"Hedgehogs" is a wonderful dish for a familyfeasts. After the first spoon, adults and children will love it. They are very reminiscent of thorny animals, as they are sticking out in different directions, like the hedgehogs of a hedgehog. With children, you can play a dish on a plate, making a muzzle and eyes from sour cream.
The shape of the products resembles meatballs, usually doneball, but it does not matter much, since in the form of cutlets they will turn out to be wonderful. The only difference from meatballs with rice is the fact that rice in minced meat is stored raw, and not boiled until half cooked.
Recipes "Hedgehogs" can be different, independing on the place of their preparation and the selected meat. This dish remains tasty after boiling in a saucepan, cooking in an oven or microwave. And what fragrant they are obtained in the multivarquet! To make "Hedgehogs" under the prescription it is possible and to those who observes a diet.
In this article we will consider how to prepare this deliciousa dish according to different recipes. Let's start with the traditional one, which is familiar to everyone from childhood. Even the beginners of the hostesses will be able to cope with the cooking, since the recipe for "Hedgehogs" does not contain complexities and special wisdoms.
Preparation of composite ingredients
We advise you to do any stuff yourself, becausemeat grinder is an item that is available in every home, and self-twisted minced meat is much tastier. You will be absolutely sure that this is really meat, and not ground veins, illiquid pieces or a large amount of fat, from which "Hedgehogs" can crumble into pieces during cooking, and we do not need it at all.
Meat choose lean.You can use beef, veal, pork, bird fillets, if you are on a diet. When grinding meat according to the recipe "Hedgehogs", then twist immediately one medium-sized onion, cut into 4 pieces.
Some onions are extinguished separately before casting intoforcemeat, however it is not necessary. Then the rinsed raw rice is added, and everything is kneaded with the addition of salt and black pepper. Some eggs are not added, but if you still put it in minced meat, it will better bind all the components.
Meat should be taken much more than rice. For example, if you cook "Hedgehogs" according to the recipe for minced meat, then the meat should be 600-700 grams, and rice is taken only 100.
Recipe
Arms form round balls and spread onheated frying pan with a bottom covered with a layer of vegetable oil. Roasted "hedgehogs" on both sides and laid out in the cossacks layers. If there are not enough of them, then you can use a pan or a deep frying pan. Some cooks pre-fry the balls in flour, but this is an optional step in preparing the dish.
Then the prepared balls are filled with water andput on the fire, after boiling the gas is reduced, and the dish is cooked until the rice is ready. Sometimes it is added either a spoonful of tomato, or a glass of tomato juice, from which the "Jerzy" gets a sweet-sour taste. There are recipes, according to which instead of water, a special pouring for meat balls is made. Consider several options and such cooking.
Tomato sauce for gravy
In the preparation of the recipe "Hedgehogs" with rice with gravy involved the following components:
- Fried in a frying pan with vegetable oil adding small strips of one large carrot;
- A glass of tomato juice;
- a teaspoon of tomato;
- a tablespoon with a slice of sour cream;
- a tablespoon of white flour;
- spices to taste.
All are placed in a separate deep bowl.ingredients and mix well. Then topped up with a glass of water, and still once again thoroughly stirred, so that there are no lumps of flour. You can pour both raw and fried balls. Cooked dish right in pouring until ready.
Sauce without sour cream
After frying the balls, they are laid out ondeep bowl awaiting further action. At this time, you need to cook everything for gravy. Paste in vegetable oil chopped onion and grated carrot. When the vegetables acquire the necessary consistency, namely the onion will become golden in color, add a spoonful of tomato in the pan and simmer for another minute.
You can add squeezed garlic.Then everything is filled with water and stewed for a couple of minutes. Then the balls are laid out in a gravy and cooked on a low fire for 10 minutes. You can also put in gravy and raw products, then the cooking time will be longer, until the "Hedgehogs" on the recipe with gravy are fully prepared. Served hot. If you still want to additionally use some kind of sauce, then you can put a spoonful of sour cream or mayonnaise (if desired) on the plate in the finished dish.
Recipe "Hedgehogs" in the oven
For the preparation of this type of "Hedgehogs" take the following products:
- 100 grams of long grain washed rice. You can pour it with boiling water before mixing it in the mince so that it will infuse for some time.
- 300 grams of any minced meat (according to personal preferences).
- One clove of garlic and one medium onion are ground together with meat in minced meat.
- Tomato paste - 1 table. spoon.
- 2 tablespoons sour cream.
- Salt and various seasonings can be added to both minced meat and sauce to taste.
Cooking
Dip your hands into the water, make dense balls andput them in rows either on a baking sheet or in a pan without handles. The egg in this case is not added. Pre-lubricate the bottom of the tank with vegetable oil. To fill mix sour cream, tomato paste and add water. You can add salt and spices to the liquid, bay leaf as desired. All balls are poured either completely or by 2/3, so that the tops will slightly brown from the heat of the oven.
"Hedgehogs" on the recipe of minced meat with gravy,made in the oven, are fragrant and very tender. They are prepared at a temperature of 200 degrees for 30 or 40 minutes. When the container is placed in the oven, the top is covered with foil. And a few minutes before the gas is turned off, you need to remove it so that the balls will already be baked without it.
Sour cream balls
To prepare such "Hedgehogs" you need to choose the following components:
- minced meat in the amount of 400 grams;
- one piece of medium carrots and onions;
- half a glass of washed rice;
- one egg for better stuffing;
- vegetable oil for roasting meat balls in the pan;
- butter for cooking vegetable zazharki.
Grind lean meat in a meat grinder, addwashed rice Carrots and onions are finely chopped and pre-pasted in the pan with the addition of butter. All vegetables are transferred to a bowl of minced meat and rice. Then the mixture must be salted and one chicken should be driven into it. With your hands everything is thoroughly kneaded and form beautiful round balls, which are fried on both sides in vegetable oil. Then they are laid out in a deep container in anticipation of the gravy.
Cooking sauce
To make a cream sauce, you need to mix the following ingredients in a deep bowl:
- filtered water - one and a half 250-gram glass;
- 3 tablespoons sour cream without a hill;
- one article l wheat flour;
- spices, such as salt and black pepper, on their own.
All the ingredients are kneaded to avoidlumps from the addition of flour. Then the mixture is poured balls in the prepared container. Put everything on fire and cook after boiling on a quiet fire for up to 20 minutes. Ready-made "Hedgehogs" are very delicate, each piece will simply melt after getting into the mouth.
"Hedgehogs" from the chicken in the crock-pot
Фарш для такого блюда готовят смешанный.130 grams of ground chicken fillet is combined with 250 grams of minced beef or veal. It is also useful one head of onions, a clove of garlic, a piece of white bread, a third glass of water. Rice is desirable to use basmati - 5 tablespoons. Spices are added to taste - salt and black pepper.
This dish is prepared to beeaten immediately. This is due to one peculiar moment in the recipe. The fact is that rice in this embodiment does not mix with minced meat. Groats are pre-washed and dried on a paper napkin. Then pour in a bowl. At this time, cooked stuffing. Different types of meat add uniqueness to the taste of the dish. Also in the grinder, you must throw onions, garlic and grind a piece of white bread. Only you must first soak it in water and squeeze out excess liquid by hand. Then add salt and seasoning to taste and mix the meat thoroughly.
Each prepared ball is rolled in basmati.from all sides. The rice should stick well to the meat. Then the balls are laid out in a special dish with holes for steaming and put in a slow cooker. Preparing "Hedgehogs" prescription (photo in the article) for half an hour. You need to eat immediately, as after cooling, the basmati dries out and becomes hard.
Cook with pleasure according to our recipes! Enjoy your meal!
