Minced hedgehogs with rice and gravy

Author: myaltynaj · Published 06/20/2017 · Updated 05/04/2018

May all culinary sites and article authors forgive me, but my minced hedgehogs with rice and gravy are the best! Therefore, I decided to share with you how I make minced hedgehogs with rice and gravy in a frying pan and in the oven.

The day before I got ready to cook this favorite dish for the whole family. I think, let me look through the pages of the Internet in search of something new and interesting. Housewives will understand me, sometimes you want improvisation and originality. But the Internet only convinced me that minced hedgehogs with rice and gravy in a frying pan, which I have been preparing for many years, are the most interesting.

That's why I'm here, and I want to share my secrets and best practices. I hope that you will appreciate my signature recipe.

At the same time, I would like to greet those chefs who want to master the preparation of a wonderful dish. Minced hedgehogs with rice and gravy in the oven or in a frying pan - it's tasty, fast, and economical.

Minced meat and rice, having absorbed the delights of the sour gravy, simply melt in your mouth. I just want to express myself in Russian letters in the French manner - si manifik! Magical, magnificent, wonderful!

Hedgehogs do not require any additional side dish, which reduces the time for preparing dinner. In addition, they look very interesting when finished - grains of swollen rice, protruding from the total mass, really resemble the needles of a good-natured animal. Children are delighted with this treat.

Recipe for minced hedgehogs with rice and gravy in a frying pan

I won’t be surprised if I say that the secrets of successful and tasty hedgehogs lie in minced meat and tasty gravy. How is my recipe different? By preparing that very tasty and unusual semi-finished meat product. I don’t put raw onions in it, but fried ones, and even with carrots. Agree that such hedgehogs will be much better. After all, it is the fried onions and carrots that give a special zest to the dishes. In addition, such hedgehogs will be softer and juicier. And it looks more attractive.

What kind of meat is best to use? What is in the refrigerator - pork, beef, chicken or turkey fillet. If you have a choice, then give preference to softer pork, taking into account the fact that the rice is laid in the floor raw. The combination of pork and beef will be wonderful. But even if you only have beef meat, fried onion will soften its dense structure.

What else is good about this recipe? Even if you have a small piece of meat available (you must admit that such situations exist), you can cook hedgehogs. And it’s okay if there is more rice than meat. In this case, onions and carrots will work great in minced meat; they will brighten up the situation. No one will even guess about the meat shortage. The finished product will be just as tasty and rich.

Having prepared the classic set of products once, you will be able to cook from what you have available the next time. In a word, by eye. Knowing the general principles, this is not difficult to do. This is what experienced housewives do.

Preparing a classic set of ingredients

Meat – 800 grams (if you have ready-made minced meat, even better)
Rice - half a glass (200 g glass). Long-grained will look more impressive. Just don’t take steamed
Three large onions
Three big carrots
One egg
Two tablespoons of tomato paste, or tomato juice 100-150 ml
Mayonnaise - 50 grams Flour - 150 grams
Vegetable oil - have 200 grams on hand
Salt, ground black pepper, bay leaf
Greens (parsley, dill)
Sugar – 0.5 tsp.

Step-by-step preparation

Start with rice. Our task is to cook half-cooked rice. More precisely, even raw, but slightly cooked. To do this, add the cereal to boiling salted water and stir. Wait until the water boils again, stir again and remove from heat. The rice will be quite raw, but already open for further manipulation. In this form, it will absorb more of the delights of minced meat and gravy.
Place the rice in a colander and rinse. Set it aside and let it cool.
Let's prepare the roast. Cut the peeled and washed onion into pieces and place in a heated frying pan with vegetable oil. Do not overcook; the onion should become soft and transparent.
Grate the peeled carrots into strips. For this movement, the arms should only be from top to bottom.
Add the carrots to the onions and lightly fry the vegetables together. I emphasize once again that there is no need to fry it too much. Vegetables should be soft and slightly golden.
When the onions and carrots are sufficiently browned in the pan, take a little less than half of the frying into a separate bowl and set aside. Select the grounds, that is, onions and carrots. There should be little oil in the selected mass. To make it more convenient, tilt the pan on its side.
Add mayonnaise, tomato paste or juice to the pan with the remaining vegetables, stir, and let it boil.
Pour half a liter jar of water into the gravy, salt and pepper, add sugar and bay leaf. Let it boil.
Now pay attention - when the gravy boils, be sure to taste it. It should have a pleasant sourness, with a distant presence of sweetness. You can’t call it sour or sweet, of course. But the presence of sugar should be slightly felt, this makes the gravy rich and piquant. If something is missing, add it. If there is a lot of acid, add water and a little sugar. The final result depends on the taste of the gravy.
While the gravy is cooking, wash and finely chop the greens.
Throw half the greens into the boiling gravy, stir, turn off the heat.
Twist the meat into minced meat.
In a convenient bowl, combine minced meat, rice, and cooled fried vegetables. Break an egg there.
Salt, pepper, stir. Taste it. If there is enough of everything, let the minced meat stand for ten minutes. He will rest, come to his senses, and the ingredients will combine their efforts to achieve a good result.
At this time, prepare a flat plate, pour flour into it to coat the hedgehogs, add a little salt and pepper. At the same time, prepare a saucepan where you will put the finished hedgehogs. Cover the bottom with a little gravy - this will act as a cushion for the bottom layer. Yes, when preparing the saucepan, take into account the fact that the hedgehogs will increase in size during stewing - due to the swelling of the rice.
You need to form hedgehogs with wet hands, selecting 50 grams of minced meat. The shape can be round, in the form of meatballs. Elongated hedgehogs will also be interesting. It's whatever your heart desires. Roll the formed semi-finished product in flour on all sides.
You need to fry the hedgehogs in a frying pan heated with oil on both sides until golden brown. Place the finished product immediately into the prepared saucepan.
I do this: I pour the thick part of the gravy over the laid circle of hedgehogs, then lay out a new circle, which I also fill as it is filled. It turns out that each hedgehog is covered with onions and carrots. I pour the remaining gravy on top and gently shake the saucepan from side to side. This helps the liquid portion fill the entire space of the pan.
There should be enough gravy to cover all the hedgehogs. If suddenly there is not enough, add boiled water and a little mayonnaise. It's okay, during the stewing process all the gravy will combine into a single whole. The ideal option is when hedgehogs feel free in liquid watering and do not come into close contact with each other. Then the rice has more opportunity to sharpen its needles.

Simmer our hedgehogs for about thirty minutes over low heat. Then be sure to let it brew. To make sure it is ready, carefully separate a few grains of rice and taste the cereal. If necessary, extend the simmering process. Serve the hedgehogs sprinkled with the remaining herbs. This is, well, very tasty. Soft, juicy and beautiful, hedgehogs will not leave anyone indifferent.

Useful tips and tricks

Sauce for minced hedgehogs with rice is easy to prepare if you follow the following recommendations:

To prepare sauces, it is recommended to use fresh products - this will give the dish maximum taste and aroma.
During the stewing process, the sauce should cover the meat balls approximately halfway.
The sauce is prepared from ingredients at room temperature – temperature differences may cause it to separate or curdle.
If the recipe calls for the use of flour, it should be fried first - this will give the sauce a pleasant taste and it will not be too sticky.
Diluting the flour in salted water will help avoid the formation of lumps.
If lumps have formed in the sauce, you can grind it through a sieve and add a little water. You can also eliminate lumps by whipping the sauce using a blender.
A piece of ice will help prevent the sauce from separating. It is added to the gravy and then mixed or whipped thoroughly.
When cooking, fry vegetables over low heat.
It is recommended to add ground pepper to the sauce before serving.
It is important not to overheat the sauce - this weakens the aroma of the spices and adds bitterness to the gravy.
Adding a small amount of lemon juice will enhance the taste of tomato sauce.
Tomato paste in sauces can be replaced with sour apples, berries or cherry plum.
Tomato-based sauces are salted at the very end because tomatoes contain salt. It is also recommended to add sugar to the sauce - this will make the taste of the tomatoes and the overall dish more rich.

It is important to use suitable containers to prepare the sauce. The best option is heavy frying pans and pots with thick walls and bottoms. Lightweight metal products heat up too quickly, which can lead to food burning and rapid evaporation of liquid from the sauce.

The use of various sauces allows you to give minced meat and rice hedgehogs a new flavor profile. The main thing is to use high-quality products and not to violate the recipe for preparing gravies.

Cooking minced hedgehogs with rice and gravy in the oven

The brass version of minced hedgehogs with rice and gravy can be called dietary. In this case, there is no toasting process. And everything else - the ingredients, the processes of mixing minced meat, preparing the gravy - is no different from cooking in a frying pan.

So, we have prepared minced meat, rice and fried vegetables. We also prepared gravy. Further:

Turn on the oven to heat up, it needs to be heated to 180 degrees
Prepare a sheet with sides, cover the bottom with a little gravy
Form round hedgehogs with wet hands and immediately place them on the sheet
Pour in gravy. Usually the tops of the hedgehogs peek out from the gravy.
Cover with foil - this way the hedgehogs will steam better
Place in a preheated oven for 45-50 minutes.

Minced hedgehogs with rice and gravy in the oven are ready! In this case, they are more consistent with the name. This is because they are laid in one row, and the gravy, as a rule, covers them only a third of the height. This option is good for baby food. Kids are crazy about the original appearance and eat with pleasure.

A few words about the gravy. Sour cream, mayonnaise, and various ketchups will be good as a main product. You can add your favorite spices, they will only enrich the aroma and taste.

It would be appropriate to say here that nothing can spoil a good foundation.

These are the signature hedgehogs in our family. Try it, you will definitely like it!

Spicy sauce with spices

Sauce for hedgehogs made from minced meat with rice, with the addition of spices and soy sauce, gives the dish a spicy taste and rich aroma.

What ingredients will you need?

The products you will need for cooking are listed in the table below:

Ingredient	Quantity
Curry paste	2 tbsp. l.
Coconut milk	1 tbsp.
Garlic	5 cloves
Soy sauce	2 tsp.
Chili pepper (add as desired)	5 g
Brown sugar	1 tbsp. l.
Green onion)	10 g
Olive oil	1 tbsp. l.
Cinnamon	Pinch

Step-by-step cooking process

To prepare the sauce you need:

Heat the curry paste and oil in a frying pan for about 2 minutes.
Next, pour in the milk and simmer for 2 minutes over low heat.
Remove the peel from the garlic and chop it.
Pour the sauce with spices and garlic into the pan, stir and simmer.
Remove sauce from heat.

What can I add?

Coconut milk can be replaced with regular milk. To give the dish additional nutrition, add peanut butter (introduced into the sauce along with coconut milk).

Rules for using sauce for minced hedgehogs with rice

In the prepared sauce, meat hedgehogs are stewed for about 10-15 minutes. If desired, the products can be topped with gravy before serving.

How to cook hedgehogs with gravy?

The right gravy for hedgehogs with rice is the main secret to success. There should always be a lot of it, otherwise the dish will turn out a little dry. But there are other key points to making this simple treat.

It will work best if you add the gravy immediately at the beginning of stewing, and not serve it with the finished dish: this will make the balls juicier.
You can boil the rice a little, which will reduce the stewing time by 1.5-2 times.
If you take raw long-grain rice or basmati, you will get real hedgehogs, because during stewing the rice will go beyond the limits of the small meatball, and it will look like a prickly round piece - a hedgehog!

How to cook hedgehogs with gravy in a frying pan?

Standard hedgehogs in a frying pan with gravy are very easy to make, because you don’t need to prepare the ingredients in any special way in advance - you don’t need to cook rice or fry meat. For dietary hedgehogs, minced chicken or turkey is recommended. The food turns out to be soft, because there are no eggs in it, and the product keeps its shape well.

minced beef – 450-500 g;
rice – 70 g;
onion – 50 g;
carrots – 50 g;
garlic – 10 g;
sour cream – 70 g;
tomatoes in their own juice – 100 g.

Soak the rice in water for 10 minutes.
Mash the minced meat with your hands, add spices, chopped onions, grated carrots, mix everything well.
Add the onion, without draining the water, stir thoroughly until smooth.
Form into round balls and place in a frying pan.
Pour in a sauce made from grated garlic, sour cream, tomatoes and 400 ml of water.
Cover the minced hedgehogs with rice and gravy and simmer for 35-45 minutes.

How to cook hedgehogs in the oven with gravy?

The hedgehogs in the oven with gravy will not leave anyone indifferent. As a sauce, you can choose creamy, sour cream-tomato or milk-tomato. To prevent the rice and meat balls from falling apart in the oven, you can add a couple of tablespoons of wheat flour to them. It is better to cover the baking dish with a lid or foil, it will be juicier.

minced meat – 500 g;
rice – 150 g;
egg – 2 pcs.;
onion – 100 g;
garlic – 10 g;
tomato paste – 2 tbsp. l.;
flour – 4 tbsp. l.
milk – 250 ml.

Mix the minced meat with chopped garlic and onions and eggs.
Boil the rice and add to the rest of the ingredients.
Form into balls and place on the pan.
Fry the flour a little until golden brown, add tomato paste, pour in milk. Boil and pour the resulting gravy over the meatballs.
Place in the oven for 35-45 minutes.

Hedgehogs with gravy, just like in kindergarten - recipe

minced meat – 0.5 kg;
rice – 120 g;
egg – 1 pc.;
sour cream – 1.5 tbsp. l.;
onion – 1 pc.;
flour – 1-1.5 tbsp. l.;
tomato paste – 1-1.5 tbsp. l.

Mix the meat thoroughly with the egg, onion, and add spices. The result should be a dense, homogeneous mass.
Form meatballs, roll in flour and fry in oil.
Dilute tomato paste in 250 ml of water, add salt and pour.
Leave for 10 minutes.
Mix sour cream with flour until smooth, pour on top and simmer for another 10-20 minutes. Thanks to this double sauce, hedgehogs are obtained, as in a garden of minced meat with rice and gravy.

Ground beef hedgehogs with gravy

Beef meat makes excellent hedgehogs with gravy. Since the meat is a bit dry, it would be a good idea to make a sauce from fresh ground tomatoes instead of tomato paste. It is recommended to add Italian aromatic herbs as spices. It’s good to serve spaghetti as a side dish with these meatballs.

minced beef – 400 g;
rice – 60 g;
tomatoes – 3 pcs.;
onion – 60 g.

Add chopped onion, rice, and spices to the beef. Mix well and form into small rounds.
Fry slightly until golden brown.
Place in a saucepan, add 0.5 liters of water and simmer for 40 minutes.
Grind the tomatoes into a paste, add a spoonful of tomato paste and water, and spices.
Pour the resulting liquid over the almost ready delicious hedgehogs with gravy and simmer for 15 minutes.

Hedgehogs in tomato sauce

Ruddy hedgehogs with tomato paste sauce are one of the traditional and most successful variations of the recipe for meatballs made from rice and meat, and they are really very simple to make – no more than an hour. You can do it in a frying pan, but the oven produces juicier meatballs. As for the gravy, you can either add it to an already prepared dish or pour it over the hedgehogs that are not yet ready and simmer together. The recipe for delicious hedgehogs with gravy includes baking along with the sauce.

minced meat – 650 g;
rice – 150-170 g;
onions – 1-2 pcs.;
flour – 1 tbsp. l.;
tomato paste – 70 g.

Form a homogeneous mass from rice and meat, make even balls and place on a baking sheet.
Fry onions and carrots, add flour and tomato paste to the mixture.
Pour the resulting liquid over the meatballs and simmer for another 40 minutes.

Chicken hedgehogs with gravy

Dietary, not heavy on the stomach, but at the same time very aromatic are hedgehogs made from minced chicken with gravy. You will need a deep frying pan for them, although you can cook them in the oven. A good addition to the dish would be grated carrots, which are sprinkled on top of the meatballs before cooking.

minced chicken – 400-500 g;
rice – 130 g;
carrots – 1-2 pcs.;
egg – 1 pc.;
tomato sauce – 3 tbsp. l.

Mix the minced meat with spices and onions.
Boil the rice and add to the meat. Beat the eggs in there too.
Mix the mixture and form it into round balls.
Place them on the frying pan. Pour in tomato paste diluted in water.
Sprinkle minced hedgehogs with rice and grated carrot gravy on top. Simmer covered for up to 40 minutes.

Hedgehogs with rice, with sour cream sauce - recipe

Minced hedgehogs with sour cream sauce are incredibly tender. To make them less dry, you can add a piece of lard to the minced meat or increase the volume of sour cream for the sauce by 1.5 times. You can add sour cream to the minced meat itself, instead of eggs, it will turn out even juicier. The recipe is suitable for families with children, because children often do not like tomato paste.

minced meat – 450-500 g;
rice – 100 g;
sour cream – 400 g;
flour – 1 tbsp. l.;
garlic – 1-2 cloves.

Mix the minced meat with boiled rice and 3 tbsp. sour cream. Add finely chopped fried onion.
Stir the mixture until elastic, make round meatballs and fry.
Mix sour cream and finely chopped garlic with water.
Pour the gravy over the hedgehogs and simmer until done.

Hedgehogs with milk gravy

Delicious minced hedgehogs with milk gravy will appeal to both adults and children. The amount of rice can vary from half a glass to a full one. It will be delicious if you add a little turmeric (on the tip of a knife) to the rice as a spice (during cooking or to ready-made minced meat). Adding margarine makes a better sauce.

minced beef – 250-300 g;
rice – 100 g;
onion – 1 pc.;
flour – 150 g;
milk – 2 tbsp.;
margarine – 40 g;
egg – 2 pcs.

Mix the minced meat with boiled rice, chopped onion and egg.
Make balls from the mixture, roll in flour and place on a baking sheet.
Melt margarine in a frying pan, add the remaining flour, pour in milk, and let it boil.
Pour the sauce over the hedgehogs and place in the oven for 25-35 minutes.

Turkey hedgehogs with rice and gravy

You can please your loved ones with an original treat if you combine the recipe for meatballs and stuffed peppers. The resulting meat hedgehogs with gravy are tender, juicy and not at all greasy. It is better to take steamed rice. As spices, you can add basil and garlic, which you can either grate or fry a little beforehand.

minced meat – 350 g;
rice – 100 g;
onion – 1 pc.;
egg – 1 pc.;
paprika – 1 pc.;
carrots – 1-2 pcs.;
mayonnaise – 1 tbsp. l.;
sour cream – 1.5-2 tbsp. l.

Chop the carrots and garlic finely, and the onions and peppers coarsely. Mix together with turkey, egg, boiled rice.
Mix until the mass is elastic. Form balls and simmer them in salted water for up to 60 minutes.
Make a gravy from sour cream, mayonnaise and spices, pour over the prepared hedgehogs.

Minced hedgehogs with gravy in a slow cooker

Hedgehog meatballs in a slow cooker with gravy are a quick and easy to prepare juicy dish. What sets them apart from other dishes is their excellent juicy gravy, about which there is only one main rule: there should be a lot of gravy. You can select any machine mode: boiling, steaming, baking.

minced meat – 400 g;
rice –120 g;
onion – 75 g;
egg – 1 pc.;
flour – 1.5 tbsp. l.;
tomato juice – 250 ml.

Beat the egg and mix with minced meat and washed rice.
Thoroughly knead the minced meat until elastic, form into balls, and place in a slow cooker.
Fry the onion, mix with flour and tomato juice. Pour the resulting sauce over the meatballs and set the “Stew” mode.
Minced hedgehogs in a slow cooker with rice and gravy can be served in 50-55 minutes.

Sauce with sour cream

Sour cream sauce makes the meat balls as juicy and tender as possible - they literally melt in your mouth. To make the dish as healthy as possible, it is better to cook it in the oven. But to save time, you can cook meat products in a frying pan.

Sour cream sauce for hedgehogs made from minced meat with rice, recipe.

Preparation next.

What ingredients will you need?

Prepare the sauce from the set of products presented in the table below:

Ingredients	Quantity
Sour cream	3 tbsp. l.
Water	1.5 tbsp.
Wheat flour)	1 tbsp. l.
Ground pepper (black) and salt	According to taste wishes

The specified quantity of products will be required to prepare meat products from 0.5 kg of minced meat.

Step-by-step cooking process

Prepare the sauce as follows:

Add sour cream to the water and stir well.
Add flour to the resulting mixture, stirring vigorously (this will help avoid the formation of lumps).
Season the sauce with spices.

What can I add?

Instead of sour cream, you can use cream, provided that it has a high fat content. Also, the product is often replaced with mayonnaise, but during the cooking process it can separate and the dish will not have a very attractive appearance.

Rules for using sauce for minced hedgehogs with rice

The formed hedgehogs are first poured with the prepared sauce, and then they are sent to stew in it. When cooking in a frying pan, cook them for about 20 minutes at low heat intensity and with the lid closed. The cooking time in the oven is increased by 10-15 minutes. Cooked hedgehogs are served hot with the sauce until it hardens.

How to cook hedgehogs from minced meat, recipe with photos step by step

Soft, juicy, golden-brown meatballs with rice in a fragrant gravy - a hearty dinner without the hassle. From a modest set of products you get a huge portion of delicious “hedgehogs”, which can easily feed a large family. Delicious minced hedgehogs with gravy are prepared in 2 stages: first, tender meatballs are fried until golden brown, and then baked or stewed in tomato sauce - the result is a very appetizing dish that goes well with almost all simple side dishes. A similar recipe is already on the site: minced meatballs with rice, but it differs in the ingredients for mixing the minced meat, so you can try both options.

Ingredients for 5-6 servings:

500 g minced meat (pork + beef);
0.5 cups long grain rice;
70 g bread (loaf);
70-100 ml milk;
2 cloves of garlic;
2-3 tbsp. l. flour (for breading);
salt – 0.5-0.75 tsp;
0.5 tsp. ground black pepper;
sunflower oil for frying.

2 tbsp. l. tomato paste;
2 tbsp. l. sour cream;
1 medium sized onion;
1 carrot;
2 tbsp. l. odorless sunflower oil;
salt, spices to taste;
1-1.5 glasses of drinking water.

Recipe for hedgehogs from minced meat and rice with gravy in the oven

2. Mix in a blender. You will get a viscous bread mass.

3. Wash the rice, changing the water several times until it becomes clear, place it in a saucepan. Fill with clean water in a ratio of 1 to 1. Cook over low heat under the lid from the moment of boiling for 5-7 minutes until half cooked. Let the boiled cereal cool slightly.

4. We twist the meat through a meat grinder or use pre-prepared minced meat. Place the minced meat in a deep bowl, add the swollen bread crumb.

5. Add cooled rice.

6. Season with pepper, salt and garlic squeezed out using a garlic press.

7. Mix the minced meat with your hands. Knead for 7-10 minutes, beating on the bottom of the bowl, until the mass becomes viscous.

8. Form balls the size of apricots.

9. Bread in a small amount of flour.

10. Heat the oil in a frying pan. Place a portion of meatballs in hot oil and fry until golden brown over medium heat for 2-3 minutes.

11. Turn the meatballs over and cook on the other side until golden brown. Fry all the hedgehogs and place them in a heat-resistant oven dish or in a multicooker bowl.

12. Peel and wash the vegetables for gravy. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater, cut the onion into small cubes.

13. Add a little oil to the fat remaining after frying and heat it up. Add onions and carrots.

14. Cook over medium heat until lightly browned, the onion should become transparent and slightly browned.

15. Add tomato paste and sour cream to the fried vegetables, salt and pepper.

17. Stir and bring to a boil.

19. Serve the prepared minced hedgehogs with gravy hot. Potatoes (boiled or mashed), boiled pasta, and cereals are suitable as a side dish. Bon appetit!

Recommendations for the recipe for minced hedgehogs with gravy:

Eggs, although they hold the minced meat together well, make it slightly tough; in the same hedgehog recipe, bread is used to better glue the minced meat.
To prepare hedgehogs with rice, medium-fat minced meat is best - pork, chicken or combined (pork + beef, pork + chicken). It is better to twist the meat yourself rather than buy ready-made minced meat. Homemade minced meat can be stored well in the freezer.
It is better to use stale bread, it is denser and drier. Yesterday's or the day before yesterday's loaf is perfect. But spoiled bread with the smell of mold and traces of fungi cannot be used.
If the crust of the bread is dense and hard, you can cut it off. Pass the crumb, conveniently soaked in milk, through a meat grinder along with the meat.
You need to choose long-grain rice. Unlike round grains of rice, they hold their shape well and do not boil so much. Rice should be boiled until half cooked. If you use raw rice, the meatballs will turn out a little dry, since the grains will absorb all the meat juice during the baking process. If you cook hedgehogs with ready-made soft rice, then the grains in the minced meat will lose their shape.
Hedgehogs are prepared with gravy; it can be fried with tomato and sour cream, or simply tomato paste with sour cream diluted in water, as in this recipe for cabbage rolls. Tomato paste can be replaced with aromatic fresh tomatoes, and adding a little sweet pepper to the frying will be delicious. Before baking, you can add chopped herbs, garlic and spices to the gravy; they will give the dish a pleasant taste and aroma.

That's all the advice, I hope you liked the hedgehog recipe and the dish turned out very tasty!

How to stew meatballs in tomato sauce - step-by-step recipe

How to put it out? Yes, very simple! Perhaps even someone who is in charge of the kitchen for the first time can handle this recipe. But the result is guaranteed to be successful.

Even if you are preparing such a dish for the first time, just stock up on the ingredients from the list and start creating. The main thing is to follow the step-by-step description. Then you will get juicy, tender, incredibly tasty meatballs that can be served with absolutely any side dish.

Required Products:

Minced meat (any) – 500 gr.
Garlic – 2-3 cloves
Raw rice – half a cup
Salt to taste
One large onion
Flour – 0.5-1 cup
Tomato paste – 1 full tablespoon
2 glasses of water
Ground pepper to taste
One raw egg
1/3 tsp. granulated sugar
Ground coriander – 1 tsp.
Bay leaf – 2-3 leaves
Khmeli-suneli – ½ tsp.

Cooking process:

If you are grinding meat for minced meat right now, then send the onion along with it. If the meat product is already prepared, then grate the onion with a fine grater or grind it in a blender until mushy. You can, of course, chop it finely with a knife if that’s more convenient for you. We send it to the minced meat.

Wash the rice thoroughly. Then drain all the water, pour it into a saucepan, and fill it with clean water. After boiling, cook for 7-10 minutes. If there is any liquid left in the cereal, drain it, cool and add the rice to the onions and minced meat.

Add coriander, suneli hops, salt and pepper to taste. If you want, you can use spices at your discretion. Break the egg here and mix everything into a homogeneous mass.

Wet your palms with cool water so that the mixture does not stick to your hands. Form small balls.

To make them denser, we throw each one from hand to hand several times. This will allow the air inside to escape and the mass will become denser. Then the meatballs will not fall apart during stewing and eating.

Roll the hedgehogs evenly in flour. Heat a little vegetable oil in a frying pan and place them in one layer. Fry for 1-2 minutes on each side at high power. We need to “seal” all sides with blush.

Place the tomato paste in a bowl, add a little salt and add granulated sugar. Using a press or fine grater, add the garlic here. Pour in a glass of water and mix everything thoroughly. Pour this sauce over the browned meatballs. Add another glass of clean water. Place the bay leaf on top and wait for the liquid to boil again.

Then cover with a lid. Reduce the power to a minimum and simmer in this form for approximately 20-25 minutes.

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While they were stewing, it was time to prepare your favorite side dish. Pasta, mashed potatoes, stewed or fresh vegetables... What a difference it makes if they are served with tender meatballs! Bon appetit!

Minced hedgehogs with rice and gravy

When you don’t have time to prepare lunch or dinner, but you have ready-made minced meat, you can quickly prepare minced hedgehogs with rice and gravy. Unlike meatballs, in this case there is no need to spend time cooking rice; it will be ready along with the meat. And you will have a delicious and satisfying dish ready in literally 40 minutes.

If you also cook hedgehogs with vegetable gravy, the dish will also include sauce. And it can be served with almost any side dish, be it pasta or cereal.

Hedgehogs can be made from almost any minced meat - beef, pork or chicken. The combination of lean beef and lard is especially successful - a dish made from such minced meat turns out tasty and juicy.

Side dish options

For hedgehogs in the oven. You can prepare it in the usual way - boil potatoes, cereals or. Or you can diversify the recipe for hedgehogs and add a side dish to them right away. The most advantageous option is to place coarsely chopped vegetables around the cutlets. Any will do - bell peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant and, of course, potatoes. You can get by with only the latter. You can also make them directly with rice.

Before serving, be sure to sprinkle the dish with fresh herbs. If you have prepared hedgehogs with sauce, then put it on the table, simply pour it from the mold into the saucepan. If you cooked without it, you can make a simple garlic sauce (mix sour cream, herbs, grated garlic and spices). It goes well with this dish. Can also be served with ketchup, mayonnaise or sour cream.

As you can see, there are many options, but in any case it will be very tasty! The main thing is to cook with love! In addition, dishes prepared in this way always have a special taste and aroma to which no one will ever remain indifferent.

Enjoy your meal!

Ingredients

Minced meat – 500 g;
Rice – 3 tbsp;
Wheat flour – 3 tbsp;
Onions – 1 pc.;
Salt – 0.5 tsp;
Ground black pepper - a pinch;
Ground paprika – 0.5 tsp;
Ground coriander – 0.5 tsp.
Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp. (for frying).
For the gravy
:
Onions – 1 pc.;
Carrots – 1 pc.;
Tomatoes – 2 pcs.;
Bell pepper – 0.5 pcs.;
Tomato paste – 1.5 tbsp;
Garlic – 1 clove;
Water – 3 glasses;
Salt - to taste.

How to cook meat hedgehogs with rice and gravy in a saucepan

Rinse the rice under running water until the latter becomes transparent. Then pour the rice into a deep bowl and pour boiling water over it for 2-3 minutes. After this, place the rice in a sieve to drain all the liquid.

Grind the onion through a meat grinder or chop it in a blender and add it to the minced meat along with the rice.

Add a little salt, ground black pepper, coriander and paprika to the minced meat. You don’t have to worry about the amount of salt; the taste of the hedgehogs can be balanced out by the gravy in which they will be cooked.

Mix the minced meat thoroughly with your hand so that the rice, salt and other spices are distributed evenly.

Sift some flour into a flat dish. We form small balls from the minced meat and roll each one on all sides in flour. We make hedgehogs with the expectation that after cooking they will increase in size due to the rice.

Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil and quickly fry the meat balls on both sides. We do not fry them until they are ready, but only so that the crust sets and the hedgehogs hold their shape better and remain juicy.

Peel the onions and carrots. Cut the onion into cubes and grate the carrots on a coarse grater.

In the same frying pan where the hedgehogs were fried, fry the onions and carrots for no more than 3-4 minutes.

Cut tomatoes and bell peppers into cubes. First remove the seeds from the pepper and cut off the stalk.

Add tomatoes, peppers and tomato paste to the onions and carrots. Simmer the gravy base for about 5-7 minutes.

Carefully place the fried hedgehogs in a saucepan.

Pour the roasted vegetables on top. Add hot boiled water to the pan and bring to a boil. If you want a lot of gravy, you need to add at least three glasses of water, since the rice will absorb most of the liquid.

Add chopped garlic, salt and other spices to the gravy, take a sample and simmer under a closed lid for about 20 minutes. The gravy, due to the flour in which the hedgehogs were rolled, turns out thick and rich. Hedgehogs with rice can be served as a meal on their own or with a side dish. Bon appetit!

Hedgehogs in sauce

A more interesting, but not time-consuming or food-intensive option is to cook hedgehogs with delicious sour cream. For this we need the following products:

We wash the rice and fill it with hot boiled water. Keep covered for no more than half an hour, about 20 minutes. Just while we are preparing the minced meat. Finely chop the peeled onion, three or finely chop the garlic. Mix all this with minced meat, salt and pepper. Then add rice to the resulting mixture.

With wet hands, form balls and place in a greased baking dish. From this quantity of products you get about 10 hedgehogs.

Now, while the oven is heating up to 200 degrees, make the sauce - mix sour cream with tomato paste. Add salt and pepper if desired. Dilute the sauce with boiled water.

Pour the resulting sauce over the hedgehogs. If you like the top crispy, you'll want to leave the tops sticking out. If not, then fill it in headlong. Bake at the specified temperature for about half an hour under a lid or foil. 5 minutes before the end of cooking, open the lid and let a golden crust form. So the delicious and fragrant hedgehogs are ready!

Minced pork hedgehogs with rice and gravy in a frying pan

Meat hedgehogs with gravy are not only an excellent addition to any side dishes, but also a completely self-sufficient dish. They are equally good with mashed potatoes, buckwheat porridge, pasta, or just a piece of fresh bread. Hearty, nutritious, juicy, aromatic and very tasty minced hedgehogs with rice and gravy will be loved by the whole family, becoming one of the traditional dishes in your home.

Ingredients:

Minced pork – 0.5 kg;
Raw rice – 100 g;
Boiled water – 0.4 l;
Tomato paste – 2 tbsp;
Salt, ground black pepper, sugar - to taste;
Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp;
Onions – 1 pc.;
Chicken egg – 1 pc.;
Flour – 2 tbsp.

First, prepare the rice. Rinse it in several waters to remove most of the starch. Bring 300 ml of water to a boil in a saucepan, lightly salt it, and add rice to the bubbling liquid. Cook the cereal for 10-15 minutes until half cooked, remembering to stir it periodically. Drain the rice in a colander and immediately rinse it with cold water.
Peel the onion, rinse and chop as finely as possible. The vegetable can also be grated, then it will not be felt at all in the finished hedgehogs.
Place high quality ground pork (preferably homemade) in a deep bowl. Add chopped onion, washed rice and beat in one chicken egg. Mix the resulting mass thoroughly until it is homogeneous.
Season the meat hedgehog base with salt and ground pepper. If desired, you can add your favorite spices, for example, sweet paprika, a mixture of dry herbs, spices for minced meat dishes, etc. Mix the mixture thoroughly again.
Lightly moisten your palms with water and form the minced meat into medium-sized balls. Lightly roll each one in flour.
Place the meat balls in a frying pan with heated vegetable oil. Fry the balls over high heat on both sides until golden brown.
Now you need to prepare the gravy. To do this, dilute tomato paste in warm water. Place the mixture in a deep frying pan in which you will simmer the hedgehogs. As soon as the tomato boils, season it with salt, ground pepper and sugar to taste. Continue cooking the gravy for another 3-4 minutes.
Place the rosy hedgehogs into boiling tomato sauce. Cover the pan with a lid, reduce the heat to low, and simmer the meat balls for 30 minutes.

The hedgehogs in the frying pan are ready, you can turn off the heat. Serve them hot with any side dish or on their own.

Milk sauce recipe

A similar sauce is often prepared in kindergartens and served with rice. It has a delicate creamy taste and pleasant consistency. To prepare the gravy you need to take:

milk (2.5%) – 400 ml;
flour – 2 tablespoons;
butter – 1 heaped tablespoon;
salt, turmeric, pepper to taste.

Preparation:

Take a deep frying pan, heat the oil in it, sauté the flour. Don't forget to knead thoroughly so that the flour does not form lumps.
Heat the milk in a ladle. Add it to the flour when it turns golden brown. Boil the gravy for 5 minutes.
Add the remaining ingredients. The gravy is ready.

Milk gravy goes very well with mushrooms and Georgian dolma.

Hedgehogs with tomato sauce like in kindergarten

If there are small children in the family, then the menu should not only be varied and tasty, but also dietary. After all, fatty foods will only harm babies. We suggest you prepare hedgehogs from minced turkey with tomato sauce, just like in kindergarten. This dish will appeal not only to children, but also to adults, because it is very tasty, juicy and tender.

Ingredients:

Turkey fillet – 0.4 kg;
Raw rice – 100 g;
Refined oil – 2 tbsp;
Chicken or vegetable broth – 150 ml;
Ground black pepper, salt, granulated sugar - to taste;
High-quality tomato paste – 2 tbsp;
Onion – 60 g;
Flour – 3 tbsp;
Egg – 1 pc.

First of all, rinse the rice and place it in boiling, lightly salted water. Cook the cereal, stirring occasionally, until half cooked (about 10 minutes). Place the boiled rice in a colander and quickly rinse under cold water.
Rinse the turkey fillet and pass through a meat grinder. Place the resulting minced meat in a deep bowl.

Rinse the peeled onion, and then also pass it through a meat grinder and add it to the container with minced meat.
Add the cooled rice to the rest of the ingredients. Beat in a chicken egg there. Salt and pepper the minced meat to taste. Mix the meat ball preparation thoroughly.
Using damp palms, form hedgehogs into balls the size of a tennis ball.

Bread each hedgehog in flour and place in a well-heated frying pan with vegetable oil. Fry the preparations until they are beautifully browned.

Now you need to prepare the gravy. Combine chicken or vegetable broth with tomato paste. If there is no decoction, then you can replace it with boiled water. Pour the resulting mixture into a saucepan and place it over medium heat. Once boiling, season the gravy with sugar, salt and pepper to your liking. Boil the tomato sauce for another 5 minutes, then add the fried meat balls to it.

Cover the pan with a lid and reduce heat to low. Simmer baby's ground turkey hedgehogs for 40 minutes, then turn off the stove. Leave the finished dish covered for another 10 minutes.
Meat hedgehogs for children and adults in a pan are ready. A delicious dish, just like in kindergarten, will be an excellent addition to the tender mashed potatoes that children love so much.

Creamy cheese sauce for hedgehogs

This recipe will captivate you with its tenderness and juiciness. If you love everything traditional and classic, then this sauce will become your favorite.

Ingredients:

heavy cream – 150 ml
sour cream – 100 g
cheese – 150 g
garlic – 2 cloves
nutmeg – 0.5 teaspoon. spoons
dried parsley – 1 teaspoon
dried celery – 2 pinches

Mix cream with sour cream and grated cheese, season with nutmeg, parsley, celery. Mix well and add the garlic squeezed through a press. Pour the resulting sauce over the hedgehogs and place in the oven for 30-35 minutes. For the sake of experimentation, you can take different types of cheese, in each case the taste will be different.

Hedgehog sauce is an excellent addition to an ordinary dish, which instantly turns it into a juicy, mouth-watering and delicious masterpiece. Be sure to try preparing the gravy according to the suggested recipes, and your dish will be noticeably transformed and ennobled.

Recipe for meat hedgehogs with rice and gravy in the oven

If you prefer dishes cooked in the oven, then you will definitely like these meat hedgehogs with gravy. They are prepared just as simply as their “relatives” in a frying pan and in a saucepan.

Ingredients:

Minced meat – 800 g;
Round rice - 1 tbsp;
Tomato paste – 3 tbsp. (or tomato juice 1 glass);
Salt, ground black pepper, sugar, favorite seasonings - to taste;
Eggs – 2 pcs.;
Carrot – 1 pc.;
Flour – 4 tbsp;
Natural sour cream – 100 ml;
Water or broth – 0.5 l;
Onions – 2 pcs.;
Vegetable oil - for frying.

Immediately prepare the rice in the standard way - boil until half cooked, drain in a colander and rinse with cold water.
Now it’s the minced meat’s turn. It can be made from any meat you like - chicken, pork, beef, turkey. Place the minced meat in a convenient bowl.
Peel and rinse both onions. Cut one as finely as possible - it is needed for minced meat. The second one can be chopped into half rings or cubes - we will add it to the gravy.
Add rice, finely chopped onion, salt, and ground black pepper to the minced meat.

Beat a chicken egg into the meat mixture and mix it thoroughly with a spoon. Roll the resulting dough into medium-sized balls. Roll each bun in flour.

Fry the meat hedgehogs in a frying pan with a small amount of vegetable oil. They should be cooked over high heat - it is important to achieve only a golden brown color on both sides.
Peel and wash the carrots, and then grate them on a coarse grater. In a deep frying pan, fry the second onion and chopped carrots until soft.
Mix sour cream with tomato paste. Dilute the mixture with broth or water, then pour it into the pan with the vegetables. Wait for the contents of the pan to boil, then add salt and pepper to taste. Also add a little sugar - it will make the taste of the dish brighter and richer. Cook the gravy for another 5 minutes.
Place the fried hedgehogs in a deep baking pan or baking dish. Pour the prepared gravy over them. Place the form with meat balls in a hot oven (180 degrees) for 45-50 minutes.
Delicious hedgehogs in the oven are ready to delight you with their taste.

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.

11. Next, add tomato paste, mix the ingredients and continue cooking for another minute.

12. Pour in 500 ml of boiling water and stir the sauce. Add some salt and spices and bring the sauce to a boil.

13. Pour the sauce into the bowl with the balls. Continue cooking the hedgehogs with gravy for another 20 minutes.