Cooking lazily doesn't mean bad or tasteless. Simplified variations of familiar, but somewhat complicated or time-consuming dishes, for example, a recipe for lazy cabbage rolls, are both variety, and saving some time for yourself, and just an unusual presentation, and sometimes a necessity. By the end of winter, cabbage, even properly stored, hardens, and it is difficult to wind typical cabbage rolls out of it: the leaves are torn, it turns out a lot of waste - veins, the head does not boil. And the lazy ones can easily be obtained - tasty, quickly unusual, moreover, the recipe for lazy cabbage rolls is not the only one, there are at least three options: casserole, meatballs, roll or cabbage lasagna, or even much more.
So, how to cook lazy cabbage rolls - traditional, most common and famous. You need to prepare the usual, exactly the same ingredients as ordinary cabbage rolls: cabbage, minced meat, sauce. The proportions are also typical: a pound of minced meat assorted (preferably pork - beef in equal parts), 200 g of rice, kilogram cabbage. In addition to half-boiled rice (acceptable and uncooked), you can add garlic, greens, spiced onions and carrots to the minced meat, certainly in soft butter, or both ingredients, salt, black pepper, an egg. Cabbage is not dismantled into leaves, but cut into small squares or shredded medium. Now it's up to a cauldron or pan with a thick bottom. First, cabbage is laid in layers, then minced meat, a couple of layers can be made from grated carrots for juiciness. Top - cabbage. Layers of a couple of centimeters high. The filling is also traditional: tomato paste diluted, half a glass of sour cream, salt, lavrushka, well-dried dill or other spices are preferred, peppercorns, onion - carrot frying (especially if it is not in minced meat). Pour layers of lazy cabbage rolls, so that to the top layer and simmer for half an hour, you can grind more, only they will be juicier. Here are such simple, but incredibly tasty lazy stuffed cabbage rolls with minced meat - in the best stuffed cabbage traditions.
Now some additions are changes: instead of rice, you can use millet, make minced mushroom, chicken, even fish. Tasty and vegetable - vegetarian (for example, potatoes with herbs, celery). Again, cabbage can be taken not only fresh, interesting and mix sauerkraut or pickled with fresh heads of cabbage / leaves. Instead of cabbage, a recipe for lazy cabbage rolls allows you to take pickled or fresh (when a young spring cabbage is still not suitable for cabbage rolls) grape leaves - add, so to speak, an oriental character. And for tenderness of stuffing or replacement of a part of cabbage, vegetable marrows are amazingly suitable.
In addition to experiments with ingredients, you can play with direct cooking. For example, add a little more sour cream to the dressing and a little less water and do not stew in a cauldron, but bake in a conventional / microwave oven. Or cut cabbage into smaller squares and add directly to the minced meat. This recipe for lazy cabbage rolls suggests that half-cooked rice is certainly needed, and cabbage - chopped already - needs to be boiled a little (up to five minutes), doused with boiling water, if not very hard or grinded in the microwave. Form the cutlets of the preferred shape from the prepared minced meat, fry the breaded workpieces to a crust, put them in a dish / baking dish, pour in the saucepan, fry and simmer. Or it’s good to fry cutlets, serve with fresh sour cream or sour cream sauce, also a very stuffed flavor. There are also quite lazy ones: all components, including cabbage, onions, carrots, grind meat in a meat grinder, add almost ready-made rice, make meatballs / pancakes / meatballs, and fry. Tomato sauce is good here, spicy or spicy.