Classic cabbage rolls

Classic cabbage rolls are a favorite dish in many families, which has its own characteristics in cooking. The classic basis for cabbage rolls is minced meat with rice, wrapped in fresh cabbage leaves in the form of envelopes, cones or tubes. The minced meat is taken mixed. Stuffed cabbage rolls are boiled, stewed or baked with sauce. The options for meat filling, as well as the sauce, can be different. A separate version of the classic are lazy cabbage rolls, which are easier and faster to prepare.

Classic cabbage rolls made from fresh cabbage in a pan

Classic cabbage rolls made from fresh cabbage in a pan take time to cook, but they turn out very tasty. For classic cabbage rolls, minced pork and beef and fresh white cabbage are used. Chopped tomatoes and fried onions and carrots are added to the minced meat for juiciness. Cabbage rolls are stewed in tomato-sour cream sauce in a saucepan.

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   Classic cabbage rolls are very simple to prepare. First of all, lay out all the ingredients for cabbage rolls on the table, according to the recipe. Defrost the finished minced meat or twist the meat in equal parts through a meat grinder. We clean the vegetables.
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   Boil clean water in a saucepan. Remove the outer leaves of the cabbage, remove part of the stalk and boil for 5 minutes in boiling water. Remove the soft leaves one at a time.
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   We wash any rice, boil it after boiling water for 10 minutes over low heat and add salt. Then leave for another 10 minutes covered.
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   Cool the boiled cabbage leaves in a bowl with cold water.
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   Using a sharp knife, remove the thickened parts of the leaves.
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   Finely chop the onion, grate the carrots on a coarse grater and fry the vegetables until soft in hot vegetable oil.
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   For the sauce, mix sour cream with water and tomato paste in a bowl. Add salt and black pepper to the sauce to your taste.
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   Place minced meat in a separate bowl.
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   Stir the boiled rice with a spoon so that there are no lumps.
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    Transfer the rice to the minced meat and mix.
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    Then add the roasted vegetables and mix again.
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    Grind fresh tomatoes without peels using any method and add this mass to the minced meat.
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    Sprinkle the minced meat with salt and black pepper, add finely chopped herbs and stir one last time.
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    To cook cabbage rolls, take a large pan and put a layer of coarsely chopped remaining cabbage leaves on its bottom.
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    Place a spoonful of minced meat on the cabbage leaves and wrap the cabbage rolls in the shape of an envelope.
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    Place the formed cabbage rolls compactly in a pan.
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    Completely fill the cabbage rolls with the prepared sauce and place on the stove.
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    Over medium heat, bring the cabbage rolls to a boil, place a flat plate on top so that the cabbage rolls are completely immersed in the sauce, and simmer over low heat for 1-1.5 hours until fully cooked.
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    After this time, take the sample and turn off the fire.
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    Place the prepared classic cabbage rolls from fresh cabbage in a saucepan on plates and serve immediately hot for lunch. Bon appetit!

Stuffed cabbage rolls in a cabbage pan with minced meat and rice

Stuffed cabbage rolls in a frying pan made from cabbage with minced meat and rice are prepared in the same way as in other dishes, which is convenient for a small number of servings, only there will be less sauce and its taste will be more intense. In this recipe, we fry the cabbage rolls in a frying pan before stewing, which will make them less watery. We make the sauce based on sour cream, mayonnaise and lecho.

Cooking time: 2 hours.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Servings: 6.

Ingredients:

• Large fresh cabbage – 1 head.
• Minced meat – 0.6 kg.
• Rice – 300 gr.
• Carrots – 2 pcs.
• Onion – 2 pcs.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

For the sauce:

• Water – 0.5 l.
• Sour cream 20% – 1 tbsp.
• Mayonnaise – 1 tbsp.
• Lecho – 200 gr.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Peel the cabbage from the outer leaves, cut out the stalk and boil in boiling water, removing the soft leaves one by one. You can prepare the leaves either in the microwave or by placing it in the freezer overnight.

Step 2. Rinse the rice well and pour boiling water over it for half an hour, covering the dish with a lid.

Step 3: Peel the vegetables. Chop the onion into small cubes. Grind the carrots on a coarse grater. Fry these vegetables in heated vegetable oil until light golden brown and add salt.

Step 4.Drain the water from the soaked rice. Transfer the roasted vegetables to it, add salt and black pepper and stir.

Step 5. Then add the minced meat into this mixture and mix with your hand, which will be more convenient than with a spoon.

Step 6. In a separate bowl, mix all the sauce ingredients specified in the recipe. Lecho, which contains vegetables, can be replaced with ketchup or 2 tbsp. spoons of tomato paste. For a smoother texture, the sauce can be pureed using an immersion blender.

Step 7. Cut the boiled cabbage leaves into halves and remove their dense base. Place a little of the kneaded minced meat on each half of the sheet and carefully wrap it as you see fit.

Step 8. Fry some of the formed cabbage rolls until golden brown on both sides, and the rest can be frozen.

Step 9. Pour the prepared sauce over the cabbage rolls fried in a frying pan, bring to a boil over high heat and simmer over low heat and covered with a lid for 40-60 minutes.

Step 10. Serve cooked cabbage rolls in a frying pan from cabbage with minced meat and rice for dinner hot and with sauce. Bon appetit!

Fresh cabbage rolls in the oven

Stuffed cabbage rolls made from fresh cabbage in the oven or baked with any sauce have a different taste from those cooked in a pan on the stove. The cabbage is soaked in the sauce and becomes tender and transparent. Baked cabbage rolls made from early cabbage are especially tasty. In this recipe we bake cabbage rolls in a sauce made from sour cream, tomato puree and flour.

Cooking time: 1 hour 40 minutes.

Cooking time: 40 minutes.

Servings: 5.

Ingredients:

• Cabbage – 1 head.
• Minced meat – 0.4 kg.
• Rice – ½ tbsp.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

For the sauce:

• Sour cream 20% – 2 tbsp.
• Tomato puree/paste – 2 tbsp.
• Flour – 1 tbsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Remove the outer leaves and part of the stalk from the head of cabbage. Then boil in boiling water, removing the softened leaves one by one.

Step 2. Boil the washed rice until ready. Place the minced meat in a separate bowl, add boiled rice, finely chopped onion, salt and black pepper and mix everything well.

Step 3. Cut off the dense part of the boiled cabbage leaves. Then place a tablespoon of cooked minced meat on each sheet.

Step 4. Carefully fold the edges of the sheets and form cabbage rolls in the shape of sausages.

Step 5. In this way, roll up all the leaves with the minced meat.

Step 6. Then fry the formed cabbage rolls until lightly browned on both sides in heated vegetable oil.

Step 7. Place the fried cabbage rolls in a single layer in a baking dish. Pour a glass of clean water into the frying pan, add sour cream, salt with tomato puree and flour, mix until smooth. Bring the sauce to a boil.

Step 8. Turn on the oven at 200°C. Pour the prepared sauce over the cabbage rolls in the mold, cover with a lid or a piece of foil and bake in the oven for 40-50 minutes.

Step 9. Then remove the foil and continue baking for another 10 minutes until the dish browns a little on top.

Step 10. Place the prepared cabbage rolls from fresh cabbage in the oven onto portioned plates, pour over the sauce, sprinkle with chopped herbs and serve hot. Bon appetit!

Lazy cabbage rolls made from cabbage, rice and minced meat - a classic recipe

Lazy cabbage rolls made from cabbage, rice and minced meat in the classic recipe are prepared from any minced meat mixed with rice and cabbage.Stuffed cabbage rolls are formed into cutlets, fried and stewed on the stove or baked in the oven with tomato and sour cream sauce. The option is simpler, and these cabbage rolls do not differ in taste from traditional ones. In this recipe we fry the cabbage.

Cooking time: 2 hours.

Cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes.

Servings: 2.

Ingredients:

• White cabbage – 200 gr.
• Minced meat – 300 gr.
• Rice – ½ tbsp.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Flour – 3 tbsp.

For the sauce:

• Sour cream – 1.5 tbsp.
• Tomato paste – 1.5 tbsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. According to the recipe proportions, measure out all the ingredients for the lazy cabbage rolls. Peel and rinse vegetables along with rice.

Step 2. Boil rice in water with added salt. Chop the onion into cubes and chop the carrots on a coarse grater. Fry these vegetables until soft in heated vegetable oil, add boiled rice and heat for a couple of minutes.

Step 3. Chop the cabbage into small cubes, fry until soft in another frying pan with vegetable oil and cool.

Step 4. Transfer the minced meat into a separate bowl, add fried vegetables with rice, fried cabbage, break the egg and add salt and black pepper. Mix the minced meat well. Form it into 6 cabbage rolls in the form of cutlets, bread them in flour and fry until golden brown on both sides in vegetable oil.

Step 5. Transfer the fried lazy cabbage rolls to a saucepan. For the sauce, mix sour cream with tomato paste and a little water. Pour the sauce over the cabbage rolls, bring to a boil and simmer over low heat, covered, for half an hour.

Step 6.Lazy cabbage rolls made from cabbage, rice and minced meat, prepared according to the classic recipe, are served hot, sprinkled with sauce and complemented with slices of black bread. Bon appetit!

Classic cabbage rolls made from fresh cabbage in tomato-sour cream sauce

Tomato-sour cream sauce is considered by many housewives to be the most delicious for preparing classic cabbage rolls from fresh cabbage. Minced meat for cabbage rolls can be made from any meat and is best mixed. The cabbage chosen is small so that the cabbage rolls turn out not only tasty, but also beautiful. In this recipe, we fry the cabbage rolls and bake them in the oven.

Cooking time: 2 hours.

Cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes.

Servings: 6.

Ingredients:

• White cabbage – 1 kg.
• Minced meat – 500 gr.
• Rice – 100 gr.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

For the sauce:

• Sour cream – 150 gr.
• Water – 200 ml.
• Tomato paste – 1 tbsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. First of all, according to the recipe, prepare all the ingredients for cabbage rolls.

Step 2. Having removed the outer leaves with the stalk, boil the cabbage in boiling water, removing the soft leaves one by one. Then cool the leaves in cold water.

Step 3. Wash the rice and boil until half cooked in a 1:1 ratio with water. Place minced meat in a separate bowl, add boiled rice, chopped onion in any way, and salt and black pepper. Mix the minced meat well with your hands.

Step 4. Remove the dense part from the boiled cabbage leaves with a knife or simply beat them with a hammer.

Step 5. Place the kneaded minced meat on the sheets and wrap the cabbage, forming neat envelopes.

Step 6. Then fry the cabbage rolls until lightly browned on both sides in heated vegetable oil.

Step 7. Place the fried cabbage rolls in one layer in a baking dish.

Step 8. In a bowl, mix sour cream of any fat content well with tomato paste and a small amount of water. Salt the sauce to your taste. Turn on the oven at 180°C. Pour sauce over the cabbage rolls, cover with a piece of foil and place in the oven for 30 minutes. Then remove the foil and continue baking for another 10 minutes.

Step 9. Place the prepared classic cabbage rolls from fresh cabbage in tomato-sour cream sauce onto portioned plates and serve hot, topped with sour cream and herbs. Bon appetit!

Cabbage rolls from Chinese cabbage

A version of cabbage rolls made from Chinese cabbage has appeared recently and has become quite popular due to its more convenient and faster preparation, because this cabbage does not require preliminary heat treatment. The taste of such cabbage rolls is similar to the classic ones made from white cabbage, and the minced meat is preferably taken from poultry, which will make the dish also dietary. In this recipe, lightly fry the cabbage rolls and simmer them in a frying pan, pouring in tomato sauce.

Cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Servings: 4.

Ingredients:

• Peking cabbage – 1 head.
• Minced chicken – 500 gr.
• Boiled rice – 200 gr.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Vegetable oil – 4 tbsp.
• Bay leaf – 1 pc.
• Sweet peas – 4 pcs.

For the sauce:

• Tomato paste – 1 tbsp.
• Water – 400 ml.
• Flour – 1 tsp.
• Dill – 10 gr.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Divide a medium head of Chinese cabbage into sheets, removing the dense base.

Step 2. Cut off the thickened parts of the sheets with a knife.

Step 3. Transfer the minced chicken into a separate bowl.Add pre-cooked rice until half cooked, grated onion and add salt and black pepper. Then mix the minced meat well.

Step 4. Place a tablespoon of cooked minced meat on the base of the cabbage leaves.

Step 5. Wrap the sheets, forming neat envelopes.

Step 6. Fry the cabbage rolls in heated vegetable oil until lightly browned on both sides.

Step 7. In a separate bowl, mix tomato paste with water, add flour and mix again until smooth.

Step 8. Pour salt and black pepper into the sauce and add bay leaf with allspice peas.

Step 9. Pour the prepared sauce over the fried cabbage rolls, bring to a boil and simmer over low heat under a covered lid for 30-35 minutes.

Step 10. Towards the end of stewing, sprinkle the dish with finely chopped green dill.

Step 11. Place the prepared cabbage rolls on portion plates and serve hot. Bon appetit!

Stuffed cabbage rolls stewed in sour cream sauce

Stuffed cabbage rolls stewed in sour cream sauce and without tomatoes will be a tasty and satisfying dish for your home table. They are distinguished by their delicate texture, juiciness and subtle creamy aroma. In this recipe, we fry the cabbage rolls and simmer them on the stove. For the sauce, dilute the sour cream with water and add a little garlic and seasonings.

Cooking time: 1 hour 10 minutes.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Servings: 6.

Ingredients:

• White cabbage – 1 head.
• Minced meat – 800 gr.
• Boiled rice – 200 gr.
• Salt - to taste.
• Seasonings - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

For the sauce:

• Water – 200 ml.
• Sour cream 20% – 150 gr.
• Garlic – 6 cloves.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Boil the rice in advance until done.In a separate bowl, place minced meat, boiled until half cooked, and cooled rice, add salt and any seasoning. Then mix the minced meat well.

Step 2. Boil a head of cabbage in boiling water and separate it into leaves one by one. If the head of cabbage is loose, you can immediately divide it into sheets and cook them in boiling water for 3-5 minutes.

Step 3. Wrap the minced meat in the form of envelopes in the prepared leaves. Fry the formed cabbage rolls in heated vegetable oil until lightly browned.

Step 4. Place sour cream in a stewing pan, add clean water, chopped garlic through a garlic press, salt and seasoning and heat over medium heat.

Step 5. Then transfer the fried cabbage rolls into the warm sour cream sauce, bring to a boil and simmer over low heat under a covered lid for 20-30 minutes.

Step 6. Place the prepared cabbage rolls, stewed in sour cream sauce, on plates and serve, complemented by chopped fresh herbs. Bon appetit!

Classic lazy cabbage rolls in a slow cooker

Classic lazy cabbage rolls in a slow cooker will give you a faster way to prepare this difficult dish. The set of ingredients for cabbage rolls is classic. Regardless of the brand of your multicooker, the “Baking” or “Stewing” programs are used. In this recipe, we form cabbage rolls into cutlets and fry them on the “Fry” program, which retains their shape. Stew cabbage rolls in sour cream and tomato sauce.

Cooking time: 1 hour 25 minutes.

Cooking time: 25 minutes.

Servings: 4.

Ingredients:

• White cabbage – 0.5 kg.
• Minced meat – 500 gr.
• Rice – 80 gr.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Sweet pepper – ½ pc.
• Salt - to taste.
• Seasonings - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Flour – 2 tbsp.

For the sauce:

• Hot water – 1 tbsp.
• Sour cream – 2 tbsp.
• Ketchup – 2 tbsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Transfer the minced meat into a separate bowl. Add finely chopped onion to it and break the egg.

Step 2. Chop the cabbage into small cubes, pour boiling water over it for 5 minutes to make it softer and drain in a colander. Reserve the liquid for the sauce.

Step 3. Add scalded cabbage to the minced meat and add salt and any seasonings. Then mix these ingredients well by hand until smooth.

Step 4. Pour a little vegetable oil into the multicooker bowl and turn on the “Frying” program. With wet hands, form the kneaded minced meat into cutlet-shaped cabbage rolls and roll well in flour.

Step 5. Fry the cabbage rolls in hot oil in batches until light golden brown.

Step 6. Then place the fried cabbage rolls in a bowl in two layers, sprinkling them with finely chopped sweet pepper.

Step 7. In a bowl, mix 2 tbsp until smooth. spoons of sour cream with ketchup and a glass of hot water. Pour this sauce over the cabbage rolls.

Step 8. Close the multicooker lid and turn on the selected program. For the Polaris model, the “Cake” program is turned on for a while by default.

Step 9. At the end of the program, place the prepared classic lazy cabbage rolls in a slow cooker on plates and immediately serve, topped with sour cream and herbs. Bon appetit!

Lazy cabbage rolls without rice

The version of lazy cabbage rolls without rice is more suitable for proper nutrition, because it excludes the high-calorie ingredient. For cabbage rolls, minced meat is taken and mixed with fried cabbage, carrots and onions. Cutlets are formed from minced meat, quickly fried to maintain their shape, and stewed in a classic sour cream and tomato sauce for cabbage rolls.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 2.

Ingredients:

• White cabbage – 140 gr.
• Minced meat – 370 gr.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 50 gr.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Salt - to taste.
• Seasonings – 1 gr.
• Water – 270 ml.
• Sour cream – 50 gr.
• Tomato paste – 20 gr.
• Vegetable oil – 30 ml.
• Bay leaf – 2 pcs.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Wash the cabbage and chop it into small cubes. Grind the peeled carrots and onions on a grater.

Step 2. Place the minced meat in a separate bowl and break a chicken egg into it.

Step 3. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, add chopped cabbage with chopped onions and carrots, sprinkle with salt and fry while stirring for 10 minutes.

Step 4. Then cool the vegetables a little and transfer them to the minced meat.

Step 5. Add half the sour cream and salt with a pinch of any seasonings to the minced meat with vegetables.

Step 6. Using a spoon, mix these ingredients well until smooth.

Step 7. Using wet hands, form small cabbage rolls in the shape of cutlets from the kneaded minced meat. Fry them for 3 minutes over low heat, first on one side.

Step 8. Then turn over and fry for another 3 minutes on the other side.

Step 9. Transfer the fried cabbage rolls to a bowl for stewing.

Step 10. In a bowl, whisk the tomato paste with water and the rest of the sour cream. Pour this sauce over the cabbage rolls, add bay leaves and simmer over low heat under a covered lid for 30 minutes.

Step 11. Serve the cooked lazy cabbage rolls without rice immediately and hot. Bon appetit!

Diet cabbage rolls with chicken

Diet cabbage rolls with chicken are prepared without adding rice or replacing it with low-calorie buckwheat or millet. They exclude fat and fried vegetables.In this version, we prepare dietary cabbage rolls from Chinese cabbage, add only parsley to the minced chicken and simmer the cabbage rolls in a sauce made from pumpkin baby puree.

Cooking time: 45 minutes.

Cooking time: 10 minutes.

Servings: 2.

Ingredients:

• Peking cabbage – 1 head.
• Minced chicken without skin – 500 gr.
• Parsley - ½ bunch.
• Pumpkin puree – 80 gr.
• Salt - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Divide the Chinese cabbage into separate sheets, removing the dense base of the head. Place the sheets in a saucepan and pour boiling water over them for 5 minutes.

Step 2. Wash the parsley, chop finely and mix with minced chicken. Salt the minced meat a little.

Step 3. Drain the cabbage. Use a sharp knife to cut off the thick part. Then put a tablespoon of minced meat on each sheet and roll it into an envelope.

Step 4. Transfer the formed cabbage rolls to a pan for stewing. Mix pumpkin puree with a small amount of hot water, add salt and pour this sauce over the cabbage rolls. Simmer them for 30 minutes from the start of boiling, over low heat and covered with a lid.

Step 5. Divide the prepared diet cabbage rolls with chicken into portioned plates and serve hot. Bon appetit!