Those who have tried to cook a small (or large) frying pan of delicious “hedgehogs” from minced meat with rice know how tasty this dish turns out. Although, both in terms of the list of ingredients and the cooking technique, these are completely ordinary and 100-times tested meatballs, there are several nuances that make the juicy, filling balls “hedgehog-like.” More on this below, in my delicious (I hope) description.

Not a single hedgehog was harmed during the preparation of this dish :-)

Minced meat hedgehogs with rice in a slow cooker

It’s captivating that this dish turns out to be light, light, dietary and juicy. And at the same time satisfying. Eat a few “hedgehogs” (sounds strange, I agree), and the feeling of hunger will subside for a long time. Variegated sauce + tender meat balls + favorite side dish = delicious dinner+ compliments from family + good mood.

What we will cook from:

How to cook the most delicious meat “hedgehogs” with rice in a slow cooker:

If you don't love sweet pepper, you can safely exclude it from the list of ingredients. Otherwise, wash the small pod. Remove the stem and seeds. Cut half the pepper into small, small cubes.
Prepare the base for minced meat “hedgehogs”. Minced meat can be used not only combined. Pure pork will do. Or beef. And even the “hedgehogs” from minced chicken they won't be dry. Vegetable sauce and cooking in a slow cooker will make the dish tender. Mix the minced meat with chopped pepper. Drive in a large chicken egg. Add rice. There is no need to cook it. It is advisable to use long grain cereals.
Pass a couple of cloves of garlic through a press. No fresh? Granulated will also work. Add salt and a little ground pepper. Use other meat spices if desired. Or ready-made seasoning for cutlets.
Mix the contents of the bowl thoroughly. Knead with your hands until it turns into an elastic mass. If the minced meat is saturated with air, the “hedgehogs” will fall apart, disintegrate and spread apart when frying and stewing in a slow cooker. Therefore, beat off the meat base for future golden rice balls. Throw it on a cutting board several times. The mass will become denser.
Make small “hedgehogs” from the minced meat and rice, as in the photo. I didn't bread the meatballs with anything. But if you have a desire, roll them in flour or crushed breadcrumbs.
Pour a little oil into the multicooker bowl. Fry the balls on one side until golden brown. Mode – “Frying”. Time – 3-4 minutes.
Carefully turn the “hedgehogs” onto the other side. Wait until a golden brown crust appears on it. If you have a small multicooker bowl, like I do, you will have to fry the hedgehog balls in several batches. When all are ready, place them back into the slow cooker. And start preparing the sauce.
Of course, vegetables for the sauce can be prepared at the same time as frying. Peel the carrots. Cut into strips. Or grate on a coarse grater. I like the first option better. Firstly, because this is how the carrots retain their shape even after long stewing. Secondly, because I don’t have a regular coarse grater.
Peel the onion too. Finely chop.
Tomatoes. It would be a good idea to peel them. So that small hard particles do not overshadow the tasting of “hedgehogs” made from minced meat with rice. How it's done. Boil the kettle. In the place where the tomato is attached to the stem, make two cross cuts. Not very deep, just enough to cut the skin. Pour boiling water over the tomatoes. After 7-10 minutes, remove the tomatoes. Remove the skin. And cut the pulp into small cubes. Or puree in a blender.
Add onions, carrots and tomatoes to the hedgehogs. The onion and carrots can be fried separately. Pour in some water or broth. Add a small pinch of pepper and salt. Stir gently. Close the multicooker. Select the “Extinguishing” mode. Cook for 30-40 minutes.
Remove the finished juicy “hedgehogs” from the multicooker and place on a plate. Pour over the colorful vegetable sauce and serve. Serve while the fragrant steam still rises from the delicious diet meatballs. Because the dish is not as tasty when it has cooled down.

Recipe for minced hedgehogs with rice in a frying pan

When I took the lid off the frying pan with ready-made meat “hedgehogs” in a tantalizingly aromatic sauce, I saw a very appetizing still life. And I couldn’t raise my hand to break it even for the sake of a beautiful final photo. Therefore, I publish it as is, in a cozy home setting. You don't mind, do you? I won’t talk for a long time about the taste of the dish. Otherwise it won't be interesting to cook. I’ll limit myself to a laconic “Delicious!”

Ingredients:

minced meat(half pork and beef) – 0.5 kg	sweet, juicy, large carrots – 1 pc.
onion - medium head	greens (dill and parsley) - a small bunch
fresh garlic – 2 medium cloves	long grain rice – 100-120 g
large chicken egg - 1 pc.	flour – 2-3 tbsp. l. (for breading)
vegetable oil – 2-3 tbsp. l.	salt - to taste
black ground pepper– pinch	sour cream of any fat content – ​​100 g
tomato paste (ketchup or tomato sauce) – 1-1.5 tbsp. l.	water – 100 ml

How to cook meat “hedgehogs”:

Peel the carrots. Chop coarsely. I chopped the vegetables in a blender, so I didn’t pay much attention to the beauty of the cutting. But you can grate the carrots on a coarse or medium grater.
Chop the onion into random pieces too. Or chop into cubes, like for soup, if you don’t use a blender.
Peel the garlic. Divide each clove into several parts. Or put it through a press.
Grind carrots, onions and garlic in a blender. There is no need to puree it. Let it not be completely uniform. If you initially preferred fine cutting, simply mix the vegetables.
Finely chop clean greens. You can use parsley and garlic. Or give the dish a Mediterranean twist by adding basil. And if you like cilantro, then that will go too.
Mix the minced meat with chopped vegetables. Beat in a chicken egg. Add rice cereal. Raw rice is added to minced meat hedgehogs. But you can bring it to half-ready. It won't harm the dish. Season with salt and pepper. Don't forget the greens.
Mix the minced meat thoroughly with the hedgehog rice. The mass should be homogeneous, smooth and elastic.
Make neat balls. Roll them in flour. You don’t have to bread it, but then you won’t have an appetizing crust.
Fry the meat "hedgehogs" on vegetable oil. The oil should be well heated. And the fire is strong. Brown the balls on one side.
And then carefully turn it over. And wait until a golden crust appears from the other barrel.
While the meatballs are frying, prepare the sauce. It is advisable to use homemade sour cream. It does not curdle when stewed for a long time. The store-bought product will also make a delicious gravy. But it will most likely turn into unappetizing flakes. The tomato component can be any. High-quality or homemade pasta. Favorite spicy ketchup. Or thick tomato sauce. Mix 2 main ingredients. Add some salt.
Add warm boiled water. Stir. Pour the gravy over the hedgehogs into the frying pan. Cover with a lid. Simmer over low heat for 20-25 minutes. During this time, the dish will reach the desired condition. And the sauce will thicken.
Serve the finished hedgehogs immediately. Definitely with potatoes and pickles. Although... Not necessarily. You can cook pasta and lentils. In general, it's up to you.

Bon appetit!

Recently I decided to cook meat hedgehogs from minced meat with the addition of rice and sour cream sauce. It's simple but amazing delicious dish, it’s simply impossible to resist. To get the perfect result, I highly recommend buying high-quality fresh meat and preparing the minced meat yourself. No store-bought minced meat can compare in taste to homemade.

If desired, vegetables can be added to the minced meat and raw, then they must also be passed through a meat grinder. But I prefer to pre-fry them in sunflower oil, this makes the hedgehogs even tastier. Below I will tell you in detail how to cook minced hedgehogs with rice, stewed with gravy, so that they turn out juicy and aromatic.

Ingredients for minced meat

• 300 g pork
• 300 g beef
• 100 g rice
• 1 large onion
• 1 carrot
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 chicken egg
• salt to taste
• 0.5 tsp. seasonings for meat
• 0.5 tsp. ground black pepper
• 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil

Gravy ingredients

• 200 ml sour cream
• 2 tbsp. l. tomato paste
• 1 tbsp. l. flour
• 30 g butter
• 500 ml boiling water
• salt to taste
• 0.5 tsp each black pepper and Provençal herbs

Cooking steps

1. Let's prepare all the necessary ingredients. Wash the rice thoroughly, changing the water several times. Pour it into a saucepan, add plenty of cold water, cover the dish with a lid and let it simmer over low heat. When the water boils, add a little salt. Boil the rice for 7-8 minutes until it is half cooked. Then add water and cool the rice to room temperature.

2. Wash the beef and pork, trim it and cut it into medium-sized pieces. Pass the meat through a meat grinder with a fine grid to obtain a homogeneous minced meat.

3. Peel the onion. Let's cut it into small cubes. Heat in a frying pan sunflower oil and pour chopped onion into it. Stirring, fry until transparent.

4. Peel the carrots and finely grate them. Add it to the sautéed onions and continue cooking the vegetables together until they become soft. Let the prepared vegetables cool.

5. In a deep bowl, mix half-cooked rice, sautéed vegetables and minced meat.

6. Peel the garlic cloves. Let's pass them through a press and add them to the minced meat. Next, beat in the egg, it will help combine the ingredients so that the hedgehogs keep their shape well. Salt the mixture to taste and add spices for flavor.

7. Mix the minced meat thoroughly, achieving a uniform consistency.

8. You can cook the dish in a wide saucepan or a large deep frying pan. Form the minced meat into balls with a diameter of 5 centimeters and place them in a bowl for cooking.

9. Bring water to a boil and pour boiling water over our balls so that they are half covered with it. Place the frying pan or saucepan on the fire, cover with a lid and simmer the minced hedgehogs for 30 minutes over low heat.

Preparing the gravy

Melt a piece of butter in a ladle. Add wheat flour and mix thoroughly.

10. Then add sour cream, mix again and boil the sauce for 1 minute, stirring it constantly with a whisk.

If you love minced meat dishes, hedgehogs with rice will become one of your favorite delicacies for dinner. They are named so because of the rice, which is visible in the meat and resembles the protruding needles of a hedgehog. During serving, many mothers draw faces on the meatballs for their children with sour cream or other sauce. That’s why kids like this dish so much, even if they don’t really like meat products.

Ingredients:

500 g minced meat

2-3 spoons of rice

seasonings

tomato sauce or sour cream

vegetable oil

How to cook meat hedgehogs with rice:

It is best to cook hedgehogs in a high-walled frying pan, saucepan or saucepan.

Onions finely chop and fry in a frying pan until golden brown, adding a little vegetable oil. Then put it in the minced meat.

Boil the rice until half cooked so that it has time to swell but is still firm. It is best to use long grain white rice, it retains its shape well during cooking. Then you also need to add it to the minced meat, pepper and salt the dish, add an egg, your favorite herbs and spices, and stir well. Now you can form the buns. Preheat the frying pan and pour vegetable oil into it. Take some of the minced meat mixture, make a small ball the size of a chicken egg and place it in heated oil for frying.


Quickly place the hedgehogs in a frying pan, fry them on all sides, carefully turning them over so that they do not fall apart. After that, transfer them to a saucepan or saucepan, add water so that it covers the buns completely, close the lid and let simmer for 30 minutes. At the end of cooking, a sauce is prepared from the resulting broth. Since mixing all the ingredients in a frying pan or saucepan is inconvenient, it would be better to pour part of the broth from under the hedgehogs into a separate bowl or plate. This is very easy to do with the help of a ladle. There is no need to drain all the liquid - otherwise the hedgehogs will burn.

Add 3-4 tablespoons of tomato paste or ketchup to the broth, and if you want to make a white sauce, sour cream. Mix everything thoroughly. If the sauce turns out to be too liquid, you can add a tablespoon of flour to this mixture and stir thoroughly so that there are no lumps. Now pour the sauce back into the main dish, reduce the heat to low and simmer a little. Soon the sauce will thicken and you can turn off the stove. You can mix sour cream and tomato paste in equal parts or add no additional ingredients to the broth at all, simply evaporate it until it thickens on its own. These hedgehogs are served with a side dish of stewed cabbage, pasta, mashed potatoes. Salads made from fresh vegetables go very well with them.

How to cook hedgehogs for children? A simple recipe for delicious hedgehogs with rice and minced meat. Hedgehogs made from meat, not alive :)))

I make a lot of hedgehogs at once and freeze them; you can take all the ingredients in smaller quantities, for example, half.

To prepare hedgehogs with minced meat and rice you will need:
- up to 1.5 kg of meat (pork, can be mixed with beef, you can take turkey fillet)
- 600 grams or more of rice per serving
- 2 eggs
- teaspoon of salt

Step-by-step recipe for minced hedgehogs

Remove the veins from the meat and excess fat. Make minced meat. (And here - with a recipe for cutlets for children) At the end I got 1200 grams of minced meat.

Cook the rice in advance and cool.

Add to minced meat 2 raw eggs, salt, mix thoroughly.

Add the rice and mix well with your hands. All!

Roll into balls, place on plastic trays and place in the freezer. My know-how for minced hedgehogs: I store them in thoroughly washed and dried plastic egg cartons) Very convenient! Then all that remains is to take it out and cook the soup for the children or serve it as a separate dish. You can also bake non-frozen hedgehogs in the oven, but it’s better to cook!

From my large portion of minced meat and rice I got 36 large tasty hedgehogs the size of good eggs)

How to cook hedgehogs from minced meat and rice:
Simply place frozen or freshly prepared minced meat and rice hedgehogs into a pan of boiling water (you can add as desired bay leaf and pepper) and cook until tender - about 20 minutes. Hedgehogs should not be pink inside; if you have very large ones, they can be cooked for 30 minutes. Serve and eat with sour cream!

Let step by step recipe hedgehogs will help you prepare your favorite and healthy dish for the baby) Now you know how to make hedgehogs from minced meat! My kids just love them)

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Hedgehogs are small round meatballs made from minced meat and rice, baked in the oven or stewed in sauce. This dish probably got its name because when cooked, thanks to the protruding grains of rice, it vaguely resembles the famous animal, curled up in a ball and slightly bristling with its needles. Children love delicious homemade hedgehogs made from meat and rice. Hedgehogs can be served as a separate dish, or with a side dish of vegetables.

Cooking hedgehogs with boiled rice

You will need: - boneless beef - 300 g; - boneless pork - 300 g; - long grain rice - 1 cup; - onions - 2 medium heads; - fresh carrots - 1 pc.; - salt, pepper, garlic - according to taste; - vegetable oil for frying; - tomato paste or ketchup and mayonnaise for pouring; - meat broth.

If you are preparing hedgehogs for children, you don’t have to add pepper, garlic and other spices to the minced meat and filling, use mild ketchup, and replace mayonnaise with sour cream

Prepare the minced meat. To do this, cut off the films and tendons from the flesh of beef and pork, peel one onion and cut into 4 pieces. Pass the meat and onions through a meat grinder, salt and pepper the minced meat to taste.

Grate the carrots on a coarse grater, peel the second onion and finely chop it. Mix carrots with onions and fry in vegetable oil in a frying pan.

Pour the rice into a sieve and rinse under running water. Rinse until the water flowing from the cereal becomes clear. Place the rice in boiling salted water and cook until half cooked, then transfer to a colander with fine holes and rinse with cold water.

Place minced meat, boiled rice, fried carrots and onions in a deep bowl. Add salt to taste and mix everything well. Then soaked in cold water Using your hands, take a little of the mixture and form into balls 5–6 cm in diameter (20–30 g each). Place the balls in a deep frying pan so that they do not touch each other.

In a separate cup, mix 2 tbsp. ketchup (or tomato paste) and mayonnaise, dilute with water and fill the balls so that the filling covers them halfway. Cover the top of the pan with foil and place in the oven preheated to 180–200°C. After 15–20 minutes, remove the foil and cook the hedgehogs in the oven for another 10 minutes. Now the delicious ruddy hedgehogs are ready.

Hedgehogs with uncooked rice

This home recipe differs from the first one in that the rice does not need to be boiled until half cooked. Immediately mix the cereal, washed under running water, with minced meat and fried carrots and onions. Add salt to taste and form into balls, then roll them in flour and fry until crusty in a hot frying pan with vegetable oil.

Then place the fried balls in a pan and fill them with meat broth or water, add 2 tbsp. ketchup or tomato paste, 2 bay leaves, 3-5 black peppercorns, 2-3 cloves of garlic, crushed with salt. The filling should cover the balls completely. Place over high heat; once boiling, reduce heat to low. Cover the pan with a lid and simmer for half an hour.

Serve hedgehogs with or without broth, adding ketchup, mayonnaise or any other sauce.