Minced hedgehogs with rice in a slow cooker

Easy-to-cook dinner in a slow cooker. Hedgehogs made of minced meat with rice can be cooked without hassle in a slow cooker, thanks to which you can not stand at the stove and control the process. This delicious dish, two in one: both side dish and hot with delicious tomato-sour cream gravy and vegetables, will help to quickly solve the problem with dinner. And it will even remind many of the tastes of childhood, because such hedgehogs have been preparing for a long time.

Anna

The author of the recipe

Minced hedgehogs with rice in a slow cooker

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Composition / ingredients

servings:

Minced meat

500

Fig

0.5

Carrots

Onion

Eggs

Vegetable oil

Tomato paste

Sour cream

Flour

Water

Salt

to taste

Pepper

to taste

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 20 % 7 g

Fats 51 % 18 g

Carbohydrates 29 % 10 g

231 kcal

GI: 20 / 70 / 10

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h

Step 1:
How to make hedgehogs from minced meat with rice in a slow cooker? Prepare the specified ingredients. I take chicken minced meat, but it can be any minced meat at will. Medium-sized onions and carrots. Tomato paste, or sauce, or tomato puree. Steamed long-grained rice, it is better to wash it well first. I will cook in a slow cooker, but you can cook such hedgehogs on the stove.
Step 2:
Wash, peel and grate the carrots on a coarse grater.
Step 3:
Peel and slice the onion. Pour a little oil into the bowl of the slow cooker and in the "Frying" mode, fry the onion (2/3 of the onion) with carrots.
Step 4:
In a deep bowl, mix one egg, rice, minced meat and 1/3 chopped onion. Add salt and pepper to taste, mix everything thoroughly.
Step 5:
With wet hands, take a piece of minced meat (about 1 tbsp. l with a slide for a hedgehog) and make balls, rolling the minced meat between your palms.
Step 6:
Put the prepared hedgehogs on fried onions and carrots, it is better to spread them in one layer so that they are then completely covered with sauce.
Step 7:
Mix the tomato paste with flour, sour cream, add a little salt and pepper and pour this sauce over the hedgehogs.
Step 8:
Add warm water, close the lid and turn on the "Quenching" mode for one hour.
Step 9:
At the end of the program signal, open the slow cooker. Serve the hedgehogs with minced meat hot. Thanks to rice, they can be served as an independent dish.

Minced meat hedgehogs with rice are a favorite and familiar dish to everyone. They can be cooked on the stove in a saucepan, you can even bake, or you can use an assistant and leave them to cook on their own with a slow cooker.
This dish will be interesting for children if you really make hedgehogs out of minced meat, simulate needles with rice, and insert peppers instead of eyes. To preserve the shape, it is better to cook them in a slow cooker for a couple, using a special bowl for this.

Important! To make rice dishes invariably delicious, read the article about the subtleties of choosing rice and the secrets of its preparation .

Keep in mind that the cooking time and mode are indicated approximately in the recipe. All slow cookers work differently and even the same models of the same manufacturer may have their own characteristics. Before you start cooking a new dish for you in a slow cooker, carefully study the instructions for it, and then in practice try to cook dishes that are familiar to you first, and then new ones, choosing the mode and time individually for your own technique.

Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it. How to determine the roasting temperature and choose the best oil for frying, and which one is better not to use at all, read here .