Please note!! there are no real hedgehogs in this:-)
Ingredients
500 Grams of mince
1 onion
1 and a half cups of dry rice
1- bottles of home made passata, or a couple of tins of tomato soup
any other spices, flavours that you may like!
finely dice the onion, saute until soft and allow to cool. Then mix the dry rice, onion and mince together adding a good pinch of cooking sea salt to help bind it together.
Form into meatballs no larger than a ping pong ball (important). In a heavy based pan, brown the meatballs, then cover with the sauce, soup plus another cup of water, then bring to a simmer.
Cover the pan and bake in the over for about another 30-40 minutes at 180c.
Don’t make huge meatballs! The rice expands and the meatball will double in size as it cooks…I forgot this once and we ended up with giant meatballs:)
Ideas..
use lamb mince, add some nice curry paste and a spoon of yogurt.
Use chicken mince and cook in laksa soup (yum)
give up and go buy a pizza (have also done this one)
Have fun!