Lazy minced chicken cabbage rolls in a pan and in the oven
Lazy minced chicken cabbage rolls are a hearty and healthy dish that is easy to prepare. They can be fried in a pan, baked in the oven. A juicy dish is a great option for replacing classic cabbage rolls, but it takes half the time to prepare it.
Lazy minced chicken cabbage rolls in the oven
You also need to prepare:
- rice - half a glass;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- carrots - 1 pc.;
- garlic - no more than 2 cloves;
- tomatoes - 700 gr.
You will need 1 egg. And you need to season the dish with salt and pepper. Greens are used for personal preference.
Cooking process
Poultry fillets must be chopped in a meat grinder.
Cook the rice without cooking. The groats must remain firm. Add to the minced chicken. The calorie content of stuffed cabbage with minced chicken and rice increases by 130 Kcal per 100 grams of the finished product, but you should not give up its use. Groats contain many vitamins and minerals, which are preserved after cooking,
Next, you need to chop the cabbage using meat grinder or a blender. Add to chicken and rice along with egg. Then add salt and pepper. Stir the resulting mass.
To make lazy minced chicken cabbage rolls juicy, you need to make a sauce. Grind the carrots using a medium-sized grater. Chop the onion, put in a pan with the addition of sunflower oil. Fry vegetables until soft.
Remove the skin from the tomatoes, sprinkle with boiling water, and cut. Add to the pan along with the garlic. You can crush it yourself or use a press.
To give a piquant taste to stuffed chicken cabbage rolls, bell pepper is used. You need to chop it into small cubes and put it with the rest of the vegetables in the pan. Simmer for about 7 minutes.
Put half of the sauce into the prepared heat-resistant form, minced meat on top, forming cutlets or balls from it. Pour over the rest of the vegetables, put in the oven under foil. Bake for half an hour, the temperature should not exceed 180 degrees.
Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls with chicken are combined with any side dish, mashed potatoes are perfect, which will add juiciness to the cooked sauce.
Serve warm with sour cream and garnish with your favorite herbs. Often combined with vegetable salad. You can also fill it with sour cream or vegetable oil to taste. It is better that the salad is light, since cabbage rolls with minced chicken and rice can be regarded as an independent dish.
Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls with chicken in a pan
To prepare the dish, you will need chicken in the amount of 500 g and cabbage - no more than 300 g. You will need the following products:
- rice in the amount of 50-70 g;
- bow and carrot - 1 piece;
- tomato paste - 2 tablespoons (you can cook it yourself or buy it in the store);
- sour cream (for sauce) - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- salt, pepper (ground black) - to taste;
- greens to choose from.
You also need to prepare one chicken egg, water needed for the sauce, oil for frying.
Cooking process
Make minced meat from chicken using a meat grinder. You can cook with a blender, but then the stuffed cabbage will not turn out so juicy due to the denser structure of the minced meat. Add the egg, salt, pepper to the meat, mix thoroughly.
Preheat a frying pan and put finely chopped onions, immediately add carrots, chopped on a medium or coarse grater. Fry vegetables using vegetable oil until they are soft, slightly transparent. Then set aside, wait until cool.
Cook the rice without waiting for readiness, 10 minutes is enough. Transfer to a plate, so that it becomes room temperature. Chop the cabbage. You can use a meat grinder or chop yourself to make small pieces.
At the end, mash the cabbage with your hands to remove excess liquid.
Next, you need to mix the prepared ingredients: minced meat, cabbage, rice and fried onions with carrots. Form cutlets from the resulting mixture, determine the size at your discretion. Preheat a frying pan, add vegetable oil, lay out and fry lazy minced chicken cabbage rolls on both sides.
You need to wait for the appearance of a golden hue on the cutlets.
While the lazy cabbage rolls are fried, prepare the sauce from tomato paste by mixing it with sour cream and diluting with water. After the cabbage rolls are browned, pour the resulting filling into the pan. They should float in the sauce and be covered by at least half the height.
Simmer for 20 minutes, do not open the lid of the pan, keep the fire on a minimum. Serve immediately with herbs and sour cream. You can put it on a plate along with the remaining sauce in the pan.
Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls from chicken breast are juicy, it is necessary to use the fillet of the bird. White meat is rich in protein, is a dietary product, it is introduced into the diet even for babies under one year old. Enjoy your meal!