Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
Prepare the ingredients. To cook turkey hedgehogs with rice, we will need: turkey minced meat; broth or water; rice; carrots; tomato paste; ground black pepper and salt.
Step 2:
Rinse the rice thoroughly.
Step 3:
Peel and grate the carrots on a medium or coarse grater.
Step 4:
In a bowl, combine turkey minced meat, rice, grated carrots, salt and pepper. If desired, you can add dried Provencal herbs or fresh herbs to the minced meat.
Step 5:
Mince thoroughly with your hands.
Step 6:
With wet hands, form round balls of the same size from the resulting minced meat. They should be slightly larger than a walnut.
Step 7:
Dilute tomato paste in broth.
Step 8:
Put the hedgehogs in a deep baking dish.
Step 9:
Pour broth with tomato paste.
Step 10:
Bake hedgehogs in a preheated 180 ° C oven for about 40 minutes.
Step 11:
Serve the hedgehogs hot until they cool down. Bon appetit!
True, they will stick out funny only if you put the grits raw, otherwise you will have ordinary-looking, but still very tasty meat balls. Moreover, the rice should be chosen long, not round.
Minced meat hedgehogs with rice are one of the favorite meat dishes of many who do not deny themselves the pleasure of eating delicious food.
You can cook hedgehogs in the oven from any minced meat, but it's better to take long-grained rice, then the resulting meatballs will really look like prickly hedgehogs. The sauce for filling can also be any - sour cream, tomato, mixed, etc. The preparation of such a dish will not take much time, but it will turn out to be very tasty, nutritious and appetizing!
Hedgehogs are so good that you don't have to prepare a side dish for them. After all, they already contain rice. Many people confuse this dish with meatballs. However, the latter differ in that the rice is pre-boiled before mixing with minced meat. In the preparation of hedgehogs, this need disappears.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- 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
- White fortified boiled 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
- Tomato paste - 28 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Broth - 15 kcal/100g
- Turkey stuffing - 161 kcal/100g
