If you really want cabbage rolls, but you don’t have time to cook, you can whip up a “hash” of all the ingredients found in the classic cabbage roll recipe. The name speaks for itself - lazy cabbage rolls. How to cook them?
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You will need
- - white cabbage - 200 g
- - mixed minced meat (pork and beef) - 600 g
- - carrot - 1 pc.
- - sour cream 15% - 100 g
- - tomato puree - 70 g
- - eggs - 2 pcs.
- - onion - 1 pc.
- - salt
- - ground pepper
Instruction manual
1
Rinse fresh white cabbage and chop into small pieces or chop in a grater mode on a food processor.
2
Rinse and grate the carrots. Peel and finely chop the onion.
3
Prepare minced meat for lazy cabbage rolls from meat, having previously cleaned it of fat and veins. Beat raw eggs in minced meat, add grated carrots, onions, salt and pepper.
4
For the sauce, combine 400 ml of water, tomato puree, sour cream. Add salt and pepper.
5
Roll small balls the size of a tennis ball mixed with vegetables, this is lazy cabbage rolls. Place frying pans with high edges on the bottom and pour over the prepared sauce. Bring to a boil and simmer over moderate heat for only 25 minutes.
6
Juicy lazy cabbage rolls served in deep plates with gravy in which they were cooked.
note
There are over a hundred variations of recipes for lazy cabbage rolls. Absolutely any stuffing goes to lazy cabbage rolls - beef, pork, mutton, chicken, rabbit, turkey, fish, etc.
Also, meatballs a la cabbage rolls are also prepared from different types of cabbage - not only white cabbage, but also red, colored, Brussels, Beijing, kohlrabi, broccoli. And rice can be replaced with any cereal - millet, buckwheat, barley, couscous.
Useful advice
You can bake or stew lazy cabbage rolls in various ways, and each will be correct. You can fry in a pan, bake in the oven, simmer in a pan or boil in a slow cooker.