Many people love stuffed cabbage rolls, because cabbage envelopes with meat and rice are tasty, nourishing, and do not become boring for a long time. However, stuffing cabbage leaves is a laborious and lengthy process. Whether it is lazy cabbage rolls that cook quickly and delight with the taste of your favorite dish. Recipes simplify cooking as much as possible, allow you to bypass the stage of preparing cabbage leaves, and sometimes the stage of sculpting cutlets.
Lazy cabbage rolls: useful tips
Cooking cabbage in "lazy" recipes for stuffed cabbage is simplified and reduced as much as possible, however, in order to obtain a juicy and very tasty dish, it is not recommended to omit some stages of raw material preparation. Coarse veins must be removed from the leaves. To make the vegetable soft, a simple culinary trick is used:
- cabbage shreds well;
- filled with boiling water;
- cools down at room temperature;
- leans back in a colander to glass water.
Minced meat for lazy cabbage rolls will be softer and juicier if you roll it in a meat grinder with onion and ripe tomato without the skin. Foods such as garlic, green onion feathers, cilantro, parsley, herbs and spices give it piquancy. The meat is combined with various vegetables, usually carrots, bell peppers.
In order for cabbage rolls to retain their juiciness and be fragrant, in classic recipes, you first need to fry semi-finished products on both sides over high heat in hot oil. Then simmer over low heat under the lid or bake in sour cream, tomato, sour cream-tomato sauce.
If you prepare lazy cabbage rolls for a children's menu or for patients with gastrointestinal problems, it is enough to omit the frying stage, add seasonings according to tolerance. Diet cabbage rolls can be stewed not in sauce, but in broth, or steamed.
Lazy cabbage rolls are successfully combined with mashed potatoes, boiled rice, vegetable stew, stewed cabbage and other side dishes. In addition, they themselves can serve as a ready-made dinner or be served for lunch as a second course.
Lazy cabbage rolls according to the classic recipe
The traditional recipe for lazy cabbage rolls suggests that the semi-finished products are fried in a skillet and then brought to readiness in a large saucepan. First you need to rinse a glass of rice well, add two glasses of water and boil until tender.
Then peel and finely chop 150 grams of onions. Peel the same amount of carrots and grate on a medium or coarse grater. Put chopped vegetables in a cast iron pan, add 2.5 grams of table salt and your favorite dry spices.
Mix all ingredients well and sauté, stirring constantly, until the onions and carrots are tender. After that, put the boiled rice in a colander and rinse, wait for excess water to drain. Put the groats in a frying pan and mix with vegetables.
Remove hard parts from cabbage leaves, chop the rest, salt to taste. Fry in vegetable oil in a separate skillet for 10 minutes. When the cabbage has cooled to a warm state, combine it with meat and other vegetables, if necessary, add more spices to taste.
Beat the egg into the minced meat and mix it. Blind lazy cabbage rolls in the form of oblong cutlets, roll in sifted flour and fry on both sides over high heat in refined sunflower oil.
Transfer the blanks to the pan. In a separate bowl, mix 3 tablespoons of fat sour cream and tomato sauce, pour the cabbage rolls with the resulting mixture, add salted water. Semi-finished products should be filled in a little more than half. Bring the filling to a boil, then make a slow fire and simmer the lazy cabbage rolls under the lid for 40 minutes.
Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls baked in the oven
Rinse a glass of rice and boil until half cooked, put in a colander and let cool. Disassemble a pound of cabbage into leaves, remove coarse veins. Wash and peel carrots and onions. 250 grams of beef and pork, cut vegetables into pieces.
Pass carrots, onions, meat through a meat grinder. Add an egg to the minced meat, salt and freshly ground pepper to taste. Stir everything and make stuffed cabbage. Grease a baking dish with vegetable oil, put semi-finished products in it.
Combine 250 ml of warm water with sour cream in a 1: 1 ratio, add 3 tablespoons of tomato paste. Season the resulting mixture with salt and pepper, pour it over lazy cabbage rolls. Preheat the oven to a temperature of 220 ° C and place the dish with semi-finished products in it for 25 minutes.
Fast lazy stuffed cabbage rolls in a slow cooker
The easiest way to make stuffed cabbage rolls at home is to use a multicooker bowl. You don't even need to cook rice and sculpt cutlets. To make the laziest stuffed cabbage rolls in just 15-20 minutes, you need to stock up on chilled or frozen minced meat in advance.
Rinse products:
- 400 grams of cabbage;
- a couple of carrots;
- a couple of onions;
- a glass of rice.
Throw the groats in a colander, remove the hard parts from the cabbage leaves, remove the husks from the onions and carrots. Chop all vegetables, mix with raw cereals and meat, salt and pepper.
Put the minced vegetables and meat in a multicooker bowl. Combine 4 tablespoons of fatty sour cream with water in a 1: 1 ratio, add a couple of tablespoons of tomato paste and salt the filling to taste.
Cover the very lazy cabbage rolls with the mixture and cook for 1 hour, setting the multicooker to the "Baking" mode. After that, hold the dish in the heating mode for another half hour and serve as a second for lunch or as a main course for dinner.
Juicy lazy cabbage rolls in a frying pan
Boil half a cup of long grain rice until tender. Finely chop a pound of cabbage, then pour boiling water and let cool at room temperature. Scroll a pound of beef pulp (or a mixture of beef and pork), a peeled tomato and a peeled onion in a meat grinder.
Put spices in the minced meat to taste, 2 cloves of crushed garlic, rice, stir everything. Knock out the egg and mix the resulting mixture again, then mold the cabbage rolls. Throw the cabbage in a colander, but do not pour the infusion.
To pour in a separate bowl, combine:
- a glass of 40% sour cream;
- a glass of cabbage infusion;
- 3 tablespoons tomato paste;
- half a glass of chopped cilantro, parsley, onion.
Pour vegetable oil into a deep cast-iron frying pan to make a layer of about 1 cm, heat it, then fry lazy cabbage rolls in it on both sides for 3 minutes. Cover with prepared filling, cover and simmer over low heat for 40 minutes.
Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls with sausage and meat
Rinse and dry a pound of beef shoulder or neck with a paper towel. Remove bones, tendons, chop and rotate in a meat grinder with a couple of peeled onions. Finely chop a pound of smoked sausage, a garlic wedge without husks and 2-3 celery stalks.
Disassemble the cabbage forks, chop the soft parts of the leaves. Rinse a glass of long grain rice, but do not boil it. Separate 400 grams of pickled or salted tomatoes from the brine (marinade), remove the skin, mash the pulp of the fruit.
Stir the chopped ingredients, place in a cast iron saucepan and simmer over low heat, stirring occasionally, until the meat is tender. Add rice, tomatoes and cabbage, pour in 15 ml of water. Put dried garlic to taste, if necessary, then table salt. Simmer lazy cabbage rolls until the groats are soft.
Lazy cabbage rolls baked under cabbage leaves
For this interesting recipe for lazy cabbage rolls, you can use both white cabbage and Chinese cabbage. The dish will be baked like a pie, only blanched cabbage leaves are used instead of dough.
First you need to boil 300 grams of long-grain rice until cooked and rotate 400 grams of meat in a meat grinder, mixing pork and beef. Add half a glass of finely chopped onions and cereals to the minced meat. Salt and pepper everything to taste, then mix into a homogeneous mass. Divide it into a couple of equal portions.
Disassemble the head of cabbage into whole leaves, cut out the coarse veins, blanch the rest in boiling water until soft and let cool. Grease a baking dish with vegetable oil and line the bottom with cabbage leaves, overlapping them.
Place the first portion of minced meat on a green bedding, level it, again cover with cabbage leaves. Add the second portion of meat and rice and completely cover the filling, like a pie, with the remaining cabbage. Preheat the oven to 200 ° C and put the dish with lazy cabbage rolls in it for half an hour.
Grate half a glass of hard cheese on a fine grater. Salt and pepper half a glass of 40% sour cream to taste, add 2 tablespoons of chopped dill and parsley to it. Take out the cabbage rolls, pour over sour cream and cover with cheese mass evenly. Reduce the oven temperature to 180 ° C and bake the dish for another 25 minutes.
