You can cook such a familiar combination as cabbage and meat in different ways. Moreover, the taste is also changing. These ingredients are cooked both in a pan and in the oven. Cabbage with minced meat is a tasty and tender dish that helps to reveal familiar foods from a new perspective. In the preparation also use different types of meat ingredient, various vegetables. All this helps to diversify your diet.
Simple and delicious recipe.
This recipe allows you to discover the taste of familiar cabbage in a new way. She turns out very tender. Everything floats in the sauce, with a bright taste of tomatoes. For this recipe for cabbage with minced meat for the oven you need to take:
- half a head of cabbage;
- 450 grams of minced meat, preferably a mixture of pork and beef;
- one tomato;
- onion head;
- half a carrot;
- five tablespoons of sour cream;
- 1.5 cups of water;
- one bell pepper;
- a tablespoon of vinegar;
- a couple of teaspoons of tomato paste;
- a tablespoon of flour;
- spices to taste;
- a little sugar;
- vegetable oil.
You can also take a couple of bay leaves. As spices, in addition to salt, it is better to take only a little black pepper. The rest can interrupt the taste and aroma of vegetables.
The process of preparing a delicious dish
How to cook cabbage tasty? First, heat a little oil in a pan. Stuffing is added, mixed so that it is a little browned. Peel the vegetables, cut the onion into strips, it is better to grate the carrots on a fine grater. Pepper and tomato are cut into cubes. The peel in this case can not be removed from the tomato.
Separately, fry the onions, after a couple of minutes add carrots to it. After the introduction of tomatoes and peppers, mix and fry together. When the vegetables are soft, add them to the minced meat. All removed from the stove.
Wash the cabbage, cut into squares. Slightly add and stir with your hands, slightly crumple.
The baking dish is greased with oil, a layer of cabbage is laid, thinly enough. Cover with minced meat. After stacking the remains of cabbage. She will lie with a fluffy hat, but in the process of cooking she will settle down.
Prepare the sauce. To do this, combine water, sour cream and tomato paste. Add sugar and spices. Pour the cabbage into the sauce.
How to bake cabbage?
The baking dish needs to be covered with foil. They make a couple of punctures in it. They send cabbage with minced meat to the oven, heated to two hundred degrees. It usually takes about one and a half hours to cook.
Since cabbage releases juice during cooking, it is best to place the pan on a baking sheet. Every half hour it’s worth opening the oven, carefully lifting the foil so as not to get burned and pick up a layer of cabbage with a slotted spoon. So she will be immersed in the sauce.
After an hour and a half, they open the cabbage, try the sauce. If necessary, put bay leaves, spices. Take a little sauce, mix it with flour, add it back. This will make the sauce thicker. Introduce vinegar, for spiciness. If you do this earlier, the vegetables will remain solid.
Leave the cabbage with minced meat in the oven for another fifteen minutes. Serve this dish hot. You can decorate it with fresh cucumbers and tomatoes. For the rest, this dish is independent, nothing more needs to be served to it.
Cabbage casserole with minced meat
This casserole is juicy and satisfying. For her, you need to take the following ingredients:
- three hundred grams of minced meat, you can take chicken and meat;
- head of cabbage;
- onion head;
- small carrots;
- three eggs;
- a glass of sour cream of any fat content;
- one hundred grams of hard cheese;
- vegetable oil;
- spices to taste.
You can also take fresh herbs, this will add flavor and tenderness to the dish. Both parsley and less common cilantro are perfect.
Cooking process
First, cut the cabbage. Whole leaves are cut, removing hard fibers. The baking dish is oiled. Stack the sheets so that they form a bowl. The layer should not be thick. The remaining cabbage is chopped finely and set aside.
The remaining vegetables are peeled. Finely chop the onions and carrots, chop any greens. Mix with minced meat. Season with salt and favorite spices. You can take ready-made meat kits. Distribute the mass of cabbage leaves. Cover with shredded vegetable.
Prepare the fill. For this, eggs are broken in a bowl. Sour cream is added and whipped to make the mass homogeneous. Grated cheese is added. Stir. Sprinkle cabbage with sauce.
Send cabbage with minced meat in the oven, heated to 180 degrees. If during the cooking process leaves of cabbage peek around the edge, they are bent so that they do not burn. Cook the casserole for about an hour. After it is allowed to stand for a while at room temperature, cut into pieces and served.
Such a casserole can be a great independent dish or a snack.
You can cook cabbage in different ways. Someone eats it only in soups, others in the second courses. Cabbage with minced meat is tasty and satisfying at the same time. Having prepared these ingredients in the oven, you can get new tastes of already familiar products. Moreover, independent dishes are immediately obtained that do not require either sauce or a side dish.