Many peoples of the world know stuffed cabbage, as this dish is quite ancient. Aristotle mentioned stuffed cabbage in his works. The ancient thinker said that stuffed cabbage is an excellent combination of cabbage leaf and pork
. In China, since the times of the empire, stuffed cabbage was made of rice and sea cabbage. Such a strange combination appeared spontaneously. Then stuffed cabbage evolved, becoming a more extensive concept for Europeans, Asians and Arabs. A
special love for stuffed cabbage is nourished by the inhabitants of the East and the Caucasus
.
True, there the stuffed cabbage is called dolma. The dish is similar to the familiar for us stuffed cabbage
. It is worth preparing lazy stuffed cabbage.
Ingredients for lazy stuffed cabbage:
- cabbage – 350 g;
- minced meat – 600 g;
- bulgur – 200 g;
- water – 1100 ml;
- butter – 30 g.
- onion – 2 pcs;
- pumpkin – 200 g;
- sweet pepper – 2 pcs;
- tomatoes – 3 pcs;
- Adygean salt – 1 tsp.
Preparation of lazy stuffed cabbage:
Shinkuem finely cabbage and pour boiling water, leave for 10 minutes. At this time boil bulgur in 600 ml of salted water.
Cut into small pieces onion, put through a meat grinder. In a skillet in butter fry the onion mass for a couple of minutes. Grind the peeled pumpkin in a meat grinder, add to the onions.
Peel and dice the sweet pepper. Put part of the pumpkin mass in a plate.
Add
the peppers to the rest of the pumpkin mixture in the pan and stir.
Drain the cabbage and squeeze it slightly
.
Add the cabbage together with the pumpkin mixture to the minced meat, pour in the Adygean salt and stir.
If your mince falls apart, add an egg yolk to the mixture.
Grind tomatoes without skins, put in the pan to the pumpkin mass with pepper, mix.
Add a little butter to the bulgur, remove from the fire and wrap in a towel
. Grease a
frying
pan with high sides with vegetable oil, form minced meatballs and put on the surface tightly to each other.
Pour
500 ml of water into the tomato mixture, stir.
Pour the tomato sauce into the pan with stuffed cabbage, cover with a lid and cook for 35-40 minutes on minimum heat.
After cooking, you can add a bay leaf to the stuffed cabbage and leave under the lid for 10 minutes. Together with bulgur stuffed cabbage will be not only tasty, but also healthy.
