Porcupine Balls

By bridgetinma

Paula Deen's My First Cookbook

Ingredients

• What else you'll need:
• 1 pound lean ground beef
• 1 1/4 cups uncooked white rice
• 1 tsp dried onion
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp Italian seasoning
• 1 egg
• 2 squirts of ketchup
• 2 dashes of worcestershire sauce
• 1 14 oz can of diced tomatoes
• 10 1/2 oz of beef broth
• medium bowl
• dry measuring cups
• measuring spoons
• 2 quart baking dish
• wooden spoon
• aluminum foil
• oven mitt

Details

Servings 4

Preparation

Step 1

1. Turn on the oven to 350 degrees.

2. Put the ground beef in the mixing bowl. Measure 1/2 cup of the rice and put it in with the meat. Add the egg, ketchup, worcestershire sauce, dried onion, salt and Italian seasoning. Mix it all together with your clean hands. Roll it into 8 or 9 golfball-size balls of meat.

3. Put the rest of the rice in the bottom of the baking dish. Pour in the tomatoes and the beef broth and stir with the spoon. Put the meat balls on top. Cover the dish tightly with foil.

4. Bake for about 1 hour. Let an adult help you remove the dish from the oven with oven mitts. When you remove the cover, steam will come out, so be careful! The rice in the meatballs will have puffed up all around the meat and your meatballs will look like little porcupines.