What is cabbage rolls at home? Of course, a welcome dish. Only children who do not like cabbage can refuse it. But cabbage rolls are cooked not only with cabbage, but not only minced meat is wrapped in cabbage.
The recipe for classic stuffed cabbage.
Still, let's start with cabbage. From a large head of cabbage you need to cut the leaves, separate the thick rods, put the leaves one on top of the other in a large pot. Now you need to pour the cabbage with salted boiling water and cook until it boils. We drain the water, cool the leaves. At this time, cook the stuffing. The mutton pulp (veal, beef) is passed through a meat grinder, adding a little fat. However, before cooking cabbage rolls with minced meat, you need to boil rice, rinse with cold water. Spasser onion with vegetable oil. Rice, onions, a raw egg, salt and pepper are added to the minced meat and well mixed in a deep cup. Now cabbage leaves are stuffed, giving them an oblong appearance. Stuffed cabbage should be fried in oil on both sides, then pour in liquid tomato and simmer until tender.
You can not fry cabbage rolls, but put them in a pan, add water, cook by adding sour cream mixed with flour (one teaspoon of flour for one glass of sour cream).
Cabbage for stuffed cabbage is prepared in a different way. A stump is cut from a head of cabbage, lowered into a saucepan and boiled in a large amount of salt water. As the upper leaves soften, they are separated from the head of cabbage, and continue to cook further until all the leaves are cooked. Cool, cut thick petioles.
The recipe for stuffed cabbage without meat.
For the filling, prepare the mushroom stuffing. We need dry porcini mushrooms, which need to be boiled and minced with two fried onions. Add minced boiled eggs to the minced meat. The ratio of eggs to mushrooms is approximately 1: 3. Salt mushroom and pepper with black pepper. Wrap in cooked cabbage leaves, stew in sour cream, sprinkle with herbs.
Another recipe for stuffed cabbage without meat stuffed with vegetables. Cut carrots, bell peppers, onions, eggplant into strips, mix with salt and black pepper, wrap in cabbage leaves. Fry vegetable cabbage rolls , put in a deep pan, stew in tomato sauce with mayonnaise and garlic.
Vegetarian cabbage rolls can be made with mashed potatoes, which are mixed with green onions or fried onions in oil. Wrap mashed potatoes in cabbage leaves, lay on a baking sheet, sprinkle with cheese and herbs, pour mayonnaise-sour cream sauce, bake in the oven.
The recipe for stuffed cabbage lazy.
Cabbage needs to be finely chopped, add minced chicken, boiled rice, chopped onions, grated carrots, a raw egg. Mix everything well, form cutlets. Fry the cutlets in oil, put in a thick-walled pan for stewing, pour tomato-sour cream sauce, simmer until cooked. Serve sprinkled with dill.
In lazy cabbage rolls, you can add not only white cabbage, but also sea cabbage. And you can fry not in a pan, but bake in the oven, and then put out.
How to make cabbage rolls with grape leaves? This Caucasian dish is called dolma. Rinse young grape leaves well, boil in salted water for 3-5 minutes, cool. Prepare the filling, as for ordinary cabbage rolls, just adding finely chopped fresh tomatoes and spices. Wrap in envelopes, stew in tomato and sour cream sauce.
For variety, cook cabbage rolls in beetroot leaves. Only you can not pre-cook them, but immediately stew with the filling.
What other sauce is suitable for cabbage rolls?
Mix sour cream, kefir or yogurt with a lot of chopped herbs and garlic passed through a press.
Useful tips.
To prevent stuffed cabbage from stewing, put cabbage or grape leaves on the bottom.