No one can remain indifferent to this dish. Fragrant minced meat, shaded by a soft cabbage flavor - cabbage rolls! The recipe for this dish is quite simple, but cooking takes time. So what is needed. First of all, you need to cook the stuffing. Meat and onions are passed through a meat grinder (chopped in a combine), seasoned with spices and salt; separately boiled rice. All ingredients are thoroughly mixed. Cabbage leaves are boiled for a couple of minutes and boiled for softening. It is important that cabbage leaves are large - so it’s much more convenient to cook cabbage rolls. Minced meat is wrapped in a cabbage leaf, if necessary, additional leaves are used. Next, dumplings are placed on a baking sheet and put in the oven, where they are baked for 30-40 minutes until almost ready. In the meantime, they stand in the oven and disturb the smell with their breathtaking aroma, we are preparing the sauce. Elementary tomato sauce: carrots and onions are fried until golden brown, tomatoes are added (mashed, without skin), flour and water, everything is salted, pepper and gurgle under the lid for about 10 minutes. Almost finished cabbage rolls, browned in the oven, are laid out in a pan and poured with sauce. Leave them for 15-20 minutes on the stove, over low heat, and then enjoy the wonderful smells coming from the kitchen. Obviously, the recipe for delicious cabbage rolls is more than simple, the main thing is to be patient and have basic skills. You can improve the taste of cabbage by adding herbs or garlic to taste, and before serving, be sure to pour the cabbage rolls with sour cream.
Further, for vegetarians and fasting - vegetable cabbage rolls! The recipe is not distinguished by sophistication and cleverness, only meat is removed from it. Stuffing is prepared from boiled rice, sausage onions and carrots. Show your imagination. You can add mushrooms (finely chop and lightly fry), or eggplant, for example. It's a matter of taste. Further, the cooking process has not been changed: stuffed, baked, prepared sauce, stewed. Elementary!
And yet, the preparation of cabbage rolls takes time and effort. For lovers of this dish, "you will lick your fingers" there is a special option - lazy cabbage rolls. The recipe for this dish is simple and does not require such an energy expenditure. Cabbage is finely chopped, scalded, which makes it softer and relieves possible bitterness. Rice is boiled until cooked; meat scrolls in a meat grinder with onions. Further, all the ingredients: cabbage, rice, meat, greens, if desired, combine, season with a raw egg and mix thoroughly. The resulting minced meat is molded into cutlets or meatballs, and laid out in a deep baking sheet, you can in a stewpan or deep frying pan. Separately, sauce is prepared (onions, carrots, tomatoes or tomato paste). Then cutlets (meatballs) are poured with this sauce and sent to the oven - until cooked (depends on the size of the product). The dish turns out to be extremely beautiful and more than fast.
If you know how to cook cabbage rolls, dolma recipe will seem to you a very familiar version of culinary creativity. After all, this southern dish is the brother of our stuffed cabbage, and differs only in “packaging”: dolma is made from grape leaves that serve as cabbage in the version of our stuffed cabbage.
And for those who like spicy pickled vegetables, cabbage rolls also exist. Their recipe is quite simple, but it takes time for the final product to go through the stage of lactic acid fermentation and become really tasty. So, we prepare cabbage leaves, slightly boil them in salted water. We clean the carrots and grate it. We season it with salt, pepper (red and black), caraway seeds, coriander, be sure to add herbs and finely chopped onions and garlic. The filling should turn out spicy and piquant. We start stuffed cabbage with this stuffing. We lay them in layers and pour brine with the addition of sunflower oil. We leave it in the refrigerator for 4-5 days, and then use it as a side dish for meat dishes, or as a savory snack.