Cabbage Rolls

A simple recipe for delicious cabbage rolls. Fresh cabbage stuffed cabbage with minced meat, rice and fried onions. Very tasty!!!

Ingredients

• White cabbage – 2.5 kg
• Minced meat – 700 g
• Rice (long grain) – 2/3 cup
• Tomato paste – 3-4 tbsp
• Sour cream – 3-4 tbsp
• Small carrots – 1 pc.
• Large onions – 3 pcs.
• Vegetable oil – for frying vegetables
• Bay leaf – 1-2 pcs.
• Salt to taste
• Pepper to taste

Directions

1. We prepare cabbage leaves for stuffed cabbage. Head of cabbage, cut out the stalk. Cook the cabbage until the top leaves can be easily removed from the head. We remove, and we continue to cook the cabbage so that the next leaves can also be easily removed. So, we took the cabbage into leaves. Cabbage leaves should not sprawl, but should keep their shape well. That is, they should become a little softer. When the cabbage leaves have cooled, cut off the thickened middle from them
2. Now let’s prepare minced meat for cabbage rolls. Scroll the meat for stuffed cabbage in a meat grinder. In order to save time, you can buy ready-made minced meat, but homemade, of course, is better.
3. Boil the rice so that it remains slightly undercooked. (For stuffed cabbage, it is better to use long steamed rice.) Cut two onions into small cubes and fry in vegetable oil. Fried onions in minced meat are always tastier than raw ones
4. Minced meat, rice, fried onion, season with salt and pepper to taste. Stir. (You can add one egg to the minced meat for more uniformity of the minced meat.)
5. Put 1 heaped tablespoon of minced meat on the prepared cabbage leaf. Roll up with a tube, bending the side edges of the cabbage leaf inward.

   

6. These are the blanks of stuffed cabbage.
7. Put stuffed cabbage rolls tightly to each other in a large saucepan with a thick bottom. Place cabbage rolls seam side down.
8. Now let’s prepare the sauce for the cabbage rolls. Peel the carrots, grate them. Peel the remaining onion, cut into small cubes. Fry onions and carrots until half cooked. Add tomato paste to vegetables, mix and fry a little more. Add sour cream, stir and wait until the sour cream “melts”.
9. Pour vegetables with tomato and sour cream with one liter of hot water, mix and pour stuffed cabbage with this sauce. The sauce should cover the cabbage rolls two fingers higher. If a liter of water is not enough, add the required amount of water. My top layer of cabbage rolls was not packed tightly, and the top stuffed cabbage rolls surfaced. Well, nothing, we got ready anyway. If you are cooking cabbage rolls in a saucepan, then cover the pan with a lid, turn on medium heat, bring to a boil and simmer for 40 minutes. Then add the bay leaf, cover again and simmer for another 15-20 minutes. To cook cabbage rolls in a slow cooker, spread the cabbage rolls tightly, fill them with sauce, put the bay leaf immediately and turn on the slow cooker in the “Stew” mode for 50 minutes.

   

10. Serve cabbage rolls with sour cream.

          Bon appetit!