Beef hedgehogs like in kindergarten
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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.
Ингредиенты
Beef (cutlet meat) - 500 g
Rice groats - 100 g
Onion - 1 head
Salt - to taste
Chicken egg - 1 pc.
For the sauce:
Wheat flour - 20g
Milk - 200 ml
Butter - 50 g
Salt - 2 g
Water - about 100 ml (focus on the desired thickness of the sauce)
Рецепт
1. Grind the beef twice.
2. Add boiled rice cereal. Boil the rice in advance. Preferably, round-grain white. Chicken egg and salt.
3. Mix the ingredients into homogeneous minced meat. Separately, sauté the onions in a frying pan. It must first be cut into small cubes. Add onion to minced meat.
4. Mix thoroughly. With wet hands, form the minced meat into balls at the rate of: 3-4 hedgehogs for 1 serving.
5. Roll in flour. Place the balls in a baking dish. Pre-grease the mold with butter. We send the form with future meatballs to the oven (at 220°C). The hedgehogs should be browned. You can pre-fry them in a frying pan.
6. 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.
7. Pour the sauce diluted with water over the hedgehogs.
8. Place back in the oven. Cook for another 15 minutes at maximum heat (about 250°C).
9. Hedgehogs are ready as if they were in kindergarten! They are usually served with a side dish, pouring sauce over the meatballs.
10. 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!