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

Classic lazy cabbage rolls with cabbage, minced meat and rice in a saucepan are a very tasty and satisfying lunch for the whole family. As a rule, the only additional ingredients are sauce, sour cream, seasonings, salt and onions. The technology for preparing this dish is simple, since it does not require unnecessary manipulations with cabbage. And the balance of proteins, fats and carbohydrates in cabbage rolls is simply ideal, which is why adherents of a healthy lifestyle love them very much.

Lazy cabbage rolls cutlets in tomato-sour cream sauce in a pan

In this recipe, close attention should be paid to the sauce - it is this, as well as the correct cooking technique, that ensures the cabbage rolls are juicy and delicate in texture.

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   Lazy cabbage rolls in a pan with cabbage, minced meat and rice are easy to prepare. Prepare all components for further processing. Measure out the required amount of minced meat. Chop the cabbage fairly finely. Cut the onion with a knife into thin strips or cubes. Squeeze the garlic through a garlic press or chop it with a knife. Peel the carrots, wash the tomatoes and cut into pieces.
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   Mix minced meat, chopped cabbage and onion in one container.
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   Next, add semolina and eggs - these ingredients are needed for the viscosity of the mass, from which cabbage rolls will subsequently be made. Add washed rice.
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   Season the mixture with ground pepper, salt and add garlic. Its quantity can be adjusted to taste, or you can not use it at all.
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   Mix everything together so that the cabbage-meat mixture turns into a homogeneous elastic mass. Send the workpiece to the refrigerator for 20 minutes so that the components “make friends” and the semolina swells. However, you can let the minced meat stand without a refrigerator, but then it will lag behind your hands worse.
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   Afterwards, be sure to knead the mixture again.
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   On a large cutting board or just a work surface, form the minced meat into as even a square as possible - using knives, spatulas and other kitchen utensils. Cut into even pieces with a knife. It is recommended to make 16 parts from the specified number of components.
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   Roll each piece of minced meat into a round patty and roll in flour.
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   Place a frying pan or saucepan on the stove, pour in a little oil - 2-3 tablespoons.
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    Fry the cabbage rolls on each side for a couple of minutes.
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    At this time, prepare the sauce in a separate container for further stewing of the dish.Gently mix a tablespoon of flour with two to three tablespoons of water.
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    Place the tomato paste in a container with flour and water and add the tomatoes, cut into pieces. Although you can do without them.
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    Stir in the remaining ingredients for the sauce, diluting them with about half a liter of water.
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    Place cabbage rolls in a deep pan. Pour the sauce over them, gently shaking the contents. Place whole carrots in the sauce if they are small, or cut into pieces if they are large. Cook cabbage rolls after boiling the sauce for about 20 minutes, you can increase the time if you used hard cabbage. The heat under the pan should be medium.
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    You can serve cabbage rolls with the sauce in which they were stewed.

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Lazy cabbage rolls with cabbage, minced meat, rice, stewed in sour cream sauce

This recipe uses standard sour cream sauce, which, if desired, can be diluted with mayonnaise and seasoned to your liking. It is important that the sauce completely covers the cabbage rolls, otherwise they will have to be turned over during the stewing process.

Ingredients:

• Cabbage – 300 g.
• Rice – 100 g.
• Minced beef – 500 g.
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Sour cream – 150 g.
• Salt, seasonings, fresh dill - to taste.
• Water – 150 ml.

Cooking process:

1. Chop the cabbage thinly and add a little salted water, pressing it on top with some kind of weight. Let stand for 15-20 minutes so that the bitterness goes away. Then drain the water, rinse the cabbage slices and place them in a container for preparing minced meat.

2. Boil the rice until it is 50% ready, cool and transfer to a plate.

3. Knead the ground beef well, add salt and the necessary spices to taste. Black or red pepper, chopped coriander, basil, etc. will harmonize well here.

4.Mix cabbage, seasoned minced meat and chilled rice, add finely chopped onion and turn it all into a homogeneous mass, stirring with your hands or a spoon.

5. Form medium-sized balls from the prepared mass - like cutlets. Fry them on both sides in a frying pan with vegetable oil. There is no need to cover with a lid; let the cabbage rolls form a crust.

6. After frying, place the preparations in a pan.

7. Prepare the sauce by mixing sour cream, water and chopped dill. Add a little salt and pour into the pan with cabbage rolls. If suddenly the sauce is not enough, feel free to add sour cream and water directly into the pan, just do not forget to adjust the amount of salt.

8. Stew cabbage rolls in sour cream sauce under a lid over medium heat for about half an hour.

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Lazy cabbage rolls with minced chicken - just like in kindergarten

The peculiarity of this recipe is the absence of hot spices. The only flavor enhancers allowed are salt, tomato paste and bay leaf. The dish is suitable for dietary and baby food.

Ingredients:

• Cabbage – 0.5 kg.
• Minced chicken – 300 g.
• Rice – 80 g.
• Onion – 0.5 pcs.
• Flour – 1 tbsp. l.
• Butter – 0.5 tbsp. l.
• Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp. l.
• Sour cream – 2 tbsp. l.
• Tomato paste – 2 tbsp. l.
• Salt and bay leaf to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Rinse the rice and cook until it remains crumbly.

2. Fry the minced chicken lightly in a frying pan, without adding oil. If the minced meat is dry, without fat, you can pour a spoonful of oil into the pan.

3. Add chopped onion, sautéed until translucent, to the minced meat, add rice here and knead everything.

4. Chop the cabbage thinly, add a little salt and blanch in a saucepan or frying pan with a little water.The percentage of vegetable readiness after this treatment is 50%. Once blanching is complete, drain off excess water.

5. Add cabbage to the minced meat, pour in a little water, add tomato paste, sour cream and simmer the mixture for about half an hour under the lid.

6. Put butter in a frying pan, heat it and fry the flour in it, stirring. Afterwards, send the flour to the cabbage with minced meat. Salt the lazy cabbage rolls, add bay leaf and keep covered for about 5 minutes.

7. These cabbage rolls can be served on a common platter or in portions, forming balls from the mixture with a spoon. Sour cream or cream sauce with dill will perfectly complement the taste of the dish.

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Step-by-step recipe for lazy cabbage rolls in a pan in layers

In this recipe, the ingredients are placed in layers in a deep pan and simmered, turning into a fragrant puff dish. In shape it rather resembles a stew, but in taste it resembles ordinary cabbage rolls.

Ingredients:

• Head of cabbage – 600 g.
• Minced pork or with the addition of beef – 500 g.
• Rice – 100 g.
• Onions and carrots - 1 pc.
• Water – 100 ml.
• Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp. l.
• Salt, pepper, herbs to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Measure the required amount of rice, rinse it well and boil until almost done. Set aside.

2. Peel and chop the carrots and onions - with a knife or on a grater. Place the vegetables in a frying pan with vegetable oil and sauté for about five minutes over medium heat, avoiding burning.

3. Prepare minced meat or use ready-made one. Mash it thoroughly in a separate bowl; if the meat is not chopped enough, pass through a meat grinder with fine holes. Add the minced meat to the fried onions and carrots and simmer everything together under the lid for 10-15 minutes.

4. Combine rice with minced meat, carrots and onions. Sprinkle with salt.

5.Prepare a deep pan in which the lazy cabbage rolls will be cooked in layers. Place half the volume of finely shredded cabbage on the bottom.

6. Place the second layer of minced meat with rice, carrots and onions. Level around the entire perimeter of the vessel. And pour the remaining shredded cabbage on top.

7. Salt the puff pastry on top, add spices, bay leaves, and maybe herbs. Pour water, close the lid and leave to simmer for about half an hour or forty minutes. Cooking time largely depends on the cabbage. If it is young, you need to stew less, but if the harvest was harvested a long time ago and the cabbage has become tough, it will take about 20 minutes more time.

8. Keep the finished lazy cabbage rolls with the stove turned off and the lid closed for about 5 minutes and serve. Serve them with sour cream, mayonnaise or any sauce based on these products.

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Lazy cabbage rolls with Chinese cabbage, minced meat, rice

It will take a minimum of time to prepare lazy cabbage rolls according to this recipe, since Chinese cabbage cooks faster than white cabbage. The taste of these cabbage rolls is more delicate, and the aroma lacks sharp cabbage notes.

Ingredients:

• 500 g of Chinese cabbage.
• 600 g minced meat.
• 200 g rice.
• 200 ml water.
• 150 g sour cream.
• 50 g tomato paste.
• Onions and carrots - 1 pc.
• Herbs, salt, vegetable oil, seasonings.

Cooking process:

1. Chop the onion into cubes and grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Fry the carrot-onion mixture in a frying pan until the vegetables soften just a little.

2. It is better to take minced meat that is not too fatty; even chicken will do. But if it's meaty, let it have more beef. Add the minced meat to the pan with the vegetables and fry for 10-15 minutes, stirring occasionally.

3.Divide the Chinese cabbage in half lengthwise and chop not too finely. The solid part can also be used, but it must be crushed more thoroughly.

4. Place shredded cabbage in a saucepan, add minced meat with carrots and onions and add washed raw rice. It needs to be leveled and not mixed with the rest of the ingredients.

5. Pour about 2 glasses of water into the pan, let the mixture boil, and then reduce the heat to medium. Place tomato paste, sour cream in a container, add salt and seasonings. There is no need to stir the ingredients while they are stewing. Keep the pan on the fire for about 25 minutes. If you notice that the liquid has completely evaporated and the cabbage has not yet reached the desired softness, add a little water.

6. Keep the finished cabbage rolls covered without heat for several minutes, and then mix all the contents and serve in portions with sour cream, herbs, rye toast or other foods to taste.

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Delicious and simple recipe for lazy cabbage rolls with potatoes

This hearty dish can easily serve as a set lunch, which includes both a side dish and a meat component. Potatoes are stewed together with minced meat and vegetables, soaked in their juices, and tomato paste gives the dish an appetizing flavor.

Ingredients:

• Cabbage – 0.5 kg.
• Minced meat – 0.4 kg.
• Rice – 100 g.
• Carrots and onions – 0.5 pcs.
• Potatoes – 0.4 kg.
• Tomatoes – 2 pcs.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Salt, vegetable oil, herbs, seasonings, water.

Cooking process:

1. Cook the rice until half cooked. Depending on which variety you take, you will get cabbage rolls of the appropriate consistency.

2. Finely chop the onion.

3. Chop white cabbage into thin slices.

4. Combine cabbage, onion, boiled rice and chopped onion.Add minced meat to vegetables and rice, beat in egg. Salt and add seasonings to taste.

5. Form small cutlets from the minced meat. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the pieces on both sides over medium heat. Let a crust form on them; it will allow the cutlets to retain their shape and not fall apart.

6. Peel the carrots, grate them on a grater with large holes and fry them in a frying pan until soft, then add the chopped tomatoes to the carrots. Simmer the vegetables covered for 10 minutes.

7. Peel the potatoes, cut them into large slices - you can cut them into halves, if the potatoes are not large, it is better not to cut small tubers at all.

8. Place the fried cabbage and minced meat cutlets into the pan, alternating them with potatoes. Place fried carrots and tomatoes on top. Salt everything, pour water and simmer under the lid. It will take 40 minutes to simmer the dish.

9. Ready-made cabbage rolls with potatoes can be sprinkled with herbs or grated cheese, and flavored with a piece of butter.

Bon appetit!