How to cook meat "hedgehogs"?

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Meat "hedgehogs" with rice is a very tasty and satisfying second course, which is prepared quickly and simply, and therefore very popular in everyday life. The “hedgehogs” do not need to be served with a side dish, since they already include rice.

Beef, pork, and combined minced meat from different types of meat are suitable for their preparation, depending on personal taste. Some housewives add chicken meat to ground beef or make "hedgehogs" from one chicken or turkey.

Rice can be taken both long-grain and round. Some cooks prefer brown rice. It is also believed that with long rice, meatballs look more like prickly hedgehogs.

To cook meat "hedgehogs", the meat should be cut into pieces and passed through a meat grinder, simultaneously grinding the onion. Add egg, pepper and s alt, mix. The egg is necessary so that the meatballs do not fall apart. Finely chopped celery stalks can be put in minced meat.

Rice should be washed thoroughly, put on fire and cook until boiling. Then put in a colander to glass the water, and cool. After that, combine rice with minced meat and mix well. Optionally, you can add various spices and tomato paste.

Roll up balls from the prepared minced meat and roll them in flour. Put meat "hedgehogs" in a pan and lightly fry on all sides in butter.

Place the fried meatballs in a saucepan, pour over the meat broth and put in the oven for 15 minutes.

Many housewives cook meat "hedgehogs" in sauce. To do this, chop the onion, bell pepper, grate the carrots on a coarse grater, put it all in a saucepan and lightly fry with vegetable oil. Add tomato, water, spices and bring to a boil.

Then put the “hedgehogs” into a saucepan with boiling sauce, while there should be enough water to cover them. Simmer until done over low heat. Ready meatballs served with chopped herbs.

You can cook meat "hedgehogs" in tomato-sour cream sauce. Thanks to sour cream, the dish becomes juicy, tender and tasty. To do this, place lightly fried meatballs in a saucepan or a deep baking sheet. Mix sour cream with tomato paste and a little water, pour hedgehogs with this sauce. If necessary, add water and place in the oven for half an hour. Meat "hedgehogs" can be served with vegetables and herbs.

You can cook "hedgehogs" in sour cream in another way. Put raw meatballs in a saucepan, pour water or broth, cover and put in the oven. At this time, you need to prepare a sauce of flour, broth and sour cream. In a frying pan, roast the flour without oil until slightly golden. Then pour in the broth or water, carefullystir so that there are no lumps, add sour cream, sugar and s alt. Once again, stir well, put on the stove, bring to a boil and remove from heat. Pour the sauce into a saucepan with "hedgehogs" when almost all the broth in which they are stewed has evaporated. Simmer for 5-7 minutes.

For 0.5 kg of minced meat you will need two medium-sized white onions, a glass of rice, a chicken egg, spices to taste. For the sauce, you need to take 200 grams of sour cream, 3 tablespoons of tomato paste, s alt and water. You can add basil, parsley or dill to the sauce.