Cabbage rolls with rice is a dish that has not lost its popularity among hostesses for a long time due to its excellent taste, simple set of products and simple recipes.
Everyone can cook delicious cabbage rolls with rice, the main thing is to master a few simple skills.
Cabbage rolls with rice - general principles
The main ingredients of the dish are cabbage and rice. Cabbage is used mainly white, some taste delicate Peking cabbage. Selected forks are cut: remove the top leaves, cut out the stalk and let go for a few minutes, depending on the variety and type, in boiling water, then cut into leaves. It is important that the cabbage is soft but not boiled; if necessary, hard strands are cut off from the semi-finished product.
Rice, round grain or long grain, boil until half cooked, rinsed. Be sure to rinse the grits thoroughly before cooking, otherwise the filling will be sticky due to the presence of starch.
Of course, cabbage leaves stuffed with rice, can not be called stuffed cabbage, and in addition to the filling, in addition to cereals, add many other ingredients. The most common use of minced meat, often add mushrooms, fried vegetables.
Ready-made semi-finished cabbage products are baked, stewed or steamed. Fans of rich taste pre-fry them.
The taste and aroma of the finished dish is greatly influenced by the liquid in which the cabbage is cooked. Ordinary water makes the dish fresh, so in the course are all kinds of broths and gravy.
1. Traditional cabbage rolls with rice
Ingredients:
• 700 g minced pork;
• cabbage - polkochana;
• rice - 150 g;
• onion head;
• tomato, sour cream - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• some cooking oil;
• Pinch of salt and black pepper.
Preparation:
1. Separate the leaves from the cabbage, rinse, boil in water for a few minutes, cut off all thickenings.
2. Wash the croup, boil until half ready. 3. Peel the onion, chop it into small pieces, fry in hot oil to light brown color.
4. Ready pork mince thoroughly mixed with rice, fried onions, salt and pepper.
5. On each cabbage leaf, put a little stuffing, form cabbage rolls.
6. Put them in a deep hot frying pan with butter and fry until golden brown.
7. In a small cup, mix the sour cream with a tomato, pour in some water, mix well.
8. Pour the stuffed cabbage with the prepared sauce so that it covers them in half, simmer for 45 minutes.
9. Put the ready stuffed cabbage rolls on a la carte plates, pour tomato ketchup.
2. Cabbage rolls with rice in soy sauce
Ingredients:
• head of cabbage;
• 1 cup of long grain rice;
• any stuffing - a small cup;
• salt, spice for meat dishes, black pepper powder - 10 g;
• 50 ml cooking oil.
Sauce:
• tomato, sour cream - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• spices for vegetables - 10 g;
• soy sauce - 20 ml;
• salt - 5 g.
Preparation:
1. Rinse the cabbage, divide by leaves, put them in boiling water and boil a little, cut out the thickenings.
2. In a small cup, mix the minced meat with the boiled rice, salt, pepper, spice up the spices, stir.
3. Lay the cabbage leaves on a cutting board, place in the center of each handful of minced meat, wrap in a small roll.
4. Prepare the filling: in a cup, mix the sour cream, tomato paste, add salt, season with spices, add soy sauce and some filtered water, mix everything well.
5. Heat the butter in a deep pot, put the cabbage rolls, cover with the prepared sauce and stew for 25 minutes on high heat.
6. Reduce heat and simmer another 10 minutes.
7. Serve copiously with sauce.
3. Lazy cabbage rolls with rice in the oven in the form of a casserole
Ingredients:
• fresh cabbage leaves - 20 pcs .;
• long grain rice - 1 cup without a slide;
• minced pork and beef - a little less than a kilogram;
• 2 carrots;
• onion head;
• parsley, dill - on the floor of the bunch;
• 1 Bulgarian pepper;
• cherry tomatoes in own juice - 1 jar; • sour cream - 30 g;
• seasoning, salt, allspice - 15 g;
• some cooking oil.
Preparation:
1. Grind carrots on a grater, cut onion into fine crumbs, cabbage - into thin straws. Fry everything together in a pan, pour in a little oil, until softened.
2. In a cup, combine the minced meat with cereal.
3. Put some cabbage with vegetables on a deep baking sheet, mince with rice and then cabbage again.
4. Prepare the sauce: put the cherry tomatoes out of the jar, chop in any convenient way, add salt, pepper, add sour cream, chopped parsley, dill, mix with the juice from the tomatoes and pour the contents of the baking tray with it, cover with foil.
5. Put the baking tray in the oven and bake for less than an hour at 220 degrees.
6. 5 minutes before the readiness remove the foil.
7. When serving, cut the prepared casserole, put it on the plates, sprinkle with herbs, put a little sour cream next to it.
4. Cabbage rolls with rice in tomato and sour cream
Ingredients:
• a small head of cabbage;
• rice any - 1 glass without a hill;
• kilogram of minced pork;
• a pair of onions;
• 2 carrots;
• tomato - 30 g;
• sour cream - 50 g;
• Lavrushka - 1 leaf;
• black pepper, salt - 15 g;
Preparation:
1. Release cabbage forks from the stalk and boil for 10 minutes. When the cabbage is cooked, cool and divide into leaves, cut off the hard veins with a knife.
2. Boil the cereal. Chop the onion with a knife, grate the carrot, fry in butter.
3. Put all prepared ingredients in mince, salt, pepper, pour in some milk or water, mix everything thoroughly.
4. Place mince 1 tbsp on each leaf and form an envelope.
5. Put the stuffed cabbage rolls into the iron pot, pour over the cabbage broth and simmer for half an hour.
6. In the meantime, prepare the gravy: put sour cream with tomato paste in a cup, mix well until smooth, pour the sauce into the cabbage rolls, then 3 minutes.
7. Open the lid, put the pot in the hot oven and bake until crusty. 8. Serve on plates, watering sauce.
5. Unusual cabbage rolls with rice and chicken mince in a slow cooker
Ingredients:
• chicken drumstick - 3 pcs .;
• half a head of cabbage;
• onion floor;
• 1 small carrot;
• rice - 5 tbsp. spoons;
• 1 egg;
• flour - 3 large handfuls;
• tomato puree - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• salt, pepper - on a pinch;
• some cooking oil.
Preparation:
1. Make the stuffing: chop the onion with a knife, grate the carrot, and the cabbage with a thin straw.
2. Put the sliced vegetables in the oiled capacity of the multicooker, set the “frying” mode for a few minutes.
3. Add tomato paste, diluted with a glass of water, to vegetables, switch to “stewing” mode, simmer for 15 minutes.
4. After 15 minutes, add the rice cooked until half cooked, stir, salt, pepper and turn off the machine.
5. Separate the meat from the chicken drumsticks, cut the fillet into layers, add salt, pepper, beat off a little.
6. Put the stuffing on the prepared layers, roll up the roll.
7. Dip the stuffed cabbage rolls in flour, then in a beaten egg, put them in a clean container of the multicooker with butter and fry on both sides until the crust.
8. Serve on plates, watering with sour cream sauce or sour cream.
6. Dietary cabbage rolls with rice
Ingredients:
• 1 medium head of cabbage;
• rice groats - 2 glasses;
• 2 pods of sweet pepper;
• 1 onion;
• 1 carrot;
• garlic clove;
• 2 celery stalks;
• 2 dry white mushrooms;
• olive oil - half a glass;
• walnuts without shell - 50 g;
• 4 sprigs of dill;
• tomato - 30 g;
• vegetable broth - half a liter;
• 2 tomatoes;
• allspice, salt - 15 g.
Preparation:
1. Divide the cabbage into leaves, cut out all the thickenings.
2. Soak mushrooms in boiling water for 20 minutes.
3. Slice the mushrooms into slices.
4. Onions, carrots, garlic, rub on a grater, finely chop the celery with a knife, fry everything in butter a little.
5. To the vegetables, put the mushrooms, chopped pepper into small cubes, add the tomato paste and chopped nuts to the blender, add the grits, fry for 2 minutes.
6. Fill all with water and simmer until it evaporates. 7. Add salting, pepper and cool.
8. On each cabbage leaf, place a handful of the filling, form tubules, fill the side edges of the cabbage rolls inside.
9. Put the stuffed cabbage into a container with a thick bottom, covered with cabbage leaves.
10. Pour broth, arrange tomato circles, put in a hot oven, cover with foil and bake for 35 minutes.
11. A few minutes before readiness remove the foil.
12. Serve on plates, garnished with dill sprigs.
Cabbage rolls with rice - the secret of the dish in gravy
Learning how to cook cabbage rolls with rice can be done according to one recipe; it is nothing but a sauce that always makes a different and unique dish. Here are a few gravy options that include foods that are ideally combined with meat, rice, and cabbage:
• Vegetable gravy. Onions and carrots finely crumble, fry in a mixture of vegetable and butter, salt and pepper to taste, pour in broth, stew until vegetables are ready. If desired, add a little tomato paste or sauce.
• Tomato sauce. Fleshy tomatoes are scalded with boiling water, peeled, the pulp is crushed. Peeled tomatoes stew with spices and herbs.
• Kefir sauce. In the iron pour kefir, add salt, pepper and a lot of various chopped greens. After boiling simmer a few minutes.
• Sour cream sauce. Sour cream is mixed with broth or water, garlic and chopped greens are added.
• Mayonnaise sauce. Onions finely crumble, stir fry. Mixed with chopped parsley and mayonnaise. Here, to taste, you can add lemon juice and, for example, braised pickled cucumber.
