12 porcupine recipes

This easy and scrumptious dish takes no time to make and can be either cooked in an oven or a skillet.

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.

Porcupine cookies are a 4-ingredient gluten-free retro cookie: eggs, sugar, chopped dates, and walnuts rolled in shredded coconut, then slow-baked until the coconut crisps golden.

Porcupine peppers with a layered casserole of green bell pepper strips and seasoned ground beef with rice and diced tomatoes. A twist on classic stuffed peppers baked in an easy layered format.

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

Porcupine quills are vintage no-flour cookies made with dates, walnuts, brown sugar, and egg whites, rolled in flaked coconut. Chewy, sweet, and naturally gluten-free.

Shrimp porcupines: large shrimp wrapped in shaggy kataifi pastry threads and fried golden, served on a bed of bright purple cabbage-mayonnaise sauce. A showstopping appetizer with serious crunch.

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

This buns are very smooth and delicious.You can adapt this bun recipe to your own taste.Shape as a porcupine.

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.