Lazy Stuffed Cabbage Rolls with Millet

Prepare lazy cabbage rolls in a new way – not with rice, but with millet porridge. Cabbage rolls soaked in sweet and sour tomato sauce are soft, tender and very tasty. In addition, the filling does not need to be wrapped in cabbage leaves, which greatly simplifies and speeds up the preparation of the dish.

Summary

Ingredients

For lazy cabbage rolls:

• Millet – 1 tbsp (25 g)
• White cabbage – 200 g (1/4 head of cabbage)
• Minced beef – 300 g
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Salt – 0.5 teaspoon (to taste)
• Ground black pepper – a pinch (to taste)

For the sauce:

• Onions – 110 g (1 pc.)
• Carrots – 80 g (1 pc.)
• Garlic – 3 cloves
• Tomato juice – 400 ml
• Ground black pepper – a pinch (to taste)
• A pinch of salt (to taste)
• Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp

For filing (optional):

• Sour cream – 50-100 g

Instructions

1. We prepare the necessary ingredients.

   

2. First, boil the millet. Thoroughly rinse the millet groats under cool running water until the water is transparent, then pour boiling water over the groats. Pour 100 ml of water into a small saucepan or stewpan, bring to a boil. Dip the millet in boiling water and simmer under a lid for 20 minutes
3. Set aside the pot with ready-made porridge to cool.
4. Let’s start making sauce for lazy cabbage rolls. Peel and rinse the onions, garlic and carrots. Cut the onion into small pieces, chop the carrots into thin strips, and finely chop the garlic with a knife.
5. Fry chopped vegetables in vegetable oil until soft, 3-4 minutes.
6. Pour tomato juice into the pan for vegetables.
7. Add salt and pepper. Cover with a lid and leave on low heat for about 10 minutes while we form lazy cabbage rolls.

   

8. Finely chop the cabbage.
9. Combine minced beef with ready-made millet.
10. We send shredded cabbage to minced meat with millet.
11. Add salt and pepper.
12. Mix everything well, add the egg.
13. Knead the minced meat with the egg again.
14. With wet hands, form cutlets of the same size from minced meat. I got 9 patties (63 g each).

    

15. We spread the formed cutlets in a pan with sauce.
16. Cook over low heat for 30 minutes.
17. Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls with millet are ready. Serve hot stuffed cabbage rolls with sauce, seasoning with sour cream if desired.

    Enjoy your meal!