Hedgehogs with gravy in the oven

A wonderful option for a hearty and beautiful lunch! These hedgehogs with gravy are cooked in the oven in a thick sour cream and tomato sauce with the addition of chopped vegetables. It turns out a full-fledged, high-calorie dish for serving on any table, including a festive one!
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 19 % 7 g
Fats 35 % 13 g
Carbohydrates 46 % 17 g
204 kcal
GI: 19 / 81 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 45 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make hedgehogs in the oven with gravy? Prepare the specified products. Peel the onion and carrot from the husk, rinse. Use pork-beef minced meat, fatty, so that the dish does not taste dry. Instead of tomato paste, it is permissible to use tomato juice, tomato pulp without peel, ketchup, but not bitter. Buy long rice, not steamed.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Put the minced meat in a separate deep container. Rinse the rice in several waters, add it to the minced meat. If a larger number of hedgehogs are being prepared, be sure to add a chicken egg to the minced rice, otherwise the buns will disintegrate when baking! Thoroughly mix the minced meat with rice, salt and pepper it.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Form small buns with your hands and put them in a baking dish. Leave a place between the buns in the form for vegetables and gravy, spread them at an equal distance from each other. If you have fatty minced meat, then you do not need to lubricate the mold and vice versa - lubricate the mold with vegetable oil if the minced meat consists of pulp without fat.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Cut the onion into small cubes, grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Put the vegetable mass between the minced meat balls with rice. Combine tomato paste, sugar and water, pour this sauce into the mold. Sugar must be added, since tomato paste tastes sour. If desired, you can use various spices and spices to taste: dried thyme, rosemary, Provencal herbs.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Place the mold in the oven at 220 C and bake for about 25-30 minutes until browned. Remember that porcelain and glass molds are placed in a cold oven, metal and cast iron molds are placed in a preheated oven. Also note that the temperature and baking time are indicated approximately, be guided by the features of your technique. Remove the finished dish after baking and let it cool down a little.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Put the hedgehogs in gravy on plates, serve warm with sour cream, mayonnaise or other sauces. Don't forget about fresh greens or vegetable salad to boot!

Hedgehogs with gravy in the oven are a juicy and hearty dish that is easily prepared at home in the presence of minced meat and rice. These basic ingredients are irreplaceable, whereas onions and carrots can be omitted by pouring tomato juice over the buns. The dish is delicious in a warm form, it is better not to serve it cold.

It is best to serve hedgehogs with gravy with sour cream - its fat content will directly depend on the fat content of the minced meat: low-fat sour cream is served to a juicy dish, fat sour cream is served to dry hedgehogs. The sauce will be especially delicious if you chop green onions and mix it with sour cream. You can also use other greens.

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use the useful information about the features of ovens !

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Raw wild rice - 353   kcal/100g
  • Brown raw rice - 360   kcal/100g
  • Boiled brown rice - 119   kcal/100g
  • White fortified raw rice - 363   kcal/100g
  • Fortified boiled white rice - 109   kcal/100g
  • White rice, steamed, with long grains raw - 369   kcal/100g
  • Steamed white rice, boiled with long grains - 106   kcal/100g
  • Instant dry rice - 374   kcal/100g
  • Instant rice, ready to eat - 109   kcal/100g
  • Fig - 344   kcal/100g
  • Carrots - 33   kcal/100g
  • Dried carrots - 275   kcal/100g
  • Boiled carrots - 25   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Mixed minced meat - 351   kcal/100g
  • Tomato paste - 28   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g

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