Lazy cabbage rolls - a simple dish for young housewives
It's no secret that cooking cabbage rolls takes much more time than eating them. But lazy cabbage rolls are just the perfect dish. They are done very quickly and easily. In addition, the ability to wrap minced meat in a cabbage leaf so that the roll does not fall apart later comes with years of practice. For a "lazy" recipe, such difficulties are useless. All you need is a knife. Chopped cabbage, mixed with minced meat and can be safely sent to the oven, spread out on a baking sheet. Don't believe me? Then let's do it together.
Grocery list
To make lazy cabbage rolls, we need the same products as for real cabbage rolls, namely:
- minced meat - 700 g;
- a couple of onions;
- white cabbage - half a small head of cabbage;
- rice - 100 g;
- 1 egg;
- seasonings to taste;
- vegetable oil for lubricating the mold.
In addition, to make the stuffed cabbage juicy, it is better to bake them with sauce. The easiest option is to use ketchup.
Lazy stuffed cabbage: cooking step by step
The whole secret of this dish lies in the fact that cabbage rolls can only be made with the help of hands. Also, you do not need to mess around with cabbage, tormenting and separating whole leaves. First of all, put a saucepan on the stove and cook the rice until half cooked. Finely chop the onion, mix with minced meat. Salt, pepper.
While the groats are cooking, take the kitchen board and start chopping the cabbage. If you have a small shredder, and there are many guests, you can shred.
If you cook from "old", ripe, cabbage, then keep in mind that its leaves are harsh. Before adding them to the minced meat, pour boiling water over and leave for 20 minutes.
Now we proceed to the "lazy" sculpting of stuffed cabbage rolls:
- Add to minced meat cabbage, mix.
- Pour boiled rice.
- We introduce a raw egg - it will help the cabbage rolls to keep their shape.
- Knead the workpiece well until smooth.
- Take a deep baking sheet or mold and grease it well with oil.
- Now he starts "sculpting" cabbage rolls. Moistening our hands in water, we make such long cutlets from cabbage-rice-minced meat. We spread it on the form.
- It remains only to make the sauce for the pouring. Put a couple of tablespoons of ketchup in a separate plate. Add about 100 ml of water, stir and water our cabbage rolls. Pour some more water into the mold so that it covers the workpiece up to half.
- We send it to the preheated oven for 40 minutes.
You can serve lazy cabbage rolls with the sauce in which they were baked, or pouring sour cream and grilling with fresh herbs.