Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, porcupine meatballs. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Porcupine meatballs have been a family staple since the Great Depression (and even before that!). They're called porcupine meatballs because the rice pokes out of the meat while they're cooking, resembling the spiky animal. What goes well with this recipe? These porcupine meatballs taste great over rice or on their own as a party appetizer.

Porcupine Meatballs is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Porcupine Meatballs is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook porcupine meatballs using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Porcupine Meatballs:

1. Get Meatballs
2. Take 1/2 C Long Grain Rice, uncooked
3. Make ready 1/2 C Water
4. Take 1 Medium White Onion, chopped
5. Take 1 tsp Sea Salt
6. Get 1/2 tsp Celery Seed
7. Make ready 1/8 tsp Ground Black Pepper
8. Get 1 pound Ground Beef
9. Prepare 2 Tblsp Cooking Oil
10. Take Sauce
11. Prepare 15 oz can Tomato Sauce
12. Make ready 1 C water
13. Make ready 2 Tblsp Light Brown Sugar
14. Get 2 tsp Worcestershire Sauce

They are so-named because once cooked the rice sticks out of the meatball looking a bit like porcupine quills. These porcupine meatballs are well seasoned with McCormick spices to bring out amazing flavor. The rice in the meatball which give it the porcupine name add such a delicious texture. They simmer in a rich tomato sauce and cook to perfection.

Instructions to make Porcupine Meatballs:

1. In a large mixing bowl: ground beef, 1/2 C water, onion, salt celery seed, black pepper, and garlic powder. Combine with hands until blended.
2. Heat oil in large frying pan. I love using my cast iron skillet, or chicken fryer.
3. Form 1 1/2 inch meatballs and place in heated skillet. As balls brown roll them in the skillet to cook evenly. Drain grease in container safe for hot grease.
4. While meatballs are cooking mix sauce in a large mixing bowl: can tomato sauce, 1 cup water, brown sugar, worcestershire sauce.
5. Once meatballs have been gently browned and firmed up pour sauce directly over meatballs in the skillet. Heat to a simmer. Cover and simmer gently about one hour. Checking to make sure they heat evenly. Don't cut the time or the rice will be under cooked.
6. Serve meatballs with sauce. I like to have mine with mashed potatoes and a vegetable.

The rice in the meatball which give it the porcupine name add such a delicious texture. They simmer in a rich tomato sauce and cook to perfection. These are some of the best little meatballs that you are going to eat. Porcupine Meatballs are similar to a classic meatball recipe, only with rice added to the meat mixture before cooking. When the rice sticks out, these meatballs resemble a little 'porcupine'.

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