Porcupine Balls - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 egg
1/2 cup water
1 (2 ounce) envelope Lipton Onion Soup Mix
1 lb ground beef
1/2 cup rice
1 (46 ounce) can tomato juice
1 teaspoon sugar

Preparation

Beat egg slightly with water and 2 tablespoons of soup mix.
Mix lightly with ground beef and 1/4 cup of the rice.
Shape into balls.
Roll remaining 1/4 cup of rice pressing tightly into meat.
Heat tomato juice to boiling and stir in remaining onion soup mix and sugar; reduce heat to simmer.
Place meat balls in saucepan of tomato juice and cover.
Simmer, stirring occasionally, 50 minutes or until rice puffs out around meat.