Original in appearance, the dish will especially appeal to a small audience. And you can cook “hedgehogs” from minced meat with rice in the oven in different ways.

Classic minced hedgehogs with rice in the oven

We offer to prepare this dish from completely inexpensive components that can be purchased at any grocery store:

  • minced chicken - 450 g;
  • long-grain rice - 250 g;
  • onions - 150 g;
  • carrots - 100 g;
  • sour cream - 2 tbsp. l .;
  • Kostroma cheese - 80 g;
  • egg - 1 pc.;
  • spices to your taste.

Step by step recipe:

  1. We peel the onion from the husk, mix it with minced meat and rice. Add the egg for viscosity. We introduce bulk ingredients, knead the mass.
  2. We form balls with wet hands, we make the size at our discretion.
  3. Chopped onions and carrots finely, spread in a container. Add sour cream to vegetables, add 200 ml of water or broth.
  4. We put the meat balls in a refractory form, pour the dressing on them. We close the container with foil.
  5. Bake in the oven for 45 minutes at a temperature of 185 ° C.
  6. 10 minutes before cooking, remove the foil, sprinkle the dish with grated cheese. And put it back in the oven.

Serve with any vegetable salad.

Cooking with Tomato Gravy

When buying minced meat, you should give preference to a chilled product.

The availability of ingredients is required:

  • mixed forcemeat - 550 g;
  • non-steamed rice - 150 g;
  • perfect egg - 1 pc.;
  • carrots - 1 pc.;
  • onions - 1 pc.;
  • tomato sauce - 100 ml;
  • sour cream - 150 g;
  • broth - 400 ml;
  • flour - 1 tbsp. l .;
  • spices to taste.

Cooking meat balls with rice:

  1. We rinse the rice, recline in a colander so that the glass is moisture.
  2. Grind onions and carrots, fry in vegetable oil.
  3. Combine rice with minced meat, add vegetable frying, egg. Pour spices, mix thoroughly.
  4. We form the minced meat balls, which we put in the form.
  5. Fry the flour in a pan until golden brown, cool and mix with the broth, sour cream, tomato sauce. We add the liquid mixture.
  6. Refill the balls in the form. Bake in the oven for 45 minutes. We set the temperature to 190 ° C.

When serving, you can flavor the dish with chopped herbs.

Cream balls

For this dish, mashed potatoes or buckwheat porridge will be an excellent side dish.

Necessary components:

  • any stuffing - 800 g;
  • long-grain rice - 100 g;
  • onions - 180 g;
  • cream - ½ tbsp .;
  • chicken egg - 2 pcs.;
  • milk - 2 tbsp .;
  • garlic - 2 cloves;
  • salt, pepper - to your taste.

 

We prepare hedgehogs from minced meat with rice with gravy according to the algorithm:

  1. Three onion graters. Mix vegetable with minced meat, one egg and rice. We season the mass with spices, form a small diameter kolobok from the mixture. The balls are placed in the form.
  2. Grind the garlic, fry it in oil for 2 to 3 minutes. Pour cream, milk here, pour spices. Beat the remaining egg, add to the sauce. Stir the mass over low heat for 10 minutes.
  3. Fill the balls with the prepared sauce, send the form to the oven for 40 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C.

This dish can also be cooked in a pan and in a pan.

Sour cream variation

Required Products:

  • minced pork - 400 g;
  • rice - 150 g;
  • egg - 1 pc.;
  • carrots - 100 g;
  • onions - 200 g;
  • sour cream - 200 g;
  • broth - 200 ml;
  • greens - ½ bunch;
  • ketchup - 50 ml;
  • premium flour - 1 tbsp. l .;
  • spices to taste.

Cooking in stages:

  1. We clean carrots with onions, rinse under water, chop. Fry vegetables in oil.
  2. We introduce washed rice, ketchup, beaten egg into the minced meat. Pour salt, pepper into the mixture, knead. From the resulting mass we form cue balls. Put them in a food bag.It is better to form meat balls with wet hands - this way the meat preparation will not stick to the palms.
  3. We pass the flour without oil, pour in the broth and add sour cream. Tomim mass until thick.
  4. To the meat semi-finished product, pour vegetable frying, introduce sour cream sauce. Tie the bag, place on a baking sheet.
  5. We send the metal sheet to the oven, bake for 45 minutes at a temperature of 185 ° C.

Sprinkle the finished dish with chopped herbs and call the household at the table for an evening meal.

Minced chicken hedgehogs with cheese

We stock up on products:

  • minced chicken - 0.4 kg;
  • rice - 0.1 kg;
  • onions - 0.2 kg;
  • sour cream - 3 tbsp. l .;
  • broth - 0.1 l;
  • sweet pepper - 0.1 kg;
  • carrots - 0.15 kg;
  • tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l .;
  • Poshekhonsky cheese - 0.1 kg;
  • perfect egg - 1 pc.;
  • salt - a pinch;
  • ground black pepper - on the tip of a knife.

For a dish, it is best to use long-grain rice, as it is less sticky.

We adhere to this plan in the cooking process:

  1. Peel the onion from the husk, chop finely. Free peppers from seeds, finely chop.
  2. Mix vegetables with minced meat and washed rice. Add half the spices to the mass, egg and knead. We form round balls from the mixture, we adjust the diameter ourselves.You need to know, the larger the meatballs, the longer it will take to prepare them.
  3. For pouring, mix the broth with sour cream, introduce tomato paste, pour in the remaining spices. Knead the mass.
  4. Put the meatballs in a deep form, pour the sauce. Pouring should completely cover the meat balls.
  5. Bake at 185 ° C for 45 minutes.
  6. Sprinkle the finished dish with grated cheese chips.

The calorie content of a meat treat depends on the overall composition of the components. If you want a dietary dish, then it is worth using minced chicken and sour cream of lower fat content.