Stuffed cabbage is one of the most beloved dishes of Russian people. Some housewives claim that it is difficult to cook them, but in fact, everything is not so. You can cook cabbage rolls quite quickly and tasty. And we will consider the most successful recipes in this article. Each hostess will be able to choose something suitable for herself. Moreover, not all cabbage rolls need to be wrapped in cabbage leaves and spend time on this procedure. Therefore, here we will also study several recipes for lazy cabbage rolls.
Dish history
The first mention of this dish appeared among the Jews for another two thousand years BC. Gradually, the recipe began to spread throughout Europe. Each country added something of its own to the dish. The names were very different. So, for example, in England they were called "rolls", and in France - "cabbage cigars."
Cooking secrets
There are some useful tips on how to cook stuffed cabbage with minced meat and rice:
- During the stewing of cabbage rolls, you need to lay out several small pieces of butter directly on them. It will give them a more delicate taste.
- It is better to spread the cabbage rolls not on a bare surface, but on a vegetable pillow made of onions, herbs, carrots, sweet peppers and tomatoes.
- It is not necessary to stew cabbage rolls with minced meat and rice in a saucepan over low heat. An oven is also available.
- Extinguishing water can be replaced with dry wine or various juices.
- To wrap the minced meat, not only cabbage is used, cabbage rolls from grape leaves are equally tasty.
Mom's cabbage stuffed with minced meat and rice
You will need one head of fresh cabbage and about six hundred grams of stuffing for the filling. In addition, boiled rice will also be laid inside cabbage rolls . You will also need one chicken egg, about two hundred grams of sour cream and a teaspoon of tomato paste, one or two onions and carrots, as well as salt and pepper to taste. And do not forget about vegetable oil, which is useful for frying.
How to cook stuffed cabbage with minced meat and rice? The recipe is quite simple. First of all, you need to take time for cabbage. It is disassembled by leaflets, placed in a deep bowl and slightly salted, and then poured with boiling water and left under a covered lid for twenty minutes. Stuffing can be prepared independently by passing the meat through a meat grinder, or you can simply purchase a ready-made product in the store.
Now you should start preparing rice. Rinse it well so that the water after washing remains transparent, then add a little salt and pour water, leave it on fire until half cooked. Grains should be a little hard. After that, the rice is thrown back through a colander and washed with cold water so that it does not stick together. As for vegetables, carrots are rubbed on a fine grater, and onions are cut into not too large cubes. After that, the vegetables are fried in vegetable oil until golden brown.
Then mix rice with minced meat, add salt if necessary and a little black pepper. Next, chopped greens, prepared roasting and one raw chicken egg are added to the minced meat.
If your cabbage leaves are too large, then it is better to cut them in half. Minced meat is spread on leaves in such an amount that it can be easily wrapped. Ready cabbage rolls are spread in a saucepan or casseroles and seasoned with specially prepared sauce. For it, you will need one hundred and fifty grams of sour cream and half a liter of hot water. These ingredients must be mixed and tomato paste added. Stuffed cabbage rolls for about sixty minutes over low heat.
Stuffed cabbage with beef
Ingredients:
- Two hundred and fifty grams of pork and as much beef.
- One or two carrots.
- Two onion heads.
- One glass of rice.
- Leaves of sauerkraut - half a kilogram.
- One or two tomatoes.
- About a hundred grams of tomato paste.
- Salt and black pepper to taste.
- Water.
The cabbage leaves must be washed thoroughly so that no brine remains on them. If they are too large, then they should be cut into several parts. Washed meat is passed through a meat grinder. Vegetables, as in the previous recipe, are fried until golden brown. Rice is also washed using the same technology until the water becomes clear, but it does not need to be cooked. It is enough to pour boiling water over it, cover it and leave it alone for several hours. Mix all the prepared foods, salt and add a little black pepper.
Now you can safely twist cabbage rolls and spread them in a cauldron or in a deep frying pan. At the bottom, you need to pour a little warmed vegetable oil. Tomatoes must be peeled. To do this, they are traditionally poured with boiling water. One onion is cut into not too large cubes and placed in the same dish with cabbage rolls. Tomato paste is bred in water and stuffed cabbage rolls so that the water completely covers them. Cook for forty minutes over low heat.
Lazy cabbage rolls
Ingredients:
- Four hundred grams of fresh meat or minced meat.
- A third of a glass of rice.
- One large onion.
- Three hundred grams of white cabbage.
- Four or five tablespoons of tomato paste.
- One glass of sour cream.
- Ten tablespoons of breadcrumbs.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
To cook lazy cabbage rolls is very simple. It does not take much time and effort. First of all, it is necessary to cut the cabbage into small cubes and pour boiling water over it for several minutes, so that it softens a little and all bitterness leaves it. The meat and onions must be thoroughly washed and minced, if you take ready-made minced meat, only the onion must be twisted. Rice must be boiled, but for fifteen minutes, so as not to completely boil. Combine all the ingredients and mix well to get a homogeneous mass. It is necessary to form small cutlets from it, roll them in breadcrumbs and fry them.
While lazy cabbage rolls are fried, you should prepare the sauce. To do this, add about two tablespoons of water to the tomato paste and mix well. Then sour cream and ground black pepper are sent there. Add half a glass of water and mix well so that there are no pieces of sour cream left. Next, preheat the oven to two hundred degrees and spread the stuffed cabbage on a greased baking sheet. Better if you bake them in foil. Stuffed cabbage is poured with pre-prepared sauce and placed in the oven for about forty minutes until fully cooked.
Chinese cabbage stuffed cabbage
You will need one Chinese cabbage, seven hundred grams of minced meat, which should contain chicken, pork and beef, about a hundred grams of rice. From vegetables, prepare one carrot, two onions and several potatoes. Also, flour (one tablespoon), a little vegetable oil, two or three tablespoons of tomato paste and one clove of garlic will come in handy. Salt and pepper are added to taste, you can also add a little chopped greens.
One onion needs to be peeled and cut into quarter rings, the carrots are rubbed on a fine grater, and the cloves of garlic are cut into small pieces. Potatoes can be cut in the way that you like best, you do not need to cook. Onions and carrots are fried in a pre-heated pan with vegetable oil. In the minced meat, add the second onion passed through the meat grinder. After that you need to salt.
As for rice, it is boiled for only seven minutes and then drained, allowed to cool. Cold rice is mixed with minced meat, chopped greens and a little black pepper are added there.
From the base of the head of cabbage you need to cut off the third part and disassemble the remaining cabbage by leaflets. Do not throw out the inner leaves, but chop them finely, they will also come in handy. Big leaves are poured with boiling water for five minutes and then allowed to cool. Chopped cabbage is added to the pan to onions and carrots and stewed for several minutes. Garlic, flour and tomato paste are sent there and some water is added to stir it all. Put a small part of the sauce in a separate bowl - you will need it for serving.
On top of the sauce, which remained in the pan, lay the potatoes, and formed cabbage rolls on it. Then we pour the sauce that was selected. After this, a little salt should be added, if necessary, and pour stuffed cabbage with ordinary hot water to the very top. Over low heat, cabbage rolls should be stewed for about forty minutes. At the very end of the dish you can sprinkle with herbs.
May cabbage rolls
In addition to the usual ingredients, you will also need half a young zucchini, half a red sweet pepper, a glass of ten percent cream, fifty grams of butter and a glass of broth.
Stuffing for stuffed cabbage will include chopped onions and peppers, as well as zucchini grated on a fine grater. All this is mixed with minced meat and chopped greens and dry rice are also added. Stuffing should be salt in advance. If you do not want the filling to become a bit dry after cooking, then it is better to put boiled rice. Next, prepare the fill. Melt butter in a pan and add tomato paste, as well as a pre-prepared glass of broth. Mix well and pour in the cream. Salt and pepper to taste, you can add any additional spices.
Twisted cabbage rolls spread on a baking sheet and pour the resulting sauce. Top is recommended to cover with the remaining cabbage leaves. For one hour place stuffed cabbage with minced meat and rice in the oven, heated to one hundred and eighty degrees. Before serving, it is better to sprinkle with fresh herbs.
Roll "Stuffed"
Ingredients:
- Fifteen cabbage leaves.
- One hundred and fifty grams of rice.
- One carrot.
- Two tablespoons of any fat.
- One big bell pepper of red color.
- Five hundred grams of minced meat.
- One hundred and fifty grams of broth.
- Fifty grams of ketchup.
- Fifty grams of mayonnaise.
- Spices, salt and pepper to taste.
The filling will consist of boiled rice, carrots and onions fried in fat, as well as cubes of red pepper. Minced meat should also be fried, then add rice to it in a pan, salt and pepper to taste. You should also add some chopped greens.
Cabbage leaves should undergo the same thermal treatment as on ordinary cabbage rolls. Then they are lapped spread on a baking sheet and covered with a filling on top. From this form a roll. Depending on how many fillings you have, you can make several rolls. Rolls are half filled with salted broth and a mesh of mayonnaise and ketchup are applied on top. The baking sheet is sent to the oven for one hour at a temperature of one hundred eighty degrees.
Stuffed cabbage in a slow cooker
Modern housewives are increasingly looking for a step-by-step recipe for stuffed cabbage with minced meat and rice with a photo for cooking in a slow cooker. Such a recipe will be presented later.
Ingredients:
- One head of cabbage.
- Half a kilogram of minced meat.
- One glass of rice.
- One onion and one carrot.
- Two tablespoons of tomato paste.
- Garlic.
- Bay leaf.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
How to cook:
- Washed cabbage must be put in a bowl and pour water. Leave in the "Extinguishing" mode for ten minutes.
- Then disassemble the leaves.
- Cook chopped vegetables in the "Frying" mode for about ten minutes.
- Then mix with boiled rice and minced meat. A little salt and black pepper should also be added to the mixture.
- Wrap cabbage rolls.
- Mix the tomato paste with water, you can add a little chopped garlic.
- Put stuffed cabbage and bay leaf in a bowl, pour water to the top.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Set the "Extinguishing" mode and leave the dish for one hour and forty minutes.
Conclusion
As you can see, cooking cabbage rolls is not so difficult. The main thing is to show a little patience. The set of products for almost every recipe is standard, there are only small deviations. If you are a novice mistress, then it is better to try lazy cabbage rolls, and only then move on to more complicated recipes.