Cooking cabbage rolls is a completely simple and affordable business for any hostess. But there are certain tricks and secrets that will help you make the most correct and delicious cabbage rolls with meat and rice, and my step-by-step recipe in a saucepan will help you.
My family simply loves Soviet dishes: a wide variety of cutlets, cue balls, krucheniki, aspic, jelly - this is a must and must certainly be present on the table. And cabbage rolls are the crown of creation! My family believes that a hostess cannot be called good if she does not know how to cook this wonderful dish.
Cabbage rolls: a recipe with history
Do you know why our favourite dish called "doves"? The fact is that in the distant 18th century, pigeons fried on coals were very popular. Later, when pigeons and quail became a delicacy, they were replaced with "golube" - meat wrapped in cabbage leaves, shaped very much like fried pigeons. Since then, the well-known name "stuffed cabbage" has appeared. So let's get everything ready.
Recipe Ingredients
- Cabbage forks - 1 large
- Rice round - 250 g
- Pork - 250 g
- Beef (or veal) - 250g
- Onion turnip - 2 pcs.
- Carrot - 2 pcs.
- Sweet red pepper - 2 pcs.
- Tomatoes - 6 pcs.
- Salt - 0.5 tbsp.
- Black pepper - 2 large pinches
- Paprika, nutmeg- 0.5 tsp each
- Sour cream - 2 tbsp.
- Butter - 10 g
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Calories: 71.12
- Proteins: 3.89
- Fats 2.64
- Carbohydrates: 8.04
Preparation of initial components
Cabbage . Here lies one of the most important secrets of the right cabbage rolls: the head of cabbage should be flat and white, without flaws on the stalk. A flat head will provide the maximum number of sheets of the desired size, and the absence of cracks on the base will ensure the evenness of each leaf.
Rice. We need round grain rice. It has all the qualities necessary for cabbage rolls: quite sticky, keeps its shape well and, importantly, has a low price.
Meat. Cabbage rolls can be made with any kind of meat, but they will be the most juicy and tasty with assorted minced meat: pork and veal. If you have chicken or turkey on hand, the taste will be more tender.
There is a little cooking trick: if you do not have time to defrost meat, you just need to grate it on a grater with large holes. As a result, you will get a wonderful stuffing.
Tomatoes. We need juicy tomatoes, which we need to turn into juice with a blender.
How to cook cabbage rolls on a vegetable pillow in stages
Step 1. Use 250 grams of rice. We wash it in cool water. Let the water drain and place the rice in a small saucepan. Fill with water to the top, add a little more, about the thickness of a finger. We weld it lightly, until half cooked. Put the cooked rice on a sieve and let the water drain.
Step 2. We turn the cabbage head upside down and cut the stalk with a long sharp knife so that a five-pointed star forms. We cut the head deep and take out the cone-shaped stump. We remove the sheets from the fork. We cut very large leaves along the sinewy, hard part of the sheet. We do the same with all the cabbage. Bring water to a boil in a saucepan and place the prepared leaves in it. Boil cabbage under a closed lid for 10 minutes.
And now the secret: to make the leaves soft, you can put them in a plastic bag and place them in the freezer overnight. When we take them out, they will be soft and absolutely ready to cook.
Step 3. To check the readiness of cabbage leaves, carefully pick up one of them with a fork and, if it has become translucent, the cabbage is ready. Drain the water and cool the leaves in a bowl under a closed lid so that they reach the desired condition.
Stuffing for cabbage rolls with meat
Step 4. Cut the onion. You need to chop the onion correctly like this: cut the onion in half, leaving the tail. Then we make deep cuts on each half. Turn the onion and chop finely.
Step 5. We clean the carrots, wash them. You need to grate it on a grater with large holes.
Step 6. It's the turn of sweet pepper. Cut around the stem. Cut into 4 parts and easily free the pepper from seeds and membranes. We cut it into strips, and then into cubes.
Step 7. Pour 2 tablespoons of oil into the pan (this amount is enough to stew the vegetables, but at the same time they are not too greasy), heat it up. We spread the onions, carrots and peppers, cover with a lid and simmer over low heat.
Step 8. We pass pork and beef (veal) through a meat grinder in equal proportions. Very important detail: the ratio of rice and meat in the filling for cabbage rolls should be 1: 2 (rice needs 2 times less than meat). It's a pledge delicious cabbage rolls. If you need a more meaty or rice taste, then change the ratio of these ingredients to your liking. Finely chop 1 onion, because it is the onion that will give the juiciness to the filling. Salt, pepper and add paprika and nutmeg for flavor. Thoroughly mix the mince.
How to wrap cabbage rolls
Step 9 Cut the cabbage leaf along the vein and cut off all the thickenings. If the sheet is harsh, you need to walk on it with a rolling pin, as if on dough, roll it out. Then, with a napkin, remove excess moisture from the surface of the sheet.
Step 10. Put about 1 tablespoon of minced meat on each leaf of cabbage, give it the shape of a cutlet and carefully roll up the “sausage”, tamping the minced meat. Having rolled up a kind of tube, we wrap the ends of the sheet inward. We get a dense, elastic stuffed cabbage. We do the same with the rest of the leaves.
How to stew cabbage rolls in a saucepan and sauce recipe
Step 11. Prepare the sauce. To do this, add sour cream to chopped tomatoes, add some salt, pepper, add bay leaf and mix thoroughly. Chopped tomatoes can be easily replaced with tomato juice or tomato paste diluted in water. Pour sauce over cabbage rolls. We spread a piece of butter.
Step 12. To prepare the perfect cabbage rolls, we need a heavy, cast-iron pan or cauldron, which will create the effect of an "oven". At the bottom of the pan lay out a third of the portion of the vegetable pillow. Lay the cabbage rolls on top, as close as possible to each other. We cover each layer of cabbage rolls with fried vegetables so that the vegetables are saturated with juice.
Step 13. We send the pot with cabbage rolls to stew on a small fire for 1 hour from the moment of boiling. If desired, use an oven or slow cooker for this process. I use more often classic version- in a saucepan.
We serve ready-made cabbage rolls with meat and rice to the table, generously pouring sour cream and sprinkling with herbs. Cooking cabbage rolls according to this photo recipe is an absolutely simple task, but the result will surely please your loved ones.
After some time, when all the stages of cooking have been worked out, you will be able to proudly declare: “Stuffed cabbage is my signature dish!”. If time is short, then cooking is very suitable for you. lazy cabbage rolls, the recipe with photos of which, I will definitely share in the near future.
Video from YouTube: how Zhenya Litvinkovich cooks cabbage rolls with meat and rice
Cabbage rolls with minced meat and rice - delicious meat dish, both for festive and for everyday table. But many do not know how to properly and tasty cook cabbage rolls, it seems like a difficult task, but in fact everything is very simple, and the set of products is not that big, so why not cook delicious cabbage rolls this coming weekend? So let's find out already how to make cabbage rolls with minced meat and rice.
Stuffed cabbage: recipe with photo step by step in a saucepan
Minced pork and beef - 1 kg;
Half a glass of rice (preferably round);
Head of cabbage;
Carrots - 1 pc;
Onion - 1 pc;
Vegetable oil;
1 tablespoon of tomato paste or ketchup;
Salt, pepper, spices.
How to cook cabbage rolls from fresh cabbage with minced meat: a step-by-step recipe with a photo
1. We buy pork Ground beef or twist it yourself.
2. We wash the rice and fill it cold water. Salt the water and put it on the stove. Cook rice until half cooked.
3. When the rice is cooked until half cooked, drain the water in which it was cooked into a separate container. We wash the rice itself under cold water, transfer it to a colander and leave the water to drain.
4. Add rice to minced meat, add salt, pepper and other spices here, mix everything thoroughly.
5. Pour water into a large saucepan, add some salt and put it on the stove to boil. If you have a large enough saucepan, you can put a whole fork of cabbage in it. Let it boil and remove the pan from the heat, take the cabbage out onto a plate to cool.
6. Then, when the cabbage has cooled down a bit, cut it into leaves.
If you do not have a large enough pot to hold a whole fork, you can first cut the cabbage into leaves, and then place the cabbage leaves in boiling water. As soon as the water with cabbage leaves boils, remove the pan from the heat. We take out the leaves from the water and leave it to glass, and the leaves themselves have cooled down a bit.
7. We lay out a cabbage leaf on the table, put a spoonful of filling (minced meat with rice) on it. We twist the stuffed cabbage into rolls so that all the edges are closed and the stuffing does not fall out.
8. Pour oil into the pan and set it to heat up on the stove.
9. We put our cabbage rolls in a preheated pan and fry them on both sides.
10. We shift all the fried cabbage rolls into a deep pan.
11. In ANOTHER frying pan, sauté vegetables (previously peeled and washed, finely chopped onions and carrots grated on a coarse grater) and tomato paste. I also add my favorite frosting here. which, thanks to the Bulgarian pepper, gives the dish a summer flavor. When the vegetables are a little fried, pour water from under the rice to them. Boil everything for 1 minute and pour the cabbage rolls in a saucepan with this mixture.
If the cabbage rolls are not completely covered, then add boiled water.
12. We put the pot with cabbage rolls on the fire. When the stuffed cabbage boils, make the fire at the smallest, try for salt (add salt if necessary), add bay leaf and simmer under a closed lid for half an hour.
13. The most delicious cabbage rolls are ready! You can sprinkle them with herbs and call everyone to the table! Bon Appetit!
At the word “stuffed cabbage rolls”, it immediately pops up in memory, as in childhood, my grandmother cooked “cutlets wrapped in cabbage leaves". For some reason, then it was the filling that was eaten, but the cabbage always remained on the plate. Although the most relish is that the "cutlets" were soaked in cabbage juice.
Then the grandmother began to do it more cunningly - she did not wrap the stuffed cabbage traditional way, but decided to chop the cabbage and add it to the minced meat. And such stuffed cabbage passed with us just "with a bang."
Now, after many years, you perfectly understand that they were, which consist of the same set of products, but look different.
How to cook lazy cabbage rolls. Step-by-step recipes for simple, not quite ordinary cabbage rolls with a photo
A huge plus of lazy cabbage rolls is that it takes much less time to cook them, although useful and nutritious substances remain in the same amount.
The meaning of such a dish is that cabbage leaves are involved in the preparation not as a separate component, but immediately directly in the minced meat.
So, let's look at examples of how you can cook delicious lazy cabbage rolls different ways.
Menu:
If you chop cabbage well enough, then even fussy people who do not like this vegetable may not notice it there and eat it with great pleasure. And of course the kids too.
Stuffed cabbage lazy in a slow cooker
Modern housewives try to spend as little time as possible preparing food in order to devote more time to their loved ones, and all kinds of kitchen appliances and devices help them in this. The slow cooker has become beloved by many because you can put all the ingredients into it, turn on the necessary mode and “forget” about it until the food is ready. 
In order for lazy cabbage rolls to turn out successfully in a slow cooker, it is necessary to use fresh products and a delicate aromatic sauce in which cabbage rolls will go through the stewing process.
Lazy cabbage rolls cooked in a slow cooker will turn out even more tender and fragrant than with conventional ways cooking, because all the juices and flavors will be absorbed into the dish in the closed space of the machine and not a drop of taste will disappear.
Ingredients:
Cabbage - 500 gr.
Minced meat - 500 gr.
Rice - 80 gr.
Onion - 1 pc.
Salt, pepper, spices - to taste;
Sunflower oil - 3 tbsp. l.
Sour cream - 4 tbsp. l.
Tomato paste - 4 tbsp. l.
Water - 350 ml.
Cooking:
1. First you need to prepare the vegetables. To do this, thoroughly wash the onion and head of cabbage. We dry them a little and crumble them into small cubes or straws (your choice).
For speed and convenience, cabbage can be chopped with a food processor or a special julienned knife.
2. We prepare the meat component of cabbage rolls. To do this, pour sunflower oil into the multicooker bowl and, in the “Frying” mode, lightly fry the chopped onion while stirring constantly for 10 minutes. Then add minced meat to the fried onion, mix well and fry until tender in the same mode for 15 minutes.
It is best to cook minced meat yourself from several types of well-washed meat without veins to get a juicy and original taste.
3. While preparing meat filling preparing rice. To do this, thoroughly rinse it under running water until the flowing water is clean, and boil until half cooked.
During washing, it is advisable to mix the rice well so that both debris and rice flour are removed.
4. Since our cabbage rolls will be stewed further, it is necessary to prepare a sauce filling in which our creation will languish. To do this, mix sour cream with tomato paste and water and mix well. Fill is ready!
Instead of tomato paste, you can take ready-made tomato juice and then you don't need to add water.
5. Add prepared rice and cabbage to the fried minced meat with onions. Salt, pepper, add your favorite seasonings and mix well.
6. Add our filling to the bowl and begin to simmer our lazy cabbage rolls in the “Extinguishing” mode for about 45 minutes. You can also cook in the "Pilaf" mode.
7. Serve our cabbage rolls in portions, or on a common dish, garnished with sour cream and herbs.
2. Lazy cabbage rolls in the oven
Ingredients:
Minced meat - 1 kg
Cabbage - 1 kg
Boiled rice - 1 cup
Onion - 4 pcs.
Carrots - 2 pcs
Tomato paste - 5 tbsp. l.
Sour cream - 5 tbsp. l.
Egg - 2 pcs.
Garlic - 4 cloves
Cooking:
1. For quick cooking, cut the cabbage into pieces and pass them through food processor to get a small straw.
2. We cut all 4 onions in any way convenient for you. But we divide it in half: part of it will go to the lazy cabbage rolls themselves, and we will need the second half for vegetable filling.
3. Rub the carrots on a coarse grater.
4. Combine cabbage, rice and minced meat in one large bowl and mix well the resulting mass.
5. To the resulting cabbage and minced meat, add 2 raw eggs, half an onion, salt, pepper and spices and knead well so that the minced salt turns out to be homogeneous and not salted or peppered in one place.
6. We take a piece of minced meat in our hand and carefully “exhaust” cabbage rolls from it in the form of an oblong cutlet
7. Ready cabbage rolls can be immediately laid out on a greased baking sheet.
8. We send the formed cabbage rolls to the oven for about 25 minutes.
9. In the meantime, prepare the vegetable filling. First, fry the second half of the onion.
10. Then add the carrots and fry until soft.
11. Add tomato paste and sour cream to the fried vegetables. Mix well with vegetables so that their juice mixes with the added ingredients.
12. On the garlic press, knead the garlic and add to the sauce. Mix well, sweat for a couple of minutes and add water so that we get a fairly liquid dressing.
13. Pour the dressing on our cabbage rolls on a baking sheet, distributing the vegetables from the dressing well between the meat preparations
14. We leave our lazy cabbage rolls with filling for another 45 minutes in the oven at a temperature of 200 ° C and then serve to the table in any way convenient for you.
3. Recipe for lazy cabbage rolls with rice and minced meat
Ingredients:
Cabbage - 1 kg
Minced meat - 500 gr.
Rice. - 200 gr.
Carrot - 1 pc.
Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.
Onion - 1 pc.
Dill, greens - 1 bunch
Tomato juice - 500 ml
Sour cream - 3 tbsp. l.
Salt, pepper, spices - to taste
Cooking:
1. Thoroughly washing the rice, boil it for 10 minutes until a crumbly semi-finished state.
2. Chop the cabbage into strips and pour it into a large bowl.
3. To make the cabbage softer, add it and knead it well with your hands.
4. Cut the peeled onion into cubes.
5, For beauty and greater juiciness of the dish, chop the carrots into rounds.
6. Fry the onion in heated sunflower oil in a pan until transparent under the lid.
7. Then add the carrots and simmer them together with onions until soft.
8. We shift the semi-finished vegetables into a deep bowl, put Bell pepper, sprinkle with herbs and add pepper and your favorite spices.
9. Having added cabbage to the vegetables in a bowl, mix everything well so that the vegetables are evenly redistributed in this vegetable mass.
10. Combine minced meat with rice and mix well until smooth, so that the rice is distributed evenly throughout the minced meat
11. Mix tomato juice with sour cream in a separate large bowl and whisk lightly so that there are no sour cream lumps left and the sauce is homogeneous.
12. Well coat a tall baking sheet or baking dish sunflower oil using a brush for convenience.
13. Spread half vegetable mix and spread evenly across the pan.
14. On top of the vegetables, lay out and distribute the meat and rice filling, trying not to slam it hard, so that the sauce goes through easier later and the filling is stewed, and not taken with a “stone”.
15. Put the remaining vegetable mixture on top of the filling.
16. In order for our lazy cabbage rolls to be evenly stewed, carefully pour the tomato-sour cream sauce, trying not to pour in one place so that a recess does not form in the resulting “half-casserole” of lazy cabbage rolls.
17. For better languishing in the sauce and so that our dish does not burn on top, we seal it with foil and send it to the oven for 45 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees.
18. When the lazy cabbage rolls are well stewed, you can serve them by watering them with sour cream.
4. Lazy cabbage rolls in the oven in tomato and sour cream sauce
Ingredients:
Cabbage - 0.5 kg
Minced chicken - 400 gr.
Boiled rice - 100 gr.
Carrots - 2 pcs.
Onion - 1 pc.
Tomato paste - 3 tbsp. l.
Sour cream - 200 ml..
Salt, pepper, spices - to taste
Cooking:
1. Finely chop the onion and cabbage
2. Add chopped vegetables to minced chicken, add salt, pepper, add your favorite spices and mix well until smooth.
3. We cover the high baking sheet with foil so that it completely covers the sides and the liquid does not then flow out of it onto the baking sheet.
4. We form cabbage rolls in the form of cutlets from minced chicken and vegetables, not forgetting to “exhaust” them well so that voids do not form and lazy cabbage rolls then fall apart in finished form.
5. Mix sour cream and tomato paste in a separate cup until smooth.
Instead of sour cream, you can take thick kefir - it will turn out not so greasy and at the same time with a slight sourness.
5. Rub the carrots on a coarse or Korean grater and evenly distribute over the cabbage rolls.
7. Pour the resulting stuffed cabbage onto our stuffed cabbage thick sauce and gently spread with a brush or spatula over the entire surface of our culinary masterpiece.
8. To create a stewing effect, seal the baking sheet with foil on top and put in a preheated oven for 45 minutes.
Video - Recipe for delicious lazy cabbage rolls
And here is another interesting option for preparing amazingly tasty lazy cabbage rolls!
Let the cooked lazy cabbage rolls please you and your loved ones, and the most good recipe become your signature dish!
Cabbage rolls are considered a traditional Ukrainian dish, although their analogues can be found in almost any national cuisine. There is historical evidence that proves that cabbage leaves were used as a "wrapper" for minced meat as far back as ancient Greece. Since then, the recipe has not changed much: it is still the same White cabbage, all the same minced meat and all the same stewing technology.
Today you can find a lot of options for cooking cabbage rolls - using Savoy and Chinese cabbage, with mushrooms and buckwheat, in the oven and with preliminary frying in a pan. To go to the "advanced" level and afford culinary experiments, you should figure out how to cook cabbage rolls in the classic version. And the classic version is cabbage rolls with meat and rice in cabbage.
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To facilitate understanding - a recipe for cabbage rolls step by step with a photo.
Ingredients
To prepare cabbage rolls you will need:
- 2 medium sized cabbages;
- 1 kg of meat (pork, beef, chicken or a combination thereof);
- 1 glass of rice;
- 2-3 medium sized carrots;
- 2 large onions;
- vegetable oil for frying vegetables;
- salt, pepper to taste;
- 3 art. l. tomato paste;
- sour cream for serving
How to cook cabbage rolls with meat and rice
Choice of cabbage for cabbage rolls- the task is not the easiest. The head of cabbage should be dense, but not hard, otherwise you will not be able to separate the leaves from each other. The size is medium, from a small head you will get the minimum number of cabbage rolls, large heads of cabbage are also not suitable, you can wind cabbage rolls the size of a sole from them.
At bazaars in the vegetable rows, cabbage leaves are sometimes sold by weight - just suitable for making cabbage rolls from them. Very comfortably. Alas, such a miracle does not occur so often, so there is only one way out: to decide on suitable heads of cabbage and work with what is.
Cabbage leaves for cabbage rolls
So, we choose cabbage, my head of cabbage, remove the upper hard leaves.
V large saucepan we boil water. We prick a head of cabbage with a large fork and lower it into boiling water for 3-5 minutes. Choose the time yourself - the top sheets should become soft, but in no case should they spread apart.
We take the head out of the water and remove a few top leaves. As soon as you feel that the leaves do not "go" freely, stop, otherwise you will simply tear them.
If necessary, cut off thick places that are located at the base of the cabbage leaf.
We repeat the procedure for the next layer of leaves and the next head of cabbage - we do this until we manage to remove even medium-sized leaves.
Stuffing for classic cabbage rolls
Meat for cabbage rolls mine, cut off excess fat, films.
We twist in a meat grinder. To save time, you can buy minced meat if you practice cooking homemade dishes from store-bought semi-finished products.
Boil rice until half cooked. If you take fully cooked rice, after stewing it will turn into a porridge-like mass. Raw rice will “take away” the maximum juice from the meat, as a result of which it will become dry and tough.
Put the rice into the bowl with the minced meat.
It should be understood that the amount of “1 cup” indicated in the list of ingredients for the preparation of cabbage rolls is rather arbitrary. Rice can be taken a little more or a little less, depending on what stuffing in cabbage rolls you like. With these proportions, there will be more cereals and carrots with onions than meat, and the dish will turn out to be more vegetable than meat. If you prefer a more solid, "brutal" version of cabbage rolls, you can reduce the amount of rice or increase the amount of minced meat.
We clean the carrots, rub on a grater.
Carrots add juiciness to stuffed cabbage, so do not reduce its amount. However, it will provide some sweetness to the filling - if this taste note seems superfluous to you, take less carrots.
Peel the onion, cut into small cubes.
Half rings or even rings are also quite appropriate. The main thing that appearance toppings did not violate your aesthetic perception of food.
Pour a small amount of vegetable oil into a heated frying pan. fry carrot until soft.
Put it in a bowl with minced meat and rice.
In the same pan, fry the onion in oil.- to a slight translucency and softness.
Put in a bowl, do not forget about salt and pepper.
Mix well minced meat for cabbage rolls, consisting of minced meat, rice, carrots and onions. You can also add some fresh herbs, your favorite dry herbs, appropriate seasonings and spices to it.
Modeling stuffed cabbage
We place the boiled and prepared leaf of cabbage with the base towards us, put a small amount of minced meat inside.
We turn it into a tube, hide the edges inward.
Ready. Nice?
Cooking cabbage rolls in a saucepan
Put the stuffed cabbage in a large saucepan with a thick bottom, trying to place them as tightly as possible. Another rule is to put them seam down.
We dilute the tomato paste in 2-3 glasses of water, pour the cabbage rolls. Water should not reach the top layer of cabbage rolls by about 2 fingers. In addition, you can add a little ketchup to the same sauce, plum jam, sour cream or unsweetened yogurt. Some housewives stew cabbage rolls, shifting them in a pan with carrot-onion roast.
We put on the stove, bring to a boil and, reducing the heat to a minimum, simmer for at least 45-60 minutes. As a result, the cabbage should become completely soft, the filling should be ready.
Serve with sour cream or any sauce based on it. Bon Appetit!
And more about cooking cabbage rolls
Cabbage rolls may well become a work of art if you approach their preparation with a soul. When mixing products for minced meat, try to put maximum diligence into this simple process - and, oddly enough, then the filling will be especially tasty. When rolling cabbage, make sure that everything is even and neat - and then the appearance will bring special visual satisfaction, which will directly enhance the pleasure received from the cabbage rolls themselves. Serve food on beautiful dishes - and the simplest dish will become festive.
By the way, in the western regions of Ukraine, with the help of this simple dish, they still check the girl’s readiness for family life: it is believed that if a young woman cannot make little finger-sized duckies, if she cannot quickly cook a huge tub wrapped in cabbage leaves minced meat if her cabbage rolls unfold in the process of extinguishing or, even worse, fall apart, she will not see a good groom like snowdrops in January. Cook with pleasure, and may your cabbage rolls always be perfectly tasty!
We will tell you how to cook cabbage rolls with minced meat. But first, when starting to cook cabbage rolls, it will not be superfluous to familiarize yourself with the minced meat production algorithm and some subtleties.
Secrets of juicy minced meat for cabbage rolls
- If there is an idea to use several types of minced meat, then they are mixed only before cooking, stored separately from each other in the freezer.
- Washed fresh meat cut into small pieces.
- Pass through a meat grinder at least 2 times.
- For improvement palatability minced meat, it is better to add salt, pepper, onion, garlic, various herbs, mushrooms - for an amateur.
- You can add 1 crushed boiled potato tuber or a ground crust of bread to the minced meat, if the minced meat suddenly turned out to be liquid.
- The beaten egg white will increase the airiness. Minced meat will turn out spicy, and the dish will be tender. You need to add an egg when you get dry minced meat.
There are many recipes for making cabbage rolls, but basic recipe presented first. Over time, you can make your own adjustments to the cooking methods.
How to cook cabbage rolls with minced meat
Cooking Ingredients
- cabbage - 1 kg (cabbage leaves);
- round rice - 0.5 cups;
- minced beef - 600 g;
- onion - 200 g;
- carrots - 250 g;
- vegetable oil
- tomato juice or tomato paste - 2 tablespoons;
- chicken egg - 1 pc;
- salt, sugar, black ground pepper- taste.
Technological process
Rinse the round rice thoroughly under running water and cook until half cooked. To do this, fill it with half the norm of water and cook over low heat.
Pour a little odorless vegetable oil into the pan. In it, put finely chopped onions and grated carrots on a fine grater.
In a bowl, mix ground beef, rice, ready-made frying, salt, black pepper, egg. Mix everything until a homogeneous consistency.
Cabbage leaves are best separated from the head, you can buy leaves on the market. To make them soft and make it possible to wrap the filling in them, they must be kept in the microwave for three sets of 5 minutes at maximum power, or lowered into boiling water for a few seconds. Too hard veins - cut off, and medium density - you can lightly beat off with a meat mallet.
Now you can begin to form the cabbage rolls. To do this, put the filling on the edge of the cabbage leaf and wrap it in a roll, bending one edge inward. Wrap it up as tightly as possible. Push the protruding edge inside the stuffed cabbage. According to this principle, wrap all cabbage rolls. The advantages of this method: the ability to make a beautiful, neat stuffed cabbage, molding strength and convenience.
At the bottom of the pan, where all this will be stewed, put a large cabbage leaf. And on it in one row lay out the formed cabbage rolls.
You can stew cabbage rolls with minced meat in sour cream, you can just in salted water, or you can - in tomato sauce. To do this, add finely chopped onions, grated fresh carrots and tomato paste to salted water to the cabbage rolls, plus a little bit of granulated sugar.
Simmer the cabbage rolls until the cabbage leaves are tender, at least 30 minutes.
Cabbage rolls with minced chicken
Cooking Ingredients
- minced chicken - 0.5 kg;
- cabbage - 1 kg;
- rice - 0.5 cups;
- onion - 150 g;
- carrots - 200 g;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- tomatoes - 200 g;
- sour cream 20% fat - 250 g;
- salt, spices - to taste.
Technological process
Rinse rice and boil until half cooked. Then turn over in a colander.
Finely chop the onion, grate the carrot.
Pour a tablespoon of vegetable oil into the pan and fry the onions and carrots.
Mix the minced chicken, rice, half of the roast in a convenient bowl.
Disassemble the cabbage into leaves, dip them in boiling water for a while. 6. Carefully cut off the seal at the base of the sheet and place the filling. Roll up the envelopes and put all the blanks on a baking sheet with high walls.
Cut the tomatoes into cubes and pass the garlic through a press, put in a pan and simmer for 5 minutes. Mix everything with sour cream, add a little water and remove from heat after 10 minutes.
cabbage rolls with minced chicken pour the resulting sauce and put in the oven for 40 - 45 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
How to make cabbage rolls with minced meat, rice and mushrooms
Cooking Ingredients
For cabbage rolls
- Cabbage - 1 large head;
- Minced meat (pork and beef) - 300 g;
- Rice of any form - 130 g;
- Champignon mushrooms - 150 g;
- 2 onions;
- 1 large carrot;
- Butter - 20 g;
- Vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons;
- Salt, pepper, spices, nutmeg - to taste.
For pouring
- Milk - 400 ml;
- Eggs - 2 pcs;
- Sour cream -3 tbsp;
- Salt, spices - to taste.
- You will also need cheese - 100 - 150 g
Technological process
- Peel carrots and onions. Finely chop the onion, grate the carrots.
- Rinse the rice and pour boiling water over it, let it swell for 20 minutes.
- Saute onions and carrots in oil.
- Add chopped mushrooms to the pan, mix everything and simmer for 5-10 minutes.
- Put the minced pork and beef in a deep bowl, add seasonings, pepper and nutmeg.
- Cool the roast and add to the minced meat.
- Prepare cabbage leaves.
- Add rice to the bowl, butter and salt. To stir thoroughly.
- For finished cabbage leaves spread the minced meat on a tablespoon. Roll up, folding the edges inwards.
- Heat a frying pan with oil, put the cabbage rolls, fry on both sides until golden brown.
- Next, carefully place our fried cabbage rolls on a greased baking sheet.
- Now you need to prepare the filling: beat the eggs with salt, add milk. Stir.
- Lubricate the cabbage rolls with sour cream. Pour filling on top.
- Cheese grate on a fine grater. Sprinkle the doves.
- Bake in an oven preheated to 190 degrees for about 50 minutes until a crust forms.
lazy cabbage rolls
Cooking Ingredients
- Minced pork and beef - 500 g;
- Boiled long-grain rice - 100 g;
- White cabbage - 250 g;
- 1 small onion
- Salt, pepper - to taste.
For sauce
- Ketchup spicy - 3 tablespoons;
- Mayonnaise 67% fat - 1 tablespoon;
- Water - 300 - 350 ml;
- Premium flour - for breading cabbage rolls
Technological process
- Finely chop the cabbage, pour boiling water over and hold for 10 minutes. This is done in order to eliminate bitterness and obtain softness.
- Drain the water and squeeze out the cabbage.
- Next, mix in a deep bowl - minced meat, rice, cabbage, finely chopped onion, salt and pepper everything.
- Take pieces of the mixture and form into tight balls, then roll in flour.
- Next in the pan with vegetable oil odorless, fry them on both sides until an appetizing crust is formed.
- Pour the cabbage rolls with water, add ketchup, mayonnaise. Simmer for approximately 50 minutes.
Good luck with your cooking!
