Buckwheat hedgehogs are a very tasty dish. You can prepare this dish from any minced meat, including chicken and turkey. So that the hedgehogs do not fall apart during heat treatment, the basis for the dish must be made strictly according to the recipe, measuring all the ingredients with scales and a measuring cup.
Buckwheat hedgehogs are a dish that looks like meatballs, but in taste, naturally, different from it. Buckwheat hedgehogs can be cooked with absolutely any minced meat, with all types of fillings, and the final taste of the food will depend on the selected products.
There are many recipes for buckwheat hedgehogs, both easy to prepare and not very, so every housewife can choose the most suitable option for herself, depending on the ingredients required to create a culinary masterpiece.
How to cook buckwheat and minced hedgehogs
In order for the hedgehogs to turn out delicious, and not to fall apart during heat treatment, it is important to follow certain rules when cooking this dish.
Firstly, only fried buckwheat should be used as a base (it has a brownish color).
Secondly, so that the dish does not burn, it must be cooked in a thick-bottomed dish (a stewpan, a frying pan with high walls).
Thirdly, in order for the hedgehogs to turn out tasty and well baked, they should be simmered in a large amount of liquid - pouring. As a filling, you can use various rich broths with the addition of sour cream or tomato paste.
Fourthly, it is important to observe the proportions of buckwheat and minced meat. You can take no more than a glass of buckwheat per kilogram of minced meat. If you take more cereals, then during heat treatment the hedgehogs will fall apart, and the taste of the dish will greatly deteriorate.
Buckwheat and minced chicken hedgehogs
Hedgehogs prepared according to this recipe can be called a dietary dish, since low-fat minced meat is taken to create them. Despite the minimum amount of fat in the dish, hedgehogs are very tender and tasty, and all because vegetables - onions and carrots - give juiciness to the food.
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of lean minced chicken (you can from the breast);
- 100 grams of dry buckwheat;
- 1 large onion;
- 1 large carrot;
- salt, pepper (to taste);
- chicken bouillon.
Step-by-step cooking recipe:
Put the minced meat in a deep bowl, add the washed buckwheat to it and mix.
Peel and rinse vegetables. Grate the carrots, finely chop the onion. Lightly fry the chopped vegetables in a dry non-stick skillet (you need to brown the food slightly). Transfer the vegetables to the minced meat, add salt and pepper, mix everything thoroughly.
Form the resulting mass into balls with a diameter of four to five centimeters, place them in a baking dish, then pour a small amount of broth. Make sure that the liquid covers the hedgehogs exactly half.
Cover the top with foil (tightly so that the broth does not evaporate). Bake hedgehogs in the oven at 180 degrees for an hour.
Important: 100 grams of product (one medium serving) contains 150-170 calories. This dish can be used by people watching their figure. In addition, small children can also be treated with food, but only if there is no doubt about the freshness and quality of the minced meat used (for example, if a homemade homemade product is used).
Buckwheat hedgehogs with ground beef
Hedgehogs prepared according to this recipe turn out to be very high in calories, since onion "frying" and sour cream filling are used when preparing the dish. Although the food turns out to be very tasty, it is better not to indulge in it too often, since otherwise eating this delicacy will affect the figure.
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of ground beef;
- two onions;
- one carrot;
- two tomatoes;
- one egg;
- 200 ml of milk;
- two to three tablespoons of sour cream;
- salt and pepper (to taste);
- ½ cup buckwheat.
Step-by-step cooking recipe:
Boil buckwheat until half cooked. In a deep bowl, mix the minced meat with buckwheat and chopped and fried onions in vegetable oil, add a little milk (30-50 grams), salt, pepper, mix and leave for 10 minutes.
Beat one egg into the minced meat. Form the cooked mass into balls and place them in a deep frying pan.
Peel and grate the carrots. Chop the tomatoes. Add sour cream, chopped vegetables to the milk, salt the composition and mix. Pour the prepared sauce into the hedgehog pan. Simmer the dish for 40 minutes with the lid closed.
Buckwheat and turkey hedgehogs (minced turkey)
Since turkey tastes rather dry, hedgehogs should be cooked from it in a large amount of gravy. Well, to make the dish not too greasy, it is better to cook the gravy from tomatoes in your own juice and lean vegetable broth. If you are not particularly "worried" about the calorie content of the finished product, then instead of gravy, you can use a filling based on ordinary sour cream or heavy cream - the dish will turn out to be tastier and more satisfying.
Ingredients:
- 700 grams of turkey fillet;
- 100-120 grams of dry buckwheat;
- 300 grams of tomatoes in their own juice;
- large carrots;
- medium-sized onion;
- two tablespoons of tomato paste;
- 300 ml of broth;
- salt and pepper.
Step-by-step cooking recipe:
Place the tomatoes in a blender, add broth, tomato paste, pepper, salt to them. Turn on the kitchen appliance for a couple of minutes (it is necessary for the mass to become homogeneous).
Peel the carrots and onions. Grind the turkey and vegetables (use a small-hole attachment). Salt and pepper the minced meat, add washed buckwheat to it and knead it with your hands.
Shape the minced meat into small balls and place them in a thick-bottomed saucepan. Pour the gravy over the hedgehogs so that they are completely covered with it.
Simmer the food under the lid for no more than 40 minutes. Serve hedgehogs as a separate dish.
Hedgehogs with buckwheat and minced meat in a slow cooker in sour cream sauce
To prepare this dish, it is better to use low-fat minced meat, since sour cream appears in the recipe. Replacing sour cream with another ingredient completely changes the taste of the dish, so it is not recommended to replace it, for example, with milk or cream. If you are looking for a simple, but at the same time interesting and unusual recipe for hedgehogs, take a closer look at this option.
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of minced meat;
- one onion;
- one carrot;
- 1/2 cup buckwheat;
- one egg;
- three tablespoons of fat sour cream;
- glass of water;
- a tablespoon of flour;
- salt, pepper, spices - to taste.
Step-by-step cooking recipe:
Cook buckwheat in salted water until cooked through. Peel, chop and fry onions and carrots in a little oil.
Gently mix buckwheat with minced meat, fried vegetables, egg. Season with salt and pepper.
Roll the minced meat into small balls and place them in the multicooker bowl.
Mix water with sour cream, salt the mixture and pour it over the hedgehogs.
Set the baking mode on the multicooker for 40 minutes. 10 minutes before the end of cooking, pour 50 ml of cold boiled water into a glass, add a spoonful of flour to it and beat (it is important that the mass is free of lumps). Pour the mass into the multicooker bowl, while constantly stirring the pouring, wait for the sound signal of the kitchen appliance that cooking is over. Serve hedgehogs on the table even as an independent dish, even with a side dish. The dish goes well with mushrooms and cabbage.
Trick: to add even more creamy flavor to the dish, you can add small pieces of cheese to the hedgehogs. Just when rolling the balls, put a 0.5 by 0.5 cm cube of hard cheese into each piece.
