Light and tasty stuffed cabbage without rice

Cabbage rolls are a unique dish that combines many tastes and seemingly completely incompatible products. The popularity of this dish is due to the huge variety of recipes, which involves the use of different ingredients. A delicious and original version of this dish is stuffed cabbage without rice. The recipe is slightly different from the standard and has its own subtleties.

Features of such a composition of stuffed cabbage

Cabbage rolls without rice have their own distinctive features in comparison with the classic recipes for this dish:

• The filling is more juicy and rich in terms of taste.
• The finished product is very nutritious, but not high-calorie.
• Less cooking techniques are required during the cooking process.

Thanks to the bright meat taste, even opponents of vegetables will be happy to eat such cabbage rolls.

What ingredients are needed for paintless cabbage rolls

The main component of stuffed cabbage without rice is a unique filling combining diverse products. To prepare a kind of filler you will need such ingredients:

• 1 kg of meat. It is better to take beef, because it is not as fat as pork, and not dry as chicken.
• 1 onion. If the finished product is planned to be used for a long time, then this ingredient is best excluded.
• If desired, carrots can be used, but in small quantities.
• 2 tomatoes. This vegetable will add piquancy and make the meat more juicy.
• Garlic is optional, but it is worth considering the same factor as when using onions.
• 1 bell pepper.
• Spices according to preference.
• Lightness and freshness of the filling will give greens and small zucchini.

You can use other products if you have any special preferences.

The principle of preparation of unique cabbage rolls

First of all, you need to prepare a delicious mincemeat, which includes all of the above products. The recipe for stuffed cabbage without rice involves the following actions:

1. Peel the meat from the films and grind into minced meat.
2. Rub the onion, garlic, carrots and zucchini into the minced meat on a grater.
3. Grind greens.
4. Dice tomatoes and peppers. It is desirable that the cutting is uniform and the same. So vegetables are cooked quickly and efficiently.
5. Mix the prepared ingredients, add spices and refrigerate for half an hour.
6. Blanched cabbage in boiling water for 15 minutes.
7. The boiled head is carefully disassembled into separate sheets. So that cabbage leaves are not hard, you need to cut off the thickest veins, which are located at the base closer to the stump.
8. Lay out the sheet on a flat surface and put a tablespoon of minced meat in the base area.
9. Roll up the leaf to the middle of the cabbage base, then fold the side parts inward and continue to form the roll.

The second step is the preparation itself:

1. Stuffed finished cabbage rolls tightly in an enameled pan.
2. To make the dish more saturated in taste, it is worth grating carrots and sprinkle a bookmark on the vegetable.
3. Prepare dressing - dilute in a glass of water 1 tablespoon of tomato paste or grate 2-3 tomatoes. Pour dressing into cabbage rolls.
4. Add so much water that the cabbage rolls are completely covered.
5. Simmer for 1–1.5 hours.

Quick and tasty snack for the whole family

When you need to quickly and tasty feed your family, then lazy cabbage rolls without rice will be the ideal option. In addition, the dish will turn out not only delicious, but also low-calorie. For cooking you will need:

• Half a head of cabbage.
• 400 g chicken.
• 1 carrot.
• 1 onion.
• Spice.
• A tablespoon of tomato paste.

To cook stuffed cabbage without rice, without putting a lot of effort, you can in accordance with the following instructions:

1. Cabbage needs to be chopped very finely.
2. Place the prepared vegetable in a pan and pour it with water. Salt and simmer a little for 15–25 minutes.
3. Transfer the vegetable to the pan, where the fried onions and carrots were laid before. Add some vegetable or olive oil.
4. Then you need to put the minced chicken breast into the pan. Add spices.
5. Fry the ingredients until fully cooked, constantly stirring the mass.

Serve the prepared dish warm, after seasoning with sour cream or mayonnaise sauce with herbs.