In many countries there are analogs of the recipe for stuffed cabbage. The fact is that the tradition of wrapping meat in cabbage leaves is quite old. Most often the tendency of this recipe can be traced in Europe, the Caucasus and the East.
For the first time they began to cook meat in this way in the Ottoman Empire. From there, the recipe migrated to Europeans, who willingly adopted the experience of cooking stuffed cabbage. In addition to cabbage leaves, people wrapped the meat in cherry leaves. However, in the CIS countries, the recipe with cabbage took root better.
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Ingredients for lazy stuffed cabbage:
- Rice – 80 g;
- Cabbage – 300 g;
- Stuffing – 500 g;
- Onion – 2 pcs;
- Egg – 1 pc;
- Salt – ½ tsp;
- Paprika – 1 tsp;
- Black pepper – ½ tsp;
- Hmeli – suneli – ½ tsp;
- Vegetable oil – 40 ml;
- Carrots – 1 pc;
- Sour cream – 100 g;
- Tomato paste – ½ tsp.
Preparation of lazy stuffed cabbage:
Boil rice until cooked. Shinkle cabbage finely, cut small cubes of onion. Leave cabbage in boiling water for 15 minutes.
Mix
minced
meat with onions, boiled rice and cabbage, squeezed from excess liquid. Pour salt, paprika, black pepper and hmeli-suneli into the minced meat, break an egg.
Press a garlic clove into the minced meat, mix all the components thoroughly.
Grease a baking mold with vegetable oil, form stuffed cabbage and put on the bottom.
Bake stuffed cabbage at 180 degrees for 40 minutes. At this time, cut onions into quarter rings and grate carrots on a coarse grater
. Fry onions and carrots in a frying pan in vegetable oil, salt and pepper to taste. Add sour cream and tomato paste to the vegetables, pour water and bring slightly to a boil.
Pour the gravy over the stuffed cabbage and bake again at 180 degrees for 15 minutes.
As a result, we have juicy stuffed cabbage.
This recipe is great for people who do not want to wrap minced meat in cabbage leaves for a long time.