Minced hedgehogs with rice without sauce in a pan

Break the white bread into small pieces and fill it with milk. After five minutes, the bread will become soaked and soft - punch it with a blender together with milk until smooth.

Rinse the rice thoroughly and place in a small saucepan. Fill the cereals with water, add some salt and boil until half cooked for seven minutes. Then we put the rice in a colander, rinse with cold water and let it dry slightly. Place the minced meat for the "hedgehogs" in a bowl. Add the bread and milk mass and prepared rice. Peel the garlic, rinse it and pass it through a press. Put the resulting garlic mass to the minced meat, add salt and black pepper to taste. We mix all the components with our hands until they are relatively homogeneous. It is recommended to beat off the mass on the bottom of the bowl so that the consistency becomes more cohesive, dense, viscous. Three or four minutes of beating will be enough. After such manipulation, the meatballs will keep their shape well and will not fall apart during subsequent cooking.

From the prepared mass we form round meatballs approximately five centimeters in diameter. We roll round the rounds well in the palms so that their surface becomes smooth. For ease of use, we wet our hands in cold water.

Breaded the prepared meat balls in flour. You do not need to roll the meatballs too much - this way too much flour will stick. It is enough to either sprinkle them on all sides, or easily roll each ball over flour breading.

Pour vegetable oil into the pan in such an amount that it covers the bottom with a layer of three to four millimeters. We warm it up to a hot state. Put meatballs in oil and fry them without a lid on all sides, keeping the temperature of the stove medium-low. Remove the finished hedgehogs from the pan and put them on a dish. Serve hot with any vegetable side dish.