Delicious cabbage rolls do not have to be very greasy. You can add various products to the filling, completely excluding pork and beef. For example, they can be replaced with mushrooms or turkey. Stuffed cabbage will turn out to be as tasty as the meat counterparts. But at the same time they will be more useful.
Dietary cabbage rolls with mushrooms in Beijing cabbage
Product List:
- Beijing cabbage - 2 large pieces.
- Round rice - 200 grams.
- Champignons - 600 grams.
- Tomato - 250 grams.
- Onion - 2 pieces.
- Salt is a dessert spoon.
- Ground coriander - 1/2 teaspoon.
- Bay leaves - 3 pieces.
- Ground pepper - 1/4 teaspoon.
- Oil - 100 milliliters.
- Peppercorns - 10 pieces.
Cooking
Peking cabbage is much easier to prepare than white cabbage, because this recipe for dietetic cabbage rolls from Peking cabbage is suitable for those who do not want to spend a lot of time preparing leaves. To taste, these cabbage rolls are no different from ordinary cabbage rolls, they are just as tasty and tender. You need to start cooking with rice. From it you need to remove garbage, small pebbles and pieces of land, if any. Also, rice must be washed repeatedly.
To diet stuffed cabbage inside were friable, rice must first be boiled. This must be done correctly, one glass of round rice needs to be boiled with three glasses of water. Dip the rice already in boiling water and, when it boils, reduce the power of the fire and cook for twenty-five minutes under the lid, without stirring. Groats absorb all the liquid during cooking. Diet stuffed cabbage consists not only of rice, therefore, while it is cooked, you need to prepare other products.
Mushrooms will be the source of protein in cabbage rolls, which will replace the meat. If necessary, clean and rinse them. Then cut the mushrooms into small pieces. Pour a little oil into the pan, heat it and put crushed champignons for stewing. Mushrooms need to be salted with a few pinches of salt, mix and simmer until all the liquid has evaporated. After boiling water, put the champignons in a separate bowl.
Next, onion heads, from which the husk was removed, rinse and chop in a blender, or you can cut it into small cubes with a knife. Transfer the chopped onion from the board into the pan, not forgetting to pour in a little more oil, slightly pepper it and fry until rosy. Then return the mushrooms to the pan to the fried onion, mix and simmer together for seven to eight minutes. Then add the boiled rice almost until ready to the pan, stir it with onions and mushrooms, cover and simmer for ten minutes. The pan needs to be removed from the heat, and taste the filling. If necessary, then add salt and pepper slightly. Mix the cooked stuffing again and put it in a deep bowl.
Preparing cabbage and forming cabbage rolls
Now, to form diet stuffed cabbage from the filling, you need to prepare cabbage leaves. For heads of Beijing cabbage, visually measure one third from the base and cut them off. These coarse parts will be needed later on. Lay out the remaining two-thirds of heads of cabbage on leaves. Place the smallest leaves in the center of the head on a chopping board and chop finely. Transfer cabbage into a heated frying pan in which "minced meat" was prepared, and stew it with two or three tablespoons of vegetable oil for about six to seven minutes. Add cabbage to the filling and mix.
Put all other leaves of Chinese cabbage in a large bowl and pour boiling water. Steam them in boiling water for five minutes, then be sure to drain the water into a separate container. Then, with cabbage leaves, a dense vein should be cut with a thin layer. Next, you need to prepare the dishes in which cabbage rolls will be boiled. At the bottom of the pot or cauldron, lay a layer of cut off coarse parts of Beijing cabbage. This is done so that the stuffed cabbage does not burn during cooking.
All that remains to be done is to lay out the "mincemeat" in the leaves of Beijing cabbage and wrap them. This is done simply. A spoonful of filling is placed on the sheet, rolled up with a tube, not forgetting to direct the edges of the leaves from two sides inward. All stuffed cabbage formed in this way, put in a pan. Cover them with the remaining cut off rough leaves. After that, place the container with a decoction of cabbage leaves on the fire. Pour a tablespoon of salt, coriander, ground pepper into it, add bay leaves, peppercorns and tomato. Stir well, bring to a boil and pour the broth into the pan, covering the cabbage rolls by two centimeters. Cover the pot and cook until cooked for about two hours. Ready-made diet stuffed cabbage served hot.
Low calorie turkey stuffed cabbage
Product Set:
- Cabbage - 1 forks.
- Turkey - 600 grams.
- Bell pepper - 3 pieces.
- Tomatoes - 300 grams.
- Tomato - 2 dessert spoons.
- Onion - 2 heads.
- Dill - 1 bunch.
- Carrots - 2 pieces.
- Young green onions - 1 bunch.
- Water - 300 milliliters.
- Allspice - 10 peas.
- Salt is a dessert spoon.
- Ground pepper - optional.
Cooking cabbage rolls
Diet cabbage rolls, whose calorific value is significantly lower due to turkey meat, are as good as ordinary ones in taste. The recipe for their preparation is different set of products. Traditional meat is replaced by diet turkey, and rice is replaced with fresh healthy vegetables. How to cook dietetic cabbage rolls, we learn from the selected recipe. But first you need to prepare separately cabbage and minced meat.
Boil water in a deep pan over high heat. At the cabbage fork, cut a small part in place of the stalk. Dip the cabbage in boiling water and wait for a second boil. Reduce the power of the fire, pour a teaspoon of salt and boil the cabbage until the leaves are soft. Cut them with a knife and put in a colander. So gradually boil and cut off all the leaves. The main thing is not to overexpose them in boiling water. While the leaves will drain and cool, you need to cook minced meat from turkey and vegetables.
Stuffing Formation
Wash, dry, skin the turkey, cut off the fat, cut into pieces and scroll in a meat grinder. Stuffing salt and pepper lightly. All vegetables: onions, bell peppers, carrots - peel and chop finely. Then put them in a bowl with minced meat. Washed young onions and dill as well finely chop and add half to the minced meat. Next, you need to wrap a tablespoon of minced meat in a cabbage leaf in a way convenient for you. Our diet turkey stuffed cabbage will be cooked in the oven. Therefore, they need to be laid out in a baking dish.
It remains to prepare the fill. Put the tomato, tomato puree, water, salt, remaining greens in the dishes, mix and pour the dietary stuffed turkey stuffed with the prepared filling. Stew them until cooked for forty minutes in an oven heated to one hundred and eighty degrees. Serve hot immediately after cooking.
Using these two simple recipes, you can easily prepare delicious dietary cabbage rolls. They can be added to the diet for those who follow the figure. They are also ideal for those who follow a strict diet due to health conditions.