2 tbsp. l. butter or olive oil.
Now close everything with a lid and simmer over low heat for another 30-40 minutes.
Serve the hedgehog balls with gravy and hot.

Hedgehogs with bechamel sauce

If you decide to cook beef hedgehogs, then serve them with bechamel sauce.

This original sauce is very tasty in itself, and our hedgehogs with minced beef rice will acquire an exquisite taste with it. They can also be served at the holiday table.

Children will also like these hedgehogs with sauce if you serve the sauce with meat broth. For adults, I recommend preparing the sauce with mustard.

Ingredients:

Minced meat (beef) – 0.5 kg;
Rice – 0.15 kg;
Oil (vegetable) – 70–80;
Sour cream (thick and fatty) – 60 g;
Onion (onion) – no more than half a large onion.;
Carrots – 1 piece (medium size);
Fill:
Broth (we have meat, thick) – 0.5 l
Spices at your discretion.

For bechamel sauce we need:

Milk – 0.4 l (necessarily boiled);
Flour – 80 gr.;
Butter (butter) – 50 g.
Pepper (black, ground) – 0.5 tsp;
Walnut (nutmeg) – 1/4 tsp.

Add to the finished sauce as desired:

Cooking method:

Prepare the ground beef and add sour cream and salt to it, let it sit for a little (10 minutes) and add the rest of the ingredients: dry rice, fried onions and carrots. Then we form balls and fry them in refined vegetable oil.
After this, put it in a saucepan with a thick bottom and fill it with meat broth and spices (to your taste, I put bay leaf, celery and a mixture of peppers). Or we prepare a dressing from 0.5 liters of boiled water, butter and olive oil and pork fat (take 3 tablespoons in total) and 1 tsp. salt. We also add spices to the water.
Then, put our hedgehogs in the oven and simmer for 30–40 minutes at 160–180 C. You can also cook over fire, but you need a saucepan with a thick bottom or non-stick coating. The fire here is weak.
When the hedgehogs are ready, remove them from the heat.

Bechamel sauce

Melt the butter in a deep frying pan and remove from heat. Now add flour to it and mix well. Put the milk back on the fire and cook until our sauce begins to thicken, now add the remaining milk and add pepper (ground), salt, nutmeg (grated). Let it boil some more and remove from heat. During cooking, the sauce must be stirred all the time, and it must be cooked only over low heat.
And you need to take the milk already boiled, so it won’t run away.
After removing from the heat, the sauce should be transferred to a dry container and allowed to cool. And only then add your choice of table mustard, tomato paste or meat broth. It is not necessary to bring the sauce to a homogeneous consistency. Let it be with beautiful red or mustard stripes.

When serving the hedgehogs, pour our sauce over them. It will be both beautiful and tasty.

Cooking tips:

Always simmer hedgehogs until all the water has evaporated. They will be tight and will not fall apart.
Make sure that the moisture evaporates, but the balls or mixture do not burn.
If the hedgehogs burn, it means your heat is too high or the bottom of your pan is thin. Place a layer of grated carrots on the bottom of the pan, and place the balls on it, so they don’t burn.
Cooked balls with tomato paste or sauce can be served without gravy or sauce, but those with sour cream dressing are always served with herbs or green onions.
Pour the dressing so that it covers the hedgehogs by 1 cm. When the rice has absorbed the liquid by half, place a piece of butter on top of each hedgehog. It will be very tasty. Instead of butter, you can put a pile of grated hard cheese, which will then melt and the hedgehogs will turn out even tastier.

Meat hedgehogs with rice in the oven, or, more simply, meatballs, are a delicious homemade dish for a simple dinner with the family. There is no long preparatory work in terms of pre-frying vegetables and meat, cooking sauce, rice, etc. All actions are performed quickly, without unnecessary manipulations and hassle. The recipe will be useful for both novice housewives and adherents of minimal labor costs in the kitchen.

Hedgehogs differ from classic meatballs in the method of preparation. In this case, raw rice is added to the minced meat. During the process of simmering in the oven, the cereal swells and grains of rice sticking out in different directions, reminiscent of hedgehog needles, form on the surface of the meat balls.

Ingredients:

minced meat (pork + beef) - 500 g;
long grain rice - 100 g;
carrots - 1⁄2 pcs.;
onion - 1 head;
eggs - 2 pcs.;
salt, pepper - to taste;
tomato paste - 1-2 tbsp. spoons;
vegetable oil (for greasing the mold) - 1-2 tbsp. spoons.

In a spacious container, combine minced meat, finely chopped or chopped onion in a blender bowl, and grated carrots.
Beat two eggs and add dry rice (preferably long-grain and unsteamed - then our hedgehogs will turn out to be the most textured).
Add salt/pepper and stir the meat mixture until the components are evenly distributed.
We form small round pieces - meatballs. Place fairly tightly in a lightly oiled baking dish.
Dissolve the tomato paste in a glass of boiling water, add a little salt. Pour the resulting sauce over the meat preparations. If there is not enough filling, add boiling water to the mold, but make sure that the liquid does not completely cover the meatballs - it is necessary that the tops of the “koloboks” peek out from the gravy. The effect of sticking out “rice-needles” is obtained precisely in steam, and not in a liquid medium.
Covering with a lid or tightly covering with foil, place the semi-finished product in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. Bake for 30-40 minutes.
Serve the baked hedgehog meatballs hot, adding fresh herbs and a side dish.

Meat hedgehogs with rice in the oven are ready! Bon appetit!

Hedgehogs are a very juicy and tender variation on the theme of meatballs. This dish is literally made for family dinners, suitable for even the smallest eaters. It owes its name to its appearance; the “needles” of the dish are provided by the addition of rice to the minced meat.

True, they will stick out funny only if you put the cereal raw, otherwise you will end up with ordinary-looking, but still very tasty meat balls. Moreover, the rice should be long, not round.

For minced meat, you can choose absolutely any type of meat or fish. The main thing is its juiciness. Therefore, we recommend not using beef in its pure form, but diluting it with pork or chicken.

To keep the hedgehogs in shape and increase their satiety, bread crumbs, flour, and breadcrumbs are often added, and carrots and onions will help make the taste fresher. This dish is usually not pampered with spices, limiting itself to the classic salt and pepper.

Minced hedgehogs with rice in the oven - step-by-step photo recipe

The good thing about hedgehogs is that you don’t have to prepare a side dish for them. After all, they already contain rice. Many people confuse this dish with meatballs. However, the latter differ in that the rice is pre-boiled before mixing with minced meat. When cooking hedgehogs, this need disappears.

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Cooking time: 1 hour 15 minutes

Quantity: 4 servings

Ingredients

Minced meat (it can be beef, chicken, or mixed): 400 g
Rice (it is best to take long grain, but not parboiled): 300 g
Onion: 1-2 pcs.
Carrots: 1 pc.
Sour cream: 2 tbsp. l.
Tomato paste: 2 tbsp. l.
Cheese: 70-100 g
Egg: 1 pc.
Salt, spices:

Cooking instructions

How to cook meat hedgehogs with gravy?

Although hedgehogs and meatballs are very similar to each other, we do not forget that these dishes are still different. Therefore, in this case, the meat balls should not be fried, thereby depriving them of their very essence - the protruding needles.

To make tomato gravy, you can use ground tomatoes, homemade juice or tomato paste.

Required ingredients:

0.5 kg minced meat;
½ tbsp. rice;
1+1 onion (for hedgehogs and for gravy);
1 cold egg;
3 tomatoes;
1 medium carrot;
1 tbsp. flour;
salt, sugar, pepper, herbs.

Cooking steps:

Boil the rice until half cooked.
To form “hedgehogs” we take twisted meat, finely chopped onion, cooled rice, egg, add salt and pepper, mix thoroughly.
We roll the resulting minced meat into small balls, which should be placed on the bottom of a thick-walled saucepan or pan. There will be quite a bit of gravy, so whatever the container you choose, its sides should be high. Ideally, lay out all the meat balls in one layer, but if this doesn’t work out, then it’s not a problem, we place them on the second floor.
For the gravy, fry grated carrots with chopped onions in a frying pan; when the frying is ready, add tomatoes pureed in a blender or paste diluted in water. After a couple of minutes, add flour, mix and continue frying for about 30 seconds, pour in about 3 tbsp in a thin stream. boiling water, stir immediately, allowing the flour to disperse evenly, bring to a boil, continuing to stir.
Add salt, dried herbs, spices and sugar to the gravy to your taste. The last ingredient is required, otherwise our sauce will lose much of its taste.
Pour the sauce over the hedgehogs and simmer covered for up to half an hour.

Hedgehogs in a slow cooker - recipe

Required ingredients:

0.5 kg headlight;
1 carrot;
1 onion;
1 bell pepper;
half a multi-cooker measuring cup of rice;
40 ml tomato paste;
2 tbsp. l. flour;
100 g sour cream;
salt, spices, herbs.

Cooking steps hedgehogs in a slow cooker:

We prepare cleanly washed and peeled vegetables: grate the carrots on a medium grater, finely chop the onion, cut the pepper into thin strips..
Diligently and tastefully beat the minced meat on the table for a couple of minutes, add half of the prepared onion, rice, and spices to it.
Saute the remaining vegetables on the “Baking” for about a quarter of an hour.
While the vegetables are being cooked in the slow cooker, mix sour cream with tomato and flour, pour 400 ml of boiling water into them, stir until smooth.
Place rice and meat balls on the vegetables, pour in the resulting sauce and cook on “Stew” for 1.5 hours.

If you cook “hedgehogs” in the double boiler mode, you get a dietary or children’s version of the dish.

Recipe for hedgehogs in a frying pan

Required ingredients:

0.5 kg minced meat;
1 onion;
2 garlic cloves;
1 egg;
30-40 ml of tomato sauce or paste;
1 carrot;
a bunch of greenery;
100 g rice;
2 tbsp. flour;
100g sour cream;
½ tbsp. water.

Cooking procedure hedgehogs in a frying pan:

Grind the peeled carrots, garlic cloves and onions in a blender or by hand.
Finely chop the greens (dill, parsley); to give the dish a Mediterranean touch, you can add basil.
Mix the minced meat with vegetables, add raw or semi-cooked rice, herbs and egg. Stir, add salt and pepper. The resulting mass should be homogeneous, thoroughly mixed, and soft.
We make neat koloboks, roll them in flour to give an appetizing crust.
Fry the meat balls in oil on all sides. Our hedgehogs are ready! If desired, you can prepare the sauce.
Mix sour cream, preferably homemade, tomato sauce, a little salt and hot water, mix.
Pour the gravy over our “urchins” and simmer over low heat until the sauce thickens. Usually this action takes no more than half an hour.

Hedgehogs - recipe for cooking in a saucepan

This recipe is dedicated to all connoisseurs of simple, but very tasty and satisfying dishes.

To prepare it necessary:

0.9 kg minced meat;
100 g rice;
1 onion;
½ tbsp. homemade cream4
2 tbsp. milk;
100 g butter
2 garlic cloves;
2 yolks.

Cooking steps:

Grate the peeled onion on a coarse grater or pass it through a blender.
Mix the minced meat with rice and onions until smooth.
From the rice-meat mass we form cones 5 cm in diameter.
Place a small piece of butter on the bottom of a thick-walled pan, after it has melted, place the meat balls on top, fill them halfway with water, cover with a lid and bring to a boil. After which the fire can be reduced to a minimum. The total simmering time is about 45 minutes, while the “hedge” should be turned periodically.
Prepare the cream sauce in a small saucepan. Melt 50 g of butter at its bottom, fry chopped garlic on it, after a minute add cream, and after a couple more - milk. Do not bring the mixture to a boil, simmer over low heat for about 5 minutes.
Beat the yolks thoroughly, pour in the sauces, and continue to simmer for another 10 minutes. The main thing is not to let it boil! Add salt to taste.
Remove the finished meat balls from the heat, pour in the sauce and let it brew.

Hedgehogs in sour cream sauce

Required ingredients:

0.5 kg minced meat:
0.1 kg rice;
1 egg;
1 carrot;
1 onion;
100 g butter;
greens, salt, pepper;
50 ml tomato sauce;
200 g sour cream;
0.5 liters of low-fat broth;
1 tbsp. premium flour.

Cooking steps“hedgehogs” in sour cream filling:

We rinse the rice until it is clean, boil it, place it in a colander and rinse again, letting the excess liquid drain.
Peel and chop the onions and carrots by hand or in a blender, fry them in half the oil.
Beat the egg.
Finely chop the greens.
Add cooled rice, fried vegetables, tomato, egg, chopped herbs to the minced meat, add salt, pepper and mix thoroughly by hand.
We form balls from the minced meat and fry them a little.
Pour flour into a clean and dry hot frying pan, fry it until it acquires a golden hue, remove from heat, and cool. Separately mix sour cream with warm broth, pour the resulting mixture into the flour, stir until smooth, add salt.
We put the “edges” in a deep form, not close to each other, and fill them with sauce. Bake in the center of a hot oven for about 45 minutes. Serve sprinkled with herbs, accompanied by vegetable salad.

Try to cook the minced meat yourself. If you buy store-bought, give preference to a refrigerated product rather than a deep-frozen one. We recommend that you purchase ready-made minced meat through a meat grinder one more time, otherwise you may end up with large pieces.

If you wet your hands in cool water before starting to form the “hedge”, the minced meat will not stick to your palms.

Steamed hedgehogs are a dietary version of your favorite dish. Once ready, they can be poured with low-fat sour cream diluted in water and simmered for about 5 minutes.

An excellent side dish for hedgehogs would be crushed potatoes, vegetable salad, and buckwheat porridge.

If you pass the minced meat through a meat grinder several times, it will become more tender. Approximately 2 tbsp is used for one “hedgehog”. spoons of minced meat, this volume allows it to stew well and keep its shape.

The total calorie content of a dish depends on each of its ingredients separately. The “lightest” option is made from minced chicken with low-fat sour cream sauce.

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Rice “hedgehogs” with minced meat are a good dish for an everyday lunch or dinner. They can be prepared in various ways. Check out some of them.

Minced meat “hedgehogs” with rice: first recipe

To prepare a dish according to this recipe, you will need:

minced beef (can be mixed with pork) - 300 g;
1 medium sized onion;
a few spoons (3-4) tablespoons of rice;
1-2 carrots (small);
butter - spoon (large);
salt, egg;
water or a glass of meat broth;

The recipe for this dish includes which is prepared as follows. Heat the flour in a dry frying pan and pour about half a liter of hot water (broth) into it. Stir, add the specified amount of sour cream and a little sugar for taste. Finely chop the greens and add to the sauce. Add some salt. 5 minutes before readiness, pour sour cream sauce over the “hedgehogs” and simmer. The result was a hearty and tasty second course called “Hedgehogs” made from minced meat with rice.” The recipe is suitable for an everyday menu. Bon appetit!

Minced meat “hedgehogs” with rice: recipe two

You can prepare hedgehogs in the following way. Ingredients:

minced meat (beef) approximately 250 g;
white cabbage in the amount of ¼ large fork;
rice in the amount of 100 g;
1 small onion;
tomato sauce 250 g;
a couple of spoons of flour;
salt, pepper

Cooking instructions

Finely chop the cabbage (you can use a shredder). Boil it until tender in salted water. Leave to cool. Mix minced meat with peeled and chopped onion and cabbage. Salt and add pepper. The specified amount is until half cooked. Add to the minced meat and stir. Roll small balls from the prepared mass. Then place them tightly in a pot or pan. Prepare sauce for the hedgehogs. Mix tomato paste with flour. If desired, you can add a little mayonnaise. Add salt to taste. Fans of garlic flavor can add a chopped clove of garlic. Pour the prepared sauce into the frying pan with the hedgehogs and simmer for 15 minutes. The dish is ready! Serve meat hedgehogs with a side dish of rice, pasta or potatoes. Bon appetit!

Additional ingredients for preparing “hedgehogs” can include products such as carrots, eggs, bell peppers and herbs. They can be chopped and placed directly into the minced meat or added to the sauce. Cook and have fun!