Hedgehog meatballs: the most delicious and unusual recipes

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

There are a huge number of recipes from minced meat and fish in the world, but hedgehog meatballs occupy the most honorable place. Everyone loves this dish, from young to old. It is easy to prepare, even an inexperienced hostess can handle it, and the taste is simply divine, and it looks very appetizing. But how do ordinary meatballs differ from "hedgehogs"? How to cook them? You can learn about this by reading the article.

Meatballs or hedgehogs?

Meatballs - a dish shaped like a small ball made from minced fish or meat. A prerequisite is the presence of the sauce in which the meatballs are cooked.

"Hedgehogs" are prepared in the same way as meatballs, but with the addition of raw or boiled rice.

It can be concluded that "hedgehogs" are a kind of meatballs. They have one cooking algorithm: a raw egg, spices, onions are added to the selected minced meat, someone else puts bread, semolina, carrots and all the ingredients carefullyare mixed. Then they either form meatballs, or add rice to the minced meat and make "hedgehogs". The latter got their name due to the fact that during cooking, the rice boils soft and begins to stick out of the meatballs, resembling the needles of a hedgehog.

Recipe for hedgehog meatballs in tomato sauce

For cooking we need the following ingredients:

• Pork and ground beef - half a kilo.
• Rice any - half a kilo.
• Egg is one piece.
• Onion - one head.
• Garlic - three to four cloves.
• Tomato paste - two tablespoons.
• Flour - one tablespoon.
• Vegetable oil - four to five tablespoons.
• Spices, s alt, ground pepper - to your taste.

Cooking method:

1. Rice should be washed under running cold water, put on fire and cook until half cooked.
2. Then rinse the rice, cool and add a raw egg, mixing everything thoroughly.
3. After that, add the resulting mass to the minced meat, pepper, s alt, add seasonings to taste. When cooking minced meat, be sure to add onion to it to make it juicier.
4. Now you need to form balls and put them on a baking sheet, previously greased with vegetable oil or sour cream. Bake at 200 degrees for 20 minutes.
5. While the meatballs "hedgehogs" are languishing in the oven, prepare the sauce. To do this, onion and garlic should be cut into medium or small cubes andsend them to fry in vegetable oil in a preheated pan.
6. 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 left. Season with s alt and bring to a boil.
7. Now you need to get the meatballs "hedgehogs" out of the oven, pour them with tomato sauce and send them back for 15-20 minutes.

The dish is ready, serve with any side dish.

Gourmet meat hedgehogs

Above we looked at the classic recipe for hedgehog meatballs with rice, and now let's try to cook this dish with unusual ingredients. We will need:

• Any minced meat - 450g
• Chicken egg - one piece.
• 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.
• Pinch of s alt.

Cooking algorithm:

1. Grated ginger, egg, soy sauce, pepper and chopped onion should be mixed with minced meat. Send washed raw rice to him.
2. Pour water, wine, broth, sesame oil and a pinch of s alt (optional) into the pan and place the formed balls of minced meat there.
3. Bring everything to a boil, make a slow fire, cover and simmer for 35-40 minutes.

Extremely delicious meatballs are ready, it remains only to choose your favorite side dish.

Chinese way of cooking

Need these products:

• Pork mince - half a kilo.
• Ginger - two medium pieces.
• Garlic - two cloves.
• Cilantro - one bunch.
• Rice wine - two tablespoons.
• Balsamic vinegar - two tablespoons.
• Sesame oil - one tablespoon.
• Long Grain Rice - 100g
• Quail eggs - three pieces (can be replaced with one chicken).
• Pepper mix - to taste.
• Soy sauce for pouring the finished dish.

Cook like this:

1. All ingredients, except for rice and soy sauce, grind in a meat grinder or blender and add to minced meat.
2. Next, we form balls of minced meat about the size of a walnut. Roll them in rice and send them to a double boiler for half an hour.
3. Serve meatballs "hedgehogs" with any side dish or as an independent dish, after pouring soy sauce.