Lazy cabbage rolls in tomato-sour cream sauce in the oven

Lazy cabbage rolls in tomato and sour cream sauce in the oven is a dish that, although it has a simplified cooking method, is not at all for the lazy. And the most versatile and harmonious tomato-sour cream sauce, which is created for dishes with minced meat and cabbage, will help complement a simple dish.

Lazy cabbage rolls in the oven in tomato-sour cream sauce with cabbage, rice and minced meat

A dish cooked in the oven turns out to be as dietary as possible, light and evenly baked, and this result is not achieved by every cooking method. Feel free to try this recipe if you are interested in this result.

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   How to cook lazy cabbage rolls in tomato-sour cream sauce in the oven? First, let's cook the rice, which is necessary for making cabbage rolls. Place the cereal into boiling water, add salt and bring to a boil again. Then reduce the heat to low and cook for ten minutes. Place the finished rice in a sieve, drain off excess water and leave to cool at room temperature.
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   We clean the head of cabbage by removing the top leaves and cutting out the stalk. Then cut the shredded cabbage leaves into small cubes. We do the same with onions.
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   Place the chopped cabbage and onions in a bowl and add freshly boiled water, then leave to steep for 10 minutes. After this time, place the vegetables in a colander to drain all the water.
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   Cut the chili pepper lengthwise, remove all seeds and chop as finely as possible. Now let's put all the contents together. Add cooled rice, cabbage with onions and chopped pepper to the minced meat. Mix everything well, add salt and pepper to taste.
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   From the prepared mixture we form cabbage rolls in the form of cutlets. Dip them in breadcrumbs and fry in a frying pan heated with vegetable oil. Fry until a lightly browned crust forms.
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   Place the browned cabbage rolls into a baking dish. And turn on the oven to preheat to 180 degrees.
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   For the sauce, combine tomato paste with rich sour cream, add pepper and salt and mix thoroughly so that the spices are evenly distributed throughout.
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   Cover the lazy cabbage rolls, which were previously placed in a mold, with the prepared tomato-sour cream sauce. We send cabbage rolls to stew for 40-45 minutes in a preheated oven.

Serve the dish hot, divided into portions and garnished with fresh herbs. We wish you bon appetit!

Lazy cabbage rolls with Chinese cabbage, tomato paste and sour cream

Peking cabbage is not only an excellent alternative to white cabbage, but also surpasses it with its juicy and incredibly tender young leaves. And the final note to the dish is given by the combination of sour tomato paste and sour cream.

Cooking time: 150 min.

Cooking time: 80-90 min.

Servings – 2.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat – 300 gr.
• Sour cream (20%) – 2 tbsp.
• Tomato paste – 2 tbsp.
• Chicken egg – 1 pc.
• Rice – 180 gr.
• Peking cabbage – 1 pc.
• Wheat flour – 3 tbsp.
• Onions – 2 pcs.
• Carrots – 2 pcs.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Spices - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Cut Chinese cabbage into thin slices.

2. Chop the peeled onions as finely as possible.

3. We pass any meat of your choice through a meat grinder or use purchased minced meat.

4. The next step is to add the chopped vegetables to the minced meat, beat in one egg and mix well. At the same stage you need to add salt and pepper.

5. Finally, add cooked white rice to the main mass and carefully mix all the contents. Then we form small cabbage rolls, first wetting our hands in cold water.

6. Roll the formed cabbage rolls in flour and place on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil. Place the form with cabbage rolls in a preheated oven for 20 minutes until all the ingredients set.

7. At this time, prepare the vegetable frying in tomato-sour cream sauce. To do this, cut the onion into cubes and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown.Then add grated carrots, a little Chinese cabbage, spices to taste and simmer over medium heat until soft.

8. As a sauce for vegetables, add sour cream and tomato paste and mix well. In this form, simmer the vegetables for a couple of minutes.

9. For softness and extra juiciness, pour in a little boiled water and continue to simmer under the closed lid for another 10-15 minutes, until the liquid has completely evaporated.

10. After 20 minutes, remove the baking sheet from the oven and cover the cabbage rolls with vegetable sauce. All that remains is to bring the dish to complete readiness. Return the cabbage rolls covered with vegetables to the oven and bake for 15-20 minutes.

11. Check the readiness of the cabbage rolls and invite everyone to the table. The dish can be served on its own or as a side dish.

We wish you bon appetit!

Lazy cabbage rolls with minced chicken in tomato-sour cream sauce

If you are in doubt about the choice of minced meat, you definitely won’t regret it by choosing chicken. After all, it is unpretentious in preparation and is always appropriate in vegetable dishes.

Cooking time: 50 min.

Cooking time: 30 min.

Servings – 6-8.

Ingredients:

• Minced chicken – 500 gr.
• Tomato paste – 2 tbsp.
• Sour cream – 1 tbsp.
• White cabbage – 800 gr.
• Rice – 200 gr.
• Onions – 2 pcs.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Initially, chop the onions and carrots and sauté in a frying pan heated with vegetable oil. Fry the vegetables until golden brown.

2. Then add minced chicken to the softened vegetables and continue to simmer over medium heat until it darkens.This will take about 10 minutes, after which we immediately add tomato paste and sour cream. Mix everything well and continue to simmer in tomato-sour cream sauce.

3. At the same time, chop the prepared head of cabbage as finely as possible and place it in a frying pan. In the meantime, we will boil the rice in the traditional way until it is half cooked.

4. As soon as the rice has softened a little, transfer it to the pan and stir again. At the same stage, add pepper.

5. 10 minutes before turning off, we bring our dish to taste, adding salt and all kinds of spices.

6. Serve the dish hot, adding chilled sour cream if desired.

We wish you bon appetit!

How to cook lazy cabbage rolls in layers in tomato-sour cream sauce?

An incredibly delicious vegetable casserole called lazy cabbage rolls. The dish will be especially tasty in the summer season, rich in vegetables.

Cooking time: 60 min.

Cooking time: 35-45 min.

Servings – 6.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat – 500 gr.
• Tomato paste – 50 ml.
• Rice – 1 tbsp.
• White cabbage – 1 pc.
• Onion – 2 pcs.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Sour cream (20%) – 250 ml.
• Parsley – 1 bunch.
• Dill – 1 bunch.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Place well-washed rice grains in a saucepan with boiling salted water in a ratio of 1:2 and cook over low heat. For complete cooking, 15 minutes will be enough, during which time the rice will be cooked and all the liquid will finally evaporate. Then cool the rice and leave until next use.

2. Remove the largest of all leaves from the head of cabbage and send it to boil in boiling salted water for 10-15 minutes.Then drain the water and leave the cabbage leaves to cool.

3. At this time, grate the carrots on a coarse grater, and cut the peeled onion into half rings. Fry all the chopped vegetables in a frying pan heated with vegetable oil until golden brown.

4. Then put tomato paste, sour cream and a little water in the frying pan, mix everything well and continue to simmer the dressing for about five minutes.

5. At this point, combine the already cooled rice with the minced meat and mix thoroughly. Then place half of the entire roast and exactly the same amount of meat filling on a baking tray, leveling everything with a spatula.

6. Place cabbage leaves on top of the minced meat in an even layer.

7. The first three layers are ready. In the same sequence, lay out the next layers of the remaining ingredients.

8. Place a sheet of foil on top of the mold and place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for one hour. After this time, we remove the baking sheet with the prepared lazy cabbage rolls, which we begin to divide into portions. Serve to the table, sprinkled with chopped parsley.

We wish you bon appetit!

Juicy lazy cabbage rolls in the oven in tomato-sour cream sauce without frying

The classic version of lazy cabbage rolls requires a minimum of your effort and is not inferior in taste to traditional cabbage rolls, so be sure to try it and you will like it.

Cooking time: 60 min.

Cooking time: 35-45 min.

Servings – 4-5.

Ingredients:

• Chicken meat – 350 gr.
• Tomato paste – 400 ml.
• White rice – 1 tbsp.
• White cabbage – 300 gr.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Sour cream (20%) – 150 ml.
• Vegetable oil – 1.5 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste.
• Black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

1.Cut the prepared chicken meat into cubes and beat in a blender until smooth at high speed.

2. Roughly chop the cabbage leaves and place them in a blender bowl. Whisk all the ingredients again.

3. Then we move on to preparing the remaining vegetables. Cut the peeled onion into cubes and grate the carrots on a medium grater.

4. Boil the rice until fully cooked and combine with chopped onions and chopped carrots.

5. Transfer the contents from the blender bowl into the same container, add salt and pepper and mix thoroughly.

6. Let's start forming cabbage rolls. We make cutlets that are not very large in size and immediately place them in a baking dish greased with vegetable oil.

7. While the oven is preheating to 180 degrees, prepare the sauce. Mix sour cream, salt and ground pepper into the tomato paste. Mix all components well until smooth. Cover the cabbage rolls with the prepared sauce and bake at 180 degrees for 30-40 minutes.

8. Serve the finished cabbage rolls to the table in portions, garnishing with chopped herbs if desired.

Enjoy your meal!