Porcupine casserole - Real Recipes from Mums

This porcupine casserole is a super easy, delicious, healthy dish that the whole family will love! A fun and yummy take on a meatball casserole – get the kids in the kitchen and teach them about healthy, delicious cooking! Can be easily made gluten-free by purchasing gluten-free tomato soup & stock powder.

Ingredients (serves 4)

420 grams salt-reduced, tomato soup
415 grams no added salt, crushed tomatoes
1/2 cup finely diced onion
1 cup water
3 tsp salt-reduced chicken stock powder
1 tsp dried oregano
1 tsp crushed garlic (in jar)
500g very lean beef mince/premium beef mince (can use chicken mince or pork mince)
1/3 cup raw long grain rice
1 egg white

Method

Pre heat oven to 190ºC fan forced.
To make sauce: In a large casserole dish (that has a lid) combine ingredients 1-7 (listed above) to make the sauce. Pour into casserole dish and leave to one side.
To make meatballs: In a medium size mixing bowl combine ingredients 8-10 (listed above) to make meat balls. Using your hands mix together well. Shape into 12 round meat balls, add to casserole dish and bake for 1 hour.

Notes

DIETITIAN’S TIP: Take care to choose lean mince to avoid eating too much saturated fat.

104 Comments

- - cassy26 said
  - 09 Sep 2024
    8:20 am
Yummo. Looks amazing. Thanks for sharing.

- - meedee said
  - 29 Jul 2022
    10:50 am
Annette I love all your recipies.

- - Mad Bean said
  - 27 Jul 2022
    8:53 pm
I remember having this all the time as a kid. It’s so yum.

- - happymum2018 said
  - 30 Apr 2019
    9:52 pm
Looks great l!!

- - happymum2018 said
  - 08 Mar 2019
    10:00 pm
It deffinantly looks like something I’d love to make for a nights dinner looks quite delicous tha ks for sharing

- - rachel1970 said
  - 03 May 2018
    7:41 am
Hmm, was just deciding what to make for dinner tonight for the kids, I think this is what I needed to find! Thanks

- - rovermum said
  - 02 May 2018
    9:17 am
I do love this as a meal option. It’s something filling that I could definitely make for my family that would keep them full and well fed.

- - ella12 said
  - 01 May 2018
    12:04 pm
This would be lovely in the winter months.

- - tessie said
  - 01 May 2018
    9:45 am
I used to make a dish something like this. Will have to cook it again soon I’m thinking

- - mom90758 said
  - 04 Dec 2017
    5:03 pm
Oh, I’ve seen a similar dish somewhere. But this one looks a lot prettier. Very original too!!

- - nealsq said
  - 29 Jan 2017
    6:52 pm
haven’t had these for ages! Yum!

- - Melissa89 said
  - 29 Jul 2016
    4:18 pm
I thought this was made of porcupine and was so confused lol

- - mom153507 said
  - 01 May 2016
    12:48 am
We also call these Porcupine Balls & they are delicious!!!
We serve them with mashed potato, mashed pumpkin, peas & corn.
It is a family favorite & I highly recommend it!
It’s great to see other recipes of this amazing dish pop up, thanks for sharing

- - shelley shelley said
  - 10 Apr 2016
    8:37 am
I was bought up on this similar recipe and it was always a fave for everyone, we called them porcupine meatballs!

- - coastalkaryn said
  - 05 Dec 2015
    4:31 pm
oh, wow, these suckers sound awesome, and are way healthier than the ones I made in the 90’s

- - Klsmith91 said
  - 02 Nov 2015
    9:07 pm
We call these porcuipine balls! Love them, a staple here!

- - coastalkaryn said
  - 26 Oct 2015
    7:04 pm
I adore this recipe – I have been making it for years…. love love love

- - youngoldlady said
  - 24 Sep 2015
    2:25 pm
Takes me back to my childhood made the way mum did. Not as some have with cooked rice.

- - coastalkaryn said
  - 20 Sep 2015
    11:50 am
I am making these for dinner tonight – love making extra and freezing them raw, but in balls, ready to go for a quick diner when I have the CBF’s

- - coastalkaryn said
  - 17 Aug 2015
    6:34 pm
I was trying to remember what this was called – got some mince on special at Woollies – and here the recipe is… thanks for sharing _ I have to add a green though too