“Hedgehogs” for children are an ideal dish for those picky eaters who don’t eat meat. How to cook delicious “hedgehogs”? Just follow the recipe and use a little imagination.

It is often very difficult to feed children, and therefore mothers have to come up with many healthy, interesting and at the same time delicious recipes. We all know how important the presence of meat is in a child’s diet. After all, it is a source of protein - a building material for children's muscles and bones. But sometimes it happens that children refuse to eat meat. What should mothers do in such a situation? You can not give whole pieces of meat, but try to disguise it behind cereals, vegetables, sauces.

In order to prepare meat “hedgehogs”, you will need meat (300 grams), rice (50 grams), one egg, onion, carrot, bell pepper. For the sauce you need tomatoes (or tomato paste), onions, carrots, bell peppers, spices, water.

One such interesting disguised dish is meat “hedgehogs”. “Hedgehogs” are good for children, and adults will not refuse to try this dish. The cutlets come out juicy and tender.

You can use any meat, but diet turkey or chicken is best. You can fry the cutlets, but it will be healthier to use a double boiler, especially for a small child. After cooking the hedgehogs, you can also stew them in sauce to make them more aromatic and tasty.

If mom doesn’t know how to cook delicious “hedgehogs,” then you can use this recipe.

Cooking process

Rinse the rice well, add hot water and leave for 1-2 hours, rinse again. Boil water, add rice and cook until done (you can do this on the stove, or in a microwave or steamer - this way the rice will be more crumbly and will not burn). Rinse the rice again and cool.

To prepare minced meat, grind the meat along with onions, carrots and bell peppers in a meat grinder. Mix with rice, add an egg (you can take 3 quail instead of 1 chicken), salt, pepper, spices. Mix everything well.

Wet your hands with water and form oblong cutlets (to look like the body of a “hedgehog”), make eyes and a nose from pepper, olives, and a crust of black bread. Then fry the cutlets or cook them in a double boiler (if you don’t have one, you can pour water into the bottom of the pan and steam the “hedgehogs”).

Prepare the sauce. In a blender, grind (you can grate) carrots, onions, bell peppers, tomatoes. If the sauce is thick, add water. Pour the resulting sauce over the meatballs and simmer until tender (20-30 minutes).

You can make sour cream sauce. Mix 100 grams of sour cream with 100 grams of boiled water. Pour over the meatballs and simmer.

Products:
1. Minced chicken - 0.5 kg.
2. Rice - half a glass
3. Black peppercorns

Who puffs on my plate
And hides his nose in thorns?
This is a hedgehog made from a cutlet
He crawled over to me for lunch.

Hedgehog-hedgehog, give me a piece
I need a bite from you.
Maybe I should also have a dad
Would you like me to treat you to a delicious dish?

Hedgehogs with rice are one of the types. And in my opinion, the name “hedgehogs” is used only in Russia and in the territory of the former USSR. This children's dish is not only beautiful, but also healthy, because it is steamed. And by the way, it’s easy and relatively quick to prepare, which is why I love this one.

Hedgehogs with rice and minced meat - Step-by-step preparation:

1. From the prepared minced chicken you need to make cutlets with a sharp edge. This will be the hedgehog's nose. If your minced meat is not ready, you can find it juicy and tasty here.

2. Dip the lower part (belly) in flour.

3. Sprinkle the top part (back) with raw rice.

4. Use black peppercorns to make eyes and a nose for the hedgehogs.

Meatballs “Hedgehogs” are an easy-to-prepare dish that kids really like! Cooking meatballs is quick, and with our photo recipe it’s not at all difficult.

Let me make a reservation right away: we cook meatballs in sauce, like most dishes, in a slow cooker. But you can also cook hedgehogs in a frying pan or oven - the cooking process will be slightly different.

To prepare Hedgehog meatballs in sauce, we will need the following products:

0.5 cups rice

500 grams of minced meat

medium bulb

1 carrot

a couple of garlic cloves

salt, pepper, herbs - to taste

200 ml. cream

2 large tomatoes or a couple tablespoons of tomato paste

50-100 grams of cheese

Recipe for making minced hedgehogs with rice:

1. Preparing the rice. To cook hedgehogs in a frying pan or in the oven, it is recommended to pre-cook the rice until half cooked. We cook in a pressure cooker, so we don’t boil the rice first, but simply rinse it and soak it in a plate for 10-20 minutes.

2. Peel the onions and carrots and chop them finely. Grate the garlic on a fine grater or crush it with a garlic press. This time we didn’t have carrots, so we did without them.

3. Drain the water from the rice, add minced meat, onions, carrots, garlic and a couple of eggs. Mix this mass thoroughly until smooth. In the process, add salt, pepper and, if desired, add a little herbs.

4. From the resulting minced meat, we make round hedgehog bells with our hands and place them in the container in which you will cook in the future - a multicooker bowl, a frying pan or a baking sheet.

By the way, if you cook in the oven, it is better to cover the baking sheet with foil. After cooking, the foil can be thrown away, and the baking sheet will remain practically clean; you just need to rinse it!

Preparing sauce for hedgehogs

5. Peel the tomatoes and crush or grate them. We usually use tomatoes, because... We cook with the child in mind, but when we’re too lazy to fuss with tomatoes, we also use ready-made tomato paste.

6. Add tomatoes or tomato paste to the cream. Salt a little and add herbs to taste.

7. Pour the resulting sauce over the meatballs so that they are covered completely or almost completely with the sauce. If there is not enough sauce, you can dilute it with a little boiled water.

You can sprinkle grated cheese on top of the hedgehogs.

When cooking in a slow cooker, this can be done immediately, when cooking in a frying pan or in the oven - 5-10 minutes before readiness.

Cooking hedgehogs in a slow cooker, in a frying pan or in the oven.

In a slow cooker, close the lid and turn on the simmer mode for 30 minutes.

Bring to a boil in a frying pan on the stove, and then simmer over low heat until the rice is cooked.

Bake in a baking tray at 180 degrees for about an hour.

The result is such beauty and deliciousness.

– we cook with imagination. Today I am updating the section, which is in third position in the voting. This is a children's recipe for minced hedgehogs. I’ll write right away that this is one of my children’s favorite meat dishes. Maybe yours too? This is how I cook them.

It turns out meat hedgehogs with rice they are very tasty, tender, juicy, eaten very quickly. It’s convenient that you don’t need to particularly decorate the dish. It’s enough to just make children’s hedgehogs not round, but oblong, so that they resemble a hedgehog, make a nose and eyes.

You can call this dish hedgehog meatballs, or you can call it lazy stuffed peppers, because the taste is completely reminiscent of them.

But its advantage is that bell pepper is a single component with meat, and not a separate ingredient. My youngest daughter eats both meat and pepper when she eats stuffed peppers. But the eldest one eats the meat filling, but does not eat the pepper. And he is so useful. In the summer, I always try to add it to dishes for children, and in the winter, though it’s already frozen.

In winter, you can make hedgehogs for children without sweet pepper, that is, you put all the same ingredients, but without pepper. This time I made it with chicken. But you can take any meat - turkey, veal, beef, just increase the cooking time. So, how to make hedgehogs at home, recipe with photos.

Meat hedgehogs - step-by-step recipe with photos

To prepare meat hedgehogs you will need:

1. 300 g of meat (I have chicken, you can have turkey, beef, veal)

3. 1 onion;

4. 1 carrot;

5. 1 sweet bell pepper;

6. 1 - 2 tablespoons of rice;

Meat hedgehogs recipe

1. Let's figure out how to make hedgehogs. First, you need to boil the rice. Let's put the water on the fire. Wash the rice well. Place rice in boiling water and cook until half cooked. You can boil rice in a double boiler.

2. Make minced meat. To do this, we pass meat, onions, carrots and bell peppers through a meat grinder.

3. Let's continue preparing the hedgehogs. Add rice to the vegetable and meat mince. Wash the egg and add it.

4. Mix everything thoroughly. So, how to cook minced hedgehogs.

5. It’s better to form small oblong meatballs with wet hands that resemble hedgehogs. If we steam the hedgehogs, then put them one by one in a steamer. To me meat hedgehogs I like them better in a double boiler than those cooked in a saucepan. Let's not forget to make eyes and noses from the crust of black bread. I didn’t have any, so I had to decorate it with peppercorns. If you also decorate, do not forget to take out the pepper when you serve the meat hedgehogs to your child. Cook in a double boiler for 30-35 minutes.

6. But, if you don’t have a double boiler, then pour a little water into the bottom of the pan and bring it to a boil. Place meat hedgehogs into boiling water. Simmer over low heat and constantly make sure that the water does not boil away. As soon as it boils a little, add it, but be sure to add boiling water. The disadvantage of this preparation is that you need to constantly monitor. We figured out how to cook hedgehogs with rice.

7. Ours meat hedgehogs ready. Place on a plate and serve to the child as a separate dish without a side dish. Bon appetit!

According to the technological map of dishes for kindergarten, “Hedgehogs” are meatballs with rice. The taste of kindergarten meatballs has haunted me since childhood. Tender, satisfying, small and so beloved, I wanted to try and try minced hedgehogs with rice.

For the sake of these same hedgehogs, I worked in the canteen for about 6 months while doing internship at a culinary school. We will not do exact numbers and calculations down to milligrams, but I will try to describe the recipe itself.

Today we will prepare hedgehogs like in kindergarten from young veal and rice with milk sauce. You will need the ingredients from the list.

We twist the beef through a meat grinder twice.

Add cooked rice cereal. Boil the rice in advance. Preferably, round-grain white. Chicken egg and salt.

Mix the ingredients into a homogeneous mince. Separately, sauté the onions in a frying pan. It must first be cut into small cubes. Add onion to minced meat.

Mix thoroughly. With wet hands, form the minced meat into balls at the rate of: 3-4 hedgehogs for 1 serving.

Roll in flour. Place the balls in a baking dish. Pre-grease the mold with butter. We send the form with the future meatballs to the oven. The hedgehogs should be browned. You can pre-fry them in a frying pan.

While they are roasting, prepare the milky white sauce for baking. In a separate frying pan, dry the flour until it has a light caramel color. Grind with butter. Transfer the mixture into a saucepan and add hot milk. The sauce must be stirred all the time, and when it thickens, strain.

Pour the sauce diluted with water over the hedgehogs.

We send it back to the oven. Cook for another 15 minutes at maximum heat.

The hedgehogs are ready as if they were in kindergarten! They are usually served with a side dish, pouring sauce over the meatballs.

Pour the sauce over the side dish itself.

Lettuce leaves are not used in kindergarten, but I wanted to make the dish bright and attractive to children. After all, it’s homemade. Bon appetit!