Cabbage rolls can be cooked in a frying pan or in a saucepan, baked in the oven, cooked in pots, but in the classic version they are cooked on the stove in a saucepan.
This method conquers with its simplicity and unpretentiousness. It's time to cook!
Cabbage rolls in the pan - the general principles of cooking
Cabbage for cabbage must be prepared in advance. In the classic version, the head is boiled in water, making cuts near the stalk, sometimes it is completely removed with a sharp knife. Soft leaves are carefully removed. In more and more cases you can meet lazy ways - warming the head in a microwave oven in the form or in a package, it will take 5-10 minutes, depending on the size of the cabbage. Next, the leaves also need to be removed, gently cut a thick core, wrap inside the stuffing.
Usually stuffing of minced meat. You can twist it yourself, buy in a store or on the market. The composition also does not matter, someone likes a mixture of pork and beef, someone loves the bird more. Cooking time will not be very different, as the meat is minced and rarely takes more than 40-60 minutes.
What else can be added to the filling:
• vegetables (carrots, onions, peppers, tomatoes);
• rice, sometimes other cereals;
• mushrooms;
• greens, spices.
There are vegetarian cabbage rolls with minced vegetables, this dish will delight in the post, there is a recipe below. The stuffed cabbage rolls are poured into sauces. They can be from tomato and vegetables, sour cream, sour cream and tomato. Stuffed cabbage is always stewed on a small fire. If the dish boils strongly, the convolutions may lose their shape, boil softly, turn into porridge.
Cabbage rolls in a saucepan with tomato
Tomato sauce for cabbage in the pan will be prepared on the basis of pasta, but you can take ketchup, tomato puree, increasing the total amount by 2-3 times.
Ingredients
• cabbage;
• 4 spoons of tomato paste;
• 500 grams of minced meat;
• 160 grams of rice;
• 150 g onions and carrots;
• spices, water, oil. Cooking
1. Prepare a head of cabbage. We make deep cuts around the stalk, drop it to the boiling water, boil the leaves until soft, remove and remove, lay it on the table. If necessary, drop the heading again. We remove the thick core at the base of the sheets.
2. Boil dry washed rice almost to readiness. Merge into a colander, let it cool. While the water flows down.
3. We take a large frying pan, pour the oil, set to warm up. Crumble up onions, send it to the oil, after a couple of minutes we pour the grated carrot. Fry the vegetables, then remove half from the pan to the bowl.
4. Add a tomato to the pan, fry for a minute, pour a liter of water, salt and pepper, let the sauce boil, turn it off.
5. To the roasted vegetables that we put in the bowl, add rice, minced meat, spices, stir the stuffing.
6. Put on each cabbage leaf a tablespoon of minced meat, roll envelopes.
7. At the bottom of the pan, pour a few beds of vegetable tomato sauce, lay out the folded cabbage rolls in layers, the seam from the bottom.
8. Pour the remnants of the sauce. If he does not cover the cabbage rolls, then you can add a little water from the kettle. Cover and stew stuffed cabbage 45-50 minutes in a saucepan.
Cabbage rolls in a saucepan in white cream sauce
In sour cream, cabbage rolls turn out to be completely different, tender, juicy, besides, this filling is cooked much easier and faster. Here we will cook cabbage in the microwave.
Ingredients
• cabbage;
• 600 g minced meat;
• 250 g boiled rice;
• 2 bulbs;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 tbsp. l without flour slides;
• 2 tbsp. l butter;
• 450 g sour cream;
• 2 cloves of garlic, dill.
Cooking
1. Cut a stalk, put cabbage in a cup for a microwave, pour 0.5 cups of water, cover with a special lid, soar for five minutes. We take out, remove the leaves, again put the head in the microwave and steamed for a few more minutes.
2. Dice onions. Fry. It is better to use butter, but if necessary, take a vegetable. Once the onions are reddened, we take out about half of the spoon, this will be for the filling. Put the flour in the pan, stir it, warm it a little and spread the sour cream. We warm to a hot state, dilute the sauce with water from the kettle, add about two glasses, pepper and salt, remove from heat. 3. To the onion, which is laid out from the pan, pour the rice, put the meat or chicken mince, stir, add salt.
4. We form ordinary cabbage rolls from cabbage leaves. Put in a saucepan, pour sour cream sauce, cooked under the lid for about 50 minutes.
5. Chop the garlic and dill. Sprinkle the dish in the pan for 2-3 minutes before the end of cooking. Give brew.
Cabbage rolls in a pan with tomato and sour cream
Recipe for stuffed cabbage with mixed gravy. The taste of the sauce is very expressive, and the color remains bright.
Ingredients
• 500 grams of minced meat;
• 250 g boiled rice;
• a clove of garlic;
• 2 bulbs and carrots;
• 2 tomatoes;
• a glass of sour cream;
• cabbage, spices, oil.
Cooking
1. Chop one onion, chop a clove of garlic, add to the stuffing, pour in boiled rice, pepper and salt it, stir it well.
2. Prepare the cabbage in any way, roll up the stuffed cabbage rolls.
3. Onions and carrots, which remained, fry together in a skillet. Cut tomatoes in half, three tomatoes grated, throw away the skin. Pour to vegetables, fry for three minutes, add a glass of sour cream, stir, pour in 600 ml of water.
4. Put the stuffed cabbage in a saucepan, spill layers of sauce.
5. Cover and simmer after boiling for 40 to 50 minutes, depending on the size of the cabbage rolls.
Cabbage rolls in a saucepan with mushroom gravy
Variant of delicious and fragrant cabbage rolls with a delicate mushroom sauce. It is prepared on the basis of sour cream, you can also use fresh cow cream, it also turns out great. Stuffed cabbage cook ordinary meat for any recipe.
Ingredients
• 1 kg of cabbage;
• 300 g sour cream;
• 250 g of champignons;
• 2 onions;
• salt, pepper, oil;
• a spoon of flour.
Cooking
1. Fry the chopped onion in the pan for two minutes.
2. Wash fresh champignons, add to the onions, cook over high heat until all the water is gone. Mix sour cream with flour until smooth, pour mushrooms.
3. Heat the sauce until it starts to boil. Dilute with water, for that amount of cabbage 350-400 ml is enough. Salt, pepper, you can fill the sauce with garlic. 4. Stuffed cabbage shipped to the pan, pour the mushroom sauce on top.
5. Cover, simmer for an hour on a small fire under the lid. Served with sauce and mushrooms, decorate with fresh dill.
Vegetarian cabbage rolls in the pan (suitable for fasting)
Recipe for cabbage rolls with vegetable filling. We cook cabbage in any convenient way, above there are cooking recipes in a saucepan and steaming in a microwave oven.
Ingredients
• cabbage leaves;
• 250 g boiled rice;
• 2 carrots;
• 2 peppers;
• 2 onions;
• 1-2 eggplants;
• 5 tomatoes;
• salt, pepper, vegetable oil.
Cooking
1. Eggplant cut into cubes, sprinkle with salt, leave to highlight bitterness. Then rinse, squeeze well, fry in a frying pan to a light blush, shift to a bowl.
2. In the same pan add a little oil. Put chopped onions, carrots, fry for a few minutes, spread half to eggplants, add grated tomatoes. Stew sauce for a couple of minutes, pour in three glasses of water.
3. Cut the Bulgarian pepper into small cubes. Add to the stuffing, pour in boiled rice, put spices and mix everything thoroughly.
4. We form stuffed cabbage rolls with lean filling, put them in a saucepan, spill sauce with vegetables and tomatoes.
5. Put the stew on a small fire, cook for about half an hour.
Cabbage rolls in a saucepan with broth
Option cabbage in light meat gravy based on light meat broth and vegetables. You can use beef, pork, chicken, turkey, or any other meat. Stuffed cabbage take any with meat stuffing.
Ingredients
• large onion;
• 1 liter of beef broth;
• carrot;
• 10 cabbage rolls;
• 2 tbsp. l oils;
• pepper;
• one tomato;
• parsley root.
Cooking
1. Cut the onion and parsley root into small cubes, pour it into a heated pan, fry for a couple of minutes.
2. We rub one carrot, we put to vegetables, we prepare two more minutes. Fall asleep Bulgarian pepper.
3. You can not add a tomato, but it will make the color more interesting. We rub it finely, put it in the pan, simmer a tomato with vegetables for a minute or two. 4. Fill in the total mass of hot meat broth. Add salt and pepper, stir, turn off.
5. Put the cabbage rolls in the pan, pour the meat broth with spices and browned vegetables.
6. Cover with a lid, bring to a boil, put the fire to a minimum, stew stuffed cabbage in beef until ready.
Cabbage rolls in the pan - useful tips and tricks
• Before cooking in a pan, the cabbage rolls can be rolled in flour and fried in a skillet. This technique will make the taste better, and the sauce is thicker.
• If the sauce contains a lot of tomato and it is sour, then the cooking time for cabbage rolls out.
• Dilute gravy for cabbage rolls with optional water. Much tastier are sauces based on broths (meat, mushroom, vegetable).
• Vegetarian cabbage can be cooked not only with rice and vegetables, there are very interesting recipes with buckwheat, mushrooms, pearl barley, beans, you can search for them or simply turn on the fantasy.
• All recipes that are designed for the stove, you can adapt to the slow cooker, it can use the quenching program.
• If the stuffing is without fat, then the filling may turn out to be rather dry. You can add a piece of butter to each stuffed cabbage or put some baked fat.
