One of our family's favorite dishes is very lazy cabbage rolls. Why very much, you ask. Yes because it is not necessaryfiddling with the cabbage and wrapping the minced meat in leaves, as is done when preparing cabbage rolls.

There is no need to make cutlets and then bake them, as in the recipe for lazy cabbage rolls. And we just cut everything up and stew it, and the taste turns out to be such that you don’t understand whether you’re full or not, and you want more.

(for 7-8 servings)

• 600 g mixed minced meat
• 700-800 g fresh cabbage
• 2 onions
• 3 tomatoes
• 2-3 cloves of garlic
• 1 large carrot
• 3/4 cup rice
• bunch of greenery
• vegetable oil
• salt, pepper, seasonings to taste

This amount of ingredients is designed for approximately 8 servings. If you are cooking for one meal for a family of 4 people, take 2 times less food.

Cooking method:

First, let's prepare the vegetables with which we will cook very lazy cabbage rolls...

Peel the onions and cut into small cubes.

Peel the garlic and also finely chop it.

Wash the carrots, peel them and grate them on a coarse grater.

Heat a frying pan, pour in vegetable oil, add onion and garlic and fry over low heat until the onion becomes transparent.

Add the carrots and continue to fry over low heat until the carrots become soft.

While the onions and carrots are fried, prepare the cabbage, rice and tomatoes. Place the rice in boiling salted water and cook for 10 minutes until half cooked. Instead of salt, you can crumble a chicken bouillon cube, the rice will be tastier. Then drain into a colander and rinse lightly with cold water.

Finely chop the cabbage.

Wash the tomatoes, cut each one in half and cut out any excess.

Now grate each half on a coarse grater, leaving the skin behind.

You could, of course, first peel the tomatoes by pouring boiling water over them, and then grate them. But rubbing the uncleaned halves is faster and more convenient, and your fingers will be intact. Salt and pepper the resulting tomato mass to taste.

By this time, the onions, garlic and carrots are already ready. Now take a plate with minced meat and add half of it in small pieces to the frying pan.

Mix. Add the remaining minced meat, salt, pepper and mix again. Close the lid and cook for 10-15 minutes over low heat, stirring occasionally. If you feel that the contents are starting to burn, add some water from the kettle.

Place the cabbage in the pan, add salt, pepper and stir. You can add seasonings that you like. Close the lid and simmer for 10-15 minutes until the cabbage becomes soft and settles a little. At this time, wash and finely chop the greens.
If you are preparing lazy cabbage rolls from young cabbage, then you need to simmer less, for 5-7 minutes.

Open the lid and add rice and mashed tomatoes to the pan.

Cabbage rolls are a dish of minced meat with rice or buckwheat wrapped in cabbage leaves. Lazy cabbage rolls are almost the same, but the most labor-intensive process - wrapping in leaves - has been removed.

Lazy cabbage rolls are less cabbage-like, so to speak. Not everyone likes cabbage, and sometimes you just can’t get kids to eat it. Sometimes adults behave the same way. You make cabbage rolls, put them on plates, serve them, but they unwrap the cabbage, eat the minced meat, and the cabbage remains the same. This is where lazy cabbage rolls come to our aid.

But why are they still called lazy? Well, of course, because they are much easier to make. Lazy cabbage rolls can have any minced meat. This includes meat, poultry, even fish and seafood. Use your imagination, add various herbs and spices and you will always have tasty and different lazy cabbage rolls.

Lazy cabbage rolls are usually prepared in a saucepan, cauldron or oven. We'll cook it in the oven today.

How to cook lazy cabbage rolls. Lazy cabbage rolls in the oven recipe with photos step by step

Today we will look at a version of not very simple, but not complicated, but very tasty lazy cabbage rolls.

Menu:

1. Lazy cabbage rolls in the oven

Ingredients:

• Minced meat - 500 g (250 g pork and 250 g beef)
• Cabbage - 250 g.
• Rice - 100 g.
• Carrots - 2 pcs. average
• Onions - 2 large heads
• Tomatoes - 3-4 pcs. or 1 cup rolled
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Flour - 1 tbsp. l.
• Tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l.
• Water - 2-3 glasses
• Garlic - 1-2 cloves
• Salt, sugar, pepper

Preparation:

1. Finely chop the cabbage. You can cut it larger or mince it, then the taste of cabbage will be practically undetectable. We usually take half of the minced cabbage. Those. 500 g minced meat, 250 g cabbage.

2. Place the chopped cabbage in a saucepan, pour boiling water over it and cover with a lid. Set aside for 15-20 minutes until the cabbage is half cooked.

If you have young or tender cabbage, for example Savoy or Peking cabbage, you don’t need to pour boiling water over it, but simply salt it and knead it a little. If the cabbage is denser, for example winter cabbage, you can pour boiling water over it and cook for 2-3 minutes. Do not boil the cabbage until fully cooked. It will become very soft and the cabbage rolls will not be tasty.

3. Wash the rice, add about 1/2 liter of cold water, bring to a boil and cook for 1-2 minutes until half cooked. I usually use short-grain rice for cabbage rolls, but long-grain rice is also possible. Remove the rice from the heat and leave it in the pan without draining the water for 10-15 minutes.

4. Finely chop the onion. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater. You can increase or decrease the amount of any ingredient to suit your taste.

5. Finely chop the garlic. Of course, you don't have to add garlic. Again, look how you love.

Let's start roasting vegetables

6. Heat a little vegetable oil in a frying pan and put the onions there. Fry the onion for 1-2 minutes until transparent. Place 2-3 tablespoons of fried onion in a separate cup. We will add it to the minced meat.

7. Add grated carrots to the onion in the pan. Fry for another 2-3 minutes. Place approximately 1/3 of the fried vegetables in a separate cup. We will place them on the bottom of the mold so that the cabbage rolls do not burn.

8. Add a tablespoon of flour to the remaining vegetables in the pan. Add flour to make the sauce thicker. You can do it without flour. Let's mix.

9. Add tomato paste. Tomato paste gives a beautiful color to the sauce and adds flavor. Mix everything again.

10. If you have fresh tomatoes, pass them through a meat grinder and add to the sauce. Mix.

11. Add salt to taste and be sure to add sugar to taste. Tomatoes and tomato paste are sour, so you need a little sugar.

12. Pour in 2-3 glasses of water, you can first pour in less and then add. Let it simmer for another 2-3 minutes.

13. Add black pepper to the sauce, add red pepper if you want. At this point you can add sour cream, but we cook without sour cream, adding only tomato paste. I proceed from the fact that it is better to serve sour cream separately with ready-made cabbage rolls. He who loves will add to himself.

14. If you do add sour cream, then after adding it to the sauce, let it boil for 2-3 minutes and remove from heat.

15. Taste the sauce, add if something is missing. If desired, add finely chopped garlic to the sauce. The sauce is ready. Remove from heat and set aside for a while.

Making lazy cabbage rolls

16. Our cabbage has already become soft. Remove from the pan with a slotted spoon, squeezing directly into it. There is no need to squeeze too hard to make the cabbage dry. Squeeze so that it is not too wet, but not completely dry.

17. Our rice is also ready, cooked until half cooked. It should absorb almost all the water. If not absorbed, drain off excess. Place the rice in a separate cup and let cool.

18. Add minced meat to the cabbage, set aside fried onions, beat in one egg. Let's add salt and pepper.

19. Mix everything well until smooth.

20. Lastly, add the rice, boiled until half cooked. Rice should not be hot, it should be warm. Mix everything well again. The minced meat should not be dry. The cabbage rolls should stick together well. If they are a bit dry, add some cabbage water or just boiled water.

21. Place the reserved, fried vegetables on the bottom of the form in which we will bake the cabbage rolls.

22. Wet your hands with water; if you are wearing food gloves, moisten them with water so that the cabbage rolls do not stick to your hands. We sculpt them quite large.

23. Place the cabbage rolls in the mold. Try not to let them stick to each other. If they are still very tight, carefully separate them with a knife. Place them in an oven preheated to 200° for 20-25 minutes.

24. After time has passed, remove the cabbage rolls from the oven. They grabbed a crust.

25. Now is the time to pour the sauce over them. Stuffed cabbage rolls should be completely filled with it

26. If the sauce is a little lacking or it is very thick, you can add a little boiling water. Don't add too much water. The cabbage rolls should only be covered.

27. Reduce the oven temperature to 170°-180° and place the cabbage rolls there for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, remove from the oven and cover the pan with foil. So that the cabbage rolls are stewed well.

28. Place the pan in the oven again for another 30-40 minutes. If your cabbage rolls are small, you can wait less - 20-30 minutes.

29. Let's cut it and take a look. Our cabbage rolls are ready.

What beauties they turned out to be. Serve with herbs, vegetables, sour cream. If you want, you can prepare a side dish for them. I usually serve it as a separate dish.

Bon appetit!

Step 1: prepare the minced meat.

Step 2: prepare the onion.

Step 3: prepare the carrots.

Step 4: fry onions and carrots.

Step 5: prepare the dill.

Step 6: prepare minced meat for lazy cabbage rolls.

Step 7: prepare the cabbage.

Step 8: stew the cabbage.

Step 9: Prepare the tomatoes.

Step 10: cook lazy cabbage rolls in a saucepan.

Step 11: Serve the lazy cabbage rolls in the pan.

- - In addition to minced beef, you can use assorted minced meat: pork and beef, or prepare minced meat from chicken fillet.

- – To prepare a tasty dish, you need to choose high-quality white cabbage: the leaves should not be spoiled and slightly whitish in color.

- – If you are preparing lazy cabbage rolls in the winter and you do not have fresh tomatoes, you can use tomato paste or tomato juice.

- – You may want to make this dish using young cabbage. Then you need to remember that young cabbage leaves are very tender and do not need to be stewed first. It is enough to cut the ingredient into small thin strips and place them in layers in a pan. And reduce the cooking time a little. It is better to prepare a dish with young cabbage using minced chicken, as it cooks faster than beef.

We suggest preparing lazy ones. The composition of the dish is almost the same as in the traditional version, but the cooking method is much easier. In this case, the minced meat is not wrapped in cabbage leaves, but is immediately mixed with boiled shredded cabbage and other ingredients. From the resulting mass, cutlets are formed, which are baked in tomato-sour cream sauce. The dish turns out aromatic, juicy and in no way inferior to its classic counterpart.

Lazy cabbage rolls in the oven have another significant advantage over traditional ones. The fact is that many children do not like stewed cabbage leaves - they open them and eat only the meat filling. There is no need to unwrap anything here - the cabbage is cut into small pieces and it is almost invisible in the cutlets, which completely satisfies the “little whims”.

Ingredients:

• minced meat (pork + beef) - 500 g;
• rice - 60 g;
• cabbage - 400 g;
• onion - 1 head;
• dill - 3-4 sprigs;
• salt, pepper - to taste;
• flour (for breading) - 4-5 tbsp. spoon;
• vegetable oil - 30-50 ml.

For the sauce:

• sour cream - 200 g;
• tomato paste - 5 tbsp. spoon;
• salt - to taste.

Lazy cabbage rolls recipe with photos step by step at home

1. Boil the rice until almost done. To do this, wash the rice grains and fill them with cold water (the liquid should be 1-2 fingers above the level of the rice). After boiling, cook over low heat for about 15 minutes.
   
2. In a spacious container, combine minced meat, finely chopped onion, rice and chopped dill.
   
3. Shred the cabbage into strips or cut into small square pieces.
   
4. Place the slices into boiling water. Cook over medium heat until softened. Cooking time varies greatly depending on the age and juiciness of the cabbage, so the best way to determine readiness is to taste a piece for softness.
   
5. Place the cabbage in a colander, let it cool, and then squeeze it out with your hands. Save the cabbage broth - it will be useful for the sauce.
   
6. Add the squeezed cabbage to the minced meat. Salt, pepper, knead until all components are evenly distributed.
   
   
7. We form 10-12 oblong blanks. Dip each one in flour one by one, breading on all sides. The flour shell will hold the shape together and prevent the lazy cabbage rolls from falling apart during further cooking.
   
8. Heat a frying pan with oil, fry our cutlets on both sides until lightly browned.
   
9. After removing from the pan, transfer the lazy cabbage rolls to a heat-resistant form.
   
10. For the sauce, combine sour cream and canned pasta, dilute with two glasses of cabbage broth. Stir, salt to taste and pour over the cabbage rolls.
    
11. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. It will take approximately 40 minutes.
    
12. Serve with sour cream and tomato filling, complemented with herbs and any side dish of your choice.
    

Lazy cabbage rolls in the oven are ready! Bon appetit!

29.07.2017, 18:12

Lazy cabbage rolls step by step recipe

Lazy cabbage rolls are a dish prepared with minced rice and stewed vegetables. They are called lazy because the filling is served open and is not wrapped in cabbage or grape leaves. So making lazy cabbage rolls is a pleasure.

You can also experiment a little with the use of minced meat. You can use any minced meat to make lazy cabbage rolls: chicken, pork, beef or mixed. And if you try to add finely chopped herbs and thereby enhance the meaty taste, you can achieve unsurpassed results.

Lazy cabbage rolls can be prepared in different ways in a cauldron, frying pan, oven, or slow cooker. You can also change the composition of these lazy cabbage rolls. And I will describe all this to you in detail in the article below. Today we will look for that very tasty recipe for making lazy cabbage rolls that you will like both in taste and in the principle of preparation.

Recipe for super lazy cabbage rolls. In order to prepare them you will need a minimum amount of cooking practice. And the result can pleasantly surprise you.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat - 500 grams (your choice, but it is better to use mixed).
• 300 fresh cabbage.
• 100 grams of rice.
• 2-3 pcs. carrots.
• 1-2 heads of onions.
• 3-4 fresh tomatoes or tomatoes.
• 1 egg.
• 1 tablespoon flour.
• 2-3 cloves of garlic.
• Salt, pepper, spices to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Fresh cabbage is used as a filler in this recipe. Since we are preparing lazy cabbage rolls and there is no need to wrap anything in cabbage leaves, but its taste is necessary, the cabbage needs to be finely chopped.

2. Now transfer the shredded cabbage into a separate bowl with a lid, pour boiling water over it, cover with a lid and give some time for the cabbage to reach the desired state. This will take about 10-15 minutes.

3. While the cabbage is brewing, let’s make rice. It must be rinsed well under running water to get rid of the rice flour. Pour the washed rice into a new saucepan, fill it with water and set to cook on low heat. As you know, rice takes 12 minutes to cook until the water boils. We need to cook the rice until half cooked. Therefore, we monitor when the water boils, cook for exactly 6 minutes and drain the water from the rice.

4. Peel and chop all these vegetables in any way available to you.

As for garlic, you can use it as desired.

5. Onions and carrots need to be fried until golden and appetizing. But not all the onions need to be fried; leave some onions to add to the minced meat.

6. When the onions and carrots are well fried, divide the frying into 2 parts, make one pile larger and the other smaller. And now put the smaller ones in a separate bowl, these vegetables will need to be placed in a form for baking cabbage rolls.

7. Leave the remaining vegetables in the pan and add to them a tablespoon of flour and a tablespoon of tomato paste. Mix everything well and fry.

8.Add a little salt and pepper. Fry everything together for 5-7 minutes and set aside.

9.During this time, the cabbage has reached the state we need. Drain the water from the cabbage and lightly squeeze the cabbage to remove excess moisture. But don't overdo the cabbage, we want it to remain a little moist.

We have almost all the ingredients ready, now we can start mixing everything together.

10.The rice has cooled to the desired temperature and is now ready to work with.

Select a container in which to mix all the ingredients.

11.And so add minced meat, egg, cabbage, and fried vegetables to the rice. Mix everything well until smooth. Also don't forget about salt and pepper. Mix all ingredients until smooth. Attention, the mass should be such that it would be easy to make cabbage rolls from it. If the mass turns out to be a little dry in your opinion, then you can add a little cabbage water or regular water.

12.When the mass is completely ready, take the second half of the fried vegetables and place them in the form in which we will bake our lazy cabbage rolls.

13. All that remains is to form the cabbage rolls and place them on a baking sheet.

14. Lay out the cabbage rolls more tightly so that they all fit into one batch.

If the minced meat sticks to your hands, just wet your hands with water.

15.Put the baking sheet in the oven and bake the lazy cabbage rolls at 200 degrees for 30 minutes. During this time, a golden crust should appear.

During this time, the dish will stew well and become ready.

We take the baking sheet out of the oven, give the cabbage rolls a little time to rest for 5-7 minutes and remove the foil.

Look what a wonderful dish you turned out, it’s just a fairy tale. You can serve lazy cabbage rolls on the table and treat your guests or your beloved family. Bon appetit.

Lazy cabbage rolls in a saucepan or cauldron

Now I suggest you prepare super lazy cabbage rolls. According to this recipe, you won’t need to sculpt them and bake them in the oven; all you need is a cauldron, a frying pan, a board, and a knife.

Ingredients:

Half a head of cabbage.

• 1-2 carrots.
• 1 onion.
• 500 grams of minced meat.
• 1 cup rice.
• Vegetable oil.
• Salt and pepper to taste.
• 2-3 tomatoes as desired or tomato paste.

Cooking process:

And so let's start preparing lazy cabbage rolls.Finely chop the cabbage, place in a cauldron with salt and mash a little. Leave it for 3-5 minutes so that it releases the juice.

Peel and chop the onions and carrots in any way available to you.

Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and place on the stove. When the oil is hot, fry the minced meat in it until golden brown.

In the meantime, you can start stewing the cabbage. Place the pan with the cabbage on the fire, add vegetable oil and begin to simmer the cabbage until soft.

After 3-4 minutes, you can add the onions and carrots to the pan, stir and continue to simmer under the lid closed.

Rinse the rice well and add to the cauldron with the rest of the vegetables. Reduce heat slightly and continue cooking until the rice is almost done.

When the rice is half cooked, add minced meat and finely chopped tomatoes to the pan. If you use tomato paste, you only need 1 tablespoon. Mix everything well, add a glass of water, cover with a lid and continue cooking for another 15-20 minutes. Lazy cabbage rolls with buckwheat

If you have a small supply of buckwheat and have never cooked lazy cabbage rolls with buckwheat, then I advise you to read the following recipe for making lazy cabbage rolls with buckwheat. You might like it and want to make them.

Ingredients:

• 700 gr. Ground meat.
• 1 onion.
• 1 carrot.
• Half a glass of buckwheat.
• Half a head of cabbage.
• 1 tablespoon tomato.
• 2 eggs.
• 2-3 tablespoons sour cream.
• Salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking process:

The process of preparing cabbage rolls with buckwheat is described with already boiled buckwheat. Therefore, it must first be boiled until fully cooked.

And so while the buckwheat is cooking, let’s prepare everything else.

1.Cut the cabbage into small strips.

2. Finely chop the onion. Grate the carrots. Fry onions and carrots in vegetable oil with the addition of tomatoes.

3.When the buckwheat is cooked, you can start preparing the cabbage rolls themselves.

4.And so put the minced meat into a bowl. Beat in 2 eggs, add cabbage, buckwheat, salt and mix everything well until smooth.

5.Make small cabbage rolls from the resulting minced meat. Try to make them not too big and so that they are the same size so they will all cook evenly.

6. Place the cabbage rolls in a deep frying pan and pour in the prepared onion, carrot and tomato sauce. Place on low heat, cover with a lid and simmer with the lid closed for 30-40 minutes. Cooking time depends on the size of the cabbage rolls.

Bon appetit.

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Bon appetit.