Stuffed cabbage rolls with minced meat and rice: a recipe for classic and lean

Stuffed minced meat and rice (the recipe for the beginning will beis a classic) and with a few lean stuffings will diversify your menu and make you feel like an experienced culinary expert. Let's try to cook them.

Stuffed cabbage rolls: a recipe with a photo

Take a large tight head of cabbage. Boil it, taking out a cob, in salted water. If you cook cabbage rolls with minced meat and rice, the recipe allows you to prepare cabbage in a microwave oven. Twist a kilogram of meat. You can take beef and pork in equal proportions, and you can take a second slightly less, so that the dish had a lower fat content. You also need three hundred grams of rice, two onions, two carrots, half a liter of tomato paste, a bunch of parsley, five cloves of garlic, mayonnaise, sour cream, vegetable oil. Cut all the vegetables and herbs. Onions with carrots pass on vegetable oil, add tomato, parsley, garlic, salt and put a spoonful of sugar.

Stew until the liquid evaporatescompletely. Mix vegetables with minced meat and boiled rice (it must be cooked until ready, otherwise it will absorb a lot of liquid, and cabbage rolls will be stiff and dry). You can add a spoonful of mayonnaise for juiciness. Form cabbage rolls. They can be folded in a triangle, an envelope, a roll, depending on your preferences. Lay in a saucepan in dense rows, so that stuffed cabbage with minced meat and rice, the recipe of which suggests boiling in sauce, do not fall apart. The gravy will consist of tomato paste, sour cream and vegetable oil. Put the stuffed cabbage rolls with sauce, add the boiled hot water, so that the liquid completely covers them, bring to a boil and simmer over a small fire from one hour to one and a half. Serve with sour cream, mayonnaise, spicy sauce.

Postal recipes

If you are already tired of stuffed cabbage with minced meat and rice,a recipe for a variety of fillings without meat will be relevant for you. Take a glass of millet, rinse it to clear water, burn in a dry frying pan. Then pour half a liter of boiling water, bring to a boil. Pour a tablespoon of vegetable oil into the rump, stir and turn it off. Leave it under the lid to cool. Passured onions and carrots add to the millet, and you can also put the seasoning for cabbage rolls. Put in the greens. Now the finished stuffing is wrapped in prepared cabbage, just like minced meat. Add the sauce in a slightly different way: fry three tablespoons of wheat flour in a dry frying pan until the aroma of nuts appears. Cool and dilute with a small amount of broth from the millet. Stir, add the tomato, salt. Filled with sauce stuffed cabbage, put in the oven for forty minutes or cook on the stove.

Mushroom sauce

This sauce is good if you cookstuffed cabbage with minced chicken. The recipe with lean stuffing also does not exclude the combination with this sauce. Take one hundred grams of dried mushrooms, better white. Pour them overnight with cold water to make them swell. Boil and cut. Water, in which mushrooms were cooked, do not drain. Fry the onions. Add the mushrooms to the same frying pan and simmer, after salt, about fifteen minutes. Separately make a dressing from vegetable oil and flour. If it is thick, dilute with a mushroom broth, bring to a boil, break the lumps, cook a couple of minutes. Mix the mushrooms with a passer, fill with garlic.