1. For the filling, it is better to use home-cooked minced meat. To do this, the meat must be washed, dried and passed through a meat grinder. You can use beef or pork for cabbage rolls.

2. The recipe for making cabbage rolls from Savoy cabbage is similar to the standard one. The cabbage must be carefully divided into leaves, removing the hard part, and placed in boiling water for literally one minute to make them softer. Then place in a colander to drain excess liquid and let the leaves cool slightly.

3. Peel the onion and chop it with a knife or pass it through a meat grinder after the meat. Garlic can also be rolled with minced meat or squeezed through a press.

4. For juiciness, you can add a little tomato sauce or chopped fresh tomato, peeled and passed through a blender (can be chopped with a knife) to the minced meat.

5. Combine meat with onions and tomato sauce. Add salt and pepper to taste, mix everything thoroughly. To make this simple recipe for savoy cabbage rolls more original, you can add some thyme sprigs during cooking.

6. Place about 1 tablespoon of minced meat into slightly cooled leaves and wrap gently. For reliability and beauty, you can tie it with green onion feathers. Place in a heat-resistant form and, covering with foil, place in a preheated oven or steamer. To make the cabbage rolls more juicy, you can pour a little water on the bottom of the mold. Bake until done for 25-30 minutes.


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Cooking time: Not indicated

Stuffed cabbage rolls are a very tasty and satisfying dish. But, unfortunately, many housewives do not want to cook them, believing that this is a labor-intensive process. And the biggest thing that scares them is the preparation of cabbage leaves. Well, in this case, you can make cabbage rolls from Savoy cabbage - its leaves come off much easier than white cabbage. And the taste of such cabbage will be softer, not so sharp. So, having tried cabbage rolls from Savoy cabbage once, the recipe with photos of which you will find below, you will continue to cook them from it, I’m sure. Very tasty and like that.

Ingredients:

- 6-8 cabbage leaves;
- 300 g of mixed minced meat (pork and beef);
- 30-40 g of rice;
- 0.5 onions;
- 1 medium sized carrot;
- salt, ground black pepper;
- spices to taste;
- 200 – 300 ml of broth or water;
- sour cream, herbs - for serving.

How to cook with photos step by step




Preparing the cabbage. We remove the upper, rough, often torn leaves. Rinse the head of cabbage with water, shake off excess moisture and separate the leaves. Since Savoy cabbage is loose, the leaves can be easily removed without tearing.
There are 2 ways to prepare the leaves. You can put them in boiling salted water and cook for 2-4 minutes. Then you should drain them in a colander and immediately cool them in cold running water - so that the leaves do not become softer. The second method is much faster and easier, but only if you have a microwave oven. In this case, place the removed cabbage leaves in the microwave and keep at maximum power for 1-2 minutes. The leaves become soft, as after cooking, but remain denser and do not tear. Microwave baking times may vary slightly depending on the number of leaves and oven power. In any case, this process is much simpler and faster than cooking.




It is better to make minced cabbage rolls at home. It is best if it is made from pork and beef, taken in equal proportions.





Rinse the rice several times with cold water and pour into a pan of boiling salted water. Cook until tender - 15-20 minutes after boiling, over low heat. Cool the finished rice to room temperature. Peel the carrots and onions and rinse thoroughly. Grate carrots and onions: large and medium, respectively. Add onions, carrots, rice, salt, ground black pepper and spices to the minced meat - to taste.






Mix thoroughly.





Cut off the thickened part of the prepared leaves. We lay out the leaves one by one and cut them into 2 - 4 parts - if you want the cabbage rolls to be small in size and the leaves to be large. Place a little minced meat on each piece of cabbage leaf.





And carefully fold it into an envelope, trying to ensure that the cabbage rolls turn out neat and that all the minced meat is covered with cabbage. Prepared cabbage leaves are soft, so cabbage rolls are easy to roll.






Pour a little broth (any broth: meat or vegetable, or just water) into the bottom of the pan. We cover the bottom with cabbage leaves - if all the liquid suddenly boils away during cooking, the cabbage rolls will not burn. Place the cabbage rolls tightly.





Fill the cabbage rolls with broth or water - up to the level of the cabbage rolls, and place a plate on top so that the cabbage rolls do not float up. If you fill cabbage rolls with water, it should be salted. If you prepared cabbage leaves by boiling them, you can use this water to pour cabbage rolls, but then do not add any salt to it.





Place the pan on the fire and bring the liquid to a boil over high heat. Then reduce the heat to a minimum level and, covering with a lid, cook the cabbage rolls for about 50 minutes.





Stuffed cabbage rolls are good warm or hot; cold they are not at all tasty. Many people like to supplement them with sour cream, mayonnaise or ketchup. Pay attention to this one too.






Additions:
You can add finely chopped parsley or dill to the stuffing of cabbage rolls.
If you want to make healthier cabbage rolls, use ground beef, chicken or turkey. In this case, fill the cabbage rolls with either water or vegetable broth.

I propose to prepare lazy cabbage rolls for the whole family using a completely new proven recipe. This dish is prepared faster than classic cabbage rolls, and the end result tastes almost no different from the dish you are used to. Moreover, lazy cabbage rolls according to this recipe turn out much tastier! We will go through all the stages of preparation step by step, and at the end we will bake them in the oven with tender Savoy cabbage and a delicious tomato sauce.

At the very end of the recipe you will find several links to recipes for sauces with which you can serve lazy cabbage rolls. So, let's get ready!

  • Tomatoes 500 g
  • Savoy cabbage – 400 g
  • Minced meat - 350 g
  • Long grain rice - 300 g
  • Onions - 180 g
  • Tomato paste - 100 g
  • Sunflower oil – 70 ml
  • Ground black pepper - to taste
  • Spices - to taste
  • Salt to taste

Lazy cabbage rolls - step-by-step recipe with photos

For cabbage rolls, take a small head of Savoy cabbage. Rinse thoroughly under running water. Carefully separate into individual leaves. Trim the rough vein down the center of the leaf. If the sheets are very large, they can be cut into two halves.

Boil water in a large saucepan and add a little salt.

Drop the cabbage leaves and boil for 2-3 minutes. Drain in a colander and rinse with cold water. Leave in this position so that the liquid drains.

Preparing the filling to begin the step-by-step preparation of lazy cabbage rolls in the oven

The taste of baked lazy cabbage rolls cooked in the oven is largely determined by the quality sauce that you add to the filling.

Peel the onion and cut into arbitrary pieces (you can use half rings). Pour most of the sunflower oil into a frying pan and heat it up. Fry the chopped onion until golden brown.

Wash the tomatoes, cut into small pieces.

Add tomato paste and tomato pieces to the fried onions.

Fry the vegetables over medium heat until soft and juicy. Season to taste with salt, spices and ground black pepper. You may need a little sugar if the tomato mixture seems sour.

Wash the rice for cabbage rolls and boil until almost done in plenty of salted water. Place in a colander and leave to drain. The next step is to cook the rice.

Add minced meat to the rice, add salt and pepper and stir until smooth.

Collecting lazy cabbage rolls

Select a suitable deep baking dish and grease it with the remaining sunflower oil. Place 4-5 boiled savoy cabbage leaves on the bottom of the pan.

Place some of the rice with minced meat on the sheets and spread over the entire pan.

Spoon some tomato sauce over the filling.

When assembling the lazy cabbage rolls in the mold, repeat this procedure step by step with the remaining ingredients. The top layer is cabbage leaves. This recipe yields 3 layers of cabbage and 2 layers of rice and meat filling with sauce.

Cover the future lazy cabbage rolls with foil and place in a hot oven for 1-1.5 hours. Bake at temperature 180 degrees.

Lazy cabbage rolls are ready!

Delicious to eat hot with sour cream, mayonnaise,


Calories: Not specified
Cooking time: Not indicated

A delicious dish - cabbage rolls - has its counterparts in the cuisines of different nations of the world. So analogues of this dish are found in Georgian and Asian cuisines.
Stuffed cabbage rolls are a meat dish consisting of minced meat with the addition of vegetables, boiled rice, sometimes mushrooms and other additives. This minced meat is used to form a cutlet, which is wrapped in cabbage leaves. In other countries, instead of a cabbage leaf, a grape leaf is used - it turns out. Stuffed cabbage rolls are simmered over low heat until soft. The liquid level during simmering should also be monitored. There should be enough of it so that the cabbage rolls can cook evenly. Our grandmothers simmered cabbage rolls in cauldrons, in large Russian ovens. You could eat these cabbage rolls with your lips, they were so tender and soft. Let's try to cook cabbage rolls at home.
I will prepare cabbage rolls using savoy cabbage leaves. It differs from white cabbage in that its leaves are more grooved, and Savoy cabbage itself is softer and juicier. Savoy cabbage leaves can be easily removed from the head, even without pre-cooking. See my recipe with photos of savoy cabbage rolls and repeat it in your kitchen. As a result, you will not be disappointed!

Ingredients:
- savoy cabbage - 1 head (1.5 kg),
- onions - 3 pcs.,
- carrots - 1 pc.,
- round rice - 1 cup,
- salt - to taste,
- ground black pepper - to taste,
- minced meat - 700 gr.,
- tomato or tomato paste - to taste,
- drinking water - 1.5 liters,
- vegetable oil - 100 ml.,
- sour cream for serving.

Recipe with photos step by step:





2. Prepare the minced meat. I will use homemade minced meat freshly prepared in a meat grinder. Place the minced meat in a bowl.





3. Rinse the rice separately. Pour boiling water over it and cook for 10 minutes from the moment it boils. Add some salt. Place the rice in a sieve. Let the water drain. Cool. Add rice to the minced meat. Finely chop the peeled onion.





4. Add salt and spices to the meat to taste. I only use ground black pepper and salt. Mix the minced meat well so that the spices, rice and onions are evenly distributed.







5. Place the cooled cabbage leaf on the board. The leaf always has a hard vein. I got a lucky head of cabbage. There was no need to get rid of the stiffness of this vein. If your leaf has a rough vein at the base, beat it with a meat mallet.





6. Take a small portion of the prepared minced meat. Form a cutlet from this minced meat and place it on the edge of the sheet.





7. Cover the cutlet with the edge of the sheet and wrap the cutlet in a cabbage leaf with an envelope. We do this with all cabbage leaves and minced meat.




8. Place the formed cabbage rolls in a deep pan. It is important to lay the cabbage rolls so that they lie tightly but evenly. Sharp distortions will lead to the fact that during cooking the cabbage rolls will burst, the cabbage leaf will tear and the filling will come out.







9. Fry finely chopped onion in vegetable oil. When it's fried, add the grated carrots. When the vegetables become soft, add tomato juice (1 glass) or tomato paste (2 tablespoons). Stir. Pour in water. Let it boil.





10. Pour the boiling gravy over the cabbage rolls in the pan. Place on low heat. Add a little salt and simmer until done. Readiness will occur in 40-50 minutes.





Place the finished cabbage rolls in portions on plates at the rate of 2-3 pieces per serving. Pour sour cream over the cabbage rolls and serve.
They also turn out delicious

- Darling, what are we having for dinner today?

- Very lazy cabbage rolls.

- How is that?

— Cabbage on the balcony, minced meat in the freezer.

This is, of course, an anecdote, but on the topic of today’s post about cabbage rolls. By the way, I would like to note that I also have cabbage in the freezer, at least for now)).

I'll start a little from far away. My whole family and I have always loved cabbage rolls, and who doesn’t love them? Prepared with love and care for the household, seasoned with sour cream and herbs……. M... delicious.

However, no matter how much we love cabbage rolls, I didn’t make them often. I was always too lazy to tinker with cabbage - boil it, cool it, disassemble it... It's a tedious task.

But since I discovered it, the issue of preparing cabbage rolls has disappeared by itself.

Not only are cabbage rolls made from Savoy cabbage tender, aromatic and incredibly tasty, but there is no fuss with the head of cabbage. I simply take a head of savoy cabbage out of the freezer, place it in the sink or cup, and give it time to completely thaw at room temperature - that's all the fuss. After the cabbage is defrosted, I take it apart into leaves, carefully cut off the thickened part, wrap the minced meat prepared in advance in a leaf - the cabbage roll is ready!

Well, then you can do whatever you want with the prepared cabbage rolls. For example, fry, put in a pan, add fried onions, carrots, tomato paste, add water and simmer until done. You can simply place savoy cabbage rolls on a bed of vegetables, season with sour cream, sprinkle with cheese and bake in the oven. You can safely cook these cabbage rolls in a multi-cooker. In general, everyone chooses a cooking method at their own discretion - whatever is more familiar, easier, tastier.

Now I’ll tell you about how I cook savoy cabbage rolls in the oven. Step-by-step recipe with photos.

Savoy cabbage - one medium fork,

Any minced meat – 500 grams,

Boiled rice, crumbly – 1/2 cup,

Onions - 2 medium heads,

Carrots – 2 palm-long pieces,

Crushed tomatoes – 2/3 cup,

Sour cream – 3 tablespoons,

Cheese grated on a coarse grater for sprinkling - two handfuls,

Oil for frying (to your taste),

Salt pepper.

First, let's prepare the minced meat for the filling. You can use any minced meat, I will make it from turkey meat.

Add to the chopped meat one coarsely grated carrot and one finely diced onion, and boiled rice until half cooked.

Season everything with salt and pepper, mix thoroughly. That's it, the filling for savoy cabbage rolls is ready.

Now we will separate the savoy cabbage into leaves and carefully cut off the thickening with a sharp knife.

The photo clearly shows that the leaves of Savoy cabbage become very tender and thin after defrosting. They look like corrugated paper and also stretch. To be honest, wrapping minced meat in them is a real pleasure.

Once on one of the social networks, I came across a humorous post about how a young housewife tried to feed her precious husband cabbage rolls, fastened with a stapler... If she had prepared cabbage rolls from Savoy cabbage, then the stapler would definitely not have been useful to her)).

Place the finished rolls in a baking dish and set aside.

Now let's start preparing the filling.

We have one more onion and one carrot left, let's peel them. Grate the carrots and cut the onion into cubes. Fry the onions and carrots in a frying pan, add crushed tomatoes and simmer until the tomato liquid has evaporated a little, about five minutes.

Now let's season our vegetable frying with sour cream, salt, pepper (to taste) and warm up all this beauty for a couple of minutes.

Place the finished filling evenly over our cabbage rolls and place in the oven, heated to 180 degrees, for 15 minutes.

After 15 minutes, sprinkle the cabbage rolls with cheese and return to the oven. As soon as the cheese melts, the savoy cabbage rolls are ready.

If you don’t like cheese, or you simply don’t have it on hand, that’s okay, cabbage rolls can be greased with sour cream.

In general, baking takes about 20-30 minutes.

Take the finished cabbage rolls out of the oven, let them “rest” a little, 5 – 10 minutes, and set the table.

That's all. As you can see, “Savoy cabbage rolls in the oven. Step-by-step recipe with photos” - it’s very simple, quite impressive and, believe me, delicious!

Bon appetit, and good luck to your home!