Lazy cabbage rolls in a slow cooker

Stuffed cabbage rolls are one of the popular dishes of Slavic cuisine, but they require special skill and a lot of time to prepare. Here are the best recipes for housewives who want to feed their loved ones a delicious dish without spending too much time and effort on preparing it.

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

Classic ingredients and the help of a multicooker in preparation are the key to a tasty and light dish that can be served for lunch or dinner. It is better to choose minced meat for such cabbage rolls that is a little fattier, for example, from pork, so that the cabbage rolls taste more juicy.

1. 
   How to cook lazy cabbage rolls in a slow cooker? Fill the rice with water in a multicooker in a 1:1 ratio, lightly add salt and cook for 10 minutes in the “rice/cereals” mode.
2. 
   Grate the carrots, cut the onion into small cubes, and chop the cabbage very thinly.
3. 
   Mix the prepared rice in a deep bowl with minced meat and prepared vegetables, break one egg there, add a little salt and spices and mix the mass thoroughly.
4. 
   Cutlets are made from the prepared meat and vegetable mixture and rolled in breadcrumbs, and then cooked on both sides, turning on the “frying” mode, with the addition of vegetable oil, so that they are properly browned. The processed lazy cabbage rolls are placed in the multicooker bowl so that a few centimeters remain to the top edge.
5. 
   In a separate container, mix sour cream with tomato paste, salt and dilute with cold boiled water to make the sauce a thinner consistency. At this stage, finely chopped garlic is also added to the sauce. Mix everything and pour the cabbage rolls into the bowl of the device so that they are completely covered with sauce.
6. 
   The dish is brought to readiness in the “stew” mode for 30-40 minutes, and then served hot with sauce and herbs. Bon appetit!

How to cook lazy cabbage rolls in tomato-sour cream sauce in a slow cooker?

The dish called “lazy cabbage rolls” works best if you cook it in tomato and sour cream sauce. In this case, the minced meat with rice and cabbage is soaked in the gravy and acquires additional flavors, becoming more juicy, with a characteristic appetizing aroma.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Cooking time: 10 min.

Servings – 6.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat – 400 gr.
• Cabbage – 1 head.
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Rice – 0.5 tbsp.
• Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp. l.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Sour cream – 4 tbsp. l.
• Tomato paste – 2 tbsp. l.
• Water – 50 ml
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Garlic - to taste.
• Parsley - to taste.
• Wheat flour – 50 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Cook the rice in the slow cooker in the “rice” or “cereals” mode so that it becomes a little softer, but not until cooked.

2. In a deep bowl, combine minced meat, preferably minced pork, as much salt and spices as required, as well as prepared rice.

3. Carrots need to be finely chopped or grated separately, and do the same with cabbage and onions.

4. Vegetables are mixed with rice and minced meat, you need to mix it thoroughly, and then form neat small cabbage rolls, it is better if they are oblong. The workpieces are placed in the bowl of the device with oil for cooking in a suitable mode, for example, “frying”, so that they are browned on all sides.

5. In a suitable bowl, mix the ingredients for pouring: the specified amount of tomato paste, as well as water, sour cream, well-chopped garlic, the required amount of salt and spices to taste. Add a little flour to the gravy and carefully combine the ingredients.

6. Stuffed cabbage rolls are placed in the bowl of the device and filled with sauce with sour cream and tomato paste. Cook for 30 minutes using the “Stew” mode, and then serve, before they have time to cool, with chopped parsley.

Lazy cabbage rolls in a slow cooker in layers

When preparing cabbage rolls according to this recipe, the required ingredients - uncooked rice, minced meat and traditional vegetables - are laid out in layers in a slow cooker, without wasting time on mixing and shaping. The dish turns out no less tasty, but the presentation is more original.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Cooking time: 10 min.

Servings – 4.

Ingredients:

• Cabbage – 600 gr.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Rice – 100 gr.
• Minced meat – 200 gr.
• Sour cream – 2 tbsp. l.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Greens - for serving.

Cooking process:

1. Vegetables are prepared: finely chop the onion, shred carrots and cabbage. The dish will be more tasty if all the vegetables are cut into very thin strips.

2. Sauté pieces of onion and carrots in oil in the “Baking” mode for 10 minutes, salt and pepper the vegetables.

3. Then put minced meat in a separate layer on top of the thermally treated onions and carrots, salt and pepper, and raw rice on top of it.

4. Distribute the prepared amount of cabbage on top of the rice, level it, add salt and pepper, pour sour cream on top and add water so that all layers are covered with it.

5. Layered lazy cabbage rolls are kept in the slow cooker in the “stew” mode for about 40 minutes, and then served. You can complement the dish with cabbage rolls with sour cream and fresh herbs.

Lazy cabbage rolls in the Polaris multicooker

For this recipe, it is recommended to use long-grain rice and minced pork: they go well together, and the dish turns out more juicy and tasty. Details of taste can be adjusted by adding more sour cream or tomato paste.

Cooking time: 1 hour 40 minutes.

Cooking time: 10 min.

Servings – 6.

Ingredients:

• Cabbage – 800 gr.
• Minced pork – 500 gr.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Rice – 0.5 tbsp.
• Water – 50 ml
• Sour cream – 4 tbsp. l.
• Tomato paste – 2 tbsp. l.
• Bay leaf – 2 pcs.
• Salt - to taste.
• Spices - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Greens - for serving.

Cooking process:

1. Shred the cabbage thinly, cut the onion into half rings, and cut the carrots as for cooking in Korean.

2. Rice is washed, mixed with minced meat and chopped vegetables.The mass must be brought to taste by adding the desired amount of salt and favorite spices.

3. Pour oil into the multicooker bowl, lay out the resulting mass, and level it.

4. Place a couple of laurel leaves on top.

5. Separately combine sour cream, water and tomato paste, add some salt and add some spices, mix and distribute over the mixture of minced meat, vegetables and rice.

6. Prepare lazy cabbage rolls in the “baking” mode for about an hour, then mix and simmer in the same mode for another half hour. The dish is served hot with sauce and fresh herbs.

A simple recipe for lazy cabbage rolls without rice in a slow cooker

For those who don’t like rice or don’t want to use it, but want to try delicious lazy cabbage rolls, you can prepare this dish without cereal. In this case, use less fatty minced meat - a mixture of chicken and beef is best.

Cooking time: 50 min.

Cooking time: 10 min.

Servings – 6.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat (chicken and beef) – 700 gr.
• Cabbage – 500 gr.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Onions – 2 pcs.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Tomato paste – 2 tbsp. l.
• Sour cream – 4 tbsp. l.
• Water – 1 tbsp.
• Vegetable oil – 1 tbsp. l.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Khmeli-suneli seasoning – to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Shred the cabbage very finely; you can grate it: the smaller the pieces, the more tender and juicy the dish will be, this is especially important for cabbage rolls, which are prepared without rice.

2. Chop the carrots as finely as possible; do the same with the onions, but you can also pass them through a meat grinder.

3. Add half an onion and chopped cabbage to the minced meat, beat in an egg and mix in spices with salt and pepper.

4. From the finished mass, cutlets are molded into cutlets.

5.Separately mix the pasta and sour cream with water, season and salt.

6. Place carrots and the second part of the onion on the bottom of the multicooker with vegetable oil, carefully place cabbage rolls in the form of cutlets on top and pour gravy over everything. Keep the dish in the “stew” mode for about 40 minutes.

7. If you want a more dietary version of the dish, you can steam the preparations in a slow cooker for about 40 minutes.

8. Serve the dish with herbs, sour cream and pour over the resulting sauce of tomato paste and sour cream.

Quick lazy cabbage rolls in a pressure cooker

The recipe is suitable for those who do not have serious cooking skills and do not have too much free time at their disposal, but want to cook a tasty, healthy and preferably unusual dish.

Cooking time: 50 min.

Cooking time: 10 min.

Servings – 6.

Ingredients:

• Cabbage – 1 kg
• Minced meat – 500 gr.
• Rice – 0.5 tbsp.
• Onions – 2 pcs.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Meat broth – 1 tbsp.
• Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp. l.
• Tomato paste – 1 tbsp. l.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Bay leaf – 1 pc.
• Butter - to taste.
• Sour cream - for serving.
• Greens - for serving.

Cooking process:

1. Onions with fresh carrots are chopped in any convenient way - grated or chopped, sautéed in any vegetable oil, preferably.

2. Minced meat is salted, peppered and simmered separately for about 5-7 minutes.

3. Shred the cabbage very finely.

4. Pour a little oil, any vegetable, into the bottom of the multicooker bowl, add half of the prepared cabbage, followed by a layer of onions and carrots, tomato paste and one bay leaf. Lightly salt and pepper everything. The next layer is minced meat, washed rice is laid on top of it and covered with the second part of the cabbage.Pour the broth over everything and add a piece of butter.

5. Close the multicooker bowl and cook in the “vegetables” mode for 15 minutes. At the end of the device operation, the contents of the bowl are mixed and served hot with sour cream or herbs.