For a long time I asked myself a complex question that seemed to me: "How to cook stuffed cabbage with minced meat?" But everything was not so scary and complicated.
To begin with, you should choose a larger and denser cabbage so that the leaves are not damaged. Then the head of cabbage should be cleaned of external leaves and placed in a large pot with water. Cabbage should be completely hidden. Put on fire and bring to a boil. Hold for fifteen to twenty minutes on low heat and remove without draining the water. While the cabbage is softening, you can cook the stuffing. Usually they use pork or beef, but you can cook cabbage rolls with minced chicken and even fish according to the same recipe.
A half-kilogram of boiled white long-grain rice is mixed with a half-pound of minced meat and mixed thoroughly, adding one or two eggs, a chopped medium onion, half a glass-glass of water, pepper and salt to taste. You can add fresh carrots grated on a fine grater to make the mincemeat more juicy. Mix everything until smooth.
The most difficult part in making cabbage rolls is the "undressing" of the head of cabbage. The water is very hot and you can easily burn your fingers by pouring water over the entire kitchen. Therefore, the process of separating cabbage leaves must be carried out calmly and carefully. First, we cut the head of cabbage at the base, you can make a deep cut around the stump. We remove the leaves slowly so as not to damage. We cut off the thick part of the rod with a knife so that one plane forms with the sheet. Separated leaves can be stacked on the table. It is not worth removing all the leaves at once, because they quickly cool and become hard, which can cause damage when twisted.
Before you cook stuffed cabbage with minced meat, you should prepare a pan in which they will subsequently be stewed. The bottom of the container can be lined with unsuitable and damaged cabbage leaves or just put a plate of the appropriate size. Thanks to this technique, the main dish will not burn and will not stick to the day of the pan.
Let's go back to the released cabbage leaves. We put a little cooked minced meat in them with a spoon and carefully wrap it up as a gift: first, cover the minced meat with the upper overlap, then wrap it on the sides and finally twist until a compact convolution is obtained. Repeat the whole process until cabbage leaves and minced meat are over.
Having laid all the “convolutions” neatly and possibly in layers in a saucepan, fill them with hot broth (about half a liter) and put on fire. Tomato paste (100 g) can be diluted in broth, as well as sour cream (100 g), or you can simply put it on cabbage rolls. In the first case, the distribution of contained spices will be more uniform. Salt and pepper the dish, toss a few leaves of bay leaf.
A universal and simple recipe, stuffed cabbage with minced meat according to which you can cook from each type of meat or poultry, is especially pleased with its low cost and relative ease of implementation. Stuffed cabbage can be prepared not only from cabbage leaves, but also from grape.
How to cook stuffed cabbage with minced meat quickly and without unnecessary effort? Ordinary cabbage can be replaced with savoy. Her leaves are softer and more flexible and do not require additional heat treatment, which saves a lot of time for the hostess.
By the way, cabbage rolls with minced chicken are considered dietary because of their low fat content, and cabbage itself has a very large number of useful properties and relates to products that contribute to the fight against excess weight. Cabbage rolls are usually served with boiled potatoes and butter.
Everything turns out to be quite simple. Now I know how to cook stuffed cabbage with minced meat and at any time I can serve aromatic, hot, garnished with herbs and sour cream, very tasty and juicy stuffed cabbage.