Lazy cabbage rolls are a dish made from cabbage and minced meat. These two ingredients in it are the main ones. Other vegetables, seasonings, herbs and cereals are also added to the dish.
Cooking lazy cabbage rolls according to step-by-step recipes saves a lot of time, unlike traditional cabbage rolls, where most of the time is spent on stuffing cabbage leaves. Many people like the dish not only for the speed of preparation, but also for the availability of ingredients. Preparing lazy cabbage rolls is easy. All prepared components are simply mixed together and stewed. If desired, cutlets can be formed from the resulting cabbage and minced meat. Even a novice hostess can cope with the preparation of this dish, the dish will no doubt turn out perfect!
Lazy cabbage rolls (step by step recipe) - general principles of preparation
Stuffing can be prepared by yourself or purchased ready-made in the store. Stuffing itself is suitable for any meat, the main thing is that it is fresh and without any unpleasant odor.
Cabbage for cabbage rolls can be taken early or late. The vegetable must first be rinsed, and then chopped with a thin straw.
Not the main, but often present in lazy cabbage rolls ingredient is rice groats. It is better to take round-grain. Such cereals are cooked faster, and the dish turns juicy and soft. Before adding rice to the dish, it must be thoroughly rinsed until the water is clear, and then put to simmer for a quarter of an hour.
As a sauce for lazy cabbage rolls, a passivated mixture of sour cream, wheat flour and tomato paste is suitable. You can also make a sauce of cream, tomato juice, mayonnaise, scalded tomatoes or ordinary ketchup.
Lazy cabbage rolls with minced meat: a step by step recipe
Ingredients:
• 500 g of minced meat (beef);
• 600 g of early cabbage;
• one chicken egg;
• one head of onion;
• one carrot;
• one tomato;
• 100 g of rice groats;
• a bunch of green dill;
• salt to taste;
• ground black pepper to taste.
Cooking method:
1. First you need to process vegetables. Rinse the onion head in water, cut off the neck and the bottom and remove the dry scales.
2. Clean the carrots with a housekeeper. So the skin will be removed very thin.
3. Wash the tomato and remove the place of attachment of the stem. Finely chop its pulp or chop in mashed potatoes.
4. Rinse cereal in a small amount of cold water. Drain the muddy water.
5. Pour rice with clean water, salt and cook until half cooked.
6. When the rice grains are slightly swollen, but it will still be harsh, using a spoon to select rice without broth, pull it out.
7. Transfer rice to minced meat for lazy cabbage rolls.
8. A step-by-step recipe continues by chopping onions and carrots. This can be done on a fine grater or using a food processor.
9. Mix the minced meat with the onion.
10. Break the egg into the minced meat.
11. Add salt and black pepper to taste.
12. Thoroughly mix the minced meat so that all components disperse evenly.
13. Rinse the cabbage leaves in cold water and finely chop.
14. Put cabbage, tomato and carrots in a saucepan or deep stewpan.
15. Stir the vegetables in the pan.
16. Pour three glasses of hot water into the pan.
17. Set the stove on high heat and bring to a boil. If there is foam, it must be removed.
18. Then reduce the heat to a small boil.
19. Rinse your hands in cool water and begin to sculpt cabbage rolls.
20. Hands divide the meat into small pieces (70-100 g each) and sculpt balls from them.
21. One at a time lay the meat balls in the cabbage next to each other.
22. When all the lazy cabbage rolls are in the cabbage, close the pan with a lid.
23. Stew the dish for 30-40 minutes.
24. In the meantime, sort out and rinse the dill. To do this, you need to dip it in a cup of cold water, mix and pull out to dry on a paper towel.
25. Finely chop the dill and add to the lazy cabbage rolls right before the end of the stew.
26. Serve the dish hot while laying out portionwise on plates.
Lazy turkey stuffed cabbage with garlic: a step-by-step recipe
Ingredients:
• 300 g of turkey meat;
• 50 g of fresh lard;
• 400 g of late cabbage;
• 40 ml of tomato paste;
• 60 g of rice groats;
• 100 ml cream of any fat content;
• salt to taste;
• ground pepper to taste;
• one onion head;
• clove of garlic;
• 40 g of parsley;
• 30 ml of vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
1. Rinse well in water several times. Water should become almost transparent.
2. Put rice in a pan and pour water. Put cook on fire. To prevent rice from sticking to the pan, you need to periodically mix the cereal with a spoon.
3. After 15 minutes of cooking the rice, remove it from the stove and cover.
4. Then wash the rice in cool water and place it on an iron sieve. Water should drain.
5. Sort parsley and rinse in cold water. And then finely chop.
6. Dip the onions in cold water and peel, then wash again and chop finely.
7. Peel and pass the garlic through a special garlic press.
8. It is better to take turkey meat. Cut it off from the bones.
9. Remove excess skin and films from meat.
10. Pass the turkey meat through a meat grinder along with a piece of lard.
11. Heat vegetable oil in a pan.
12. Put turkey stuffing in portions in a pan.
13. Fry until the liquid evaporates, and then another 2-3 minutes. Stuffing should acquire a light fry color.
14. Add tomato paste and mix so that it warms up and spread evenly over the minced meat, giving it a reddish tint.
15. Rinse the late cabbage with water and finely cut into strips.
16. Transfer the cabbage into a separate pot and pour water.
17. Boil it for 2-3 minutes.
18. Drain the cabbage broth, and use it for cabbage rolls. The fact is that late cabbage is a little tough and has a bitter taste. These negative properties are neutralized by preliminary boiling.
19. Pour onion, garlic and cabbage into the pan.
20. There, pour about 100 ml of hot water.
21. Without stirring, close the pan loosely with a lid
22. Stew cabbage rolls for 10-13 minutes.
23. Stir the contents of the pan.
24. Season with salt and ground pepper.
25. Close the lid again and simmer further.
26. After 5-10 minutes, you need to add rice and cream to lazy cabbage rolls.
27. Mix everything.
28. Simmer for another 5-6 minutes and turn off the heating of the stove.
29. Serve lazy cabbage rolls hot. A step-by-step recipe ends with the design of the dish with parsley greens.
Lazy cabbage rolls "hedgehogs": a step-by-step recipe
Ingredients:
• 50 g of round-grain rice groats;
• 150 g minced pork;
• 150 g minced beef;
• 150 g of white cabbage;
• half of the bulb;
• one chicken egg;
• 50 g of tomato paste;
• 15 ml of vegetable oil;
• 30 g of wheat flour;
• 30 g sour cream of any fat content;
• salt to taste;
• a few peas of black pepper.
Cooking
1. Rinse the cabbage in cold water.
2. Very finely chop it with straws or checkers.
3. Peel, rinse and cut onions into small cubes.
4. Fry the onion in vegetable oil in a pan until golden brown. Set aside to cool for a few minutes.
5. Put pork and ground beef, cabbage and fried onions in a bowl. If the minced meat is frozen, then it must first be thawed at room temperature.
6. Rinse the rice in cool water and let all the water drain. Boil rice in clean water until half cooked. Rinse again.
7. Send rice to the minced meat.
8. There, add the egg and a pinch of salt.
9. Thoroughly mix the minced meat to a uniform consistency.
10. In a wide pot or in a saucepan, bring the water to a boil.
11. Add tomato paste and peppercorns to the water. A little salt.
12. Reduce the heating plate.
13. Moisten your hands in cold water so that the stuffing does not stick to them.
14. Start sculpting lazy cabbage rolls.
15. A step-by-step recipe suggests that you need to mold portioned cabbage rolls from minced meat. To do this, divide the stuffing with your hands into pieces of the required size and make balls. One ball should fit in a bent palm.
16. Balls must be placed in one layer at a small distance from each other, as they swell during extinguishing.
17. Put the balls in a row in a boiled broth.
18. Remove the foam with a spoon or slotted spoon.
19. Close the pan loosely with a lid.
20. Simmer for about 40 minutes.
21. Ready lazy cabbage rolls serve hot.
22. And from the broth you need to make the sauce. To do this, mix the flour with sour cream. Add this mixture to the broth and mix. Bring to a boil and the sauce is ready.
23. When serving, stuffed cabbage generously with sauce. They are called hedgehogs because swollen rice sticks out of them like needles from a small prickly animal.
Lazy cabbage rolls (step-by-step recipe) - tricks and useful tips
• If not young cabbage is used in lazy cabbage rolls, it is advisable to lower it in boiling water before cooking to remove excess bitterness.
• If you combine two different types of meat for cabbage rolls, they will turn out even tastier and juicier.
• If desired, instead of rice cereals, you can use any other. Suitable 6 pearl barley, buckwheat or oat.
• So that the cabbage rolls are well prepared, but not fall apart, it is better to keep the pan or pan slightly ajar.
• If you like lazy cabbage rolls with a crust, then roll the balls in breadcrumbs before cooking.
• If all the water has evaporated during cooking, add a little more boiled water.
• Serve lazy cabbage rolls, pouring them generously with sauce.
