Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, porcupine meat balls. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Porcupine Meat Balls is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Porcupine Meat Balls is something that I have loved my whole life.
In a bowl, combine the first seven ingredients. In a large skillet, brown meatballs in oil; drain. The recipe also includes cooking directions for stovetop cooking or cooking in the oven.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have porcupine meat balls using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Porcupine Meat Balls:
- Get 1 lb. ground beef
- Make ready 1 cup uncooked rice
- Take 1 can whole kernel corn
- Take 1 large bag wide egg noodles
- Take 1 stick butter divided
- Make ready 1 can tomato soup (save can)
- Prepare 2 cans full of milk from tomato can
- Get 1 tsp. garlic powder
- Prepare 1 tsp. onion powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp. black pepper
- Prepare 1/2 tsp. salt
- Get 1 tsp. minced onion
- Prepare 1 egg
The recipe stuck, and eventually people started making rice-filled meatballs by choice rather than necessity. Porcupine Meatballs originated during the Great Depression, when rice was affordable and readily available, but meat was pricey. By adding rice to a classic meatball recipe, home cooks could bulk up the meal and stretch a small amount of beef a little bit further. Crush cereal. (To easily crush cereal, place in plastic bag or between sheets of waxed paper, and crush with rolling pin.) In large bowl, mix crushed cereal, beef, rice, milk, dry soup mix and egg.
Instructions to make Porcupine Meat Balls:
- Mix with hands ground beef, uncooked rice, all the seasonings and the egg. Mix well. Shape into meat balls.
- Melt 1/2 stick butter in heated skillet. Add meat balls. Cook until slightly brown.
- Mix in medium bowl, tomato soup and two cans full of milk. Pour over browned meat balls.
- Let cook on medium stirring occasionally for 20 mintues or until rice isn't crunchy. Stir in alittle milk to keep from sticking as it cooks.
- While meat balls are cooking, boil and cook egg noodles according to package.
- Drain noodles, and add the last 1/2 stick of butter and the can of corn. Mix togather with alittle bit of black pepper to taste until butter is melted.
- Serve meat balls with sauce over the buttered noodles and corn. Enjoy!
Porcupine Meatball Bowl - add mashed potatoes to a bowl, swirl on some sauce, add a few meatballs and a drizzle of more sauce. Serve with garlic bread or cheesy bread; Serve on a Charcuterie board - Make smaller meatballs and serve on a charcuterie board with a side of sauce, garlic toast, and cheese bread. This was a recipe that my grandmother used to cook for my mom. My mom would make it for us all of the time and now I make it for my family! These kind of "tried and true" recipes that are passed down are the very best.
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