Cabbage rolls are one of the most delicious dishes of Russian cuisine, which can become the main thing on your festive table and characterize you as an amazing hostess! At the same time, stuffed cabbage is a healthy dish. Yes, healthy and low-calorie! After all, meat, rice and vegetables are an ideal trio, and cabbage contains a large amount of vitamins and does not lose its beneficial properties when stewed. But many housewives do not often dare to cook cabbage rolls, believing that it is necessary to "get too confused". Let's look at an easy and quick way to cook stuffed cabbage, and they will become a frequent dish on your table!
It is necessary
- - cabbage (1 medium head of cabbage);
- - a pound of minced meat (any, but better than beef);
- - 1/3 cup rice;
- - 2 onions;
- - 1 carrot;
- - 2-3 tomatoes;
- - 1 egg;
- - salt;
- - pepper;
- - Bay leaf.
Instructions
Step 1
Put the whole cabbage in the freezer. It is desirable for 1-2 days. But if she sits in the freezer for two weeks, it will be even better.
We take out the cabbage from the freezer half a day before cooking the cabbage rolls and let it defrost. Here it is, our secret! There is no need to cook cabbage, spreading the not very pleasant smell that accompanies cooking throughout the apartment, you do not need to worry if the cabbage is cooked to the desired degree and whether the sheets will wrap without tearing.
Just remove the cabbage from the freezer, and after our snow queen has thawed, the leaves will easily and naturally separate from it and become very soft and delicate like silk.
Step 2
Cook rice. Add it to the minced meat, and also add there finely chopped onion, salt, pepper, one raw egg and mix.
We spread the finished minced meat on cabbage leaves, wrapping it in rolls. Lightly fry each roll in a pan, about 2 minutes per cabbage roll.
Step 3
Three carrots on a grater, finely chop one onion, grind tomatoes in a blender (you can do without them), mix everything into a mass, fry it a little, 5 minutes. Put stuffed cabbage in a saucepan, on top - a mass and fill it with water so that it is 1 cm covered our cabbage rolls. Salt, pepper, add a couple of lavrushka leaves. It remains only to cover the pan with a lid and put on low heat for about an hour. Bon Appetit!
