The subtleties of the recipe for cabbage rolls with meat Many of us love such tasty stuffed cabbage with meat with a juicy filling inside, but not all are prepared to cook it, considering it a long and arduous occupation. However, nothing particularly complicated in the recipe for stuffed cabbage with meat is not, if you know some of the secrets of their recipes, which are used by some experienced housewives. For example, everyone knows about cabbage for cabbage rolls with meat to give it softness. But you can simply freeze cabbage heads in advance, then after thawing they will become soft and without heat treatment. Thick streaks at the base can be cut with a sharp knife or repulsed with a wooden tolstick, so that they do not interfere with folding envelopes. And in order that cabbage rolls with meat do not turn around during the extinguishing, some bind them with threads. But you can do the same in another way: cabbage rolls will get much more delicious and will keep the shape if they are pre-fried in hot vegetable oil until golden brown. By the way, it is not necessary to wrap meat in the leaves of white cabbage, you can also use Savoy cabbage, spinach, beet leaves or grapes. A minced meat from different types of meat will give stuffed cabbage.
Ingredients:- Pork forcemeat 600 g
- White cabbage 1 pc.
- Onion 2 pcs.
- Carrot 1 pc.
- Round-grain rice 100 g
- Sunflower refined sunflower oil 2 tbsp. l.
- Black pepper powder 1 tsp.
- Salt 1 tsp.
- Tomato paste 2 tbsp. l.
- Sour cream 2 tbsp. l.
- Boiled water 0.5 l
- Pepper black ground 0.5 tsp.
- Salt 0.5 tsp.
- Step 1 To prepare cabbage rolls with meat stuffing you need minced meat, cabbage forks, onions, carrots, rice and spices.
- Step 2 To prepare the filling cut 2 medium bulbs in cubes and 1 carrot three on a coarse grater.
- Step 3 Fry the onions with carrots until golden in vegetable oil.
- Step 4 Mix the minced meat from the pork meat and cooked roast, add the boiled rice, salt and black freshly ground pepper.
- Step 5 Mix well the meat and the rest of the ingredients.
- Step 6 To "disassemble" cabbage on the leaves, remove the stump.
- Step 7 Carefully separate each cabbage leaf from the fork.
- Step 8 Then cook the cabbage leaves in boiling salted water for 5 minutes. If the entire plug can not be disassembled into sheets, then it can also be welded entirely, and then "disassembled".
- Step 9 Cut from each sheet a solid part at the base, so that the leaf is more flexible and spread 1-2 tablespoons of prepared minced meat from meat, rice and roast.
- Step 10 Then wrap the meat: you can with an envelope or just a tube - it depends on your desire and the shape of the cabbage leaves.
- Step 11 So prepare all the cabbage rolls. Then prepare the sauce: combine the tomato paste, sour cream, water and spices - stir to a homogeneous consistency.
- Step 12 Put the stuffed cabbage rolls into a large saucepan and add the sauce.
- Step 13 And we send to stew on a slow fire for 50-60 minutes. In the process of extinguishing the sauce can be tried, and if necessary add salt and pepper.