All meatball lovers need to learn how to cook hedgehogs with rice.
In the original, the hedgehog itself is formed from minced meat, and rice grains are stuck on top.
Hence the name of the dish.
Hedgehogs in sour cream are obtained with a delicate creamy taste.
Hedgehogs in sour cream sauce - the basic principles of preparation
Cooking hedgehogs is not much different from conventional meatball recipes. They also use chicken, pork, beef or mixed minced meat.
To begin with, start cooking minced meat. Peel the onion and chop it as finely as possible. Spread it in the meat minced in a meat grinder, add the eggs here. Usually, rice is put in the minced meat for the hedgehogs. For this, it is better to take long-grain rice. It is pre-cooked until half cooked, recline into a colander and washed under a tap. This is done so that your hedgehogs do not fall apart.
Rice spread in minced meat and knead it well with your hands. Then from this mass we form balls the size of a chicken egg. Hedgehogs are cooked in a pan or baked in the oven.
Usually, they are cooked in sour cream sauce with the addition of broth. The sauce should completely cover the hedgehogs. This cooking method will make the hedgehogs juicy and soft.
Recipe 1. Hedgehogs in a cream sauce in the oven
Ingredients
half a kilogram of minced pork;
ground black pepper;
rice - 100 g;
salt;
egg;
fresh greens;
carrot;
butter - 40 g;
bulb;
tomato paste - 50 ml.
Sauce:
sour cream - 200 g;
table salt;
half a liter of meat broth;
butter - 40 g;
flour - 30 g.
Cooking method
1. Rinse the rice and boil it until cooked. Then lay back in a colander, and rinse again under the tap. Leave to let all the glass liquid.
2. Peel the carrots and onions and chop the vegetables as finely as possible. Melt the butter in a pan and fry the chopped vegetables in it.
3. Break the egg into a deep plate and beat it lightly with a whisk. Rinse greens, dry and finely crush.
4. Put rice in minced meat, add fried vegetables, tomato paste, beaten egg and chopped greens to it. Salt, pepper and mix well with your hands.
5. From the prepared meat, form oblong meatballs and lightly fry them in vegetable oil.
6. Pour flour onto a dry hot pan and fry it until golden brown. In a separate bowl, mix sour cream with broth. Pour it into chilled flour and mix thoroughly with a whisk so that there are no lumps. To salt.
7. Put the hedgehogs in a deep form at a short distance from each other and pour them with sour cream sauce. Submit the form to the middle level of the oven. Bake for about forty minutes at 180 C. Sprinkle the finished dish with finely chopped herbs and serve with a salad of fresh vegetables.
Recipe 2. Hedgehogs in a cream sauce with cheese
Ingredients
beef - 800 g;
sunflower oil;
half a glass of rice;
fresh lettuce leaves;
sour cream 15% - 300 ml;
tomato paste - 30 g;
two large onions;
salt;
egg;
marjoram, black and red pepper and coriander;
cheese - 120 g;
fresh parsley and dill.
Cooking method
1. Rinse beef tenderloin well, remove excess fat and films and cut into pieces. Twice pass through a meat grinder.
2. Peel the onion and peel it finely.
3. Rinse the tap under the tap, boil it until half cooked, recline in a colander and leave until all the liquid has drained.
4. Add finely chopped onion, egg and boiled rice to the minced meat. Season with salt and season with spices. Knead the minced meat thoroughly with your hands. Cut the cheese into small pieces.
5. Take some minced meat, form a cake out of it and put a piece of cheese in the center. Connect the edges and roll the stuffing into a ball. Grease a baking dish with butter and put hedgehogs in it. Submit the form for 20 minutes in the oven. Bake at 200 C.
6. Finely chop the remaining onion. Also chop greens. In a deep cup, combine sour cream with tomato paste, add onions and herbs to the mixture, salt and season with spices. Lightly beat the cream with a whisk.
7. Remove the hedgehogs from the oven, pour them with sour cream sauce and put in the oven for another 35 minutes. Continue cooking at the same temperature. Put the hedgehogs on a plate, covered with lettuce and serve with red wine.
Recipe 3. Tender hedgehogs with rice in sour cream sauce
Ingredients
ground beef - 400 g;
two glasses of beef broth;
carrots - two pcs.;
ground black pepper;
rice - 80 g;
salt;
bulb;
butter - a small piece;
egg;
a mixture of dried roots - 25 g.
Sauce:
broth - three glasses;
flour - 40 g;
sour cream - half a glass;
dill umbrella;
sugar - 10 g.
Cooking method
1. We wash rice under the tap and boil it until half ready. Then we recline on a sieve and leave to get rid of excess fluid.
2. Fry finely chopped onion in butter, adding a spoonful of dried roots. We clean the carrots, three on a coarse grater and also fry until soft.
3. Lightly beat the egg with a fork and add it to the minced meat. Here we spread the cooled rice and fried vegetables. Salt and season with pepper. Knead the minced meat well and form hedgehogs from it. We spread them in a greased form, fill half with the broth, cover with foil and put in the oven for forty minutes. Cook at a temperature of 180 C.
4. Fry the flour in a dry pan. Gradually pour half a liter of broth into it, stirring vigorously to prevent the appearance of lumps. Then add sour cream and sprinkle with sugar. Salt and dip the dill umbrella into the sauce for a couple of minutes.
5. Pour the hedgehogs with sour cream sauce and leave to simmer in the oven for five minutes. Serve with fresh vegetables.
Recipe 4. Hedgehogs with rice in sour cream sauce in a slow cooker
Ingredients
three multi-glasses of drinking water;
clove of garlic;
bulb;
mixed forcemeat - 400 g;
carrot;
a pinch of salt and black pepper;
flour - 30 g;
sour cream - 200 g;
multi-glass of rice.
Cooking method
1. Peel, wash, and finely chop the onion. Rinse the peeled carrots and grate finely.
2. Rinse well under the tap. Slice a clove of garlic and chop finely.
3. Put vegetables, garlic, rice in minced meat, salt, season with pepper and mix until smooth.
4. Take some minced meat and form a ball the size of a chicken egg.
5. Pour two multi-glasses of drinking water into a separate bowl, add sour cream and flour to it. Beat everything well with a whisk.
6. Put the hedgehogs on the bottom of the multicooker bowl and pour them with sour cream sauce. Turn the unit into the "Extinguishing" mode. Set the timer for an hour. After the beep, remove the hedgehogs on a serving dish and serve with vegetable salad.
Recipe 5. Minced hedgehogs in sour cream sauce in a pan
Ingredients
200 g of rice;
spice mixture;
300 g of minced meat;
ground black pepper;
table salt.
Sauce:
200 ml of sour cream;
clove of garlic;
some lemon juice;
200 ml of drinking water;
parsley, basil, dill and onion;
80 ml of olive oil;
salt, sugar and ground black pepper.
Cooking method
1. Rinse well under running water, boil it until half cooked. So that the cereal does not boil, cook it without covering it with a lid. In the process of cooking salt. Then we recline in a colander and rinse under a stream of cold water. Leave until all the liquid has drained.
2. Salt the minced meat, season with Provencal herbs and pepper, add the egg, rice and knead until smooth with your hands.
3. From the resulting rice and meat mass we form small balls and roll them in flour. Sprinkle the board with flour and put the finished hedgehogs on it.
4. Greens are well washed, dried and finely chopped. We shift into a deep cup, add finely chopped garlic, lemon juice sour cream and olive oil to it. Mix until smooth. Add pepper, salt and sugar to taste.
5. Put the stewpan on the fire, pour the sauce into it and bring it to a boil. Then reduce the heat and put the balls of minced meat and rice into the sauce. Stew for five minutes, then turn over and cook for the same amount of time.
Recipe 6. Minced hedgehogs in sour cream sauce with tomato
Ingredients
minced pork and beef - 600 g;
sunflower oil - 50 ml;
Basmati rice - half a glass;
dill greens;
bulb;
table salt and black pepper;
carrot;
egg.
Sauce
sour cream - a glass;
egg;
tomato paste - 50 g.
Cooking method
1. Peel and finely chop the onion. Peel, wash and grate the carrots. Put the vegetables in a pan with heated oil and fry until soft.
2. Rinse the rice under running water until the water becomes clear. Throw it on a sieve to get rid of excess moisture.
3. Put the rice and sauteed vegetables in the minced meat. Add to it an egg, finely chopped dill, salt, pepper and mix well.
4. Form small balls from the minced meat with wet hands. Pour a little sour cream on the bottom of the heat-resistant form and put the meat hedgehogs into it.
5. In a bowl, mix the tomato paste with sour cream and egg. Salt, pour in a little drinking water and whisk lightly with a whisk.
6. Pour meat balls with sour cream-tomato sauce. Send the form to the preheated oven for forty minutes. Bake at 180 C. Serve with Beijing cabbage salad.
Recipe 7. Hedgehogs in sour cream sauce with mushrooms
Ingredients
700 g of minced meat;
three quarters of a glass of drinking water;
half a glass of rice;
sunflower oil;
two eggs;
salt and spices for meat;
400 g of frozen mushrooms;
250 g sour cream;
three bow heads.
Cooking method
1. Rinse well under the tap with rice. Pour it with hot drinking water and leave for forty minutes.
2. Peel and wash the bulbs. Chop two onions into thin quarter rings and one into small cubes. Defrost the mushrooms and put them in a colander so that excess water drains. In a deep frying pan, heat the oil, put the onion sliced in quarter rings into it and fry until golden brown. Then add mushrooms and fry for another ten minutes, stirring occasionally. Slightly add salt at the end.
3. Fold the soaked rice onto a sieve, leave it to water glass. Add the finely chopped onion, egg, rice to the minced meat, salt and pepper. Stir until smooth. Slice the minced balls and put them on top of the onion-mushroom fry.
4. Dilute sour cream with boiled water or broth, salt, pepper, mix and pour the meatballs with the resulting sour cream sauce. Cover the pan and simmer for forty minutes over moderate heat.
Hedgehogs in sour cream sauce - tips and tricks from the chefs
Make mincemeat for hedgehogs on your own, if you still use the purchased one, then choose not a frozen product, but a chilled product.
Before starting to form balls, moisten your hands in water so that the stuffing does not stick to your palms.
To make the dish dietary, cook the hedgehogs for a couple, then pour sour cream, diluted with water and let it simmer for five minutes.
Rice is preferably pre-cooked until half cooked.
