Minced hedgehogs with rice and gravy is a hearty and healthy dish that is loved by both children and adults. Stuffing can be used any, it all depends on taste preferences.

Stuffed hedgehogs with rice and gravy in the oven

"Hedgehogs" are, in fact, ordinary meatballs, but with rice. It was thanks to him that they got their name - due to the similarity of protruding grains with spikes of a hedgehog.

For this reason, long grain rice should always be used. It looks most impressive, but at the same time the products do not lose their shape at all.

Necessary components:

  • rice - a glass;
  • minced meat - 0.6 kg;
  • bow - head;
  • carrot - 1 pc.;
  • tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l .;
  • water - how much is needed;
  • salt with pepper, oil - at personal discretion.

Of course, it is best to use self-prepared minced meat, as you can be sure of its quality. If there is no time to deal with it, and you have to buy a factory product, it is better to give preference to chilled rather than frozen semi-finished product. With such raw materials, you can immediately determine the density, texture and quality.

For juiciness, minced raw or pan-fried onions are always added to the minced meat. The first option is suitable for those cases when you need a dietary dish.

Sequencing:

  1. Rinse rice. Add it to the minced meat.
  2. Season with salt and season. Form balls from the mass and put into a refractory form.
  3. Chop the onions and carrots and sauté them in a pan until soft.
  4. Put the frying into the mold.
  5. Dissolve tomato paste in hot water, salt to taste.
  6. Pour the dressing into the mold so that the workpieces are half covered with liquid. Salt and pepper.

Cook “hedgehogs” in the oven for about an hour. Serve hot.

In a sour cream sauce in a pan

Sour cream gravy makes the "hedgehogs" especially tender and tasty. She gives the finished dish an unprecedented juiciness.

What do you need:

  • stuffing - a pound;
  • rice - 100 g;
  • sour cream - 6 tbsp. l (half for hedgehogs, half for sauce);
  • bow - head;
  • flour - 4 tbsp. l .;
  • hard cheese - a 75 gram slice;
  • garlic - 3 cloves;
  • oil, salt and pepper - to taste.

Step by step recipe:

  1. Rinse the cereals, pour water in a ratio of 1 to 1 and cook until the water is completely boiled.
  2. Cool the rice and put it into the minced meat. Add sour cream.
  3. Fry the onion, grate the cheese and put everything into the minced meat. Salt, pepper and mix well with your hands. Strongly salt minced meat is not necessary, since the "hedgehogs" will still be cooked in sauce and may turn out to be too salty.
  4. Form balls and roll them in flour. To prevent sticking to the hands during the molding process, palms should be moistened with cold water.
  5. Fry the balls in a pan in hot oil on both sides. Do not close the lid.
  6. Fry chopped garlic in a saucepan. Add sour cream and some hot water so that the mass is liquid. Season to taste. Boil.
  7. Put ready “hedgehogs” in a saucepan with sauce and simmer for no more than 10 minutes on low heat.

As a side dish, you can serve mashed potatoes or pasta.

Cream recipe in a saucepan

If you use minced chicken, you need to add a little fat sour cream or fat to it so that the "hedgehogs" do not turn out to be dry.

Necessary components:

  • rice - 80 g;
  • stuffing - kilo;
  • onion - a large head;
  • cream - 100 g;
  • milk - 400 ml;
  • garlic - 2 cloves;
  • yolks - 2 pcs.;
  • butter - a 50 gram slice;
  • salt and oil - as needed.

 

Sequencing:

  1. Grind onions on a grater, mix with washed cereals and minced meat. To salt. To form balls.
  2. Pour a little oil into the pan and lay out the blanks. Pour boiled water so that it covers approximately the balls, about half.
  3. When the liquid boils, reduce the heat. Stew for 40 minutes, periodically checking if there is enough water, and turning the hedgehogs over.
  4. Melt the butter in a dipper, squeeze 2 cloves of garlic there. Fry for 1 minute.
  5. Pour in the cream, after 3 minutes - milk. Cook for 5 minutes on low heat. Introduce whipped yolks. To salt. Warm over low heat for 10 minutes to make the sauce thick.
  6. Pour the "hedgehogs" with sauce.

Give the dish a little brew.

Tasty hedgehogs in tomato sauce

Tomato sauce also well emphasizes the taste of "hedgehogs." This time the dish will be cooked in a slow cooker.

A set of components:

  • stuffing - a pound;
  • rice - 150 g;
  • carrot - 1 pc.;
  • onion - 2 heads;
  • eggs - 1 pc.;
  • tomato paste and sour cream - 2 tbsp each. l .;
  • water - 1.5 tbsp. l .;
  • flour - 1 tsp;
  • salt with pepper - as needed.

Instead of tomato paste, you can use tomato juice, ketchup, chopped puree from fresh or canned tomatoes.

Minced hedgehogs recipe:

  1. Chop the onions and carrots and fry them in the bowl of the appliance by pouring in the oil and launching the “Frying” or “Baking” program.
  2. Rinse rice and combine with minced meat along with frying. Beat the egg, add salt and spices. Knead well.
  3. Combine sour cream with tomato paste and water. Salt, add flour, mix.
  4. Form balls and put in the bowl of the device.
  5. Pour in the gravy.

Launch the Extinguishing program for 45 minutes. After the signal, a hearty and tasty dish can be served to the table.

There are enough cooking options for “hedgehogs”. A variety of gravy also helps to rediscover the taste of an already familiar and familiar dish.

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