When you hear the word “stuffed cabbage rolls,” your memory immediately brings to mind how, as a child, your grandmother prepared “cutlets wrapped in cabbage leaves.” For some reason, it was the filling that was eaten, but the cabbage always remained in the plate. Although the most delicious thing is that the “cutlets” were soaked in cabbage juice.
Then the grandmother began to do things more cunningly - she did not wrap the cabbage rolls in the traditional way, but decided to chop the cabbage and add it to the minced meat. And such cabbage rolls were simply a hit with us.
Now, many years later, you understand perfectly well that these were lazy cabbage rolls, which consist of the same set of products, but look different.
Lazy cabbage rolls with cabbage, rice and minced meat - step-by-step recipe
This is a classic preparation. Suitable for family dinners and holiday tables, because the dish on the table looks beautiful and appetizing.
We will need:
- minced pork or beef - 500 gr.
- cabbage - 450 gr.
- round rice - 0.5 cups
- egg - 1 pc.
- onion - 2 pcs.
- carrots - 1 pc.
- spices to taste
- sour cream for serving
- greens for serving
- tomato paste 2-3 tbsp. l.
- water - 1 tbsp.
Cooking steps
1. Wash the cabbage and remove the lower leaves. Finely chop and pour boiling water over it. Let stand for 15-20 minutes.
2. Wash the rice several times and boil in salted water until tender.
3. If you prepare minced meat at home, grind the meat and onions in a meat grinder. If the minced meat is already ready, then add the egg and spices to it and mix well. Then add the rice and some of the cabbage and mix the minced meat well.
4. Do the frying. We clean and wash the onions and carrots. Finely chop the onion and grate the carrots.
5. Fry the onion in vegetable oil, then add the carrots and simmer slightly. Add tomato paste and water. If desired, you can add a little salt and pepper. I sometimes add sugar.
6. Grease a baking tray or baking dish with oil and place some of the sauce on the bottom.
7. Make small cutlets from minced meat. We put them in the form.
8. Pour tomato sauce over the future cabbage rolls and bake for 40-60 minutes at a temperature of 200-220 degrees.
Serve with sour cream and herbs! Bon appetit!
Lazy cabbage rolls with cabbage in a pan
List of required ingredients:
- Minced meat – 500 g;
- Fresh cabbage – 150 g;
- Onion 1 piece;
- Carrots – 1 piece;
- Rice – 150 gr;
- Chicken egg – 1 piece;
- Tomato paste 4 tbsp;
- Milk – 100 ml;
- Salt and pepper - to taste;
- Fresh greens (can be dried or frozen).
How to cook lazy cabbage rolls in a saucepan:
1. Rinse the rice under running water until transparent. Pour 300 ml of water, bring to a boil, reduce heat and cook, stirring occasionally until the liquid evaporates. Then, place the rice in a colander and rinse with cold water.
2. Finely chop the cabbage and knead well with your hands. Let sit for 15 minutes and knead again. Add grated carrots to the cabbage and mix well.
3. Mix the minced meat with chopped onion and chicken egg. Add salt and pepper to taste and mix well. In a deep bowl, mix: minced meat, cabbage and rice.
4. Combine tomato paste, milk and 500 ml of boiled water in a saucepan. Mix everything well until the tomato paste is completely dissolved. Bring the resulting mixture to a boil.
5. Form lazy cabbage rolls of any shape, roll in flour and drop into boiling sauce. After the contents of the pan boil again, add salt and pepper to taste, reduce heat and simmer for 40 minutes. 10 minutes before readiness, add the greens.
If you need a thicker gravy, you can dissolve a tablespoon of flour in a glass of water, pour it into the pan and stir gently. Simmer for another 5 minutes until thickened. Lazy cabbage rolls with cabbage in a pan are ready! Bon appetit!
If you don’t have tomato paste in the house, you can easily replace it with ketchup. And sour cream - milk or cream. Add cream in the same proportions, and milk differently. Instead of 3 tablespoons of sour cream, you need to add about 150 ml of milk
Very lazy cabbage rolls in a slow cooker made from minced chicken and cabbage
This is a great option for a quick dinner or lunch. Minimum amount of dirty dishes and maximum free time. Prepare cabbage rolls in a slow cooker and please your family with a delicious dish!
Ingredients:
- minced chicken - 0.5-0.7 kg.
- rice - 150 gr.
- onion - 2 pcs.
- carrots - 1-2 pcs.
- cabbage - 200 gr.
- Bay leaf
- tomato paste 2-4 tbsp. l.
- egg - 1 pc.
- water - 1 tbsp.
- spices to taste
- green onions
Cooking steps
1. Wash the rice in cold water 2-3 times. Then let it cook until half cooked. Then rinse and drain the water.
2. Peel and wash the onions and carrots. Cut the onion into small cubes, grate the carrots.
3. First fry the onion in the multicooker bowl, then add carrots to it and fry for several minutes on the “Fry” function. Leave some carrots for the sauce.
4. Add some of the fried vegetables to the minced meat, add spices, egg and rice. Mix well.
5. Form small cutlets from the minced meat.
6. Remove the lower leaves from the cabbage, wash and chop.
7. Fry the cabbage in vegetable oil, add carrots to it and fry for a few more minutes.
8. Place cabbage and carrots in a multicooker bowl and place cutlets on top. Cover the cutlets with the remaining vegetables.
9. Make the sauce, dilute the tomato paste with water, add spices and mix. Pour the sauce over the cutlets, add bay leaves.
10. Set the “Quenching” mode for 40 minutes. At the end of the cycle, leave the dish for a couple of minutes. Then you can serve it to the table.
Eat with pleasure!
Juicy lazy cabbage rolls in the oven in tomato and sour cream sauce
Prepare this dish with sour cream, it will give it tenderness and creamy taste. Very tasty, juicy and appetizing!
Ingredients:
- minced meat -500 gr.
- rice - 150 gr.
- cabbage - 350 gr.
- egg - 1 pc.
- onion - 2 pcs.
- spices
- tomato juice - 500 ml.
- carrots - 1 pc.
- sour cream - 3-5 tbsp.
- sugar - 0.5 tsp.
Cooking steps
1. Remove the lower leaves from the cabbage, wash it and finely chop it. Place in a bowl and pour boiling water over it. Leave for 10-15 minutes.
2. Wash the rice in water and set to cook. Cook until half cooked, then drain the liquid; no need to rinse.
3. Peel and wash one onion, chop with a blender and add to the minced meat. Add rice.
4. Drain the water from the cabbage, squeeze it lightly and add it to the minced meat, beat in the egg, add spices. Mix well.
5. Lightly beat the minced meat and form it into cutlets. Grease a baking dish with vegetable oil and place tightly formed cutlets in it.
7. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and put the cutlets in the oven for 20-25 minutes.
8. While the cutlets are baking, you need to prepare the sauce. To do this you need to peel and cut the onions and carrots. Then you need to fry them in vegetable oil.
9. Add tomato juice to the vegetables and stir. Add your favorite spices and sugar as desired. Simmer over low heat for 10-15 minutes.
10. I dilute the sour cream with water and mix. I take out the form with the cutlets, fill them with tomato sauce and add sour cream. Cover with a lid and place in the oven for 30-40 minutes.
Serve with any side dish or as a separate dish.
Lazy cabbage rolls in cutlets
Cutlets made from minced meat and cabbage - this is the unusual shape presented in this recipe for lazy cabbage rolls . They can be prepared from any minced meat: pork, beef, chicken or mixed. Cabbage will give them juiciness and tenderness. A healthier and more dietary version of this dish would be lazy cabbage rolls in the form of cutlets baked in the oven.
Take this recipe as a base and cook it in your favorite way. Such lazy cabbage rolls will be loved by those who do not like to bother with a head of cabbage: blanch it in a large container, wrap the minced meat in cabbage leaves, fry in oil, and then simmer for a long time.
Ingredients:
- Any minced meat - 500 g (I used chicken),
- eggs - 2 pcs.,
- fresh cabbage - 300 g,
- boiled rice - 150 g,
- carrots - 1 pc.,
- onion, turnip - 1 pc.,
- garlic - 2 cloves,
- sunflower oil for frying,
- breadcrumbs,
- ground pepper,
- salt.
The laziest cabbage rolls in layers in a pan
Another lazy option. Here you just need to lay out all the ingredients in layers. Serve with sour cream. Perfect for a family and varied dinner.
We will need:
- minced meat - 1 kg.
- rice - 1 cup
- cabbage 0.5 kg.
- spices to taste.
- water - 1 tbsp.
- tomato paste - 3 tbsp. l.
- onion - 2 pcs.
- carrots 3-4 pcs.
Cooking process:
1. Peel the vegetables, wash the onion and finely chop it into cubes, grate the carrots on a coarse grater.
2. Wash the rice in cold water several times.
3. Add chopped vegetables and rice to the minced meat, mix well. Add spices and mix again.
4. Wash and chop the cabbage into small pieces.
5. Lay out all the ingredients in layers. First the minced meat, then the cabbage; the cabbage layers can be salted. We spread until the ingredients run out.
6. Make several depressions and put tomato paste there. Fill it with water and add your favorite spices.
7. Simmer over medium heat for 40-50 minutes.
There is no need to boil the rice until done; it will cook while stewing or baking cabbage rolls.
Recipe for lazy cabbage rolls like in kindergarten
How to feed your picky children. They eat cabbage separately with reluctance. You have to resort to tricks. If you don’t know how to surprise your children, then prepare this recipe. I can tell you for sure that they eat it all up without a trace. My children usually eat lazy cabbage rolls well, unlike regular ones. The cabbage always remains on the plate, but here everyone devolves it. As they say - tasty and easy to prepare.
Ingredients
- Cabbage - 1 fork
- Minced meat - 500 grams
- Onion - 2 pcs.
- Carrots - 2 pcs.
- Rice - 1 glass
- Tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l.
- Garlic - optional
- Vegetable oil
- Salt - to taste
Of all the ingredients, only the rice needs time to cook. Let's rinse it and fill it with hot water while we work with other products.
Finely chop the onion and fry in vegetable oil until transparent. After that, we send carrots grated on a coarse grater to it and fry it until soft and orange.
We cut the cabbage into any shape, the main thing is not too large, and add it to the onions and carrots. We need to ensure that it softens and decreases in volume, then we can work further.
After this, add minced meat, washed rice and tomato paste to the vegetables (it can be diluted in water in advance). Stir and add three glasses of water. In terms of the amount of water, you need to focus on the rice; on each pack there is written the volume that is needed to cook the rice.
Also add salt to taste and finely chopped garlic if desired. If you like pepper, add adjika or ground pepper, but as a rule, children do not eat spicy food.
Cover with a lid and simmer over low heat for 40 minutes. Rice and cabbage should be completely cooked during this time, try it, if so, then you can remove it from the heat. The rice increased in volume and absorbed all the flavors of the broth.
These lazy cabbage rolls turn out to be very tasty and tender, and they are also called “like in kindergarten.” Serve with sour cream or mayonnaise.
Lazy cabbage rolls in a frying pan made from fresh cabbage, minced meat and rice - a simple recipe
Now let’s cook cabbage rolls in a frying pan, it turns out quickly, satisfying and very tasty!
We will need:
- minced meat - 500 gr.
- cabbage - 300 gr.
- egg - 1 pc.
- onion - 1-2 pcs.
- carrots - 1-2 pcs.
- spices to taste.
- greens optional
- tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l.
- rice - 0.5 tbsp.
- mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. l.
- flour - 2-3 tbsp. l.
- water - 1 tbsp.
Step-by-step preparation:
1. Wash the cabbage, remove the lower leaves and finely chop. Pour boiling water over it and leave for 5-10 minutes to soften it.
2. Wash the rice several times in cold water and boil in lightly salted water until half cooked. Drain the water, no need to rinse.
3. Peel the onion, wash it under running water and cut it into small cubes. Peel the carrots, wash them and grate them. Fry vegetables in vegetable oil. Add fried vegetables, rice, egg and spices to the minced meat, mix well.
7. Form small cutlets from the minced meat, roll them in flour and place them in a frying pan, add a little vegetable oil.
8. Make the sauce, mix mayonnaise and tomato paste and dissolve them in water. Add spices to taste. simmer over low heat for 40-60 minutes.
Serve with a side dish, sprinkle with herbs.
Recipe for lazy cabbage rolls with cabbage and minced meat in a frying pan
There are several reasons to cook this dish in a frying pan rather than in the oven. For example, you just don’t want to mess with the oven and then wash the baking sheet. Or maybe you have a large frying pan and it’s very convenient to cook for your large family? Well, a good reason, to say the least! Then this recipe is right for you! Make the most of your big frying pan!
Let's take for the recipe:
- Minced meat – 500 gr
- Boiled rice – 1 cup
- Cabbage – 350 gr
- Egg – 1 pc.
- Carrot – 1 pc.
- Onion – 1 pc.
- Tomato paste – 3
- Sour cream – 2 tbsp.
- Hot water – 0.5 liters
- Sunflower oil - for frying
- Bay leaf – 2 pcs
- Salt, pepper - to taste
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Lazy cabbage rolls with Chinese cabbage sauce
Prepare cabbage rolls from Chinese cabbage; they turn out very juicy and tender.
Ingredients:
- minced pork and beef 0.5 kg.
- rice - 1 tbsp.
- Chinese cabbage - 1 pc.
- egg - 1 pc.
- onion - 1 pc.
- sour cream - 100 ml.
- tomato juice - 200 ml.
- water - 100 ml.
- spices to taste
- greens optional
Cooking process:
1. Sort the rice and rinse in water 3-4 times, boil until half cooked. Wash the cabbage and chop finely. Peel the onion and chop finely.
3. Add cabbage, rice, spices, onion and egg to the minced meat. Mix well.
4. Form small balls of minced meat and place them in a saucepan with a thick bottom.
5. Mix sour cream and tomato juice, dilute with water and stir. Add spices to taste. Pour the sauce over the meatballs and simmer over low heat for 40 minutes.
The cabbage needs to be cut finely enough, so the cabbage rolls will be tastier.
Delicious cabbage rolls (lazy) made from young cabbage, pork and rice
An excellent option for a delicious family dinner. It's easy to prepare, but it turns out incredibly delicious! Not a dish, but a housewife's dream when you need to spend a minimum of time and feed your family.
We will need:
- minced meat - 400 gr.
- young cabbage - 300 gr.
- egg - 1-2 pcs.
- rice - 100 gr.
- onion - 1-2 pcs.
- carrots - 1-2 pcs.
- tomato paste - 5 tbsp. l.
- sour cream - 3 tbsp. l.
- water - 1 tbsp.
- spices to taste
Cooking steps
1. Remove the leaves from the cabbage, wash it and finely chop it.
2. Peel and wash the onions and carrots, then cut the onions into cubes and grate the carrots.
3. Fry vegetables in vegetable oil.
4. Wash the rice and add to the vegetables, fry for 10 minutes, stirring constantly.
5. Add the minced meat and fry further with vegetables, you can add water so that the minced meat is thoroughly stewed and lumps are removed.
6. Add sour cream and spices, mix well and simmer for another 10 minutes.
7. Now add tomato paste, if necessary you can add a little water. Simmer for 5 minutes.
8. Add cabbage, spices, mix well and continue to simmer for another 5-10 minutes.
