Everyone knows the childhood taste of hedgehogs minced with rice, right? The classic version of this dish is in tomato or sour cream-tomato sauce, with preliminary frying in a pan in vegetable oil. However, today, I want to offer to cook them more useful way- put them out in a slow cooker. We will make hedgehogs in two versions: 1) in a delicate sour cream sauce; 2) for a couple. I'm sure the whole family will love this dish. Thanks to the gentle cooking method, they can be safely given to children, taking the appropriate type of meat for this (veal, chicken, turkey), and the technology will remain unchanged.
Despite the fact that the majority modern models multicookers are equipped with the function of frying products, we will not do this in this case. Otherwise, the whole point of cooking in this device will be lost - to make a tasty and harmless dish.
It turned out amazing tasty dish- minced meat hedgehogs with rice in a tender sour cream sauce! Call everyone to the table!
The other day, they shared a recipe with me, with the usual set of products, but with an interesting presentation. Having prepared such a dish, the whole family was in shock - real hedgehogs turned out of simple meat balls! Although, my household members do not really like dishes with rice, they knew how to do these very quickly. All the products needed for cooking are quite affordable: minced meat, basmati rice (if it is not available, any long-grain rice), bread, onions and spices. And with the help of an indispensable assistant in the kitchen - a multicooker, the dish turns out not only tasty and juicy in taste, but also very useful thanks to steaming!
The finished dish should be eaten immediately, so cook it for one meal and just before serving, so the rice will remain soft, after cooling, it becomes drier and the dish loses its charm.
Greetings, friends! Today I want to share a recipe for a very a simple dish from meat, which is loved by everyone without exception, both adults and children. These are minced hedgehogs with rice in a slow cooker.
Hedgehogs can be cooked in different ways, but the main ingredients of this dish do not change - this is minced meat and rice. They can be boiled, they can be stewed or baked in the oven, you can make gravy with vegetables for hedgehogs, you can stew them in sour cream. In general, the options are limited only by your imagination. But I'm in recent times I cook everything in a slow cooker, solely because of lack of time. It is very simple and convenient. Including hedgehogs from minced meat with rice.
Hedgehogs in a slow cooker are very easy to cook. We take minced meat, add washed raw rice to it, beat in an egg, salt, pepper, put spices to taste, squeeze the garlic through a press and mix everything thoroughly. The basis for hedgehogs is ready.
I know that rice is usually put in hedgehogs, pre-boiled until half cooked, but I don’t see the point in this. Hedgehogs cook any longer than the rice needs to cook, so you can put raw rice, it will boil perfectly inside the hedgehogs. And the beauty of this preparation is that rice, swelling inside the minced meat balls, will come out, imitating needles and hedgehogs will become real hedgehogs, i.e. very prickly in appearance. Pre-cooked rice will never give such an effect, hedgehogs will be round, like koloboks.
Pour a little vegetable oil into the slow cooker, put finely chopped onions and grated carrots on a coarse grater, turn on the “Frying” mode and fry the vegetables for 5 minutes.
Next, from a pre-prepared meat base, we sculpt round balls with a diameter of 6-7 cm, approximately like snowballs, put them in a slow cooker, distributing them evenly, pour boiling water from the kettle so that the water covers the topmost hedgehogs, salt, add black peppercorns and bay sheet.
Fans can add 2-3 tablespoons tomato paste, but if hedgehogs are supposed to be used in baby food, I do not advise you to do this, because tomato paste can be poorly absorbed in the stomach of babies due to the high acid content.
Next, turn on the "Extinguishing" mode, set the cooking time to 1 hour and relax. No garnish is required for hedgehogs, since the dish contains both meat and rice instead of a separate garnish. Serve hedgehogs with sour cream and fresh herbs. You can cook a salad of fresh vegetables for hedgehogs. Enjoy your meal!
Minced meat hedgehogs with rice in a slow cooker is a hearty and tasty dish. Little children especially love it, because it has delicate taste. Hedgehogs are similar to ordinary meatballs, the only difference is in some ingredients. And they are quick and easy to prepare. We have selected a few for you best recipes, using which you will create a real culinary masterpiece.
Each housewife has her own secrets of cooking hedgehogs with rice in a slow cooker, which they are happy to share with us:
So, we got acquainted with the basics, it's time to move from theory to practice.
This recipe involves cooking hedgehogs using tomato paste. However, if you are cooking for children, then it is better to take tomatoes instead of pasta.
Some housewives do this: they don’t add tomato paste to vegetables, but dilute it with water and then only pour the meatballs.
And now let's cook hedgehogs in the most delicate sour cream sauce. It gives the dish an exquisite taste.
To make hedgehogs dietary, they can be steamed in a slow cooker. We use ground beef in the recipe, but for those who are watching their calorie intake, you can replace it with chicken. These hedgehogs go very well with vegetables and potatoes.
As you can see, cooking hedgehogs from minced meat with rice in a slow cooker will not take much time and effort. You only need to make meatballs and sauce, and our kitchen helper will handle the rest. Cook with pleasure!
A children's party is planned or you just want to surprise your household unusual dish? Then you will definitely need this diet recipe"spiky" steam cutlets! Today we have on the menu delicious children's minced meat hedgehogs with rice, steamed in a slow cooker. I bring to your attention a recipe with a photo that will step by step reveal to you all the stages of preparing this unusual dish.
For the "prickly" back of hedgehogs, we need 100 grams of long-grain rice.
Boil the rice in salted water for 5 minutes, no longer.
We throw the rice on a sieve and let it dry thoroughly.
In the meantime, you need to cook the meat. To make minced meat, take 450 grams of lean pork, 1 large onion (100 grams) and a piece of dried loaf (30 grams).
Pour the bun with 100 grams of milk and leave to soak.
We cut the meat into pieces and pass through a meat grinder. We do the same with onions and white bread. Add 0.5 teaspoon of salt, 0.5 teaspoon of spices “For minced meat” and 1 chicken egg to the minced meat. The photo shows exactly 1 egg, it just so happened that it turned out to be with two yolks.
Thoroughly knead the minced meat. If necessary, you can add a little semolina or breadcrumbs if the minced meat seems watery to you.
Pour water into the multicooker pan and turn on the “Steam” mode for 40 minutes. It should be borne in mind that in some models of the multicooker, the countdown starts immediately. In my slow cooker, POLARIS PMC 0512AD, the minutes start counting down only after the water boils in the bowl. We must cook "hedgehogs" for 40 minutes, starting from the moment of boiling.
While the water is heating, let's take care of "prickly" friends.
We form the “body” of a hedgehog from minced meat and roll it in rice so that only the future “muzzle” remains without rice. Immediately put the workpiece in a container for steaming. I make hedgehogs in such a size that 3 pieces fit into a standard bowl.
From black peppercorns we make eyes and a nose.
As soon as the countdown begins, place the bowl with hedgehogs in the slow cooker. Opening the lid after the signal, you can see these beauties.
When serving, lettuce leaves are laid out on a plate and steamed leaves are placed on top of them. delicious hedgehogs minced meat with rice. Remove them from the multicooker container very carefully, using a spoon so as not to damage the “prickly” skin.
The products stated in the recipe are enough to prepare 6 servings. I have 2 slow cookers, so there is no problem to prepare an unusual dinner for 6 people. To increase the number of servings, you can also use a larger steamer.
They are prepared very simply and quickly, especially if you use our visual instructions. Step by step recipe minced meat hedgehogs with a photo will help you cope with each stage of cooking, and also tell you about all the intricacies and secrets of the process.
You can cook such meatballs from absolutely any meat or poultry. Beef or pork meatballs will turn out to be very satisfying, and chicken meatballs will be more tender and light.
As additional ingredients for this dish, we will use onions and carrots. These vegetables are a standard side dish for any meat, but you can easily spice up this list with sweet paprika or mushrooms.
We will add vegetable fried slices both to minced meat and to the sauce.
The gravy will turn out very tender and creamy, because we will cook it from sour cream.
As a side dish for hedgehogs with gravy cooked in a slow cooker, it is best to serve mashed potatoes or salad.
Let's start cooking hearty meatballs for dinner.
Let's prepare all the necessary ingredients in order to cook minced meat hedgehogs with gravy in a slow cooker at home.
We thoroughly wash all the indicated amount of rice several times in cold water, dry and spread on the bottom of a deep bowl.
We wash and peel all the carrots we have, then rub on the largest grater. We clean the onion from the husk and cut into small cubes. We heat the pan with vegetable oil, put the chopped vegetables on it and fry until the onion is transparent. We send half of the onion with carrots to a bowl of washed rice, leave the second part in the pan.
We will prepare minced meat ourselves from a piece of fresh pork, beef or even chicken fillet. We wash the selected meat in water, dry it and pass it through a meat grinder with a few cloves of peeled garlic if desired. Mix the minced meat with rice, onions and carrots from a bowl, add your favorite spices to the meat, salt and pepper to taste. Thoroughly mix the resulting minced meat.
For the sauce, we need to mix water with sour cream in a saucepan, add the indicated amount of tomato paste, wheat flour and the remaining fried onions and carrots there. All this must be thoroughly mixed until a homogeneous mass.
Wet our hands in cold water and form neat meatballs with our hands from all the minced meat. We lay out the finished hedgehogs on the bottom of the multicooker form as shown in the photo.
Pour the previously prepared creamy vegetable sauce to the hedgehogs, level the dish with salt.
Stew hedgehogs from minced meat with gravy in the appropriate mode for 60 minutes. At the end of the cooking time, cool the dish a little, serve it and serve it to the table with a side dish of mashed potatoes or fresh vegetable salad. Now you know how to cook hedgehogs with gravy in a slow cooker.
Enjoy your meal!
