How to cook "hedgehogs" of meat and rice

"Hedgehogs" - the meatballs of minced meat with rice. Most often they are round in shape. The appearance of the finished product, with protruding needles of rice, reminiscent of a hedgehog. "Hedgehogs" can be baked in the oven or simmer in sauce.

You will need

• • pork meat (300 g)
  • the flesh of beef ( 300 g)
  • long grain rice (1 Cup)
  • onions (2 heads)
  • carrot (1 piece)
  • salt
  • pepper
  • tomato paste
  • garlic
  • meat broth or water

Instruction

1. "Hedgehogs" with boiled rice
   Make minced beef and pork. Meat clean from the films and tendons and mince.
   Clean the onion. Cut into pieces and mince together with meat. It gives the meat juiciness.
2. Carrots grate on a coarse grater. The second onion finely chop. Sauté carrots with onions in vegetable oil.The Cup of rice into a sieve and rinse under running water until flowing water is clear. Pour the rice with boiling water and boil until soft.
3. Mix in a bowl the minced meat, fried onions and carrots, cooked rice.
   Add salt and pepper to taste. All mix well. With wet hands, take pieces of ground beef and form the balls for 20 – 30g each. Place the balls in a deep casserole so that they do not touch each other.
4. Mix in a bowl the mayonnaise with the ketchup, add a little water. Pour mixture prepared "hedgehogs" in the skillet so that the liquid half concealed. The casserole cover with lid or foil obtyanite.Put in the oven. 10 minutes until cooked remove the lid to brown the cutlets.
5. "Hedgehogs" with rice.
   In minced beef with onions, add a Cup of dry rice. Mix the mass with fried onion and carrots. Salt, add pepper to taste. Form round patties. A quick saute in a hot pan until brown. Place in a deep saucepan.
6. Pour "hedgehogs" two cups of beef broth. Add 2 tablespoons of tomato paste, 3 Bay leaf, 5 peas of black pepper, two cloves pounded with salt and garlic. If necessary, add water. The sauce should completely cover the "hedgehogs". Put on a slow fire. Simmer, covered for 30 minutes.