Meatballs with rice

How to cook meatballs with rice, a recipe with a photo. Cooking meatballs with gravy.

The recipe is listed in the quick dinner section, although this recipe cannot be considered quick. However, provided that you have minced meat ready, you can keep within an hour of time. What are good meatballs with rice- a delicious and delicate dish. Children eat meatballs with rice with pleasure. As rice for meatballs You can use both regular rice (for example Kuban) and parboiled long grain rice. In the first case, the rice will be mushy and will not be noticeable in the meatballs, which is especially valuable - the children do not see the rice and eat meatballs with pleasure. In the second case, the meatballs will look more like hedgehogs and the rice will be clearly visible in the structure. For the mince in this recipe, I used a mixture of beef and pork. Minced turkey meatballs also work well. My children eat meatballs with pleasure, although you can't force rice to eat in its pure form.

For cooking we need:

1. Pork 500 gr.
2. Beef 500 gr.
3. Onions 2 pcs for minced meat and 2 pcs. for frying.
4. Garlic 1 head.
5. Carrots 2 pcs.
6. Tomato paste 2 tbsp spoons.
7. Salt and pepper to taste.
8. Flour half a glass.
9. Vegetable oil 100 ml.
10. Bay leaf 2 pcs.

We prepare products for minced meat.

We rotate the minced meat alternately lowering the meat, onion and garlic into the meat grinder.

Salt, pepper and knead the finished minced meat for meatballs.

Minced meat is ready, let's start cooking meatballs. There is milk in the photo, you can add a little white bread soaked in milk to the minced meat. This time I didn't add.

Cut the onion into quarters of rings.

Three carrots on a coarse grater.

Simultaneously boil rice in salted water. 1 part rice two parts water. Cook the rice almost until tender.

Cool boiled rice for meatballs in cold water.

Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan.

First of all, fry the onion, literally for a couple of minutes.

Add the carrots to the onion and fry for another 7 minutes, stirring.

Add tomato paste to vegetables. Stir, cover with a lid and simmer for 7-10 minutes.

Put the finished frying on a plate and set it aside.

Mix the cooled rice with minced meat.

And while the frying is being prepared, we roll the meatballs. We sculpt balls (size at your discretion). But it is better if they are slightly smaller than a tennis ball (tennis).

Dip the meatballs in flour.

Pour vegetable oil into the pan where the frying was prepared and fry the meatballs on both sides over high heat. About a minute on each side.

Put the fried meatballs in layers in a stewing pot.

Distribute the frying between the layers and on top.

Boil water in a kettle and fill the meatballs with boiling water so that the top layer of the meatballs drowns a couple of millimeters. Put a couple of leaves of lavrushka in a saucepan.

We wait until the water in the meatballs boils, cover and simmer over low heat for 30 minutes. The meatballs with rice are ready.

Serve fried meatballs, delicious meatballs with sour cream, and without sour cream, it's also delicious.

We will cook meatballs "Hedgehogs" in an ordinary frying pan, under the lid. But if you like to cook in the oven, then you will need 30 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees.

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What to cook for the second mince? Of course meatballs!

Step 1. Rinse the rice with cold water 3-4 times. Boil 100 grams of rice (add 1.5 cups of water).

Step 2. Chop the onion finely, pass the garlic through a press and fry in vegetable oil. Finely chop 1/2 bell pepper and also lightly fry with onions and garlic. Mix rice, onion, garlic and bell pepper with the minced meat. Salt and pepper the minced meat. Mix well. And stick meatballs the size of a chicken egg or more (as you like, I sculpt large ones).

Step 3. Add a little vegetable oil to a frying pan and fry the meatballs on all sides over high heat. During this time, chop the second half of the bell pepper into smaller pieces, you can even chop it in a blender. Although I did it in small pieces, it is also very tasty.

Add pepper to the pan, let it grill too. Fry the pepper for 3 minutes. Add 2 cups of water (or so that the meatballs are covered by 2/3). Tomato paste, sour cream and lavrushka. When it boils, reduce the heat to medium and salt to taste.

Serve with pasta or potatoes. Bon Appetit!)

Video recipe Meatballs with rice "Hedgehogs". Even easier!

Meatballs with minced meat and rice are a complete lunch dish. Someone likes to add a side dish to it, but I think this is already superfluous. Yes, they can be served with mashed potatoes and boiled pasta, but they already contain both meat and cereals. Do you need something else for a complete meal?

When I was little, I didn’t even know the word “meatballs”. In our family, they were always cooked with rice and that is why they were called hedgehogs. They got this funny name for the similarity of rice grains peeping out of minced meat, with protruding hedgehog thorns.

And it still happens that somewhere in a public dining room on the distribution table I ask for "hedgehogs". And you know, they always give me meatballs and don't ask me again. This means that they were not the only ones in our family who were called that.

Hedgehogs can be cooked in different ways: you can add cabbage or carrots to them, make tomato sauce or sour cream sauce. There are many options. In today's article, I would like to consider the 3 most popular recipes for meatballs with minced meat and rice: with tomato sauce, with sour cream sauce and mixed tomato-sour cream sauce.

Classic meatballs in tomato sauce in a pan

The classic version of meatballs with gravy appeared in Soviet times. Therefore, the gravy traditionally includes tomato paste, a product sold in cans and stored for a long time. These cans were in every home and this pasta was used in literally all dishes.

Ingredients:

• 500 g minced meat (pork, beef, chicken)
• 250 g of boiled rice until half cooked
• 1 egg
• 0.5 tsp ground red pepper
• 1 tsp ground paprika
• 1 tbsp seasoning for meat
• 1 head of onion
• Refined sunflower oil for frying

From 100 g of dry rice, 300 g of boiled rice is obtained. 50 g dry rice is about 1/4 cup

Tomato sauce:

• 500 ml of plain cold water
• 150 g tomato paste
• Salt, ground black pepper - to taste
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 tsp flour
• 3 bay leaves
• 1 carrot
• 1 head of onion

Preparation:

1. In one bowl combine minced meat, half-boiled rice, one egg, spices, salt and pepper. Mix everything well.

To cook the rice until it is half done, you need to rinse it under running water, put it in a saucepan and pour the water just enough to cover the rice with it. Then turn on low heat and when the water boils away, the rice will just be half ready.

2. Finely chop one onion and fry in a pan with vegetable oil until golden brown. This will take about 5 minutes. Add the onion to a common bowl and mix again, first with a spoon, and when the onion has cooled down, with your hands.

3. The meat is ready, we start sculpting hedgehogs. We moisten our hands in cold water (so that the meat does not stick), pinch off a small piece of meat, roll it into a ball and put it in the pan in which the meatballs will be cooked.

4. Prepare the gravy. Finely chop the onion and send it to the pan with vegetable oil. Then wash the carrots and rub them on a coarse grater. Add the carrots to the onions, which by this time have already begun to turn golden and fry, stirring occasionally until the carrots are soft. This will take about 10 minutes.

5. While the vegetables are fried, put the tomato paste in a separate bowl, add salt, pepper, flour to it, pour in water and whisk everything with a whisk until a homogeneous mixture.

6. Then add the cooked carrots and onions to the sauce and mix again.

7. Fill the meatballs with the prepared sauce and put the bay leaf on top.

8. Cover the pan with a lid and put it on low heat. When the sauce boils, we mark for another 30 minutes. Then the meatballs with tomato gravy are ready.

Bon Appetit!

Delicious minced meatballs with rice in tomato sauce with sour cream

The meatball sauce can be softened and the sourness of the tomato sauce can be smoothed out with sour cream.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat - 500-600 g
• Chicken egg - 1 pc
• Onions - 1 pc.
• Garlic - 1-2 cloves
• Mustard - 1 tsp
• Dried Herbs / Minced Meat Seasoning - 1 Heaped Tsp
• Salt - 1-2 pinches
• Ground black pepper - 1-2 pinches
• Rice (dry) - 70-100 g

• Vegetable oil - for frying
• Onions - 1 pc.
• Carrots - 1 pc
• Wheat flour - 2-3 tablespoons
• Tomato paste - 1-2 tablespoons
• Broth / water - 400-600 ml
• Sour cream - 200-250 g
• Bay leaf - 1-2 leaves
• Dried herbs to taste
• Spices - to taste Sugar - 1 tsp
• Salt to taste
• Ground black pepper - to taste
• Fresh herbs to taste

Preparation:

1. Cook the rice until half cooked. To do this, rinse it in running water, fill it with two glasses of boiling water, add a pinch of salt and simmer for 10-15 minutes (until the water boils away).

2. In one bowl, mix the minced meat, mustard and egg. Pre-beat the egg with a little salt. In the same bowl, add finely chopped onion and herbs with spices.

After the minced meat is ready, it is advisable to beat it off for 2-3 minutes so that it becomes viscous and dense.

In order to beat off the minced meat, take it in your hand and sharply throw it back into the bowl. And so several times

3. When the minced meat is ready, mix it with the rice.

4. Wet hands with cold water and form meatballs with a diameter of 5-6 cm from minced meat.

5. After this comes an optional, but very desirable step. If you have time, be sure to do it.

We moisten our hands in vegetable oil and once again roll each meatball in our hands. The oil will create a protective film and the meat will be softer and juicier. After all the meatballs are greased, we send them to cool in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.

6. While the meatballs are cooling, prepare the sauce.

Finely chop the onion and fry in a pan with vegetable oil over medium heat for 2-3 minutes. Then add the grated carrots to the pan and fry, stirring occasionally, for another 3-5 minutes. Then add flour and fry it for a few more minutes until it changes color.

7. The next step is to put tomato paste in a frying pan, mix and fill with water (or broth).

8. Add sour cream, bay leaf, salt and spices to the resulting gravy. Mix everything thoroughly, reduce the heat to a minimum and cook for 3-4 minutes.

9. We take the meatballs out of the refrigerator and send them to fry in a separate pan with vegetable oil. Fry them over medium heat for 5-7 minutes on both sides until golden brown.

You can skip this step, but pre-frying gives the meatballs a special flavor.

10. Put the meatballs in a pan with tomato-sour cream sauce, close the lid and leave to simmer over low heat for 20-25 minutes.

Ready. Bon Appetit!

How to cook hedgehogs for kids with egg-free sour cream gravy

The difficulty of cooking for children lies in the fact that they do not like onions, they do not like carrots, and it is also not worth peppering dishes intended for children. Also, children are often allergic to chicken eggs. This recipe just takes into account all these points. There are no vegetables, eggs or spices in it. Except for salt. Tender sour cream sauce.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat - 800 g
• Rice - 100 g
• Flour - 3 tablespoons
• Water (boiling water) - 500 ml
• Sour cream - 400 g
• Salt to taste

Preparation:

1. There are no peculiarities in the cooking of the hedgehogs themselves. You just need to mix the minced meat with washed raw rice, stir until smooth and roll out balls 4-6 cm in diameter from this minced meat.Fry the finished meatballs in a pan with vegetable oil over medium heat for 2-3 minutes on each side until golden brown.

2. All the zest of the recipe in sour cream sauce. Although there are no difficulties with him. First you need to fry the flour in a dry frying pan. That is, we put the pan on medium heat, wait for it to heat up and pour flour into it. Fry for a few minutes until the flour turns yellow.

If you make a gravy with regular flour, it will taste bad. It is the frying of the flour that makes the recipe special.

3. Pour sour cream into a jug, pour in the fried flour, add half a liter of boiling water and mix everything well.

4. Put the fried meatballs in one pan and fill them with sour cream gravy. Turn on high heat, wait for the gravy to boil, then reduce the heat to low and cover the pan with a lid.

After 30 minutes, the meatballs with sour cream sauce will be ready. Bon Appetit!

These are the recipes for making hedgehogs. As you can see, all options are quite simple to prepare and do not require any cooking skills. So you can always easily feed your family with a hearty and delicious lunch.

In childhood, we loved meatballs very much and called them hedgehogs ... And now, having become adults long ago and having already raised our children, we continue to call these delicious and tender meatballs - hedgehogs meatballs! And immediately the soul becomes warm, I remember childhood and a noisy family dinner ... Try to cook this simple dish, I hope your children will love them too!

Ingredients

To prepare meatballs-hedgehogs you will need:

minced meat - 1 kg (I have a mixture of pork and chicken);

onion - 1-2 pcs.;

rice - 0.5 cups;

egg - 1 pc.;

tomato paste - 200 g;

carrots - 1 pc.;

flour - 1-2 tsp;

adjika - 1 tbsp. l. or at will;

salt, pepper - to taste;

sunflower oil for frying - 2-4 tbsp. l .;

any greens - 2 zhmenki.

Cooking steps

We wash the rice, fill it with water and set to cook until tender, adding salt to the water.

Let's prepare the minced meat. I have a mixture of minced pork and chicken, prepared in advance. You can use whatever you like.

Then add the egg, salt, pepper and mix.

Put the finished rice on a plate and let cool.

Combine rice with minced meat and mix well.

Now you can sculpt balls - these will be our hedgehog meatballs! We put them in a preheated pan greased with sunflower oil.

After frying the hedgehogs on one side for 5-7 minutes, turn them over to the other side and fry for another 5-7 minutes over medium heat.

While the hedgehog meatballs are fried, peel and chop the carrots (I have red carrots, but you can use any one).

We dilute a teaspoon (with a slide) of flour with a small amount of cold boiled water and mix until smooth.

Then pour this flour mixture into a frying pan to the hedgehog meatballs.

Mix well and simmer for another 3-5 minutes. If necessary, add salt to our sauce.

Add chopped greens - and now our hedgehog meatballs are ready!

We treat our loved ones with tender and delicious hedgehog meatballs! We serve them with sour cream.

Bon Appetit!

What are meatballs and hedgehogs

Meatballs

Hedgehogs

Meat hedgehogs

TheDifference.ru determined that the difference between meatballs and hedgehogs is as follows:

Hedgehogs are a type of meatballs that are prepared with the addition of raw rice to the minced meat. In the process of cooking, it is boiled and sticks out of the meatballs, like needles from a real hedgehog.

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Difference between meatballs and hedgehogs

In the cuisines of different nations, there are a lot of delicious dishes from minced meat and fish, an honorable place among which are the meatballs loved by many. They are easy to prepare, taste good and can be included in a child's menu from a very young age. Now more and more recipes for hedgehog meatballs began to appear. The cooking process for such a dish and ordinary meatballs is exactly the same, the difference lies in the ingredients.

Definition

Meatballs- a dish of minced meat or fish. They are in the form of balls (often the size of a walnut). Meatballs are cooked in sauce and served by pouring them over the dish.

Meatballs

Hedgehogs- a variety of meatballs, into which raw rice is added during the cooking process.

Meat hedgehogs to the content

As already mentioned, hedgehogs are a type of meatballs. The cooking process is the same for them. To begin with, minced meat is made. It can be pork, beef, poultry, or combined (pork with beef, for example). You can use lamb.

A raw egg is driven into the minced meat, salt, pepper, seasonings are added to taste. Some housewives put bread, finely chopped onions, carrots in meatballs. Everything is thoroughly mixed. Next comes the turn of additives. The most common is boiled rice. You can also put pieces of bell pepper, mushrooms, blanched tomatoes. There are recipes for meatballs with mashed potatoes and dried fruits.

It is in this stage that the difference between meatballs and hedgehogs lies: in the latter, raw rice is added, which, during the cooking process, is boiled and resembles needles on a round hedgehog meatball. It happens that absolutely all meatballs are called hedgehogs, to which both raw and pre-boiled rice are added.

From the resulting mass, balls are formed, breaded in flour and fried on all sides in vegetable oil. Then we act according to the selected recipe: the meatballs can be stewed in sauce, poured with it and put in the oven, fry in a pan until tender, or steamed.

As for the sauce (or, in our opinion, gravy), it is a must, without it meatballs would not be meatballs. These meatballs are most often prepared in tomato or creamy (mayonnaise, sour cream) sauces with herbs, celery, garlic, fried onions with carrots and a variety of seasonings.

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How are meatballs different from meatballs? Let's find out!

How are meatballs different from meatballs? This question is very often asked by novice housewives. After all, these two dishes, at first glance, seem to be similar. In our article you will find the answer to this and other questions of interest. We hope that the information will be useful to you.

Many different products are made from minced meat, both simple ones that every housewife can handle, and more difficult ones. To prepare the latter, most likely, a certain skill is required. Meatballs and meatballs can be referred to as simple, but tasty. What is the difference between them?

In the composition, both of them have similar components, but, in general, these are two different dishes. Before figuring out how meatballs differ from meatballs, you need to understand these concepts in more detail.

So what are meatballs? These are fried minced meat balls that are baked in the oven or stewed in sauce. Meatballs are also balls of meat, but they are boiled in broth.

Meatballs and meatballs: differences between them

The main difference between the two is that meatballs cannot be called a separate dish. They are usually part of soups. They are made from minced meat, to which spices are always added, and sometimes finely chopped greens are added.

From the resulting mass, balls are then formed, which do not need to be fried or breaded first. The meatballs are thrown into the already boiling broth and they are boiled in it until tender.

The situation with meatballs is a little more complicated. In order to cook them, minced meat is also required. Pour spices and rice (or vegetables) into it. Usually the size of meatballs, like walnuts. These meat products, as you understand, are larger than meatballs, since the latter are like a hazelnut in size. Meatballs need to be breaded in flour, and then fried, and removed from the pan, put in a container in which they will be stewed.

So that the meatballs do not fall apart during the cooking process, they need to be poured with hot water. Onions fried with carrots, tomato paste or tomatoes, salt, spices and bay leaf are added to the broth.

Also meatballs, unlike meatballs, can be baked in the oven. It is imperative only when cooking meat products need to be poured with sauce or gravy.

Hedgehogs and meatballs: what's the difference between them

How are meatballs different from meatballs and hedgehogs? We have already figured out the differences between the first two meat products. What's the difference between meatballs and hedgehogs? To talk about differences, you must first understand the concepts.

We have already talked about what meatballs are. And the hedgehogs? What are they? This is a kind of meatballs. In the process of their preparation, raw rice groats are added to them.

The process for making hedgehogs is the same as for meatballs. The only thing is that in the first at the last stage, rice is added, which is boiled. As a result, it resembles the needles of a hedgehog.

Meatballs and cutlets: what are the differences between these dishes?

We have already figured out how meatballs differ from meatballs. Now let's talk about cutlets. How are they different from meatballs? Let's figure it out now. Let's find out what are cutlets? This is a thick minced cake. The dish came to us from European cuisine. There, the term "cutlet" meant a thin piece of meat on the bone. In the nineteenth century in Russia, this word was called a dish of minced meat. Gradually, this term was transferred to other culinary delights, which are prepared using a similar technology based on minced fish, vegetables, mushrooms, chicken fillet and others. Although, of course, traditional cutlets are those made from minced meat. Such products are fried in a pan or steamed. Sometimes cutlets are baked in the oven.

Outwardly, these two products are easy to distinguish. After all, meatballs are made in the form of a ball, and cutlets are flattened flat cakes. The former are much smaller than the latter. Meatballs, as you remember, are rolled in flour. Cutlets can be rolled in the same way, or you can also bread in breadcrumbs.

Another difference is the cooking method. After all, as you remember, meatballs are stewed or baked in the oven with sauce. Cutlets, on the other hand, are most often fried to a delicious crispy golden crust. And sometimes they are steamed.

Meatballs and meatballs: what are the differences between these meat products

And what is the difference between meatballs and meatballs and meatballs? We've already figured it out about the meatballs. But what is the difference between meatballs and meatballs? Remember that meatballs are minced balls. The meatballs are meat products, round in shape, beaten off. They are cut from the tenderloin. There are no bones in them. The meatballs are sometimes prepared from minced meat, and meatballs, as you remember, are made from minced meat. Basically, the beats are round, flattened. They are fried and then brought to readiness in the oven.

A little conclusion

Now you know how meatballs differ from meatballs, meatballs, hedgehogs. We hope that the information presented in the article was useful and interesting to you. Despite the fact that all the named products have some similarities, they are different dishes. Try to cook each one. Bon Appetit!

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how meatballs differ from hedgehogs

As is already clear from the title of the article, let's try to figure out what, in fact, is the difference between meatballs, meatballs, hedgehogs. Or maybe these are different names for the same minced meat dish?

When I asked the question "what is the difference between meatballs, meatballs and hedgehogs?" my friends could not immediately give an answer. Almost everyone considered the size of the items to be the main difference. The second criterion of distinction is the presence or absence of rice in meatballs and meatballs. Although, as it turned out, many housewives put rice in minced meat, both for meatballs and meatballs. But with the "hedgehogs" it turned out to be quite difficult - none of the people I asked could really tell what, but, in fact, they differ from meatballs and meatballs.

Meatballs, meatballs, meat hedgehogs - what's the difference?

To make it easier to understand this issue, let's try to summarize everything in the table:

Common between dishes:

All these dishes are made from minced meat.

Minced meat can be of different composition (that is, from any type of meat, poultry, game or fish) with the addition of salt, spices and / or herbs according to your preference).

The shape of meatballs, meatballs, "hedgehogs" is round.

Difference in dishes

Size (in diameter)

The presence of rice in minced meat

The need for breading before cooking

Need to fry before cooking

Served with garnish

Component of soups

Served with garnish

Served with garnish

Boiling in broth;

Cooking with various sauces

Cooking with various sauces

It requires more liquid as raw rice absorbs a lot of moisture during cooking.

How to cook minced meat for meatballs

For meatballs, minced meat from any meat is suitable. The following options are possible:

- their combination in any proportion;

- chicken (or meat of any other poultry);

- meat of game shot during the hunt (in this case, give preference to the prey that does not have a strong specific smell of a forest animal. Soak it for 3-4 hours in water with the addition of vinegar);

- fish (give preference to fish fillets that do not have a lot of small bones, or pass the minced fish through a meat grinder several times).

Making minced meat for meatballs is not at all difficult.

In addition to the meat itself, you will need: onions and garlic, boiled rice until half cooked, salt, your favorite spices or a ready-made mixture of spices (for minced meat, for cutlets, for meat dishes, etc.). These are the main ingredients of minced meat.

You can prepare minced meat for meatballs with vegetables. Parsley and dill, finely chopped sweet "Bulgarian" pepper, zucchini or zucchini grated on a coarse grater, chopped champignons or other mushrooms will add a special piquancy to meatballs.

Wash the meat well and cut into small pieces. Grind it using a meat grinder or other kitchen utensils.

Chop the peeled onion very finely, or grate it. Squeeze the garlic (if desired) through a special press or finely chop.

Rinse raw rice and boil in salted water until half cooked, rinse with hot water, let it drain well. By volume, rice in relation to meat should be approximately in a ratio of 1: 2. But this is approximately! It all depends on your taste!

Break the raw egg and beat a little with a fork or whisk.

We combine all the ingredients of the minced meatballs, salt, add spices and shape the meatballs.

How to make minced meatballs

As we already found out, meatballs are a round-shaped minced meat dish. The diameter of the meatball is about 2-3 cm. That is, figuratively speaking - about the size of a walnut.

The ingredients of minced meat for meatballs and the process of its preparation is similar to the preparation of minced meat for meatballs.

The difference is that when making minced meat for the meatballs, you are not using rice. In order for the minced meat to not be too dense, put white bread without crusts soaked in milk (cream, water) and lightly squeezed into it.

To do this, cut off a few slices of white bread, cut off the crust from it, put it in a suitable container. Fill them with any liquid: water, milk, cream, etc. The pieces should be completely covered with liquid. Leave for 15-20 minutes - until the pieces are completely soaked. Then squeeze out the liquid with your hands and turn the soaked bread into a homogeneous mass. It is convenient to do this using the meat grinder in which you just grinded the meat.

In one fell swoop, you will do two things - grind the bread for minced meat for meatballs and make it easier for yourself the process of subsequent washing of the meat grinder.

• From my own experience: onions and garlic for minced meat can also be minced with a meat grinder, alternating with pieces of meat.
• After you finish chopping the minced meat ingredients, rotate the crust or crust cut from the bread in a meat grinder. This process will remove the mince residues from the meat grinder and facilitate the process of washing it in the future.
• To make the meatball mince more tender, mince the meat twice.

How to cook minced meat for meat "hedgehogs"

The size of meat "hedgehogs" is about the size of a medium-sized tangerine. Any type of meat, poultry and fish with the addition of raw rice is suitable for the preparation of minced meat.

Minced meat preparation: as described above, in this case rice is put raw. First, you need to sort it out and rinse in several waters. You can even soak it for a while. Then, during the cooking process, hedgehogs will not need so much liquid.

Minced meat recipes are always relevant on the menu of many families, so meatballs, meatballs and hedgehogs diversify your diet.

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How meatballs differ from hedgehogs

Probably everyone has tried meatballs, delicious and juicy they are the culinary pride of many nations. Sometimes they are really called hedgehogs, but is this the same thing, or are there differences between them?

Meatballs are minced meat dishes made in the form of balls, and hedgehogs are a variety of them. Their cooking process is almost the same, they take minced meat, which can be made from anything: poultry, pork, beef, turkey, lamb, or even a combined one. Raw chicken eggs, seasonings, salt and pepper are added to the minced meat, sometimes they also put carrots and onions in them. At this stage, it remains only to make balls from all this mixture and cook them, and this is how meatballs are obtained.

However, this is a classic recipe, in addition to it there are others, and those meatballs that are obtained according to such recipes are classified as varieties of meatballs. To get hedgehogs, you need to add boiled or raw rice to this whole mass. As a result, needles in the form of rice begin to appear in the balls, which resemble the needles of hedgehogs. From that hedgehogs got their name.

But regardless of whether it is meatballs or hedgehogs, they will not be a complete dish without adding sauce. It is prepared either from tomatoes or from sour cream with the addition of herbs. Such a dish will become a real pride of the home table both on weekdays and on holidays.