In the world there are a huge number of recipes from minced meat and fish, but the most honorable place is occupied by hedgehog meatballs. Everyone loves this dish, from small to large. It is prepared easily, even an inexperienced housewife will cope with it, and the taste is simply divine, and it looks very appetizing. But how are ordinary meatballs different from "hedgehogs"? How to cook them? You can find out about this by reading the article.
Meatballs or hedgehogs?
Meatballs - a dish in the shape of a small ball made from fish or minced meat. A prerequisite is the presence of the sauce in which the meatballs are prepared.
"Hedgehogs" are prepared according to the same principle as meatballs, but with the addition of raw or boiled rice.
We can conclude that "hedgehogs" are a type of meatballs. They have one cooking algorithm: a raw egg, spices, onion is added to the selected meat, someone else puts bread, semolina, carrots and all the ingredients are thoroughly mixed. Then they either form meatballs or add rice to the minced meat and make "hedgehogs". The latter got its name due to the fact that during cooking, the rice boils and starts sticking out of meatballs, resembling the needles of a hedgehog.
Hedgehog meatballs recipe in tomato sauce
For cooking, we need the following ingredients:
- Ground beef - half a kilogram.
- Any rice - half a kilogram.
- An egg is one piece.
- Onions - one head.
- Garlic - three to four cloves.
- Tomato paste - two tablespoons.
- Flour - one tablespoon.
- Vegetable oil - four to five tablespoons.
- Spices, salt, ground pepper - to your taste.
Cooking method:
- Rice should be washed under running cold water, put it on a fire and cook until half cooked.
- Then wash the rice, cool and add a raw egg, mixing everything thoroughly.
- After that, add the resulting mass to minced meat, pepper, salt, add seasoning to taste. When cooking minced meat, be sure to add onions to it so that it is juicier.
- Now you need to form the balls and put them on a baking sheet, previously lubricated with vegetable oil or sour cream. Bake at 200 degrees for 20 minutes.
- While the "hedgehogs" meatballs languish in the oven, prepare the sauce. To do this, onions and garlic should be cut into medium or small cubes and sent for frying in vegetable oil to a preheated pan.
- After the vegetables become soft, you need to add tomato paste, flour to them, mix and immediately pour two glasses of water and beat everything with a fork so that there are no flour lumps. Salt and bring to a boil.
- Now you need to get the hedgehogs meatballs from the oven, pour them in tomato sauce and send them back for 15-20 minutes.
The dish is ready, we serve with any side dish.
Gourmet meat hedgehogs
Above, we examined the classic recipe for “hedgehogs” meatballs with rice, and now we will try to cook this dish with unusual ingredients. We will need:
- Any minced meat - 450 g.
- A chicken egg is one thing.
- Long grain rice - 100 grams.
- Soy sauce - two tablespoons.
- Green onion - five feathers.
- Fresh grated ginger - two teaspoons.
- Chicken broth - 400 ml.
- Ground black pepper - half a teaspoon.
- Water - 300 ml.
- Sesame oil - half a teaspoon.
- Dry white wine - one tablespoon.
- A pinch of salt.
Cooking Algorithm:
- Grated ginger, egg, soy sauce, pepper and chopped onions should be mixed with minced meat. Send him washed raw rice.
- Pour water, wine, broth, sesame oil and a pinch of salt into the pan (optional) and place the formed balls of minced meat.
- Bring everything to a boil, make a slow fire, cover and simmer for 35-40 minutes.
Extremely tasty meatballs are ready, you just have to choose your favorite side dish.
Chinese way of cooking
Need such products:
- Minced pork - half a kilogram.
- Ginger - two medium slices.
- Garlic - two cloves.
- Cilantro - one bunch.
- Rice wine - two tablespoons.
- Balsamic vinegar - two tablespoons.
- Sesame oil - one tablespoon.
- Long grain rice - 100 g.
- Quail eggs - three pieces (can be replaced with one chicken).
- A mixture of peppers to taste.
- Soy sauce for watering the finished dish.
Cooking like this:
- Grind all the ingredients except rice and soy sauce in a meat grinder or blender and add to the minced meat.
- Next, we form balls of minced meat about the size of a walnut. Roll them in rice and send to the double boiler for half an hour.
- We serve “hedgehogs” meatballs to any side dish or as an independent dish, after pouring soy sauce.