Lazy cabbage rolls in a saucepan with cabbage, minced meat and rice - 6 step by step recipes

Lazy cabbage rolls are often cooked in a saucepan according to the classic recipe: with cabbage, minced meat and rice. As a rule, only sauce, sour cream, seasonings, salt and onions serve as additional ingredients. The cooking technology of 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 just perfect, so they are very fond of adherents of a healthy lifestyle.

Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls in tomato and sour cream sauce in a saucepan

In this recipe, close attention should be paid to the sauce - it is he, as well as the correct cooking technique, that provide the stuffed cabbage with juiciness and delicate texture.

Cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Quantity: 16 pieces

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  Prepare all components for further processing. Measure out the required amount of minced meat. Chop the cabbage finely enough. Cut the onion into thin strips or cubes with a knife. Squeeze the garlic through a garlic or chop it with a knife. Peel the carrots, wash the tomatoes and cut them into pieces.
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  Mix the minced meat, chopped cabbage and onion in one container.
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  Next, send semolina and eggs - these ingredients are needed for the viscosity of the mass, from which cabbage rolls will be molded in the future. Add washed rice.
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  Season the mixture with ground pepper, salt and garlic. Its amount can be adjusted to taste, or you can not use it at all.
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  Stir everything together so that the cabbage-meat mix turns into a homogeneous elastic mass. Send the workpiece to the refrigerator for about 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 the hands worse.
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  After that, be sure to knead the mass again.
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  On a large cutting board or just a work surface, form as even a square as possible out of minced meat - using knives, shovels and other kitchen utensils. Cut with a knife into even pieces. 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 cutlet and roll in flour.
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  Put a frying pan or stewpan on the stove, pour in a little oil - 2-3 tablespoons.
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  Fry cabbage rolls on each side for a couple of minutes.
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  At this time, in a separate container, prepare the sauce for further stewing the dish. Gently mix a tablespoon of flour with two to three tablespoons of water.
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  Put the tomato paste in a bowl of flour and water and add the tomatoes, cut into pieces. Although you can do without them.
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  Stir in the remaining sauce ingredients, diluting with about half a liter of water.
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  Put the stuffed cabbage cutlets in a deep saucepan. Pour the sauce over them, shaking the contents gently. Put whole carrots in the sauce, if they are small, or cut in parts, if they are large. Cook cabbage rolls after boiling the sauce for about 20 minutes, you can increase the time if you used tough cabbage. The fire should be medium under the pan.
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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 a standard sour cream sauce, which, if desired, can be diluted with mayonnaise, seasoned to your liking. It is important that the sauce covers the cabbage rolls completely, otherwise they will have to be turned over during the stewing process.

Ingredients:

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

Cooking process:

1. Chop the cabbage thinly and pour a little salted water over it, pressing it down with some kind of weight. Let stand for 15-20 minutes to leave the bitterness. Then drain the water, rinse the cabbage cut and send it to the minced meat container.
2. Boil the rice so that it is 50% ready, cool by transferring 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 be in good harmony here.
4. Mix the cabbage, seasoned minced meat and chilled rice, add finely chopped onion and turn it all into a homogeneous mass by stirring with your hands or with a spoon.
5. From the prepared mass, mold balls of medium size - like cutlets. Fry them on both sides in a pan with vegetable oil. You do not need to cover with a lid, let a crust form on the cabbage rolls.
6. After frying, put the pieces in a saucepan.
7. Prepare the sauce by mixing sour cream, water and chopped dill. Salt a little and pour into a saucepan with cabbage rolls. If suddenly the sauce is not enough, feel free to add sour cream and water directly to 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 stuffed cabbage rolls with minced chicken - like in kindergarten

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

Ingredients:

• Cabbage - 0.5 kg.
• Minced chicken - 300 g.
• Rice - 80 g.
• Onions - 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 leaves to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Rinse the rice and cook to keep it crumbly.
2. Lightly fry the minced chicken in a 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 transparent, to the minced meat, put the rice here and knead everything.
4. Chop the cabbage finely, add a little salt and blanch in a saucepan or frying pan with a little water. The percentage of readiness of the vegetable after such processing is 50%. Allow excess water to drain off after blanching.
5. Add cabbage to the minced meat, pour in a little water, put tomato paste, sour cream and simmer for about half an hour under the lid.
6. Put butter in a frying pan, heat and fry the flour in it, stirring occasionally. After that, send the flour to the cabbage with minced meat. Salt the lazy cabbage rolls, add the bay leaf and hold under the lid for about 5 minutes.
7. You can serve such stuffed cabbage on a common dish or in portions, forming balls from the mass with a spoon. Sour cream or creamy dill sauce will perfectly complement the taste of the dish.

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

In this recipe, the ingredients are stacked in layers in a deep saucepan and stewed into a fragrant flaky dish. In form, it rather resembles a stew, and in taste - 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 out the required amount of rice, rinse it well and boil it almost until tender. Set aside.
2. Peel and chop carrots and onions - with a knife or on a grater. Send vegetables to a frying pan with vegetable oil and sauté for about five minutes over medium heat, avoiding scorching.
3. Prepare minced meat or take ready-made one. Mash it well in a separate bowl, if the meat is not chopped enough, pass it through a meat grinder with fine holes. Put the minced meat to the fried onions and carrots and simmer for 10-15 minutes under the lid.
4. Combine rice with minced meat, carrots and onions. Sprinkle with salt.
5. Prepare a deep saucepan in which the lazy cabbage rolls will be cooked in layers. Put half the volume of finely chopped cabbage on the bottom.
6. Put the minced meat with rice, carrots and onions in the second layer. Smooth around the entire perimeter of the vessel. And pour the remaining shredded cabbage upstairs.
7. Salt the puff blank on top, put spices, bay leaf, you can greens. Pour water, close the lid and leave to simmer for about half an hour or forty minutes. Cooking time depends a lot on the cabbage. If it is young, you need to stew less, and if the crop was harvested a long time ago, and the cabbage has gained toughness, it will take 20 more minutes.
8. Hold the ready-made lazy cabbage rolls with the stove off and the lid closed for about 5 minutes and serve. Serve sour cream, mayonnaise or any sauce based on these products with them.

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Lazy cabbage rolls with Chinese cabbage, minced meat, rice

Cooking lazy cabbage rolls according to this recipe will take a minimum of time, since Peking cabbage is cooked faster than white cabbage. The taste of such cabbage rolls is more delicate, and there are no sharp cabbage notes in the aroma.

Ingredients:

• 500 g of Chinese cabbage.
• 600 g minced meat.
• 200 g of rice.
• 200 ml of water.
• 150 g sour cream.
• 50 g tomato paste.
• Onions and carrots - 1 pc.
• Greens, 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 pan so that the vegetables only soften a little.
2. It is better to take minced meat not too fat, even chicken will do. But if it is meat, let it have more beef. Add minced meat to the pan with vegetables and fry for 10-15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
3. Halve the cabbage lengthwise and chop not too finely. The hard part can also be used, but it needs to be crushed more thoroughly.
4. Put chopped cabbage in a saucepan, send minced meat with carrots and onions to it 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 a saucepan, let the mixture boil, and then reduce the heat to medium. Put tomato paste, sour cream in a container, add salt and seasonings. You do not need to knead the ingredients while they are stewing. Keep the pot on 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 some water.
6. Hold the prepared cabbage rolls without fire under the lid for several minutes, and then mix the entire contents and serve in portions with sour cream, herbs, rye toasts or other products to taste.

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Delicious and simple recipe for lazy cabbage rolls with potatoes

This hearty dish may well serve as a complex lunch, which has both a side dish and a meat component. Potatoes are stewed along 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, spices, 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. Chop finely onions.
3. Chop the white cabbage into thin slices.
4. Combine cabbage, onions, boiled rice and chopped onions. Add minced meat to vegetables and rice, beat in an egg. Season with salt and seasonings to taste.
5. Form small cutlets from minced meat. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the blanks on both sides over medium heat. Let a crust form on them, it will allow the cutlets to keep their shape, not to fall apart.
6. Peel the carrots, grate with large holes and fry in a pan until soft, then put the tomatoes cut into pieces to the carrots. Simmer vegetables, covered for 10 minutes.
7. Remove the peel from 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. Put fried cabbage and minced meat patties in a saucepan, alternating with potatoes. Top with fried carrots with tomatoes. Salt everything, add water and simmer under the lid. For stewing the dish, 40 minutes will be enough.
9. Ready-made cabbage rolls with potatoes can be sprinkled with herbs or grated cheese, seasoned with a slice of butter.

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