The combination of cabbage and minced meat is, above all, great stuffed cabbage rolls, but not only they.
Juicy greens with a mild flavor perfectly complements the meat, gives the dish subtle notes of freshness.
Meat dishes, due to cabbage, do not create a feeling of heaviness in the stomach, are easier to digest, and simply become much tastier.
Cabbage with minced meat in a slow cooker - general principles of cooking
• Cabbage with minced meat in a slow cooker is most often stewed. Often with the help of a “magic saucepan” of these products, second courses are prepared, such as cabbage rolls, stews or lasagna.
• To extinguish take white cabbage or cauliflower. White can be both fresh and fermented. Fresh squirrel, finely chopped and added to the bowl to the already roasted minced meat. Sour lightly fried and only then mixed with raw minced meat. Cauliflower before stewing is recommended to blanch for about a quarter of an hour for a couple.
• For the preparation of main dishes, such as stews or cabbage rolls, a fresh white-ground squash, finely chopped and mixed with raw or roasted meat. Lasagne is made from cabbage leaves boiled until half cooked, interbedded with roasted meat and watering with a specially prepared white sauce.
• Mince is suitable for almost any: pork, chicken, turkey, mixed, etc. The choice of semi-finished product depends on personal preferences. Stuffing can be twisted by yourself or buy ready. It is desirable that he was not too fat. It must be lightly seasoned and seasoned with ground black pepper.
• The main programs used for cooking cabbage and minced meat in a slow cooker are “Baking”, “Frying” and “Stewing”. “Steaming” can also be useful.
Braised cabbage with minced meat in the slow cooker
Ingredients:
• fresh belochanka - 1 kg;
• half a pound of minced meat (pork with beef);
• one bitter onion; • tablespoon unsalted tomato;
• two carrots;
• a small spoonful of salt;
• 3 large spoons of vegetable oil.
Cooking Method:
1. On a fine grater rub the carrot. Finely chop the onion with a sharp, heavy knife. Cut cabbage in half lengthwise and finely chop both halves.
2. Start the “Baking” program and pour all the vegetable oil into the cooking bowl.
3. Dip the minced meat in the heated oil and fry, stirring constantly, without closing the lid.
4. After a quarter of an hour, add carrots with onions, mix and continue cooking for another 10 minutes.
5. Then dip the cabbage into the bowl, salt it. Salt may need less, it all depends on the salinity of tomato paste. Therefore, do not put all the salt at once, but first add only half.
6. Add a small pinch of ground pepper and a tomato diluted with two spoons of water. If the cabbage is juicy and produces a lot of juice, the tomato can not be diluted.
7. Lower the lid and cook the cabbage with minced meat for half an hour on “Baking”. In the process of frying, be sure to stir the dish several times, and 10 minutes prior to readiness pay attention to the amount of liquid in the dish. If you bring too much cabbage to readiness, without closing the “pans”. Moisture during this time evaporated.
Cabbage with minced meat in a slow cooker - “Lazy cabbage rolls”
Ingredients:
• 350 gr. lean pork;
• 400 gr. beef (pulp);
• garlic;
• 100 gr. round grain rice;
• 250 gr. fresh white cabbage;
• two spoons of unsalted tomato;
• vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l .;
• two chicken eggs;
• two large onions.
Cooking Method:
1. Peel one onion and cut it into small pieces. As small as possible shred cabbage.
2. Enumerate the rice, rinse and strain the remaining water well. You can dry the cereal on the sieve.
3. Wash the meat. Remove films with a knife and cut into small pieces.
4. Twist the meat and sliced onions through the largest grill in the meat grinder.
5. Add shredded cabbage, dried rice and egg yolks to the mince. Prichchite, lightly prisolite and knead well. 6. Hitting the meat mass with a spoon, form small oval cabbage rolls out of it with wet hands. When forming, beat off the “blanks” by sharply transferring them from the palm to the palm.
7. Cut the remaining onion into small pieces, rub the carrots on a medium grater.
8. Run the slow cooker in the “Frying” mode. Put chopped carrot and onion in the bowl. Pour vegetable oil and pass vegetables in it, achieving full softening.
9. After a quarter of an hour, add the tomato and mix thoroughly.
10. Transfer to the cooking bowl of the stuffed cabbage. Do not lay close, be sure to leave a distance of not less than the thickness of the little finger.
11. Then pour the very hot water so that it covers the meat “blanks” for one centimeter.
12. Set on the slow cooker the option of “stewing” and leave the cabbage rolls for half an hour to cook under the lid.
Sauerkraut stewed with minced meat in a slow cooker
Ingredients:
• sauerkraut cabbage - 400 gr.;
• 200 gr. any minced meat;
• tomato paste - 30 gr .;
• Three spoons of any vegetable refined oil.
Cooking Method:
1. Remove the sample from the sauerkraut. Overly sour pour boiling water for a quarter of an hour. Then shift to a colander, rinse well with cold water and squeeze lightly.
2. Not too sour cabbage, not soaking, rinse and squeeze or leave for some time in a colander to excess glass water.
3. After transferring the sauerkraut into the cooking bowl, add vegetable oil. Fry on the program “Frying” or “Baking” 10 minutes.
4. Lower the mince, try on the salt and add it if necessary. Close the lid tightly, change the mode to “Quenching”, and set the timer to one hour. Ten minutes before the timer runs out, add a tomato and mix.
Braised cabbage with minced meat in a slow cooker - “Vegetable stew”
Ingredients:
• 700 gr. low-fat mixed minced meat;
• seven medium-sized potatoes;
• one large carrot;
• one onion; • 650 gr. late white cabbage;
• three large spoons of tomato puree;
• a little less than half a glass of water (100 ml);
• 50 gr. oil or smaltz.
Cooking Method:
1. If you have frozen mince - thaw it. For 8-10 hours, place the stuffing in a bowl or a deep plate and put on the shelf in the refrigerator. In cold weather, you can leave on the table. Naturally thawed product will not be too wet and all the beneficial substances will remain.
2. Place the thawed mince into the cooking bowl with the fat that has been preloaded into it. Start the “Frying” program and cook for 10 minutes. Crush the meat well and crush well to prevent it from burning.
3. Then add the carrots rubbed into the finest straw and the onions as fine as possible.
4. After the vegetables are well roasted (after about 10 minutes), put the cabbage and small potatoes in a bowl, chopped into thin strips of cabbage.
5. Add pepper, lightly salt and pour water.
6. Stir well and close the lid. Stop the “Frying” mode and start “Quenching” for one hour.
7. After twenty minutes, put the tomato in the cabbage and mix well again. Close the lid again and bring to readiness.
Colored stewed cabbage with minced meat in a slow cooker
Ingredients:
• cauliflower - 450 gr .;
• two eggs;
• a pound of chicken fillet;
• garlic;
• three large spoons of medium-fat sour cream;
• one ripe tomato;
• three spoons of non-aromatic sunflower oil;
• large onion.
Cooking Method:
1. Disperse the head into separate inflorescences and for 10 minutes. dip them in a weak saline solution. Then rinse well under cold water and place in a steam container.
2. Pour 200 ml of water into the bowl. Place a filled container on top and turn on the “saucepan” in “Steam” mode, for 1/4 hour. Place the blanched cabbage in a separate bowl and set aside.
3. Wash chicken meat and twist through the middle grate in a meat grinder. 4. Pour oil into a clean cooking bowl and on the “Frying” program, brown onion slices chopped.
5. When the onions begin to brown slightly, put the twisted chicken to it. Mix well and continue cooking without interrupting the previously set option for another 20 minutes.
6. Chop sliced tomatoes chop any food processor in mashed potatoes. You can, as well as chicken, grind in a meat grinder.
7. Mix raw eggs with sour cream, salt and finely grated garlic.
8. Put the blanched cabbage into the roasted minced chicken. Add tomato, pour sour cream dressing and mix thoroughly.
9. Change the “Frying” mode to “Quenching”, close the multicooker lid tightly and continue cooking for another half hour.
Cabbage with minced meat in a slow cooker - Cabbage lasagna
Ingredients:
• average head of late cabbage;
• four ripe tomatoes;
• onion;
• one small carrot;
• a pound of any low-fat minced meat;
• 50 gr. butter;
• one and a half tablespoons of wheat flour;
• half a liter of pasteurized cow milk;
• a small pinch of nutmeg;
• 100 gr. semi-hard cheese or “Parmesan”.
Cooking Method:
1. First prepare cabbage leaves. Head cabbage well wash, tear off the top leaves and dip them in boiling water. Boil cabbage until half cooked (10-15 minutes) and remove from water.
2. In a slightly cooled head from the side of the stalk, make several deep cuts and separate the leaves. The thickened places slightly repel and cut the leaves into small squares, measuring 3 * 3 cm.
3. In the bowl of the multicooker in vegetable oil, save the onion and coarsely chopped carrots, chopped into small cubes, until the onions soften. Cooking mode - “Frying” or “Baking”.
4. Add the mince to the vegetables and break it well with a spatula into small pieces. Add the tomatoes that were blended with a blender, add a little salt and simmer for a minute and a half. Put the contents of the bowl in a bowl and wash it.
5. Turn the kitchen appliance back on and put the butter in a clean bowl. When it is completely melted, add flour and stir well to avoid flour lumps. Add nutmeg, lightly salt and, without stopping stir, cook until noticeable thickening. Pour the finished white sauce into a separate dish and wash the bowl well again. 6. Cover the bottom of the clean bowl with squares of cabbage leaves and place on them a portion of fried with minced tomatoes. Pour over half of the white sauce and close with cabbage leaves. Then again lay the mince and again pour it with white sauce. Scratch the cheese on top with a large grater.
7. Install the “Quenching” program for one hour and turn on the multicooker.
8. Prepare the cabbage lasagna right in the bowl with a spatula and cut it into portions.
Cabbage with minced meat in a slow cooker - cooking tricks and helpful tips
• To make cabbage strips of the same thickness and thin enough, use a special vegetable peeler or a food processor for shredding.
• Be sure to lower the cauliflower in the salt solution. This will remove the insect larvae from them.
• To get rid of excess acidity of sauerkraut, it is not necessary to fill it with boiling water. You can soak the cabbage in cold water.
• Add tomato paste to stewed cabbage no earlier than 10-15 minutes before the end of cooking. Otherwise, it will not soften and remain tough.
• When cooking lasagna, be sure to cut the compacted places with leaves with a knife or beat them with a hammer.
