Cabbage leaves stuffed with sour cream sauce is a favorite dish of many.
But for some reason, not every housewife prepares it.
Some are afraid of cabbage processing, others are forming cabbage rolls, others do not want to waste time on kneading meat.
But in fact, in all this is nothing complicated.
Home-made cabbage rolls can be done simply and quickly, but only if you know the technology and a few cooking secrets.
Cabbage rolls in sour cream sauce - general principles of cooking
Cooking cabbage includes 3 main stages: preparation of leaves, minced meat and the formation of the cabbage itself. Then the semi-finished products are boiled, stewed or baked in sour cream sauce. We prepare it for the least time. Basically sour cream mixed with spices, liquid and just poured into the dish. Rarely add fried vegetables, flour and other ingredients.
Cooking delicious mince
Meat share of cabbage can be used any, no less tasty is obtained with the bird. In the stuffing add onions, garlic, spices and boiled rice. Croup is boiled until cooked, not allowing the digestion of grains. Then the liquid is drained, the product is cooled and sent to the total mass. The amount of rice should not exceed 15% in dry form.
How to prepare cabbage leaves
For cabbage, it is desirable to use a large head of cabbage. First, the upper leaves are removed, then the stalk is cut with a sharp knife. Cabbage is laid with the resulting hole in boiling water and boil for several minutes. Time depends on the variety and juiciness of the vegetable. It is important not to digest the leaves, but make them soft. From each leaf, before forming the cabbage, a large vein is removed.
How to wrap stuffed cabbage
Cabbage leaf lay in front of a concave side inside. In the hole place the filling and impose the edge nearest to him from above. Then bend the sides and roll up the roll. The technique is the same as when stuffing pancakes. Put the stuffed cabbage seam down to keep the shape of convolutions.
Recipe 1: Cabbage rolls in sour cream with turkey
For cooking stuffed cabbage in sour cream sauce, minced turkey will be needed. You can buy the finished product or twist the meat yourself.
Ingredients
• 400 grams of minced meat;
• 1 onion;
• 50 grams of rice;
• 1 kg of cabbage;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• 1 spoonful of flour;
• spices;
• 250 grams of sour cream;
• greenery.
Cooking
1. Prepare cabbage leaves as described above. Cooling down.
2. We grind onions and 2 cloves of garlic, we send in mincemeat.
3. Boil rice until cooked, drain the water and ship the cereal to the turkey.
4. Add spices to the mince, mix.
5. Put the stuffing on each cabbage leaf and roll up the stuffed cabbage rolls. How to do this is described in detail above. We fold the bundles into the pan, placing the seams below so that the leaves do not unfold.
6. Mix sour cream and flour, put in a frying pan or any saucepan, warm up.
7. Add the remaining chives, pre-chopped. Pour pepper, salt.
8. As soon as the sour cream becomes thinner, add 800-900 grams of water, let the sauce boil.
9. We send sour cream to stuffed cabbage rolls, cover with lid and prepare the dish for 30 minutes.
10. Put the bay leaf, chopped greens, cover and turn off. Give the dish to inhale the aromas and you can serve!
Recipe 2: Baked cabbage rolls in sour cream sauce
For the preparation of such stuffed cabbage in sour cream sauce, we will use minced beef. We will bake in the oven, the cabbage will turn out ruddy and very fragrant.
Ingredients
• 700 grams of beef;
• 4 onions;
• 1 head of cabbage;
• 100 grams of rice;
• 400 grams of sour cream;
• spices;
• 2 spoons of butter;
• 150 grams of water or any broth.
Cooking
1. Boil rice, decant the water.
2. Skip minced meat with two peeled onions. If desired, add a clove of garlic.
3. Add cooked rice to the minced meat, salt, pepper and mix well. 4. Prepare cabbage leaves. How to do this, see above.
5. Wrapped cabbage rolls.
6. Cut the remaining onions and fry in two spoons of butter.
7. Put on the bottom of the shape of the bow, do not need to lubricate.
8. Next, lay out the cabbage rolls in one layer, the seams should be bottom or side, but not on top.
9. Stir sour cream with water, salt the sauce and pour into the form with stuffed cabbage.
10. Bake about 40 minutes at 180 degrees. If necessary, time can be extended.
Recipe 3: Stewed cabbage rolls in sour cream sauce
Quenching involves adding a small amount of liquid or sauce, and cooking is due to the evaporation of moisture. For these cabbage rolls in sour cream sauce, you can use any stuffing. If you mix several types of meat, it will taste better. Preparing a dish on the stove.
Ingredients
• 700 grams of meat;
• 2 bulbs;
• 200 grams of sour cream;
• 70 grams of rice;
• spices;
• 1 head of cabbage;
• 4 spoons of vegetable oil;
• 70 grams of butter;
• 1 carrot.
Cooking
1. Clean the onions with carrots, finely chop and fry to ruddy color with the addition of vegetable oil, specified in the recipe.
2. Boil rice until cooked.
3. Add to the minced vegetables, rice, salt and any spices, mix.
4. We form cabbage rolls from prepared cabbage leaves and minced meat.
5. Melt a piece of butter in a frying pan and fry the cabbage rolls on both sides. We shift in a saucepan with a thick bottom or in a deep frying pan, stew pan.
6. Sour cream diluted with a glass of water, you can take the broth. Add spices, pour into cabbage rolls.
7. Cover, bring to a boil, remove the fire and simmer the dish for an hour. Do not give intense boil, remove the temperature to a minimum.
Recipe 4: Lazy cabbage rolls in cream sauce in the oven
Can not wrap stuffed cabbage or not a whole cabbage? Well, okay! There is a simple and easy way to cook stuffed cabbage in sour cream sauce that any hostess can handle. A recipe without rice, but if there is a great desire to put cereal, then why not? Ingredients
• 500 grams of any stuffing;
• 500 grams of cabbage;
• 2 bulbs;
• 3 eggs;
• spices;
• 200 grams of sour cream into the sauce;
• 150 grams of sour cream for lubrication;
• 150 grams of water;
• 2 spoons of semolina.
Cooking
1. Grind onion and mix with minced meat.
2. Cabbage should be finely chopped, like on a salad. If there is a meat grinder with a large grid, then you can skip through it. The fine mesh is not suitable, the mass, and, therefore, the stuffing, will be liquid.
3. Combine the cabbage with meat, add spices, semolina, eggs and knead well.
4. We form from the resulting mass of cabbage rolls, or rather cutlets. Size and appearance can be any. You can give an oblong shape, round, flat.
5. Fold the lazy cabbage rolls into the container for baking.
6. Mix sour cream with water, salt, pepper and pour. We salt a little, because in the process almost everything is absorbed, and the dish can become salty.
7. Send to the oven for 30-40 minutes. Then we take out, we grease stuffed cabbage with the remained sour cream, we cover with a cover and we allow to stand 15 minutes. Done!
Recipe 5: Cabbage rolls in sour cream sauce with tomato
According to the recipe, tomato paste is used, but you can successfully put ketchup or any sauce, everything will work out too.
Ingredients
• cabbage leaves;
• 8 spoons of sour cream;
• 700 grams of minced pork with beef;
• 0.5 cup rice;
• 4 spoons of tomato paste;
• 2 bulbs;
• 50 grams of oil;
• 2 carrots;
• garlic, spices.
Cooking
1. Boil rice. Drain the water.
2. Fry shredded carrots and onions in butter. It is not necessary to put out the vegetables, make a big fire and bring it to a golden color.
3. Add half of the vegetables to the mince, put the same rice, you can add chopped garlic. We fill with salt and pepper.
4. In the second half of the vegetables add tomato paste, fry for a minute. Put sour cream. As soon as it melts, add 700 grams of water. Salt sauce.
5. Put the cabbage rolls in a saucepan, pour over the sauce from the pan, cover and cook for 50 minutes. Tomato paste inhibits the softening of the fibers and if the cabbage is winter, then this time may not be enough and you can add more.
Recipe 6: Cabbage rolls in sour cream sauce in a slow cooker
If the kitchen is a slow cooker, then cooking stuffed cabbage in sour cream sauce becomes even easier! A light and fresh flavor of this dish will give Bulgarian pepper.
Ingredients
• 600 grams of minced meat (any);
• 100 grams of rice;
• cabbage leaves;
• 150 grams of sour cream;
• 1 Bulgarian pepper;
• spices;
• 2 bulbs;
• 50 grams of oil.
Cooking
1. Grind one onion and combine with minced meat, add rice boiled in water beforehand.
2. Mince salt, pepper, mix.
3. Wrapped cabbage rolls.
4. Melt a piece of butter in a slow cooker, add the chopped onion and fry for 10 minutes. Then add chopped Bulgarian pepper.
5. Put the cabbage rolls.
6. Make a fill of sour cream and 350 grams of water, salt and pour into a multicooker container.
7. Put the stewing program for small cabbage for 40 minutes. If the products are large, then extend another 10-15 minutes.
Recipe 7: Cabbage rolls in sour cream with buckwheat
Who said that only rice is put in minced meat? He did not try cabbage rolls with buckwheat! A fragrant, healthy and delicious dish can be a leader on your table, especially in cooking there is nothing complicated.
Ingredients
• 500 grams of minced meat;
• 120 grams of buckwheat;
• 2 bulbs;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 400 grams of sour cream;
• spices;
• 2 tablespoons of flour;
• cabbage leaves;
• 2 spoons of tomato ketchup.
Cooking
1. Cook buckwheat. It is important to make a crumbly porridge, so pour water 1: 1, better let the cereal be a little stiff.
2. Fry the onion cut into small cubes and send to the minced meat, add garlic, buckwheat porridge, season with spices and mix.
3. Form the cabbage rolls and put in the pan.
4. Fry the flour in a dry pan. Half a minute is enough for her to get a cream shade.
5. Add sour cream to the flour and mix vigorously so that no lumps form. Mass warmed up. 6. Now add 700 grams of water to the sauce. Pour boiling water to save time. If everything does not fit in the pan, then add half. Pour the rest into the pan.
7. Boil the sauce for a minute, salt, pepper and pour the cabbage rolls. Cook until fully cooked, about 35-40 minutes.
Cabbage rolls in sour cream sauce - tips and tricks
• Stuffed cabbage will be more aromatic and tastier if you fry them from both sides in a pan before stewing or boiling them. Butter can be used any: vegetable or creamy.
• The most delicious cabbage rolls are obtained from mixed fatty minced meat. The most dietary and low-calorie cooked from turkey and chicken. In this case, the bird is used without skin.
• No sour cream for sauce? You can use cream, and even milk. But in the latter version will have to exclude the addition of fluid.
• If you add fried vegetables to the stuffing for cabbage, it will be much tastier.
• Sauce can be used with cabbage like soup. But in this case, do not make it too fat, dilute the sour cream with at least two parts of water (broth) and do not forget to add vegetables and greens.
