Cabbage Rolls with Meat and Rice

Cabbage rolls are a nutritious dish made from any minced meat wrapped in cabbage leaves. I rarely cook cabbage rolls, as they are eaten much faster than they are cooked. But sometimes I still set aside time for cooking cabbage rolls.

Ingredients

• Pork – 500 grams
• Rice – 150 grams
• White cabbage – 1 head of cabbage
• Bulb onions – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Tomato paste – 3 tablespoons
• Sour cream – 2 tablespoon.
• Bay leaf
• Allspice peas
• Freshly ground pepper mixture
• Salt
• Vegetable oil

Directions

1. Wash the cabbage, make deep cuts on the head of cabbage in a circle so that the leaves are well separated, and stick a knife into the head of cabbage to hold the cabbage by the knife. Place the cabbage in a large saucepan, add water, salt and place on the stove to boil. When the water boils, reduce the heat and let the cabbage simmer until the leaves begin to separate.
2. When the first top sheet falls off, lift the cabbage by holding the knife, carefully peel this sheet off and remove it from the pan. Similarly, boil the entire head of cabbage, gradually removing one cabbage leaf at a time.
3. Cool the cabbage leaves and cut off the tough part from each.
4. Rinse the rice, put it in a saucepan, pour water (1.5 times more than rice), salt and cook until half cooked.
5. Wash the meat, remove excess fat and twist in a meat grinder. Peel the onion, wash and twist in a meat grinder.

   

6. Stir the meat and onions, add rice, season with salt, pepper and mix thoroughly.
7. Peel the carrots, wash, grate on a coarse grater and fry in a pan with the addition of tomato paste.
8. Put a handful of minced meat on a cabbage leaf and wrap it in an envelope.
9. Put stuffed cabbage rolls in a frying pan. Fry them on both sides until golden brown.
10. Place the fried cabbage rolls in a saucepan in which they will be stewed.
11. When all the cabbage rolls are fried and stacked in a saucepan, fill them with carrot-tomato sauce, add sour cream, bay leaf, pepper.

    

12. Cover the saucepan and simmer the cabbage rolls for 1 hour over low heat.
    Bon appetit!