There are many recipes for preparing full-fledged dishes, such as where you do not need to make a separate side dish and meat component. Today we will share secrets on how to stew cabbage rolls. Using our recommendations, you can prepare delicious dishes for the whole family or for the holiday. Cabbage rolls will not fall apart, cabbage will become soft, and they will be able to compete with restaurant dishes to taste.

The classic recipe for stewed cabbage rolls in a pan

Not every hostess can cope with the preparation of such a dish as cabbage rolls. Someone complains that the cabbage is opened during stewing; others cannot achieve the softness of the vegetable. We suggest learning how to stew cabbage rolls in a pan correctly, and the result will surely please you! The process, of course, is not fast, but everything is not so complicated. A little patience, dexterity, and dinner is ready!

 

Ingredients:

  • large forks of cabbage - 1 pc.;
  • pork - 400-500 g;
  • beef - 400-500 g;
  • onion - 2 heads;
  • carrots - 1 pc.;
  • rice - 0.5 tbsp .;
  • tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l .;
  • salt pepper.

You can apply seasonings, with them cabbage rolls will come out even more delicious and fragrant. We recommend taking not spicy spices, but universal ones suitable for any dishes.

Cooking method:

  1. Place the cabbage in a deep pot so that the bottom of the stalk is at the bottom. Pour boiling water, put on a slow fire. As the upper leaves go away, remove them with a fork, putting them in a plate. Those that are smaller than two palms placed side by side are not needed, so you can get a head of cabbage out of the water and put it in the refrigerator - it’s useful for cabbage soup or for frying.
  2. Twist the minced meat with one onion.
  3. Boil the rice until tender, drain the water, but do not rinse the groats, starch will firmly glue the filling, it will not come out of the cabbage.
  4. Stir the meat with rice, salt and add a little pepper.
  5. Chop the second onion in half rings, and cut the carrots into cubes or grate on a coarse grater.
  6. We roll cabbage rolls: on each leaf of cabbage put a tablespoon of minced meat, roll like stuffed pancakes (bend the upper and lower edges of the sheet, then one side, roll up a roll).
  7. In a pan, fry the cabbage rolls to a blush, first of all laying on a barrel, where there is a junction of edges. Some housewives skip this procedure, so cabbage falls apart when stewed. And the taste of stuffed cabbage after roasting will be much richer!
  8. Put cabbage rolls in a pan in rows on top of each other, down by the butt of a wrapped cabbage.
  9. In a skillet, fry carrots and onions in a small amount of oil. When the root vegetables become soft, add the paste, cook for 2 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  10. Salt, pepper or sprinkle seasonings, fill with water. Stew until boiling. Then pour the dressing with sauce into cabbage rolls, if it has not completely covered them, simply add water so that it is one and a half fingers higher.

After closing the lid, simmer the stuffed cabbage over low heat 40 minutes after boiling - this is the optimal cooking time at which the minced meat will boil and the cabbage will become soft, but will not fall apart.

Cooking in a slow cooker

Although the slow cooker is considered a pot for the lazy, it’s not much easier to cook stuffed cabbage in it than in a regular or in a pan. Consider the recipe.

The following products will be required:

  • white cabbage - large forks;
  • meat (any) - 1 kg;
  • onions - 1 head;
  • rice - half a glass;
  • ketchup or tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l .;
  • mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. l .;
  • salt, pepper, seasonings.

Since we cook in a slow cooker, we will not add vegetable frying, but we will make a quick sauce. It can be prepared in a conventional pan, the process will be simpler and faster.

Stages of cooking:

  1. Boil a whole head of cabbage, removing leaves leaving at a boil.
  2. Wind minced meat and onions, mix with boiled rice, salt and pepper.
  3. Wrap cabbage rolls, as described in the previous recipe, fry, put in a bowl in rows tightly on top of each other.
  4. Mix tomato paste, mayonnaise and seasonings, fill in with water, mix well - this is sauce. Pour it into a pan with stuffed cabbage, add more water as needed.
  5. Close the lid, set to "Extinguishing".

In a slow cooker, cabbage rolls cook faster than in a pan, but cabbage is no less soft.

How to stew with minced meat and rice

Let's cook cabbage rolls in a cauldron. If you do not have such dishes, then take a pan with thick and high walls.

Components:

  • cabbage - 1 forks;
  • meat (pork, beef, chicken) - 1 kg;
  • rice - 1/2 tbsp .;
  • onion - 2 pcs.;
  • carrots - 1 pc.;
  • tomato paste - 1-2 tbsp. l (taste);
  • salt and pepper.

Cooking:

  1. Twist the meat and onion through the meat grinder, salt and pepper.
  2. Cook rice until cooked, drain the water, add to the minced meat.
  3. Prepare the cabbage leaves, as prescribed in the first recipes, roll cabbage rolls. Next, they need to be fried.
  4. Chop the carrots and onions, fry in a cauldron with tomato paste. Put the stuffed cabbage on the roast in 2-3 rows, fill with water, add salt and seasonings.

Stew in a cauldron should also be about 40 minutes, as in a saucepan.

Tasty "lazy cabbage rolls"

Each housewife will cope with such a dish, it is prepared very simply. “Lazy cabbage rolls” consist of the same ingredients as ordinary ones, but the taste is very different. It turns out incredibly tasty stewed meatballs, everyone will like them!

 

Components:

  • cabbage - forks per 1 kg;
  • meat - 1 kg;
  • rice - 0.5 tbsp .;
  • onion - 1 pc.;
  • tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l .;
  • mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. l .;
  • egg - 1 pc.;
  • flour - for boning;
  • seasonings and salt.

Cooking:

  1. Cut the head of cabbage into several parts, removing the stump.
  2. Twist the meat, cabbage, onion into minced meat.
  3. Boil the rice, mix with minced cabbage and meat, beat the egg, salt and pepper.
  4. Form large cutlets from minced meat, roll in flour, fry.
  5. Put the "lazy cabbage rolls" on a baking sheet, pour the sauce made from tomato paste, mayonnaise, seasoning and water.The liquid should completely hide the cutlets.
  6. Cover the pan or cover with foil. Bake for 40 minutes at 170-190 degrees.

The same cabbage rolls can be prepared in a cauldron and in a pan, but they need to be laid out only in one layer. Therefore, it is easier to take a baking sheet, and even in the oven the dish comes out especially tasty. To "lazy cabbage rolls" you can make a side dish, better mashed potatoes.

Preparation of frozen convenience foods

Today in the supermarket you can find everything that only the soul desires! There are also ready-made semi-finished products - cabbage rolls, dumplings, meatballs and others. You only need to buy and cook them. If everything is clear with cutlets and dumplings, then how to put out stuffed cabbage?

Ingredients:

  • frozen cabbage rolls - 1 kg;
  • carrots - 1 pc.;
  • onion - 1 pc.;
  • tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l .;
  • salt and seasoning.

Cooking:

  1. Stuffed cabbage, not defrosting, fry until cabbage blush, put in a saucepan or in a cauldron.
  2. Fry grated carrots and chopped onions, add tomato paste, seasonings, salt and water.
  3. Pour cabbage with vegetable sauce, simmer for 40 minutes on low heat. A delicious dinner is ready!

Cooking cabbage rolls is very simple if you try to go through all the steps yourself once. Use semi-finished products only in emergency cases when there really is no time or energy to cook, because homemade cabbage rolls are tastier. Thanks to the prescribed recipes, you are sure to cook a wonderful dish, it will become a favorite in your family. Stuffed cabbage can be safely served on the festive table. Bon Appetit!

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