Lazy cabbage rolls with cabbage, minced meat and rice

Lazy cabbage rolls with cabbage, minced meat and rice are a simple and very tasty dish that can be prepared in a hurry. In addition, the recipe for lazy cabbage rolls, in which the cabbage is chopped, is great for children, since they do not like cabbage leaves. Another plus is that you don’t need to wrap the filling in a cabbage leaf, which makes the housewife’s work easier.

Lazy cabbage rolls with cabbage, minced meat and rice in the oven

We present to your attention a classic version of preparing this dish in the oven. These cabbage rolls do not require pre-frying in oil, which is important for lovers of healthy food. Although the appearance of the dish is simple, these cabbage rolls will delight both your loved ones and guests with their taste. Cooking cabbage rolls in tomato sauce.

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   How to cook lazy cabbage rolls with cabbage, minced meat and rice? Chop the cabbage into small pieces or grind in a meat grinder (for those who don’t really like it).
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   Place it in a container and pour boiling water over it for 20 minutes to make it softer.
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   Cook the washed coarse-grain unparboiled rice in a separate saucepan for 2 minutes and then leave for 15 minutes to absorb the liquid. Then drain the remaining water.
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   To prepare the sauce for baking cabbage rolls, peel the onions and carrots, cut the onions into small cubes, and grate the carrots on a medium grater.
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   Fry the prepared carrots and onions in heated vegetable oil. Place 1/3 of the fried vegetables on a plate (then place them on a baking sheet). Place flour and tomato paste in a frying pan, mix well and simmer a little until a thick sauce is obtained.
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   Grind fresh tomatoes in a meat grinder and pour the resulting mass into a frying pan. Sprinkle the sauce with salt and sugar to your taste.
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   Then pour 3 glasses of water over the vegetables, add chopped garlic and simmer briefly, not until fully cooked, for 3-4 minutes.
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   Place minced meat in a deep bowl, add squeezed scalded cabbage, salt, pepper, egg and mix well.
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   Then add the boiled rice and stir again until it is soft and sticks well.
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    Grease a baking sheet or any baking dish with oil and spread the fried carrots and onions on it in an even layer.
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    With wet hands, form cabbage rolls from the prepared minced meat and place them on a baking sheet in one layer.
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    Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 200° for 20 minutes until the cabbage rolls are covered with a crust. Then remove the baking sheet from the oven and evenly pour the prepared tomato sauce over the cabbage rolls.
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    Cover the baking sheet with a piece of foil and continue baking the cabbage rolls at 180 degrees for another 40–50 minutes.
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    Lazy cabbage rolls with cabbage, minced meat and rice are ready! Can be served with any side dish.

Bon appetit!

Lazy cabbage rolls in a pan with cabbage, minced meat and rice

This simple and tasty dish can be prepared on the stove in an ordinary saucepan. You can quickly feed your family with it. And the products for it are inexpensive and accessible. The secret to the deliciousness of these lazy cabbage rolls is the separate pre-frying of the minced meat and cabbage.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat – 0.7 kg.
• Cabbage – 1 head.
• Rice – ½ tbsp.
• Carrots and onions – 2 pcs.
• Tomatoes – 3 pcs.
• Salt, pepper and dill to taste.
• Vegetable oil for frying.

Cooking process:

1. Peel the onions and chop them into small cubes.

2. Peel the carrots, rinse and chop on a coarse grater.

3. Fry these vegetables in heated vegetable oil until golden brown. There is no need to fry until fully cooked.

4. Place the minced meat in a frying pan, mash it with a spatula so that there are no lumps, and fry over medium heat for 10 minutes.

5. Add salt and pepper to the fried minced meat to your taste and be sure to finely chopped fresh dill, which will give the cabbage rolls a special taste. Then cool the minced meat a little.

6. Remove the top leaves of the washed head of cabbage and place them on the bottom of the pan in which you will stew the cabbage rolls.Using a sharp knife, chop the rest of the cabbage into thin strips, because the thinner it is, the tastier the dish will be.

7. Fry the shredded cabbage until soft in a separate frying pan.

8. Peel fresh tomatoes, pour boiling water over them, and grind in a blender until smooth.

9. Place half of the fried cabbage in an even layer in the pan.

10. Place fried minced meat on top of it, to which add rice boiled until half cooked.

11. Cover the minced meat with the remaining fried cabbage.

12. Pour the prepared tomato sauce over the cabbage and minced meat.

13. Simmer the dish over low heat for 35 minutes, stirring it with a spoon.

14. Place the cooked lazy cabbage rolls on a large plate, sprinkle with finely chopped garlic and pour over sour cream.

Bon appetit!

A simple recipe for lazy cabbage rolls in a frying pan

If you have a small family, then it is very convenient to cook these cabbage rolls in a frying pan. Children eat these cabbage rolls with pleasure, since the cabbage in them is finely chopped. Stew cabbage rolls in tomato-sour cream sauce. The recipe is simple and quick.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat – 0.4 kg.
• Cabbage - 1/5 of a medium head.
• Rice – ½ tbsp.
• Onion, egg and carrots - 1 pc.
• Sour cream – 2/3 tbsp.
• Tomato paste – 1 tbsp. l.
• Salt, pepper and spices to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Cook coarse grain rice until half cooked and cool it slightly.

2. Peel the onion and carrot and chop them in any way (with a knife, on a grater, in a blender).

3. Place minced meat, previously defrosted, in a deep bowl.

4. Add cooked rice, chopped onions and carrots to the minced meat and beat in one egg.

5. Salt the minced meat to your taste, sprinkle with black pepper, spices and mix well.

6. Rinse the cabbage, dry with paper towels, chop finely and add to the minced meat, stir. Form small round balls from the prepared minced meat, or you can make small ones for children.

7. Place a frying pan for stewing cabbage rolls on the fire and pour some water into it.

8. Then place the cooked meat balls in a single layer on the pan.

9. In a cup, mix sour cream with tomato paste and dilute it a little with cold water. Sprinkle the sauce with salt and sugar to your taste. Pour the resulting sauce over the cabbage rolls in the frying pan.

10. Simmer the cabbage rolls over low heat for 45 minutes, periodically adding water to the pan, as it evaporates during simmering.

11. Sprinkle the cooked cabbage rolls with fresh herbs and you can feed your family.

Bon appetit!

Stuffed cabbage rolls with cabbage, minced meat and rice in a slow cooker

With the help of this miracle stove you can prepare dinner for your family with a significant saving of your time. In addition, food cooked in a slow cooker tastes better than regular food.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat – 0.5 kg.
• Cabbage – 1/5 head.
• Rice – ½ tbsp.
• Onion, egg and carrots - 1 pc.
• Tomato paste – 1 tbsp. l.
• Salt, pepper, spices (marjoram) and bay to taste.

Cooking process:

1. In a separate saucepan, boil the washed coarse grain rice until half cooked and cool it slightly.

2. Peel the onion and carrot. Chop the onion into small cubes and grate the carrots on a coarse grater.

3. Using a sharp knife, chop the cabbage into thin strips.

4. Fry the shredded cabbage in a separate frying pan for a little while, just until soft, along with half the grated carrots. Sprinkle the fried cabbage with salt and spices (marjoram in this recipe) to your taste.

5.Turn on the multicooker to the “Frying” mode. Pour some sunflower oil into a bowl and fry the chopped onion and half the grated carrots until light golden brown.

6. Place the defrosted minced meat in a bowl and add cooked rice and fried onions and carrots to it. Be sure to beat in a chicken egg to hold the minced meat together.

7. Salt the minced meat, sprinkle with pepper to your taste and mix well.

8. Then, with your hands soaked in water, form small balls from the minced meat.

9. Pour a little vegetable oil into the multicooker bowl and place half of the fried cabbage in the first layer.

10. Place meat balls on it.

11. Cover the balls with the second part of the fried cabbage.

12. Dilute the tomato paste with cold water, add a little salt and pour this sauce over the cabbage rolls in the bowl.

13. Add black pepper and two bay leaves to the cabbage rolls.

14. Cook cabbage rolls in the “Stew” mode for 40 minutes.

15. Sprinkle the prepared dish with fresh herbs and serve.

Eat for your health!

Step-by-step recipe for preparing cabbage rolls in a cauldron

In a cauldron, cabbage rolls turn out to be the most aromatic and delicious. This is a recipe for those housewives who love to cook delicious food and do not have enough time for it. This recipe uses more cabbage than usual.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat – 0.5 kg.
• Rice – 1 tbsp.
• Carrots, eggs and onions – 2 pcs each.
• Cabbage – 1 kg.
• Sour cream – 200 g.
• Tomato paste – 2 tbsp. l.
• Salt and pepper to taste.
• Sunflower oil for frying.

Cooking process:

1. For lazy cabbage rolls in a cauldron, take mixed minced pork and beef in equal parts so that the cabbage rolls hold their shape better.

2.Finely chop the cabbage and pour boiling water over it for 20 minutes to make it softer.

3. Peel the onions and carrots and chop them in any way.

4. Cook the washed rice until half cooked and cool it slightly.

5. Place the minced meat in a separate bowl, add scalded and squeezed cabbage, chopped carrots and onions, boiled rice, sprinkle it with salt and black pepper.

6. Beat chicken eggs into the minced meat and mix it well.

7. Form small balls from the resulting minced meat, roll them in flour and fry until golden brown in heated vegetable oil.

8. Grease the cauldron for stewing cabbage rolls well with oil.

9. Place fried cabbage rolls in it.

10. In a separate bowl, mix sour cream with tomato paste and pour this sauce over the cabbage rolls.

11. Add a little clean water to the cauldron so that the sauce completely covers the cabbage rolls.

12. Sprinkle the contents of the cauldron with salt again and you can add laurel leaves.

13. Simmer the cabbage rolls over low heat for 40–50 minutes with the lid closed.

14. Serve the finished dish with fresh herbs and any side dish.

Bon appetit!

Stuffed cabbage rolls with cabbage, minced meat and rice in sour cream sauce

Lazy cabbage rolls cooked in sour cream sauce and without tomato paste are very tender and tasty. Children also like this dish. We will prepare cabbage rolls by frying and then stewing in the oven.

Ingredients:

• Minced beef – 0.5 kg.
• Rice – ½ tbsp.
• Cabbage – ¼ head.
• Carrots and onions – 1 pc.
• Sour cream – 150 g.
• Egg – 3 pcs.
• Salt, herbs and paprika to taste.

Cooking process:

1. First, cook the rice until done and drain the water.

2. Chop the cabbage into thin short strips, add a little salt and rub with your hands until soft.

3.Place the minced meat, preferably beef, in a separate bowl and sprinkle it with salt and pepper to your taste.

4. Add finely chopped onions, finely grated carrots and chopped cabbage to the minced meat.

5. Beat chicken eggs into the minced meat, add chopped herbs and mix the minced meat well.

6. In a separate cup, mix sour cream, flour and half a glass of water and add salt, paprika and fresh herbs to this sauce.

7. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan (then you can bake cabbage rolls in it) and add a little butter to it to give the dish a creamy taste.

8. Form small balls from the prepared minced meat and fry them in oil until golden brown.

9. Pour sour cream sauce over the cabbage rolls.

10. Place the container with cabbage rolls in an oven preheated to 180° for 15–20 minutes, no more, since the cabbage rolls have already been fried.

11. Serve this delicate and dietary dish hot.

Bon appetit!

Lazy cabbage rolls with minced chicken like in kindergarten

We present to your attention a classic recipe for this dish, created according to the famous GOST without herbs and spices - only minced chicken, rice and vegetables. Prepare and remember your childhood.

Ingredients:

• Minced chicken – 300 g.
• Cabbage – ¼ head.
• Rice – ½ tbsp.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Tomato paste – 2 tbsp. l.
• Butter – 1 tbsp. l.
• Flour – 1 tbsp. l.
• Salt to taste.

Cooking process:

1. First, prepare all the necessary ingredients to prepare the dish.

2. Peel the onion and chop it finely.

3. Cook the rice in a separate saucepan until half cooked.

4. Chop a piece of cabbage into thin strips. Pour boiling water over it for 10 minutes to soften.

5.Place the minced chicken in vegetable oil heated in a frying pan and, mashing it with a fork until there are no lumps, fry for 3-4 minutes.

6. Then add chopped onion to the minced meat in the frying pan, stir and fry for 2-3 minutes.

7. Add boiled rice, prepared cabbage to the fried minced meat and pour everything with tomato paste diluted in one glass of water.

8. Stir the dish and simmer over low heat with the lid closed for 10 minutes.

9. In the microwave or in a separate frying pan, melt a piece of butter and mix it well with the flour.

10. Transfer the resulting mixture to the cabbage with minced meat, stir again and simmer for several minutes until some of the liquid has evaporated and the dish becomes thick. Salt the cabbage rolls to your taste.

11. Lazy cabbage rolls “like in kindergarten” are ready. You can feed your loved ones.

Bon appetit!

Cabbage rolls made from Chinese cabbage, minced meat and rice

In this recipe, you are asked to replace regular cabbage with Chinese cabbage. The dish will become more tender, and with minced chicken it will also be dietary. It will look like cutlets and taste like cabbage rolls.

Ingredients:

• Peking cabbage – 1 pc.
• Minced chicken – 400 g.
• Rice – ½ tbsp.
• Onion and egg - 1 pc.
• Sour cream and tomato paste - 3 tbsp. l.
• Salt to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Chop the Beijing into small cubes and pour boiling water over it for 10 minutes or place in the microwave for 1 minute.

2. Peel the onion and chop it into a fine grater.

3. Cook the rice until tender in salted water.

4. Place minced chicken in a separate bowl, add chopped onion, Chinese cabbage, boiled rice and beat in one egg so that the cabbage rolls keep their shape.

5. Mix the minced meat well.

6.With your hands dipped in water, form the minced meat into round cutlets, roll them in flour and fry in hot oil on both sides until golden brown.

7. In a separate bowl, mix the required amount of sour cream with tomato paste, which can be replaced with delicious ketchup. Salt this mixture and dilute with 500 ml of clean water.

8. Place the fried cabbage rolls in a stewing container and pour over the prepared sauce.

9. Simmer the cabbage rolls over low heat for 30 minutes.

10. Serve with sour cream and fresh herbs.

Bon appetit!

Delicious recipe for lazy cabbage rolls with tomato paste

You are offered another recipe for making delicious lazy cabbage rolls baked in the oven. Their taste is determined by the sauce, which we will prepare from vegetables and tomato paste.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat – 0.6 kg.
• Cabbage – ½ head.
• Rice – 2/3 tbsp.
• Onion – 2 pcs.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Egg – 2 pcs.
• Tomato paste – 3 tbsp. l.
• Flour for dredging.
• Salt and spices to taste.
• Garlic – 5 cloves.
• Sunflower oil for frying.

Cooking process:

1. First, boil the washed coarse grain rice until half cooked.

2. Chop the cabbage into thin strips, add a little salt and rub with your hands until cabbage juice appears.

3. Peel the onions and chop them into small cubes.

4. Place the minced meat in a separate bowl, add boiled rice, cabbage and half the chopped onion.

5. Beat chicken eggs into the minced meat, salt it and add spices to your taste (coriander goes well with lazy cabbage rolls).

6. Prepare sauce for stewing cabbage rolls. To do this, fry the remaining onion in oil. Then add carrots grated on a medium grater and fry a little more.Add the required amount of tomato paste to the frying, pour in 1 liter of water, salt, stir and cook for a few minutes. Turn off the heat and cover the pan with the sauce with a lid.

7. Using your hands or a tablespoon, form oblong cutlets from the prepared minced meat. Roll them in flour and fry until golden brown in hot sunflower oil.

8. Place the fried cabbage rolls in a baking dish and pour in the prepared tomato sauce.

9. Bake cabbage rolls in the oven at 180°C for 25 minutes.

10. Then remove the form with cabbage rolls from the oven. Turn the cabbage rolls onto the other side and sprinkle with chopped garlic, and add a little water if necessary. Take a sample and adjust to your taste.

11. Return the pan to the oven and continue baking for another 20 minutes.

12. Serve the cooked cabbage rolls with sour cream and fresh herbs.

Eat for your health!

Layered lazy cabbage rolls with cabbage, minced meat and rice

In this recipe, you are invited to prepare lazy cabbage rolls by layering the ingredients in a baking dish. Pre-frying the cabbage rolls in oil is not used here, which significantly reduces the calorie content of the dish. These cabbage rolls are stewed in chicken broth and without tomato paste.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat – 700 g.
• Cabbage – ½ head.
• Rice – 2/3 tbsp.
• Onions and carrots – 2 pcs.
• Meat broth - 1.5 tbsp.
• Salt, spices and herbs to taste.

Cooking process:

1. First, boil the required amount of rice until half cooked and cool it.

2. Peel and wash the onions, carrots and cabbage, removing the outer leaves.

3. Chop the cabbage into thin strips with a sharp knife, or grate it on a coarse grater, or chop it in a blender.Then salt it and rub it a little with your hands to release its juice.

4. Grease a baking dish with vegetable oil and place half of the cabbage in an even layer on the bottom of the dish.

5. Peel the onions and chop them into small cubes.

6. Put half of the chopped onion, boiled rice into the minced meat, salt it and sprinkle with spices to your taste and mix well.

7. Place the prepared minced meat in the mold on top of the cabbage.

8. Place the remaining cabbage on top of the minced meat.

9. Grate the peeled carrots on a coarse grater.

10. Fry chopped onions and carrots in a small amount of sunflower oil.

11. Place the cooked fried vegetables on top of the cabbage.

12. Pour the cabbage with minced meat with the required amount of broth or water mixed with salt and sugar to your taste.

13. Bake your lazy cabbage rolls in the oven at 180° for an hour.

14. Serve the prepared delicious dish hot, pouring sour cream over it and garnishing with fresh herbs.

Bon appetit!