6 meatball porcupine recipes

Sweet and sour porcupine meatballs: ground beef studded with rice that swells into spiky quills as it simmers in a tangy brown-sugar-and-vinegar tomato sauce. Retro comfort food.

Porcupine meatballs with uncooked rice mixed into ground beef, baked in cream of tomato soup until the rice pokes through like quills. A retro family favorite.

Burger/rice meatballs in a tomato sauce. Good served over mashed potatoes. This recipe makes plenty of leftovers.

Beef porcupine meatballs with rice, simmered in marinara sauce and beef consomme. A retro family dinner where the rice pokes out like little quills.

Raw rice mixed into ground beef meatballs creates porcupine-like spikes as they bake in tomato sauce. The rice cooks right in the sauce, soaking up flavor.

Spicy rice balls made with ground beef, uncooked rice, onion, celery, bell pepper, horseradish, and Worcestershire, baked in a spicy tomato soup sauce. A Southern-style porcupine meatball with serious kick.