Hedgehogs after the bath "With a light steam!" So you can say, when you prepare meatballs for a couple. An excellent dietary dish for children and adults. Yes, and it looks very appetizing! These meatballs are cooked without eggs. In a double boiler, these dishes are excellent. The meatballs are very fragrant. Since I put a bay leaf and pieces of ginger root in a tray. Together with the steam, the meatballs were slightly soaked with the aromas of spices. Well, the effect with rice for me was magic. Rissinki took the form of thorns. Rice for the taste turned out fragrant and moderately salty, (the property of rice - attract salt, the right amount he received from meatballs). In a word, I am very pleased with the result. Cook for fun!
Ingredients:- Chicken fillet 500g
- Long grain rice 100 g
- Fresh ginger 20 g
- Bay leaf 4 pcs.
- Lemon juice 2 tbsp. l.
- Sesame oil 30 ml
- Sea salt 3 g
- Water boiled 2 tbsp. l.
- Onions 1 pc.
- Step 1 For the preparation of meatballs, you need to take chicken fillet, long-grained basmati rice, ginger, bay leaf, sea salt, sesame oil, a small onion, boiled water.
- Step 2 Rinse, soak in warm water for 2 hours.
- Step 3 Cut the onions into small cubes.
- Step 4 Grind the chicken meat in a meat grinder or with a blender. Connect with the onion. Add sesame oil (any vegetable), a couple of spoons of boiled water, so that the meatballs are juicier.
- Step 5 It is very good to knead minced meat. With wet hands, separating a small amount of minced meat, form small balls.
- Step 6 Rinse the rice. It is very good to dry it in a linen napkin. Pour the rice onto the plate, roll the meat balls in the rice grains, pressing them tightly to the meat.
- Step 7 Put the pieces of ginger root and laurel leaves into the pallet through which the steam will pass.
- Step 8 Put the rice balls in the steamer tray at a distance from each other, so as not to damage the thorns of future hedgehogs. Cook for a couple of 40 minutes.
- Step 9 These are the balls in the needles that were the result. Carefully remove the meatballs from the steamer tray. Put on the plate.
- Step 10 If the meatballs are made oval, you can get real hedgehogs. Decorate the little face of a hedgehog with eyes and a spout. Children will like this dish. Serve meatballs hot for lunch or dinner. Cold, they are also very tasty.