Cabbage Rolls in the Oven

Do you like cabbage rolls? Real ones, in a tender cabbage leaf, stuffed with meat with spices and rice, in tomato sauce with fried onions and carrots, baked in the oven and sprinkled with fresh sour cream … It’s impossible not to love such stuffed cabbage rolls.

Summary

Ingredients

• Minced meat – 700 g
• White cabbage – 1 pc.
• Onions – 350 g
• Carrots – 180 g
• Boiled rice – 3 tablespoon.
• Canned cut tomatoes – 300 ml
• Tomatoes – 300 g
• Garlic – 5 g
• Vegetable oil – 2 tablespoons
• Bay leaf – 3 pcs.
• Thyme – 0.5 teaspoon
• Salt – 3 teaspoon
• Ground black pepper – 1 teaspoon
• Ground coriander – 1 teaspoon
• Sugar – 2 teaspoon
• Water – 500 ml

Instructions

1. Prepare cabbage leaves. The first method: cut a stump of a head of cabbage and put it in the microwave for 20 minutes. The recipe uses a head of cabbage weighing 2 kg, and the microwave power is 850 W. The
   second method: put a head of cabbage without a stalk in boiling water and cook over low heat for 10 minutes, gently remove the head from the water, remove the leaves, which can be easily removed, then put the head in water and continue to cook, with the remaining leaves.
2. Prepare stuffing for stuffed cabbage rolls. Rinse the rice and boil for 5 minutes, then rinse in cold water. Add rice to minced meat, 100 g of finely chopped onion, 1 teaspoon. salt, 1/2 teaspoon. pepper. Mix well

   

3. Prepare the sauce. Heat a frying pan with 2 tablespoons. vegetable oil, put 250 g of onions, cut into half rings, and fry for 3 minutes.
4. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater and add to the pan with onions, fry for another 3 minutes.
5. Add thyme, 2 teaspoon. salt, 1/2 teaspoon. pepper, coriander and stir.
6. Add chopped garlic and finely chopped tomatoes. Fry for another 1 minute.
7. Add canned chopped tomatoes, sugar, bay leaves and fry for another 3 minutes.
8. Add 500 ml of water, stir and simmer over low heat for 5 minutes.
9. Disassemble the cabbage into leaves.
10. Place the leaf on a board, lightly beat off the thickening on the cabbage leaf with a culinary hammer.
11. Put on the edge 1 tablespoon. minced meat. Roll up the cabbage with an envelope. Stuff the rest of the cabbage leaves in the same way.
12. Put one layer of cabbage rolls on the bottom of the mold, pour the prepared sauce. Top with the second layer of cabbage rolls and pour the remaining sauce.

       Bon appetit!