Cooking quickly and tasty cabbage rolls

One of the favorite dishes is cabbage rolls. But they are rarely done, since it takes a very long time to tinker with them. While you boil the cabbage head, remove the leaves, you don't want anything. But there is an option that is canceled to taste and does not require so much effort to cook - cabbage rolls. You just need to replace the white cabbage with Peking cabbage. Its leaves are ideal for wrapping stuffed cabbage rolls. Innovation? Not really. But experiments are always needed, especially if they are tasty.

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Cabbage rolls in Peking cabbage leaves

Do you think cabbage rolls are only in white cabbage? Not at all. We offer a classic recipe for cabbage cabbage rolls (with photo). The technology is no different from cabbage rolls with cabbage. However, preparation time is significantly reduced. For 0.5 kg of minced meat, you need a third of a glass of rice, 2 carrots and onions, 0.1 liters of tomato paste, one and a half cups of broth, 0.2 kg of sour cream. You will also need ground pepper, salt and vegetable oil. As for Peking, it all depends on the case. You will need large sheets so that each cabbage roll can be wrapped in them. So it all depends on the amount of minced meat and the size of the meat balls.

Peking leaves must be removed very carefully, because they are very fragile and torn.

The process of making stuffed cabbage:

1. The first step is the preparatory moment, during which all vegetables are peeled. From Peking, the bottom should be cut off by about 5 cm.
2. Then remove the topmost leaves.
3. Dip the Peking leaves into a saucepan with boiling water and keep there for 10 minutes. In this case, the upper leaves are placed on the bottom, and those that are closer to the middle - on the very top, because they "cook" faster.
4. Remove the leaves and let them cool.
5. Chop the onion finely.
6. Grate the carrots.
7. Fry onions with carrots in sunflower oil until golden brown, and then put on plates and divide into two parts.
8. Boil rice until tender, rinse and place in a deep bowl. There, add one part of the frying and minced meat (whichever you prefer), salt, pepper, add your favorite spices if desired.
9. Mix everything thoroughly until smooth.
10. Now we will tell you how to make cabbage cabbage rolls. Spread a Peking leaf on a plate with the convex side down. If the base is still hard, it must be cut to the soft part.
11. On the edge of the wide part of the sheet, stepping back 5 cm, put a little minced meat.
12. Now the outer free parts of the sheet are wrapped on the minced meat.
13. And then they wrap the whole cabbage roll in a roll.
14. This is done until the minced meat ends.
15. Make a sauce from broth, tomato paste and sour cream, mixing them until smooth. Taste and refine with spices to perfection.
16. Put half of the remaining carrots in a deep saucepan, on top - in rows of cabbage cabbage rolls. And so that the coarse part of the sheet is at the bottom so that the stuffed cabbage does not unwind.
17. Spread the rest of the carrots on top.
18. Pour over the sauce.
19. Cover with a lid and simmer over low heat after boiling for half an hour.
20. Ready stuffed cabbage rolls are laid out on a plate, poured over with sauce and served with sour cream.

Step-by-step recipe for cabbage rolls with cabbage

Let's move away from the classics and cook amazing rabbit cabbage rolls with mushroom sauce.

To prepare one portion, you need 0.18 kg of rabbit mince and three Peking leaves. This amount requires 60 g of rice, 20 g of butter, 60 g of cheese, 30 g of onion. Salt with pepper. For the sauce: 0.12 l of cream (as for fat content, give preference to 33-35%), 20 g of sour cream, porcini mushrooms (40 g) and 0.1 l of broth (preferably chicken). You will need one tomato to decorate the dish.

If you cook these cabbage cabbage rolls in a slow cooker, their taste will be much more piquant.

Cooking:

1. Peel the onion and chop finely.
2. Take half of the entire onion volume and fry in vegetable oil mixed with butter.
3. Boil rice until half cooked, put in a deep container. Add minced meat there.
4. Grate cheese and add to rice and meat.
5. Put the fried onions there. Season with salt and pepper.
6. Mix the mass thoroughly and divide into three parts.
7. From the bottom of the cabbage leaves, cut off 5 cm of the base.
8. You should also cut off the thicker part.
9. Dip in boiling water and blanch there for 15 seconds.
10. After the time has elapsed, the sheets are immediately transferred to cold water. This is necessary so that the color of the leaves does not change.
11. Flatten the sheet, put a third of the minced meat on its larger edge.
12. Now wrap the edges over the minced meat.
13. Roll cabbage cabbage rolls.
14. Do the same with the other two sheets.
15. Now proceed to the sauce. To do this, the mushrooms are washed, peeled and cut into pieces. Then they are fried in butter and vegetable oil. After a few minutes, add the onion and continue frying.
16. Pour in the broth and wait for it to boil. After that, the mass is boiled for a minute, not forgetting to bring salt and pepper to the desired level.
17. Stuffed cabbage is spread in another pan and fried.
18. Transfer the pigeons to a skillet with sauce and simmer for 10 minutes on medium heat.
19. Pour in cream and cook for 10 minutes. At the same time, check that the liquid becomes thick. Then remove the pan from heat, add sour cream and stir.
20. Meanwhile, the tomato is washed, cut into two parts, sprinkled with salt and pepper, and sent to the oven, heated to 180 ° C, for 5 minutes.
21. Ready stuffed cabbage rolls are put in a deep plate. Pour in the sauce and garnish with a tomato.

Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls

The dish is ideal for ladies who are deprived of time. You don't even need to wrap cabbage rolls in cabbage. For cooking, you will need 0.2 kg of pork and ground beef, and 0.25 kg of rice. About half a kilogram of Peking cabbage goes to such a volume. Additionally, you need 2 garlic cloves, one onion head, a glass of broth, 6 tbsp. l. sour cream, fresh parsley (4 branches are enough), 2 tbsp. vegetable oil. You will need a little more ketchup - 3 tablespoons. Spices are used to taste.

Use round rice

Cooking:

1. Rice should be washed in cold water, then boiled until half cooked. Salt the water. Put the boiled rice in a colander and cool. In the meantime, finely chop the onion and parsley, pass the garlic through a press.
2. In a deep container, mix two types of minced meat, boiled rice, spices and onions with garlic and parsley.
3. Make small balls 6-8 cm in diameter from the minced meat obtained.
4. 5 cm of the bottom is cut from the head of cabbage, and the leaves are cut into small strips.
5. And now the secret of the recipe for lazy cabbage rolls with Peking cabbage. In oil heated in a deep frying pan, fry the cabbage leaves with constant stirring (1-2 minutes is enough).
6. Then the meat balls are spread on the cabbage and the broth is poured. When the contents of the pan boil, pour in sour cream and ketchup. Stew the dish on medium heat for 20 minutes.

Ready-made cabbage rolls are laid out on a plate, decorated with herbs and served to the table.

Cabbage rolls in the oven

There is another equally delicious cooking option for this dish. Just for lazy housewives, or for those whose time is counted in seconds. Introducing lazy cabbage rolls with Peking cabbage, oven-baked in sour cream-tomato sauce.They can be served both for lunch and dinner.

To prepare a juicy tasty dish, you will need 0.65 kg of minced pork and beef. This amount requires 80 g of rice, one egg and an onion, 0.35 kg of Chinese cabbage.

Only the coarse part of the head will be used. Delicate leaves can be left for salad.

Additionally, 0.35 kg of sour cream, 0.75 l of meat broth or water are required. As spices and additives, take salt, tomato paste (2 tablespoons) ground pepper, your favorite seasoning, dried parsley... For frying, use sunflower oil, and flour for breading. And now we will tell you in detail how to cook cabbage cabbage rolls.

Cooking:

1. Boil rice until half cooked and cool. During this time, grate the onion on the finest grater (you can grind it in a blender or twist it in a meat grinder). In a deep bowl, mix rice, minced meat, onion. Drive in an egg there, add spices, parsley and mix until smooth.
2. Cut the coarse part of the Peking into small cubes.
3. Put the cabbage in a container, pour boiling water over and let stand for 5 minutes.
4. After the time has elapsed, drain the water, rinse in cold water and dry.
5. Stir the cabbage into the minced meat.
6. The minced meat should be uniform.
7. Take a portion of minced meat, form cutlets and roll in flour.
8. Heat the sunflower oil and fry the patties on both sides.
9. Transfer patties to a baking dish.
10. In the meantime, prepare the sauce by mixing the broth, tomato paste with sour cream. Add spices and salt to taste.
11. Pour the sauce over the cutlets.
12. Place the cabbage rolls in the oven at 180 ° C and bake for 40 minutes.

As you can see, cooking cabbage rolls is simplified with the use of Chinese cabbage. It doesn't take long to cook. Moreover, their taste is no worse than cabbage rolls from white cabbage.

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