Baked Rice Balls Recipe

3      Reviews by:    Julie Anderson   Baked Rice Balls Recipe uses ground beef, onion, tomato paste, parsley, cooked rice, Romano cheese, butter, flour, eggs, bread crumbs and tomato sauce in creating this attractive and very tasty ground beef recipe. Food Category:    Beef, Veal, and Lamb Cuisine Origin:    Midwestern    Servings:8 Calories per Serving:987 Print Preview Rate This Recipe Prep Time:   50 Minutes Cook Time:   30 Minutes Total Time:   1 Hour 20 Minutes

INGREDIENTS

• 1 1/2 lbs. ground beef
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1 can (6 ounces) tomato paste
• 1/4 cups water
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1/8 tsp. ground black pepper
• 1 Tbl. chopped parsley
• 6 cups cooked rice, hot
• 1/2 cup grated Romano cheese
• 1/4 cup butter
• 2 to 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 eggs, slightly beaten
• 3 eggs, slightly beaten
• 2 cups fine dry bread crumbs
• 1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce

DIRECTIONS

• Brown ground beef with onion in skillet. Add tomato paste, stir, and cook 5 minutes. Add water, salt, pepper and parsley. Mix well and cool about 15 minutes.
• Combine rice, cheese, butter, 1 cup flour and 2 eggs. Mix until butter is melted and ingredients are well blended. With well floured hands, shape some rice into a small ball. Flatten slightly and top with 1 tablespoon of the meat mixture. Top with more rice to cover meat and make into a ball the size of a small orange.
• Hold the ball over a shallow pan filled with about 1 cup flour; add more four when needed. Sprinkle rice ball with flour while gently packing and turning in palm of hand.
• Carefully dip ball in beaten eggs, then roll gently in bread crumbs to coat. Repeat with remaining rice. Place finished rice balls in a jelly-roll pan or baking sheet line with aluminum foil or parchment paper. Bake at 350°F for 30 minutes. While rice balls are baking, stir tomato sauce into remaining meat sauce and heat. Serve sauce over baked rice balls. 7 or 8 servings.

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