Cabbage rolls are a popular dish, the origin of which is attributed to themselves by different countries. In many cuisines of the world there are similar recipes, where minced meat is wrapped in grape, beet or cabbage leaves, and then stewed in a sauce or baked in the oven. It takes a lot of time to cook cabbage rolls loved by many, but if you don't want to stand at the stove for a long time, there is always a way out. You can make lazy cabbage rolls.
Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls baked in the oven
In total, there are 3 main recipes for lazy cabbage rolls, which taste like a classic dish of minced meat and cabbage.
To prepare stuffed cabbage according to this recipe, you will need:
- 500 g minced meat;
- 400 g of white cabbage;
- 2 tbsp. l. rice;
- 1 onion;
- 250 g sour cream;
- 250 g tomato paste;
- vegetable oil;
- salt;
- pepper;
- bread crumbs.
Chop the cabbage into small pieces, finely chop the peeled onion. Transfer the vegetables to a deep bowl, and so that excess bitterness comes out of them, pour boiling water for 10 minutes. Then carefully drain the water, discard the cabbage and onions in a colander and squeeze lightly.
Boil the rice until tender in salted water. Then cool and combine with prepared vegetables. Add minced meat, season everything to taste with pepper and salt and mix all ingredients thoroughly.
Wet your hands in cold water and form oblong cabbage rolls from the cooked cabbage-meat mass. Thoroughly bread each in breadcrumbs and fry on all sides in vegetable oil.
Place the cabbage rolls in a deep, fireproof baking dish and pour over the sauce. For him, mix sour cream with tomato paste. The sauce should cover the cabbage rolls well. Place the dish in a preheated oven and bake for 45 minutes.
Lazy cabbage rolls stewed on the stove
Lazy cabbage rolls are cooked faster according to this recipe than according to the previous one. Although in terms of taste, they turn out to be no worse. To prepare them you need to take:
- 500 g minced meat;
- 400 g of white cabbage;
- 1 onion;
- 1 carrot;
- 1 egg;
- 2 tbsp. l. rice;
- 200 g sour cream;
- 200 g tomato paste;
- vegetable oil;
- greens;
- ground black pepper;
- salt.
Peel the onions and carrots, finely chop the onion and grate the carrots. Fry the vegetables together in vegetable oil until half cooked.
Chop the cabbage into small pieces and add to the onions fried with carrots. Pour in half a glass of water, cover the pan with a lid, and simmer the vegetables together for half an hour.
Cook the rice until cooked in salted water.
Beat the raw egg into the minced meat, put the boiled rice and mix well. Then combine the minced meat with stewed vegetables, season everything to taste with salt and pepper. Form cabbage rolls from the cooked mass and fry them over high heat until golden brown.
Mix sour cream with tomato paste and pour into a skillet with fried cabbage rolls. Cover the skillet with a lid and simmer the lazy cabbage rolls until tender, about 40 minutes. Sprinkle with finely chopped herbs before serving.
Cabbage porridge
To make lazy cabbage rolls with this recipe, you will need the following foods:
- 500 g minced meat;
- 400 g of white cabbage;
- ½ cup cooked rice;
- 1 onion;
- 1 carrot;
- 200 g tomato paste;
- 200 g sour cream;
- vegetable oil;
- pepper;
- salt.
Chop the peeled onions and carrots: the onion with a knife, and the carrots on the grater. Then lightly fry in a pan with vegetable oil. Add finely chopped cabbage, salt and pepper, pour in ½ cup water, cover the pan and simmer the vegetables together over low heat for about 30 minutes.
After this time, add rice cooked in salted water and raw minced meat to the vegetables. Mix everything well, pepper and salt. Pour in sour cream-tomato sauce and, stirring occasionally, simmer lazy cabbage rolls until tender.
