Stuffed cabbage is one of the brightest dishes, which is distinguished by high nutritional value, rich, multifaceted and rich taste, as well as undoubted benefits. Moreover, the classic recipe for cabbage rolls does not require any inaccessible and expensive components.

Classic recipe for stuffed cabbage in a pan

Cabbage rolls will help diversify the daily diet, and are also great for a festive table. Traditionally, they are prepared with leaves of white cabbage, fresh or pickled. Below we consider how to cook a dish with minced meat and rice in a fresh cabbage leaf.

You will need (for 4 servings):

  • white cabbage - a large, round head;
  • rice - 1 cup;
  • minced meat - 300-400 grams;
  • root of carrots;
  • 2 onion heads;
  • natural tomato paste;
  • vegetable-based oil;
  • dill in any form;
  • spice;
  • salt pepper;
  • sour cream.

How to cook:

  1. Boil whole leaves of cabbage in a deep saucepan for 5-8 minutes, laying small lots for convenience. Keep in water until they become elastic. Remove, set aside for cooling, loading the next portion into the pan.
  2. Rinse the rice several times in warm water and pour it with boiling water. Set aside and get meat.
  3. Grind pork and beef meat in a meat grinder.
  4. Add finely chopped onions. Coarsely grate the carrots.
  5. In a pan over low heat, lightly fry the onions. Add the carrots and continue to pass for 5 minutes. Pour in a serving of tomato paste.
  6. Cool the resulting mass, add to the minced meat with rice, mix well and wrap in a soft cabbage leaf, giving the form of sausages.Fry in a pan, put in a pan, pour hot water and simmer for half an hour under the lid.

Serve in sauce, sprinkled with herbs.

Cooking step by step in a slow cooker

Tasty, extraordinarily tender, and most importantly, quite fast in cooking time, stuffed cabbage is cooked in a slow cooker.

We use the list of the above components and prepare step by step in the slow cooker fragrant cabbage rolls:

  1. Steamed cabbage leaves in boiling water.
  2. While washing in cold water, rice.
  3. Finely chop the onion, rub the carrots using a coarse grater.
  4. Fry half the onions and carrots in oil.
  5. Add another part to the stuffing.
  6. Boil rice until half cooked, mincemeat fry in vegetable oil until tender.
  7. Mix all the components of the filling.
  8. When the cabbage leaves become soft, take them out and cool. From a cabbage leaf, cut a solid vein or gently beat it off. About a third of the sheet put the minced meat and tightly wrap.
  9. Place the cabbage rolls in the multicooker bowl. Pour in vegetable broth or water and put on the "Extinguishing" mode. Since all the components are almost ready, you just have to wait until the cabbage leaves become soft.
  10. Cabbage rolls are ready. Serve with sour cream.

With minced meat and rice in the oven

Many housewives are wondering how to cook amazing cabbage rolls in the oven so that they are tender, tasty and not digested. We use the list of ingredients indicated in the classic recipe, but we take into account the peculiarities of cooking in the oven.

How to cook:

  1. Use ceramic or other heat-resistant utensils with a lid.
  2. Use half-finished components of the filling.
  3. If you want cabbage rolls to cook as quickly as possible, carefully steam cabbage leaves. Stuff them with the already prepared filling.
  4. The process will take an average of 40 minutes, at a temperature of 180-190 degrees.

After cooking the cabbage rolls, remove them from the pan or cauldron and put them on a plate beautifully, pour on top with thick homemade sour cream, sprinkle with chopped herbs in advance.

Classics of the genre from Lazerson

 

A respected television chef, Ilya Lazerson reveals his secrets to making cabbage rolls. The very first thing is to boil the cabbage leaves and boil the washed rice until half ready.

For the filling, the cook uses the pork and ground beef in the same proportion. Ilya does not grind meat, but finely chop it. As a filling, it does not have to be only rice and minced meat, you can safely experiment. And also, Ilya recommends frying cabbage rolls in vegetable oil before cooking. This, of course, makes the cooking process longer, but the taste gets richer.

With minced chicken

The peculiarity of the dish is that it can be made optimal in calories. If you add a minimum of oil, and instead of minced pork - chicken, then cabbage rolls can be included in the diet menu. Although it is not necessary to pursue the goal of reducing nutritional value, it is often worth trying cabbage rolls with chicken for variety. Especially with such a filling stuffed cabbage prepared an order of magnitude faster.

You will need:

  • a glass of round-grain rice;
  • minced chicken or minced chicken meat - 300 grams;
  • cabbage - head;
  • bulb;
  • carrot;
  • greenery;
  • vegetable-based oil.

How to cook:

  1. Boil the cabbage leaves.
  2. While they cool, prepare the filling.
  3. Grate carrots, chop onions. Fry half the vegetables.
  4. Combine meat, rice, fried and raw vegetables. Add chopped greens.
  5. The filling is ready, you can proceed to the main cooking process.
  6. When you twist them, completely fill with boiling water, salt with water. Bring to a boil and make a slow fire. In 30 minutes the dish will be ready. Speed ​​of cooking is another plus of stuffed cabbage with chicken stuffing.

We complement the classic recipe with mushrooms

Stuffed cabbage with mushrooms is equally tasty and nutritious, which once again speaks of the versatility and genius of this dish.

Thus, even in fasting, you can allow yourself to enjoy the great taste of cabbage rolls:

  • rice - 1 cup;
  • mushrooms (dry or fresh boiled) - 300 grams;
  • cabbage - 1 head;
  • bulb;
  • carrot;
  • tomato paste
  • greenery;
  • vegetable oil.

How to cook:

  1. The cooking method is the same as in the previous recipe, except for adding mushrooms instead of meat.
  2. Adding the main component does not affect the taste of the dish at all. On the contrary, he is getting richer!

Do not miss the opportunity and cook cabbage rolls with mushrooms not only in fasting, but also for a new taste of your favorite dish.

Cooking lazy cabbage rolls in a pan

Any caring hostess wants to pamper the family with delicious food. Today, there are a large number of unusual recipes, however, traditional cuisine should not fade into the background. And not all women have time to cook. Therefore, the following is a recipe for lazy cabbage rolls, which is easy and quick to prepare.

Essential Composition:

  • ground beef - 300 g;
  • a small head of cabbage;
  • half a glass of rice;
  • one egg;
  • salt pepper.

For the sauce:

  • 150 ml of water;
  • a tablespoon of sour cream;
  • a tablespoon of ketchup or tomato paste;
  • a tablespoon without a hill of flour;
  • salt, greens.

How to cook:

  1. First you need to wash the cabbage, grate it on a coarse grater and put in a pan for 30 minutes, sometimes stirring. At the same time, you can boil rice, half a glass of rice will require one glass of water, cook under a closed lid until the water boils completely.
  2. Next, cool the cabbage and rice, add together with the egg to the minced meat, salt, pepper and mix thoroughly. You should get a thick sticky mass. Then we mold small cutlets from the resulting mass and put them on a frying pan, in an oven or in a slow cooker, after pouring sunflower oil. The cakes should be fully cooked.
  3. For the sauce, mix the water with flour, sour cream and tomato paste. Stir until lumps of flour dissolve. Next, add salt. If desired, finely chopped parsley, dill and green onions, or any other seasoning, can be added to the sauce. 5 minutes before cooking, pour the sauce into the slow cooker.

Tasty cabbage rolls are ready!

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