Strange as it may seem, many European and Asian peoples have their version of cabbage rolls. Despite variations in the recipe, the essence of the dish remains the same: meat, vegetable or cereal filling (or a mixture of them) wrapped in a cabbage leaf and stewed / baked. Details on how to prepare cabbage rolls in various ways, we will tell in the following recipes.
How to cook delicious cabbage rolls?
Stuffing for cabbage rolls is often a mixture of minced meat and cereals, usually rice, because, wanting to start the material with a more conventional recipe, we could not pass by this variation of the recipe.
Ingredients:
- Pork-ground beef - 970 g;
- a handful of round rice;
- onion - 65 g;
- dried fennel - 1 teaspoon;
- tomato juice - 730 ml;
- flour - 10 g;
- bacon - 45 g;
- laurel leaves - 3 pieces;
- head of cabbage.
Preparation
Rice should be boiled until half cooked and leave to cool. Next, chilled rice grains are mixed with minced meat from a mixture of twisted pork and beef, season, add dill and chopped onions.
Cook the cabbage head to easily separate the leaves from it. Each of the leaves align with the thickness and lay out a portion of the filling from one of the edges. Fold the blue ribbon with an envelope and lay it down with a seam.
Separately, fry the pieces of bacon until they are browned and from them will not go extra fat. Place the bacon on the napkins, and add the flour to the resulting heated fat, mix and fill with a quarter of the tomato juice. After re-stirring, wait until the sauce thickens and put the stuffed cabbage into it. Place the laurel leaves on top and fill with the remaining tomato juice. Stew cabbage for about an hour on low heat under the lid. Serve with sour cream and bacon.
If you do not know how to cook cabbage rolls in a multivarque, then repeat this recipe, leaving them to cook in the "Quenching" mode for an hour.
How to cook lazy cabbage rolls on a frying pan - recipe
The idea of fussing with the folding of each of the cabbage rolls attracts not every mistress. Realizing this, we propose to reduce the effort and stop at the recipe for lazy cabbage rolls.
Ingredients:
- ground beef - 940 g;
- garlic - 2 teeth;
- tomato paste - 65 g;
- tomatoes canned - 630 g;
- broth beef - 115 ml;
- head of young cabbage (not large);
- handful of rice.
Preparation
For cooking it is better to take a brazier with a thick bottom. In a small quantity of heated oil fry the ground beef with garlic. When pieces of meat come to grips, add to them pieces of cabbage and rice. In the broth, dilute the tomato paste and send the solution to the pan along with canned tomatoes. Season all and leave to simmer on medium heat for about half an hour. If necessary, a small amount of water or broth can be added to the dish.
How correctly to prepare cabbage rolls in the oven?
In the Finnish cuisine there is a recipe for baked cabbage rolls, which are covered with a glaze of honey, vinegar and mustard before baking, but are filled with a mixture of meat and pearl barley. We will discuss their recipe further.
Ingredients:
- pearl barley (boiled) - 1 item;
- garlic - 3 teeth;
- champignons - 210 g;
- minced meat - 370 g;
- onion - 115 g;
- balsamic vinegar - 35 ml;
- sweet mustard - 15 g;
- honey - 10 ml;
- head of young cabbage;
- broth - 155 ml.
Preparation
Cut cabbage and peel it on the leaves. Prepare the stuffing for cabbage rolls from a mixture of pearl barley with onions, garlic, meat, salt and fried mushrooms. Lay out the filling on the base of the cabbage leaf and fold in any preferred way. Distribute the cabbage rolls in a bowl for baking and cover with a mixture of honey with vinegar and sweet mustard. Gently pour the broth into the baking tray and leave everything to bake under the foil for an hour at 170 degrees. In the middle of cooking, remove the foil.