Each family has its own recipe for meatballs with rice, which was taught by a mother or girlfriend. But few people know how many cooking options for this dish exist. “Hedgehogs” go well with any side dish, you can take any meat and choose the appropriate size of cutlets. Let's try to make out the most popular ways that the hostesses use.
Preparation of dishes and products
Immediately you need to take everything you need. You may need a deep frying pan or baking tray, and for some recipes, a pressure cooker, a slow cooker, or a microwave oven.
Do not take steamed rice. Boil the cereals in advance, put them in a colander and cool. Choose the consistency of minced meat at your discretion. It will be necessary to add onions, eggs and seasonings. Sieve flour for gravy is better to not get lumps.
After cooking according to the recipe, meatballs with rice are served on plates for main dishes. Potatoes, buckwheat or stewed vegetables are great for garnishing.
Classic version
This is the most common frying pan recipe.
We will need:
- Boiled rice - 1 cup.
- Onion.
- Flour - 2 tbsp. l with a slide.
- Twisted pork and beef meat in equal proportions - 450 g.
- Egg.
- 1 slice of loaf.
- Dry spices and bay leaf.
- 3 tbsp. l thick tomato paste.
- 4 tbsp. l milk.
Prescription meatballs in tomato sauce with rice is very popular among housewives in the kitchen. So, in a bowl, soak the loaf in milk and grind it with a fork. Some cooks may use grated raw potatoes instead of bread.
Peel the onion and finely chop. You can twist it in a meat grinder along with meat. We mix the minced meat, cooked and cooled rice, egg and long loaf in a deep bowl. You need to add salt and seasonings.
Type a plate of cold water to wet your hands. Pinching, give the cones the desired shape. Fry in sunflower oil, roll meatballs in flour or breadcrumbs. So that they do not burst and do not fall apart, hold for 2 minutes on one side, turn over. Then, returning to its original position, hold in the pan until browned.
Cook the gravy. To do this, in a separate frying pan, you need to slightly fry the flour, add tomato paste and, stirring, pour boiled water. Bring to a boil, salt and add the lavrushka. Throw the koloboks there and leave it on fire for another 15 minutes until ready.
Hedgehogs in tomato and cream sauce
This recipe with rice meatballs in tomato sauce with the addition of sour cream slightly diversifies your menu. The colorful color of the dish will appeal to households.
The first cooking option must be supplemented with the following products:
- Another onion.
- 1 carrot.
- 3 tbsp. l sour cream (can be replaced with cream).
We prepare and fry the "hedgehogs", as before. In the same pan we make frying from chopped onions and grated carrots.
In a separate container, you need to brown the flour, then pour the cream or sour cream, add the tomato paste. Mix with the contents of another pan, dilute with water and salt. Bring to readiness our meatballs in sauce. Sprinkle with fresh herbs when serving.
Diet koloboks
For those who have to monitor their health or figure, the following step-by-step recipe for meatballs with rice is suitable.
Ingredients:
- Half a kilogram of minced meat.
- Half a bunch of fresh chives.
- ½ cup rice.
- Seasonings and salt.
- Egg.
We start cooking according to the recipe:
- Well rinse the cereals and cook until half cooked. Leaning in a colander, drain the remaining water and cool to room temperature.
- Next, mix with minced meat, add the egg, chopped green onions, salt. Divide into koloboks.
- For cooking, you can use a slow cooker or a mantle. Put the meatballs on the wire rack and cook for 40 minutes.
This option is well suited for young children who are better protected from fried foods.
Baked Meatballs
Now let's take a simple step-by-step recipe for meatballs with rice.
For 500 g of mixed (pork, beef) minced meat we need:
- 100 g round rice.
- A small onion.
- Egg and spices.
Cooking:
- Boil and cool the grits.
- Mix with minced meat, eggs, spices and chopped onions, which can be replaced with a rod.
- Divide into portioned pieces, which give a rounded shape. We spread the koloboks on a greased baking sheet or covered with parchment paper.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- We send a sheet of meatballs for 40 minutes.
Serve hot with a side dish.
Oven meatballs with cheese and buckwheat sauce
A good option for quick cooking a delicious dinner.
Prepare in advance:
- Pork meat - 270 g.
- Veal - 270 g.
- 2 medium onions.
- Spice.
- A glass of rice (pre-sorted).
- Egg.
- Carrot.
- Salt.
- Sunflower oil - 6 tbsp.
- Tomato juice (thick) or prepared pasta - 4 tbsp. l
- Garlic - 4 cloves.
- Buckwheat - 2 cups.
- Hard cheese - 200 g.
The recipe for meatballs with rice in the oven is designed for 4 people. The dish is prepared together with a side dish, which allows buckwheat to be filled with aromas of meat, gravy and spices.
We start with the preparation of minced meat. We cut the veins and the film from the meat. To twist in a meat grinder it is better to slightly frozen pieces. Boil the washed rice in salted water, drain the excess liquid and cool to room temperature.
We clean the onions and chop. Fry half in oil and mix with rice, minced meat, egg and chopped garlic. Salt, divide the mass into 8 parts and give each a rounded shape. Each "hedgehog" is subjected to heat treatment in a pan with the addition of fat. Evenly laid out in a deep pan. Between poured sorted buckwheat.
Now do the gravy. Fry the remaining onions with grated carrots. Add salt, tomato paste, bay leaf, seasonings for pork and 4-5 glasses of water. Bring to a boil and gently pour into the mold to completely cover the buckwheat and meatballs with rice. The recipe involves the use of foil, which cover the entire sheet and fix the edges.
We put in the oven for a quarter of an hour. Next, remove the “lid” from the pan and, sprinkled abundantly with grated cheese, put in the oven again for 5-10 minutes to form a golden crust.
Sprinkle with fresh herbs before serving.
Hedgehogs in clay pots
Now consider a step-by-step recipe for meatballs with rice for the oven, which involves cooking immediately in portioned dishes with vegetables.
We have to:
- 250 g (1 cup) sorted rice.
- 1500 g of minced meat (any).
- 2 onions.
- Salt and dry spices.
- 1 egg
- Sunflower oil and breadcrumbs for roasting.
Gravy:
- 1 eggplant.
- 2 bell peppers.
- 1 carrot.
- A few cloves of garlic.
- 6 tbsp. l thick sour cream.
- 6 tbsp. l mayonnaise.
A wonderful recipe for meatballs with rice (see the photo of the dish below), which is suitable for both weekdays and holidays. The aroma of the dish will fill your home and gather everyone at the table.
The beginning of preparation is no different from the previous options, when the minced meat is mixed with an egg, chopped onion, boiled rice, spices and salt. Then the koloboks are rolled out and fried in a preheated pan, previously boned in breadcrumbs. Arrange in pots, pour 1 tablespoon of boiled water to the bottom.
Peel and chop eggplant and dice. Mix with grated carrots and chopped garlic. Add salt and dry spices. Spread a mixture of vegetables on top of meatballs. Combine sour cream with mayonnaise and pour into each pot. Cover and place in the oven for approximately 15-20 minutes.
Serve the dish in a clay bowl or put on plates.
Meatballs "Lazy" in the slow cooker
This is exactly what this dish can be called, where cabbage is added to meatballs with rice. The recipe makes cooking quite simple, and the dish will look like lazy cabbage rolls.
Ingredients:
- Beef (fillet) - 1000 g.
- 1.5 cups of cooked rice.
- Tomatoes - 3 pcs.
- Cabbage (fresh or salted) - 500 g.
- Onion - 2 pcs.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Lean oil for frying.
- Spice.
- Salt.
Meatballs with rice in sauce, the recipe of which we will consider, ideally involves the use of fresh cabbage. But at your discretion, you can replace it with sauerkraut. In both cases, it will be necessary to first twist the vegetable in a meat grinder and squeeze out the excess liquid.
We also grind the meat in a food processor with onions, mix with cabbage and eggs. We make the shape of meatballs, roll in flour and fry in the multicooker bowl with the addition of oil. Separately, onion with carrots, add grated peeled tomatoes. Put out a few minutes.
Put meatballs there, pour water to completely cover them. Close the lid and in the "Extinguishing" mode leave for 40 minutes. Open and add the necessary spices, bay leaf and salt. Bring to readiness by switching the mode to "Rice", within 12 minutes.
Serve on the table without a side dish.
Chicken Meatballs
If you decide to diversify your menu, then use chicken for a recipe for meatballs with rice in a pan. The gravy will be fried vegetables with tomatoes.
Prepare:
- 0.5 kg of chicken breast.
- 0.2 kg of boiled rice.
- Chives, fresh dill.
- 1 PC. onions.
- Carrots and red bell peppers.
- Salt.
- A tablespoon of potato starch.
- 4 red tomatoes.
Wash the chicken fillet under running water, pat it with a paper towel to remove excess water. Grind in a blender or meat grinder. Add rice and chopped herbs. It should be noted that it is better not to add eggs, as the meatballs will turn out to be dry, and instead of them add starch. Salt and mix the minced meat well.
Roll koloboks and fry in a hot pan until golden brown. Put in another bowl. In the same fat, pass the finely chopped onions, bell pepper and carrots into strips. At the end, put grated without peel and leave over low heat until the mass thickens.
Put meatballs in a pan, add a glass of water, bay leaf and salt. Cook after boiling for another 8-10 minutes.
Fish meatballs in sour cream sauce
For lovers of seafood, there is such an option for this dish.
Required Products:
- Fillet of any fish - 500-600 g.
- 2 slices of loaf.
- ½ cup cow's milk.
- ¼ cup of rice.
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup sour cream.
- Salt;.
- Seasonings.
Sauce Ingredients:
- ½ cup fat cream.
- 30 g butter.
- 2 tbsp. l wheat flour.
- Fish stock or water.
- Fresh greens.
Carefully read this recipe for meatballs with rice in the sauce so as not to miss anything.
To prevent the ingress of bones, you can buy ready-made minced fish. If you cook it yourself, it is better to use sea fish and scroll the filet several times in a meat grinder. Add the loaf soaked in milk, egg, salt. Achieve mass uniformity and roll balls. Choose the size yourself. Fry over high heat with added butter.
In the same pan after meatballs, we begin cooking the sauce. First, pass the onions together with celery, basil, dill and parsley. Pour flour there and after a minute we pour the fish broth. We add the "hedgehogs" and bring to readiness. You can put everything in another bowl, sprinkle with cheese and put in the microwave.
Baked meatballs with mushrooms and potatoes
Great home dinner option. We will prepare and fry meatballs, as in other recipes, at your discretion (without using fish).
Next we need:
- Champignons (can be replaced with any other mushrooms) - 300 g.
- Potatoes - 6-7 pcs.
- Carrots - 1 large thing.
- Greens and salt.
- Fat cream - half a glass.
- Cheese - 200 g.
Rinse well, cut off the damaged areas of the mushrooms. It is better to cut into pieces of various sizes, as small ones add aroma, and large ones add flavor. Fry in butter with onions and carrots, chopped in advance. Pour in the cream, salt and simmer a little.
In a deep pan, first spread the fried meatballs. Between them put the potatoes to be peeled and cut coarsely. Pour the gravy from the pan. Cover with a piece of foil and send to the preheated oven. After 15 minutes, remove it, sprinkle with chopped herbs and grated cheese. Wait for crust formation, turn off the fire.
This recipe for meatballs with rice (photos of dishes are presented in the review) will brighten up the evening of your family.
Vegetarian Meatballs
Not only meat products saturate our body with protein. The lentils used in this recipe are a very tasty and healthy product. It is not necessary to be a vegetarian to use this option for cooking meatballs. Some people want to diversify their menus during fasting or fasting days.
Products:
- 150 g round rice.
- 200 g of green lentils.
- Medium carrot.
- Spice.
- Salt.
- Bay leaf.
- Vegetable oil.
- Flour.
The recipe for meatballs with rice in a vegetarian style pan will appeal to your children.
Soak lentils overnight in room temperature water. It should increase in volume by 2 or 2.5 times. Drain the remaining liquid and grind in a blender to a puree state. Add dry, cooked rice, grated carrots. Roll balls and fry in vegetable oil on both sides.
Gravy can be used in different ways. As with meat broth, and just with water. Taste dishes add spices and bay leaf.
You can change the recipe for meatballs from minced meat with rice and add chopped cabbage, and cream or tomato paste to the gravy. Also this option is suitable for steaming.