Minced Hedgehogs With Rice: Recipes For Dishes With Gravy, In A Pan, In An Oven And A Slow Cooker, Step By Step, With Photos And Videos

2025 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-23 12:41

Original minced meat hedgehogs with rice: a selection of delicious recipes

Simple foods found in every home can be the basis for a delicious lunch or dinner. A little ground meat, a handful of snow-white rice groats, an egg, a pinch of aromatic spices and a little patience - that's, perhaps, all that is needed to please loved ones with wonderful minced meat hedgehogs with rice.

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• 1 Step-by-step recipes for minced hedgehogs with rice

  • 1.1 In a skillet in tomato sauce

    1.1.1 Video: meatball hedgehogs with rice

  • 1.2 In the oven with cheese

    1.2.1 Video: hedgehogs in the oven

  • 1.3 In a slow cooker with vegetables and sauce

    1.3.1 Video: meat hedgehogs in a slow cooker

  • 1.4 Steamed baby hedgehogs

    1.4.1 Video: steaming meatballs

Step-by-step recipes for minced hedgehogs with rice

To prepare hedgehogs with rice, use meat (pork, beef or mixed), chicken or turkey mince. The dish can be cooked in a frying pan, in a cauldron or saucepan, oven, multicooker, microwave or steam.

In a frying pan in tomato sauce

Juicy tomatoes give the meatballs a rich flavor and delicate texture.

Ingredients:

• 400 g ground beef;
• 1/2 tbsp. long grain rice;
• 500 g of tomatoes in their own juice;
• 2 onions;
• 1 egg;
• 3 tbsp. l. sunflower oil;
• salt and black pepper.

Preparation:

1. Prepare food.

   

   Ground beef can be substituted with mixed meat or poultry

2. Cut the onion into small cubes and fry in sunflower oil until golden brown.

   

   Fry the onion until lightly golden, but do not let it burn

3. Place the onions in a strainer over a clean bowl. Do not pour out the drained oil, as you will need it later to fry the balls.

   

   Leave onions in a sieve for 10-15 minutes

4. Combine the minced meat with rice, onions, an egg, half a teaspoon of salt and a pinch of black pepper.

   

   For thorough kneading of minced meat, choose a large volume cookware

5. Knead the resulting mass thoroughly.

   

   Mass for hedgehogs should be well mixed and plastic

6. By wetting your hands with cold water, shape the minced meat into balls about 7 cm in diameter.

   

   The workpieces will not stick if you periodically wet your hands with cold water during sculpting

7. Place the pieces on a cutting board and refrigerate for half an hour.
8. Heat the oil in which the onions were fried in a frying pan.

9. Fry the balls on both sides until golden brown.

   

   Fry meats over medium heat on both sides

10. Finely chop the tomatoes, place together with the juice in a thick-walled pan with high sides or cauldron, add spices and salt to taste.

    

    Use a thick-walled pan with a bottom to stew minced hedgehogs

11. Preheat the gravy, place the meat pieces in it and simmer for 20 minutes.

    

    To ensure even heating and the fastest cooking possible, remember to cover the cookware with a lid.

12. When the rice is tender, remove from heat, place in bowls and serve.

    

    Minced hedgehogs with rice in tomato sauce can be served with sour cream and green onions

Video: hedgehogs meatballs with rice

In the oven with cheese

Of all the possible ways to prepare meals for my family, I prefer the oven. Dishes turn out to be somehow especially tasty, tender. Plus, while the food is baked in the oven, there is free time to do something else useful. The recipe for minced hedgehogs with rice was suggested to me by a friend, whose husband and son are ready to enjoy her wonderful creation at least every day. In the original, lean pork is used for minced meat. I often cook this dish from chicken or turkey meat.

Ingredients:

• 500 g minced pork;
• 200 g of rice;
• 2 carrots;
• 2 onion heads;
• 1 egg;
• 150 g mayonnaise;
• 200 g sour cream;
• 150 g of hard cheese;
• 1/2 tsp curry;
• salt and spices to taste.

Preparation:

1. Boil rice until half cooked, cool.

2. Combine the minced meat, rice, minced carrots, chopped onions, egg, spices and salt to taste.

   

   Grind vegetables in any convenient way: through a meat grinder, using a grater, blender or knife

3. Knead the mass well, form balls with wet hands.

4. Place the pieces in a high-sided baking dish.

   

   Choose a baking sheet with high sides or a deep refractory dish for cooking

5. Prepare the filling: Combine mayonnaise, sour cream, a pinch of salt and curry powder.

   

   You can use heavy cream for filling.

6. Add 100–150 ml of water to the prepared mixture, stir.

   

   Fill for hedgehogs should not be too liquid and not very thick

7. Pour the filling into the hedgehog mold.

8. Sprinkle the coarsely grated hard cheese over the dish.

   

   All types of hard cheese are suitable for sprinkling the dish.

9. Cook hedgehogs in the oven at 180 degrees for 45-60 minutes.

10. When the rice is soft and the cheese is melted and golden brown on the food, remove the hedgehogs from the oven.

    

    Melted cheese covers the dish with a delicious golden brown crust

11. Serve with a side dish of your choice.

    

    Minced hedgehogs with rice in sour cream filling can be served as an independent dish or with additives at your discretion

Video: hedgehogs in the oven

In a slow cooker with vegetables and sauce

The multicooker is an irreplaceable assistant in the kitchen of many modern housewives. Therefore, the recipe for minced hedgehogs with rice was adapted by culinary specialists for cooking in this wonderful unit.

Ingredients:

• 800 g chicken breast;
• 4 tbsp. l. round grain rice;
• 2 onions;
• 1 carrot;
• 2 tbsp. l. tomato sauce;
• 2 tbsp. l. sunflower oil;
• water;
• salt.

Preparation:

1. Place the ingredients you need on your work surface.

   

   Prepare food so that everything is at hand

2. Cut the chicken fillet, peeled from skin and bones, into small pieces.

   

   You can use turkey or veal instead of chicken.

3. Scroll the meat through a meat grinder along with 1 onion.

   

   Onions can be scrolled through a meat grinder along with fillets or chopped in a blender

4. Add washed rice and salt to the meat mass to taste, mix well.

5. Form small balls of equal size.

   

   To prevent the minced meat from sticking to your hands, moisten your palms with cold water

6. Grate the carrots on a grater with large holes, finely chop the remaining onion with a knife.
7. Pour sunflower oil into the multicooker bowl and set the "Fry" mode for 5 minutes.

8. Saute the onions and carrots until soft.

   

   Stir occasionally to prevent vegetables from burning.

9. Add tomato sauce to vegetables, stir, cook for 1 minute.

10. Pour 1.5 liters of water into a multicooker, add salt, bring to a boil.

    

    Pour in enough water so that later it completely covers the meat pieces

11. Transfer the preparations to the multicooker, turn on the "Soup" or "Stew" mode, cook the dish for 40 minutes.

    

    Rice should be soft by the end of cooking

12. Hedgehogs can be served as a soup or as a main course.

    

    Minced chicken hedgehogs can be offered to adults and kids

Video: meat hedgehogs in a slow cooker

Steamed baby hedgehogs

Toddlers also love to feast on delicious meat balls, but it is best for children to steam them, without adding oil and frying the products that make up the dish. Both my daughters, one of whom is only one and a half years old, and the second is almost 11 years old, are happy to eat delicious round cheeks on both cheeks. The husband does not refuse such a dinner, who is always happy with the most healthy food.

Ingredients:

• 100 g long grain rice;
• 450 g lean pork;
• 30 g of dried loaf;
• 100 g of milk;
• 1 onion;
• 1 egg;
• 1/2 tsp salt;
• spices to taste;
• black peppercorns.

Preparation:

1. Rinse the rice in several waters.

   

   Rice needs to be washed several times until the water is clear

2. Put the rice in a pot of boiling water, add a little salt and cook for 5 minutes.

   

   Rice must remain firm, otherwise it will boil down and turn into porridge during further cooking.

3. Place the rice on a sieve and let the liquid drain.

   

   To get rid of excess water, leave the rice in a sieve for at least 10 minutes.

4. Prepare food for minced meat.

   

   Lean pork can be replaced with veal, chicken or turkey fillets

5. Soak a piece of loaf in warm milk.

   

   Before adding to the minced meat, the loaf soaked in milk must be lightly squeezed by hand

6. Scroll the pork and peeled onions through a meat grinder.

7. Combine the minced meat with egg, soaked loaf, salt and spices to taste.

   

   You can add any spices and seasonings to the minced meat.

8. Mix all ingredients thoroughly until a plastic mass is obtained.

   

   If the minced meat turns out to be too runny, you can add some bread crumbs or semolina

9. Pour water into the multicooker, turn on the "Steam" mode for 40 minutes.
10. Form hedgehogs: roll oblong blanks from minced meat and roll them in boiled rice so that one edge remains without grains.

11. Place the hedgehogs in a steaming bowl.

    

    Position the workpieces so that they do not touch each other

12. Use the black peppercorns to make the eyes and noses for the hedgehogs.

    

    Forming the eyes and nose, press the peppercorns into the minced meat

13. Place the steamer in the multicooker bowl, close the appliance and cook until the beep sounds.

    

    Ready minced hedgehogs with rice look very interesting and unusual

14. Using a spoon or spatula, carefully so as not to break it, transfer the minced meat hedgehogs with rice to serving plates.

    

    Garnish with bright fresh herbs before serving

Video: steaming meatballs

Do you agree that minced meat hedgehogs with rice are a great option for satisfying the whole family? Tell us how you prepare this dish by writing a comment below. Bon appetit to you and your loved ones!