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Today we will look at several simple and tasty recipes for cooking hedgehog meat with rice and gravy. To prepare you will need a minimum of ingredients and very little free time.
Meat hedgehogs with rice is one of the ways to prepare meatballs. The only difference is that when preparing meatballs, the rice is boiled in advance, and only then mixed with minced meat, but for hedgehogs, there is no need to boil the rice. This dish can be cooked in a frying pan, in a saucepan, in the oven and in a slow cooker. We will analyze all these methods step by step.
Cooking steps
- 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 sunflower oil in a frying pan and pour chopped onion into it. Stirring, fry it 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.
Hedgehogs in tomato sauce
Let's imagine another one, seasoned with sauce, but this time with tomato.
We need the following ingredients:
First, let's prepare all the ingredients. Finely chop the onion, grate the garlic, remove the skins from the tomatoes and finely chop them, chop some of the mint. In a frying pan, fry the onion and garlic a little. . Then we prepare the minced meat - mix both types, bread crumbs, chopped mint, salt, pepper, a slightly beaten egg and half of the fried onion and garlic, rice. Mix everything thoroughly and form hedgehogs.
Then we put them in the mold. Set the oven to preheat at 200 degrees and prepare the sauce. To do this, add all the spices and tomatoes to the remaining onions and garlic. Simmer it all with water for about 5 minutes. Then pour the resulting sauce and put them in the oven for 30 minutes. Before serving, decorate the dish with mint leaves.
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.
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A simple recipe for delicious hedgehogs with rice and minced meat. Hedgehogs made of meat, not alive
