Each housewife dreams of her family eating tasty, varied, home-made, but at the same time she does not have to spend all her free time working in the kitchen at the stove.
Probably, therefore, in modern culinary, the names of dishes are increasingly appearing accompanied by the word “lazy”: lazy dumplings, lazy cakes and pies.
Lazy cabbage rolls complement this list of dishes.
Lazy cabbage rolls on the pan - the basic technological principles
Even a lazy meal can deliver a lot of pleasure and benefit if you carefully consider each technological step of its preparation. The preparation of any dish consists of a specific set of main products, methods of their preparatory, mechanical and heat treatment.
The basis of cabbage is minced meat or other meat products, cereal part (rice, millet, buckwheat, etc.), vegetables and cabbage, which is sometimes replaced with other leafy vegetables to wrap the stuffing. For vegetarian or lean cabbage, the meat part is replaced with non-animal products, but the process remains the same.
Isn’t it the most time-consuming step in cooking stuffed cabbage is to prepare the cabbage leaves and to form semi-finished products in the form of rolls or envelopes of leaves and filling? In this lies the basic idea of cooking all the lazy dishes. It remains, fundamentally without changing the composition of the dish, to exclude from the technological process the most time-consuming steps to reduce to a minimum the time for preparing a delicious homemade dinner. After all, the sum does not change from the rearrangement of the terms.
That is, if you add cabbage directly to the filling, the taste of cabbage leaves will remain the same. True, such a solution lacks one nuance: the filling without cabbage “wrappers” will lose its shape, it will crumble in the sauce and turn into a stew or hodgepodge. But a small culinary trick easily removes this obstacle: you just need to add eggs or a little flour, starch to the stuffing, or make a viscous porridge from the cereal. The protein contained in these products will bind the components of the filling during roasting or steaming. As a result, we will get all the same semi-finished products of cylindrical or other shape, no different in taste from ordinary cabbage. There is another way to reduce the cooking time of cabbage: you just need to put the stuffing and cabbage leaves in layers of prepared deep frying pan, covering each layer with sauce, bake the dish in the oven, and when serving, cut into portions, and again pour the sauce to decorate the dish. In a word, there are no hopeless situations.
Do not forget anything? Well, no one doubts that any woman, at least once in her life, cooked cabbage rolls according to her own recipe, or recipe of her grandmother, girlfriend, neighbor or work colleague. Therefore, there is no need to teach the hostess to cook soup, as we have long said.
Then it remains to try the lazy cabbage rolls, preparing it according to other recipes, which, perhaps, are not yet known.
1. Lazy cabbage rolls in a frying pan in a creamy mustard sauce
Ingredients:
Viscous porridge, rice 200 g
Cutlet meat 800 g
Bay leaf 2 pcs.
Egg 1 pc.
Parsley, chopped 70 g
Garlic 30g
Cabbage 300 g
Sour cream 300 g
Salt
Mustard 50 g
Pepper
Margarine, cream 150 g
Onions 100g
Preparation:
Finely dice white cabbage and onions. Cook the minced meat by combining rice porridge, meat cutlet and vegetables. Add salt, egg, spices. Mix thoroughly and repel the mass. Form cylindrical semi-finished products weighing 180 g each. Preheat a large frying pan and fry them, adding margarine during frying. After roasting, the cabbage rolls will noticeably decrease in volume, so that they can be put in the same pan all together. In a sour cream, add a spoonful of mustard, garlic, spices, mix the sauce, and fill them with fried semi-finished products. Put chopped parsley and bay leaf on top. Cover the pan with a lid. Stew until tender.
2. Lazy cabbage rolls in a pan of chicken fillet and fried mushrooms
Ingredients:
Egg 2 pcs.
Fried mushrooms 200 g
Cabbage 300 g
Boiled rice 250 g
Vegetable oil 100 ml
Chicken fillet 600 g
Tomato sauce “Krasnodar” 400 g
Milk 200 ml
Leek
Spice
Preparation:
This recipe is the most energy efficient. Prepare the largest skillet with a high side and a lid. Chop the cabbage and place half in a greased frying pan. Cooked until cooked rice, fried mushrooms and chicken fillet, cut into cubes, combine in one container, mix, and put a thick layer into the pan, over the cabbage, filling it up to half the volume. Put the remaining cabbage on top. Beat eggs with milk, add spices. Egg-milk mixture pour the contents of the pan, cover with a lid and put on a slow fire. Stew for fifteen minutes. Cut into portions, pour the sweet and sour tomato sauce and sprinkle with chopped leek when serving.
3. Lazy cabbage rolls in a pan with sauerkraut and pork
Products:
Pork pulp (neck) 700 g
Pepper Mix
Rice, round 120 g
Onions 150g
Salt
Sauerkraut 350 g
Vegetable fat 120 ml
Egg, table 1 pc.
Leek 120g
Flour 30 g
Baked milk 250 ml
Margarine (or butter) 90 g
Sour cream (15%) 150 g
Celery (stalks) 50 g
Parsley 100 g
Red and black pepper
Leaf lettuce - by the number of cabbage
Grated cheese, hard 200 g
Preparation:
Chop the pork, onions and cabbage chop with a knife, or skip through a large grid of the meat grinder. To the mass, add washed rice, spices. Put a bowl of minced meat for a couple of hours in the fridge so that the ingredients can soak in the cabbage pickle. After hammering the egg, carefully knock out the mass and form semi-finished products of arbitrary shape. Fry by adding vegetable oil to the pan.
Put all the cabbage rolls in a frying pan without a handle or another suitable shape, buttered. Powder with grated cheese, put in a preheated oven. Redden the cheese.
In a pan, fry the flour, combining with margarine. Combine sour cream with baked milk, pour into the pan with flour. While stirring, bring the sauce to a thickening. If you can not get the sauce without lumps, then wipe it through a sieve or perebeyte mass right there in the pan, using an immersion blender. As soon as bubbles appear, add chopped greens, spices.
Serve the lazy cabbage rolls, laying on the washed and dried lettuce leaves. Serve sauce separately or pour them each portion.
4. Lazy cabbage rolls in a pan of beef with prunes
Products:
Cutlet meat (beef) 600 g
Fat 150 g
Garlic
Prunes without seeds 100 g
Eggs 2 pcs.
150 g rice
Spice
Cabbage 0.5 kg
Deep Fat Oil
Water for cooking
Tomato paste 150 g
Sugar 40g Hot pepper, green 1 pc.
Salt
Leek 150g
Parsley 120 g
Carnation
Vegetable broth 400 ml
Carrot puree 140 g
Starch 50 g
Allspice
Bay leaf
Coriander
Working order:
To make the sauce, combine the carrot puree with tomato, add salt, spicy spices and sugar to taste, pour in half the water or starch. Bring the cooked mass to a boil on the stove. Combine the remaining liquid with the starch, mix thoroughly and pour in a thin stream into the boiling sauce, not forgetting to stir the sauce intensively with a whisk. Try it. Then add chopped hot pepper and leek, thinly sliced, in ringlets.
Beef, prunes, bacon and garlic, double-scroll through a meat grinder. Add rice, egg, salt and add ground pepper. Form the semi-finished products. Pour a glass of water or broth into a deep frying pan. When it boils, put cabbage rolls and stew until half cooked. Chop the cabbage to a puree, squeeze some of the juice so that the puree is thick. Add the egg, mix the mass. If necessary, add flour or potato starch to thicken. Using the resulting mass, stick the prepared semi-finished products and fry them in deep fat, gently dipping the stuffed cabbage rolls into the boiling oil.
Ready stuffed cabbage roll on a large dish, garnish with greens. Serve sauce separately.
5. Lazy cabbage rolls in a pan without rice
It is known that cereals contain carbohydrates and do not contribute to rapid weight loss. What can replace them in a dish? The trick is that nothing! Without rice and any other cereal, cabbage rolls can be no less tasty. Try it!
Composition of products:
Chicken Breast 1 kg
Garlic
Baked apple, sweet and sour 1 pc.
Curry (dry seasoning)
Salt
Natural Yoghurt 0.5 L
Parsley 70 g
Chilli
Cilantro 50g
Coriander
Broth 250 ml
Cabbage 300 g
Ginger root, fresh
Ghee 100 g
Preparation:
Chop the cabbage, very finely. Spoon baked applesauce with a spoon. Raw breast pass through the fine grid of the meat grinder twice. Combine the components by adding ground chili pepper and dry seasoning. Salt and mix thoroughly. Divide into portions of 150 g, form sausages. Put the butter in a deep frying pan, pour the broth, bring the mixture to a boil and place the semi-finished products. Cover and simmer for about ten minutes.
In yogurt, add chopped spicy greens, garlic, ginger. Blend the mixture until smooth. Pour into a frying pan, and simmer the same amount.
6. Lazy cabbage rolls in a pan of chicken liver with rice and stewed cabbage
Ingredients:
Rice porridge, viscous 200 g
Braised cabbage 300 g
Hunting sausages 300 g
Chicken Liver 1.0 kg
Pepper
Egg 1 pc.
Garlic
Onions 200g
Flour 50 g
Dill
Tomato paste 100 g
Parsley
Vegetable oil
Sour cream (20%) 250 g
Carrots 150g
Celery stalk
Pepper
Zira
Cooking:
With semi-finished products - everything is simple. Proudly collect rice from porridge and stewed cabbage, left over from dinner last night, into a large total container. To make this dish look presentable and tasty in a new way, add sausages cut into small cubes. Chop chicken livers with a blender and add to the total mass. To make the mass viscous enough to form cylinders or balls, add an egg. Now mix thoroughly. Try to squeeze the mixture in your fist. If it is not viscous enough, add a little flour or starch, mix again and make semi-finished products of any shape. Grease the pan without a handle, cover with breadcrumbs and place the lazy cabbage rolls. Put them in the oven for 15 minutes. Bake at 200 ° C.
In another pan, prepare the sauce. Rub the carrots and onions, cut into small cubes, passe in a heated dish, adding flour. When the vegetables are soft, add sour cream and tomato paste. After a couple of minutes, add spices and herbs. Simmer another 5-7 minutes. Pour the sauce over the lazy cabbage rolls, then sweat it all together in a hot oven, in the cooling mode. Sprinkle with greens again, and serve.
Lazy cabbage rolls in a pan - useful tips
- Juiciness stuffed for cabbage gives fat. Use bold meat for cooking lazy cabbage, or add components that contain animal fat to lean foods. If you cook a lean dish, the juiciness of the cereal mass can be given by adding vegetables.
- Cooking time for croup is approximately 15–20 minutes, and barley grits are boiled for up to 45 minutes. Consider the preparation time of each of the components of stuffing for cabbage, trying to choose its composition in such a way that all the ingredients reach readiness at the same time.
- In fatty and tomato sauce (gravy), the duration of cooking of cereals increases markedly. Therefore, try to use cereals for stuffed cabbage in ready or semi-cooked form, especially if fishmeat, cutlet meat, chicken meat is used in combination with cereal. The duration of cooking vegetables, in comparison with cereals, is generally not significant, and therefore it is appropriate for vegetarian recipes to prepare viscous cereal porridge first, and then add vegetable ingredients to it. Moreover, viscous porridge will help to form dense semi-finished products and preserve their shape.
