Stuffed cabbage rolls in a slow cooker

Stuffed cabbage rolls are a dish of original Russian cuisine, which has not become less popular even after 100 years, which is not surprising, because the products used for cooking are affordable and nutritious: twisted meat, white rice and sautéed vegetables. And you can prepare such a dish in various ways, for example: stewing in a saucepan, baking in the oven, and even simmering in a slow cooker.

How to cook cabbage rolls from fresh cabbage in a slow cooker?

Juicy minced meat, boiled rice and vegetables wrapped in a green leaf of young cabbage are always incredibly tasty, aromatic and very satisfying. When using fresh white cabbage, cabbage rolls are as tender and flavorful as possible.

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   Stuffed cabbage rolls are very easy to prepare in a slow cooker.Grind a piece of the selected meat using a meat grinder.
2. 
   Wash 100 grams of white rice thoroughly under running water and add it to the minced meat, season with salt and ground black pepper to your taste - mix.
3. 
   Dip the cabbage completely into boiling water and boil for 5 minutes until the leaves are soft.
4. 
   Carefully remove the head of cabbage from the boiling water, let it cool a little and allow excess moisture to drain, then cut out the stalk.
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   We remove the leaves and cut off the tough vein. If the cabbage remains hard inside, boil it again.
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   Place two tablespoons of minced meat on the base of the sheet.
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   Roll the cabbage into a roll, tucking the edges inward.
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   We fold the outer edges of the leaf towards each other and finally form the workpiece.
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   We repeat this manipulation with all other products.
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    Cut the onion into small pieces, grate the carrots, and pass the garlic through a press.
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    Heat the oil in the multicooker bowl, turn on the “Frying” program and fry the chopped vegetables for 3-5 minutes.
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    Add tomato paste to the onions and carrots (you can use frozen).
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    Finely chop the tomato and also place it in the bowl.
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    Sprinkle the sautéed vegetables with salt and pepper, stir and simmer for another 3 minutes.
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    Turn off the “Frying” program and place the cabbage rolls for frying.
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    Fill the preparations with a glass of broth (can be replaced with water).
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    We start the “Extinguishing” mode and set the timer to 40 minutes.
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    Serve hot, sprinkled with chopped green onions and dill if desired. Bon appetit!

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Lazy cabbage rolls with cabbage, meat and minced meat in a slow cooker

In case you really want to taste juicy and aromatic cabbage rolls, but don’t have the time or desire to stand at the stove for a long time, we prepare a “lazy” version from the same products as the classic one. The finished dish has excellent taste and simply melts in your mouth!

Cooking time – 1 hour 45 minutes

Cooking time – 25 min.

Portions – 8.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat – 400 gr.
• Cabbage – 700 gr.
• Carrot – 1 pc.
• Onions – 2 pcs.
• Garlic – 2 teeth.
• Rice – 140 gr.
• Khmeli-suneli seasoning - ½ tsp.
• Spices for minced meat – ½ tsp.
• Cream 18% – 200 ml.
• Tomato paste – 50 gr.
• Water – 200 ml.
• Vegetable oil – 2 tsp.
• Salt - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Prepare the vegetables: chop the carrots and cabbage into thin strips, cut the onion (1 piece) into small pieces. Add the vegetables, mix and squeeze lightly with your hands so that the cabbage becomes a little softer.

Step 2. Let's make the minced meat: finely chop the onion and mix with the minced meat, also add garlic, passed through a press, spices, salt and washed rice - mix well.

Step 3. Form small balls the size of a walnut from the meat mass.

Step 4. Pour a little vegetable oil into the multicooker bowl and lay out a layer of vegetables, on it - balls of minced meat and rice. Fill the entire bowl in the same way, leaving space between the meat components. It is important that the last layer should be vegetable.

Step 5. To pour, combine water, cream and tomato paste in a deep bowl, sprinkle with spices and mix.

Step 6. Pour the resulting mixture over the vegetables and meat and turn on the “Stew” mode for 60 minutes.

Step 7. Serve the cabbage rolls with sour cream. Bon appetit!

Stuffed cabbage rolls in tomato-sour cream sauce in a Redmond slow cooker

The Redmond multicooker is a real helper for all housewives, because to cook in this device, you just need to cut and prepare food, and the mini-oven will do the rest for you. Cabbage rolls stewed in a bowl turn out incredibly tender and incredibly tasty.

Cooking time – 1 hour 20 minutes

Cooking time - 30 min.

Portions – 6.

Ingredients:

• Cabbage – 1.5 kg.
• Rice – 1 tbsp.
• Minced meat – 500 gr.
• Tomato paste – 70 gr.
• Water – 2 tbsp.
• Onions – 2 pcs.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Sour cream – 200 gr.
• Laurel leaf – 1 pc.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Wash the rice in several waters and boil until half cooked.

Step 2. Coarsely chop onion (one piece) to prepare the sauce.

Step 3. Finely chop the second onion to use in the filling.

Step 4. Grate the carrots on a fine grater.

Step 5. Wash the boiled rice again and leave to cool at room temperature.

Step 6. Place the head of cabbage on a large fork and plunge into boiling water for one minute.

Step 7. Remove the scalded cabbage and carefully remove the softened leaves. We repeat the procedure until the desired number of leaves is obtained.

Step 8. Prepare the dressing: heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the onion until translucent.

Step 9. Add chopped carrots and fry for a few more minutes until the vegetables are soft.

Step 10. Pour 70 milliliters of natural tomato paste, slightly diluted with water, into the fryer (can be replaced with grated or crushed tomatoes, tomato juice).

Step 11. Salt.

Step 12. Sprinkle with ground black pepper.

Step 13. Add sour cream and simmer for another 5 minutes over moderate heat.

Step 14Let's start with the meat filling: first defrost the minced meat and place it in a deep container.

Step 15. Add finely chopped onion to the meat.

Step 16. Add half-cooked rice.

Step 17. Season with salt and pepper to your taste and mix thoroughly.

Step 18. Cut off the tough vein from the cooled cabbage leaves.

Step 19. Place a tablespoon of filling in the center of the leaf.

Step 20. We fold the blanks in any convenient way.

Step 21. Transfer the cabbage rolls to the slow cooker.

Step 22. Pour water and aromatic vegetable sauce into the bowl, add one laurel leaf.

Step 23. Simmer the food for 40 minutes in the “Stew” mode.

Step 24. Place the hot cabbage rolls along with the gravy on plates, pour sour cream on top and enjoy. Bon appetit!

Steamed tender cabbage rolls in a slow cooker

Did you know that you can cook cabbage rolls not only by stewing them in a sauce made from sautéed onions, carrots and tomato paste? Today we will talk about a method of cooking called “steaming”, and such a miracle of technology as a multicooker does an excellent job with this task. The finished dish is low in calories thanks to roasting the vegetables.

Cooking time – 60 min.

Cooking time - 20 minutes.

Portions – 6.

Ingredients:

• Cabbage leaves – 6 pcs.
• Rice - ¼ tbsp.
• Minced chicken – 250 gr.
• Water – 400 ml.
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Carrots – ½ pcs.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Greens - for serving.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Carefully separate the required number of leaves from a head of young cabbage and place them in boiling water to soften for 2-3 minutes. We stack the scalded leaves on top of each other, so they are additionally steamed.

Step 2.Wash white rice thoroughly and boil until soft in water with a little added salt.

Step 3. For the filling, in a deep container, mix the minced meat, cooked rice (rinse first and allow excess water to drain), salt and ground black pepper to taste.

Step 4. Finely chop the onion, grate or cut the carrots into thin strips - add to the meat and stir again.

Step 5. Transfer the juicy filling to the wide base of the sheet (cut out the white vein if necessary), one or two tablespoons is enough.

Step 6. Roll the pieces so that the cabbage leaf completely covers the minced meat with vegetables and rice. We form all the cabbage rolls and place them on the grill for steaming, pour 400 milliliters of water into the bowl.

Step 7. Close the lid and turn on the “Steam” program, set the timer to 40 minutes.

Step 8. Before serving, decorate the dish with fresh herbs and, if desired, top with your favorite sauces and dressings. Bon appetit!

A simple and tasty recipe for making cabbage rolls in sour cream

Just once, having cooked cabbage rolls not in tomato paste, but in sour cream, you will repeat this method of cooking again and again! Which is not at all surprising, because cabbage leaves stuffed with minced meat and rice, stewed in a delicate creamy sauce, turn out to be truly incredibly tender.

Cooking time – 1 hour 30 minutes

Cooking time - 20 minutes.

Portions – 2.

Ingredients:

• Cabbage leaves (large) – 4 pcs.
• Rice – 3 tbsp.
• Minced meat – 200 gr.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Carrot – 1 pc.
• Garlic – 2 teeth.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Sour cream – 200 ml.
• Butter – 20 gr.
• Flour – 1 tbsp.
• Bay leaf – 1 pc.
• Water – 300 ml.
• Salt - to taste.
• Spices - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1.Finely chop the onion and carrots or grate them, pass the garlic through a press, and at the same time dip the cabbage leaves in boiling water for 3 minutes.

Step 2. To prepare the filling: in a large plate, combine minced meat, rice boiled until half cooked, egg, salt, ground pepper, spices to taste and chopped vegetables.

Step 3. Mix all the products listed above thoroughly.

Step 4. Place 1-2 tablespoons of filling on the softened cabbage leaf.

Step 5. Fold it like an envelope.

Step 6. Coat the multicooker bowl with a piece of butter and place the pieces seam side down.

Step 7. In a separate bowl, mix water, flour and sour cream - mix and pour in the cabbage rolls, also add bay leaves.

Step 8. Cook for 60 minutes with the lid closed in the “Stew” mode. Bon appetit!

Lazy cabbage rolls in the Polaris multicooker

When preparing “lazy” cabbage rolls, the housewife’s task is greatly simplified, because she does not have to wash a bunch of dirty dishes and roll up cabbage leaves with meat filling inside. We cook juicy and delicious cabbage rolls in a pressure cooker without any problems.

Cooking time – 60 min.

Cooking time – 25 min.

Portions – 5.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat – 350 gr.
• Cabbage – 500 gr.
• Rice – 150 gr.
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Water – 200 ml.
• Salt – 1 tsp.
• Spices for minced meat – 3 tsp.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Flour – 1 tbsp.
• Laurel leaf – 1 pc.
• Olive oil – 2-3 tbsp.

For the sauce:

• Water – 250 ml.
• Sour cream – 4 tbsp.
• Flour – 2 tbsp.
• Salt – 1/3 tsp.
• Bouillon cube – ½ pc.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Wash the cabbage under water and cut into small squares.

Step 2. Place the rice in the multicooker bowl, place the cabbage on top, fill with hot water, add salt.

Step 3.Sprinkle the minced meat with spices for minced meat, salt, add egg and flour.

Step 4. Mix the meat component with cooled rice and cabbage, sautéed onions.

Step 5. Wet your hands in water and form oblong “cutlets”.

Step 6. Pour olive oil into the bowl and fry the cabbage rolls on both sides until golden brown on the “Fry” program.

Step 7. For the sauce: in a separate bowl, mix water, sour cream, flour, salt and crumbled bouillon cube - stir and pour over the cabbage rolls. We also add a bay leaf, broken into pieces.

Step 8. Close the lid tightly and turn on “Manual mode”, set the pressure to -3, and set the timer to 12 minutes.

Step 9. Serve hot, generously pouring sauce over it. Bon appetit!

How to cook frozen semi-finished cabbage rolls in a slow cooker?

It would seem that what could be easier than buying cabbage rolls in a store and simply stewing them at home? It turns out that everything is not so simple, because you need to prepare a sauce from sauteed vegetables and simmer the preparations for a long time in order to end up with a juicy and aromatic dish.

Cooking time – 1 hour 15 minutes

Cooking time - 15 minutes.

Portions – 9 pcs.

Ingredients:

• Frozen cabbage rolls – 9 pcs.
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Carrot – 1 pc.
• Sour cream – 2-3 tbsp.
• Tomato paste – 70 gr.
• Water/broth – 200-300 ml.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Peel the onions and carrots and chop them randomly, then fry in a multicooker bowl until soft without adding oil.

Step 2. Add sour cream, tomato paste, salt and ground black pepper to the sauteed vegetables to your taste - mix and add broth or boiled water. Simmer for 2-3 minutes.

Step 3.Pour the hot dressing into a deep bowl. Place semi-finished products on the bottom of the multicooker bowl (in one or two layers, depending on the quantity).

Step 4. Fill the cabbage rolls with vegetable sauce and if the liquid does not cover the workpiece completely, add a little more water.

Step 5. Set the “Extinguishing” mode for 60 minutes. After switching off, immediately place on plates, generously pour sour cream on and enjoy. Bon appetit!

Delicious cabbage rolls from Chinese cabbage in a slow cooker

If you wrap cabbage rolls stuffed with minced meat and rice not in white cabbage leaves, but in Chinese cabbage leaves, the dish turns out much more tender. After all, Chinese cabbage itself is much softer and does not have hard veins, and it is easier to cook from it, because after scalding it becomes incredibly elastic.

Cooking time – 1 hour 25 minutes

Cooking time – 25 min.

Portions – 5

Ingredients:

• Minced meat – 450 gr.
• Peking cabbage – 800-900 gr.
• Rice – 3 tbsp.
• Onions – 2 pcs.
• Carrot – 1 pc.
• Tomato paste – 1 tbsp.
• Vegetable oil – 50 ml.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Water – 200 ml. + 0.5 tbsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Wash a few tablespoons of rice in several waters and pour into a saucepan or saucepan. Fill with water, add some salt and boil for about 20-25 minutes until tender.

Step 2. Mix boiled and slightly cooled rice with minced meat and onion chopped in a blender.

Step 3. Season the filling with salt and ground black pepper and stir again.

Step 4. Cut off the base of the head of cabbage and separate the leaves, rinse thoroughly with water and let dry a little time.

Step 5. Pour boiling water into a deep plate and dip the leaves, leave to soften for 10 minutes.

Step 6.At the same time, grate the carrots, finely chop the onion, and fry in oil directly in the multicooker bowl until lightly browned.

Step 7. Let's start molding. Place an elastic cabbage leaf on a work surface or cutting board.

Step 8. Place a tablespoon of meat filling on the base of the leaf.

Step 9. Fold the side edges towards the center and wrap them into a tight roll.

Step 10. We fold the rest of the blanks in the same way.

Step 11. To prepare the sauce: in a glass, mix 200 milliliters of water, tomato paste and salt to taste.

Step 12. Place the cabbage rolls in the slow cooker directly on top of the sautéed vegetables.

Step 13. Fill the contents of the bowl with sauce + another half a glass of warm water. Cook for 45 minutes with the lid closed in the “Baking” mode.

Step 14. After turning off the program, tear off the cover.

Step 15. Place the dish on portioned plates, decorate with finely chopped herbs and pour over the sauce. Bon appetit!