How to cook very lazy stuffed cabbage rolls. Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls: a step-by-step recipe for a hearty meal

21.08.2020

Cabbage rolls are a meat or vegetarian mince with rice wrapped in cabbage leaves. This process is very laborious, and people have come up with an alternative to it, these are lazy stuffed cabbage rolls. They are cooked in a saucepan, skillet, or oven.

In Russia, stuffed cabbage rolls found their origin from French cuisine... At the time when it was customary to serve whole roasted pigeons. Around the same time, they came up with the idea of cooking "false" pigeons, the meat of which was wrapped in cabbage leaves. It was usually minced meat. They gave out such a dish for roasted pigeons in order to better sell it.

History lazy cabbage rolls originates in ancient Greece. It didn't work out on purpose. An ancient Greek chef wrapped chopped meat in a cabbage leaf, then mixed all the ingredients - and we got lazy cabbage rolls. There are other stories of the occurrence of stuffed cabbage, but this one is the most true.

Lazy cabbage rolls are a tasty and inexpensive dish that can feed a large family. It is prepared quickly and extremely easy. They can be served as a separate dish or with a side dish.

Lazy cabbage rolls can be either meat or vegetarian. Everyone can find stuffed cabbage to their taste, having familiarized themselves with our recipes. Be sure you will not remain indifferent.

The main ingredients for making lazy cabbage rolls are:

Minced meat - chicken, pork, beef or just a mixture of pork and beef.

Rice - usually used Krasnodar, round-grain, non-steamed.

Onion.

Carrot.

White cabbage.

Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls with rice and minced meat in the oven in tomato-cream sauce

For cooking, we need ingredients:

Minced meat (pork + beef) - 200 grams
White cabbage - 200 grams
Krasnodar round grain rice - 1 glass
Onions - 1 piece
Carrots - 1 piece
Egg - 1 piece
Sour cream - 3 tablespoons
Tomato paste - 2 tablespoons
Flour - for boning
Sunflower oil
Garlic, salt, pepper - to taste

Recipe:

Boil rice until half cooked.
Cut the cabbage into small cubes, scald it, and squeeze it out to get rid of excess water.
Peel the onions and carrots. Rub on a fine grater, cut the onion into small cubes, and fry in sunflower oil.
Mix the resulting minced meat, rice, cabbage, carrots and onions, add the egg. Salt and pepper to taste and mix thoroughly. It is advisable to beat off the resulting minced meat, so that it becomes homogeneous.
Form small cutlets from minced meat, and roll in flour.
Put on a baking sheet, greased with sunflower oil. And put in the oven for 10 minutes to grab.
We mix tomato paste with sour cream, add a little water, and pour stuffed cabbage rolls.
We put in a preheated oven for 40 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.

We serve both with a side dish and as a separate dish. Bon Appetit!!

Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls in a pan

Ingredients:

Minced meat (any) -300 grams
Krasnodar rice - 1 glass
Carrots - 1 piece
White cabbage - 200 grams
Onions - 1 piece
Tomato paste - 2 tablespoons
Sunflower oil (for frying)
Salt, pepper to taste

Recipe:

We wash the rice several times and mix with the prepared minced meat.
Peel the carrots, three on a coarse grater. Peel the onion, cut it into small cubes.
We also cut the cabbage into small cubes.
We mix all the ingredients. We form cutlets from the resulting mass.
Preheat the pan, add sunflower oil and the resulting stuffed cabbage.
Fry over low heat for 15 minutes and add tomato paste.
Fry for another 20-30 minutes, until the rice is cooked. At the end, salt and pepper.

Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls cooked in a pan are served as a separate dish.

Lazy cabbage rolls in a Redmond slow cooker

Ingredients:

Minced meat (pork + beef) - 300 grams
Krasnodar rice - 1 glass
Carrots - 1 piece
Onions - 1 piece
Tomato paste - 2 tablespoons
Sour cream - 2 tablespoons
Water - 3 glasses
Salt, pepper - to taste
Sunflower oil

Recipe:

We wash the rice several times.
We chop the cabbage finely, and wrinkle it with our hands.
Peel the carrots, three on a coarse grater.
Peel the onion, cut it into a medium cube.
We mix everything together with minced meat and salt, pepper to taste.
Mix sour cream, tomato paste and water until smooth.
We turn on the multicooker. Pour a little sunflower oil on the bottom and spread the minced meat either in the form of individual cutlets, or the whole thing. Fill the top with tomato paste with sour cream and level the minced meat. We turn on the multicooker for the "Baking" mode - 60 minutes. After that, we leave for another 20 minutes in the "Heating" mode.

Lazy cabbage rolls are served as a separate dish.

Bon Appetit!

Lazy cabbage rolls in a saucepan with cabbage and minced meat

Ingredients:

Minced meat (any) - 400 grams
Krasnodar rice - 1 glass
White cabbage - 400 grams
Carrots - 1 piece
Onion - 1 piece
Tomato paste - 2 tablespoons
Water - 0.5 cups
Sunflower oil

Recipe:

We wash the rice several times and boil until half cooked.
Peel the carrots, and three on a fine grater.
Peel the onion and cut it into small cubes.
Pour sunflower oil into a saucepan, put minced meat, carrots and onions. Cover and simmer.
Cut the cabbage into small strips and add to the saucepan.
We languish for 10 minutes.
Mix the tomato paste with water and add to the saucepan. We mix.
Then add rice, salt and pepper. And mix.
When the cabbage is ready, turn off the pan.

Very lazy stuffed cabbage rolls are ready !!
Bon Appetit.

Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls like in kindergarten

Ingredients:

Meat (boiled) - 300 grams
White cabbage - 300 grams
Krasnodar rice - 0.5 cups
Bulb onions - 1 pc.
Tomato paste - 1 tbsp (without it)
Sunflower oil

Recipe:

We put the pan on the stove, add sunflower oil.
Peel the onion and cut it into small cubes. Add to the pan.
Cut the cabbage very finely and send it for the onion.
Add some water and simmer.
We put tomato paste. We mix.
Then uncooked unboiled rice, without stirring, and add water to cover all the rice. Simmer for 15 minutes.
Boil the meat and twist it through a meat grinder. Add it to the pan.
Simmer until rice is cooked, if damp, add a little water. Salt at the end.

Lazy stuffed cabbage as in kindergarten served with boiled egg.
Bon Appetit!

The recipe of Anastasia Skripkina is taken as a basis.

I don't like stuffed cabbage ... I love it! Sometimes there is not enough time for real stuffed cabbage rolls, then the lazy help out. By the way, my children eat lazy cabbage rolls better. These stuffed cabbage rolls are not entirely lazy, I would call them half-lazy. Be sure to try to cook them according to this recipe, the result will pleasantly surprise you. For cooking, you will need the following products:

Boil the rice until tender (do not overcook):

Grind the cabbage in a blender (you can twist it in a meat grinder):

You can take any minced meat. I had a mixed one: pork and chicken. Add cooled rice, chopped cabbage, grated garlic, half of the grated onion to the minced meat, salt and pepper:

Mix everything thoroughly:

We form small patties with wet hands:

Roll in bread crumbs:

Fry in vegetable oil over a fairly high heat until golden brown:

It turns out quite a lot of cutlets:

Cut the remaining half of the onion and fry in oil:

Three carrots on a coarse grater:

Add to the onion, fry:

Add 0.5 teaspoon of sugar, a teaspoon of salt, 3 tbsp. spoons of ketchup or tomato paste and about half a liter of water:

Mix everything, bring to a boil.

In a separate bowl, mix 2 tablespoons of sour cream and 1 tablespoon of flour, add to boiling water with vegetables:

Mix quickly and add the cabbage rolls to stew there:

Simmer under a lid over low heat for 30-40 minutes. Run the spatula over the bottom of the pan a couple of times, as the sauce contains flour and can burn if the pan is bad. Only half of the cutlets fit into my pan. She put out the other half the next day. By the way, you can bake these cabbage rolls. Then you just need to put the cabbage rolls in a greased form and pour the sauce of ketchup and sour cream (about 200 grams each) and bake at 200 degrees, too, for 40 minutes.

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Many people love cabbage rolls, but not everyone will find the time to cook them for the whole family. The name lazy cabbage rolls means that the hostess will not have to stand at the stove for a long time. They are no different from classic stuffed cabbage to taste - the same taste and composition, therefore, lazy cabbage rolls with cabbage, rice and minced meat differ from ordinary ones only in that their preparation will take several times less. Those who do not consume meat can prepare vegetarian cabbage rolls -.
Today I want to tell you 2 WAYS of cooking lazy cabbage rolls - how to cook lazy cabbage rolls in the oven and in a pan. The best recipes lazy cabbage rolls.

Ingredients for lazy cabbage rolls:

500 g minced meat a (beef, pork, chicken, turkey or mixed)
600 g cabbage
100 g carrots (1 piece of medium size)
2 onions
1 cup rice (cooked until half cooked)
2 eggs
salt pepper
dried and smoked paprika (optional) or other spices
vegetable oil
50 g butter
greens, garlic

Sauce for lazy cabbage rolls in the oven we will cook with sour cream:

3 tbsp sour cream
2 tbsp flour
1.5-2 glasses of water
50 g cheese

Tomato sauce for lazy cabbage rolls in a pan:

2 tablespoons tomato paste
2 tbsp flour
1.5-2 glasses of water
1 tsp sugar

How to cook lazy cabbage rolls recipe with photos

So, how to make lazy stuffed cabbage rolls. First, cook in a skillet in tomato sauce.

TO How to cook lazy cabbage rolls in a pan

All ingredients must be prepared in advance. Rinse the rice before cooking (see how to do it correctly), boil until half cooked, rinse and let the excess water drain properly in a colander.

Finely chop the cabbage. (!) At this step, I want to reassure you right away - when you chop 600 g of cabbage, you get a very large volume and it may seem that this is too much for 500 g of minced meat. But this is not the case! After all, cabbage must first be boiled so that it becomes soft and easily mixed with minced meat. And after boiling, the cabbage will significantly decrease in volume.

Pour boiling water over cabbage and cook over high heat for 3 minutes.

Cook cabbage for 3 minutes

We put it in a colander, the water should drain well and cool the cabbage to room temperature.

Cool the cabbage in a colander

Scroll the minced meat together with the onion. Grate the carrots.

We combine the prepared ingredients - minced meat, rice, eggs, carrots, salt, pepper.

combine ingredients

Add boiled cabbage in 2-3 doses.

add cabbage to the minced meat

Finally, you can add paprika or any other spices you like.

add spices

Now we form lazy cabbage rolls with cutlets, I make them rectangular in order to look more like classic cabbage rolls in shape. But this is optional. Can be rolled in bread crumbs.

we form rectangular cutlets

Heat the vegetable oil in a skillet, spread the cabbage rolls and fry for 2 minutes on each side.

fry on both sides

Cooking tomato sauce... First, thoroughly mix the tomato paste with flour,

preparing tomato sauce

then gradually pour in water. Add sugar.

Pour the cabbage rolls with tomato sauce, cover and simmer over low heat for 30-35 minutes.

pouring tomato sauce on cabbage rolls

10 minutes before cooking add butter, it will ennoble the taste of the dish and make it softer.

add butter 10 minutes before the end

Then the greens

sprinkle with herbs

Remove from heat, add finely chopped garlic. Let it stand for 5 minutes.

sprinkle with garlic

Everything, lazy cabbage rolls in a frying pan ready. Sprinkle with fresh herbs when serving.

Chop the cabbage, chop the onion medium. Fry cabbage and onions in vegetable oil until almost cooked, season with salt to taste, cool.
Boil rice in salted water until half cooked, discard in a colander.

In a large saucepan (or bowl), mix the minced meat, fried cabbage, rice, garlic squeezed through a press, egg. Season with salt and pepper to taste (you can add a little of your favorite spices).

Prepare a baking sheet, a container of water (to moisten your hands).

Sculpt cabbage rolls and put them on a baking sheet. You do not need to grease the baking sheet.

Preheat the oven to 250 degrees and place the baking sheet on a medium level.

The cabbage rolls should lightly brown (15-20 minutes).
At this time, we make the gravy. If someone has their own recipe, you can use it, but mine is like this:
take a 3.5-liter saucepan, pour half of water into it, maybe a little more and put it on fire.
While the water is heating up, dilute 2.5 tablespoons of flour cold water so that there are no lumps.

Into a pot with warm water add 2.5 tablespoons of tomato paste, 2 teaspoons of salt, 5 teaspoons of sugar and 2 bay leaves (you can add dill or some other greens as you like) and mix.

Bring to a boil and, with vigorous stirring, pour in the diluted flour in a thin stream.

Bring to a boil - all the gravy is ready.

At this time, the cabbage rolls have already slightly browned, remove the baking sheet from the oven and fill the cabbage rolls with gravy almost completely.

Put in the oven without changing the temperature for 10-15 minutes. As soon as the sauce in the stuffed cabbage boils, reduce the heat so that the boil is barely (I have 200 degrees, but everyone has different ovens, someone may have 150) and simmer for another 40 minutes.

The dish is ready. You can serve it with mayonnaise, sour cream (you can add garlic, herbs crushed through a press to the sour cream).

Minced meat and cabbage cutlets - such an unusual shape is presented in this recipe lazy cabbage rolls... You can cook them from any minced meat: pork, beef, chicken or mixed. Cabbage will give them juiciness and tenderness. More useful and dietary option This dish will be lazy stuffed cabbage rolls baked in the oven.

Take this recipe as a basis and cook in your favorite way. Such lazy cabbage rolls will fall in love with those who do not like to tinker with a head of cabbage: blanch it in a large container, wrap the minced meat in cabbage leaves, fry in oil, and then simmer for a long time.

For especially lazy people - an even more simplified version. For cabbage, you can not chop with a knife, but grate it on a coarse grater or punch with a blender, and then add it along with rice to minced meat or chicken.

Ingredients:

Any minced meat - 500 g (I have chicken),
eggs - 2 pcs.,
fresh cabbage - 300 g,
boiled rice - 150 g,
carrots - 1 pc.,
turnip onion - 1 pc.,
garlic - 2 teeth,
sunflower oil for frying,
breadcrumbs,
ground pepper,
salt.

Cooking process:

Our reader Galina Kotyakhova suggests making such delicious lazy cabbage rolls:

I decided to cook cabbage rolls for lunch, but there were no cabbage leaves. I remembered the recipe for lazy cabbage rolls, which I repeatedly cooked in the form of a mixture of cabbage with minced meat in a pan, and today I decided to make it in the form of cutlets. It turned out to be quite tasty and decent-looking.

Let's start preparing the ingredients for making lazy cabbage rolls. We set to boil the rice, and in the meantime, we scroll through the meat grinder chicken breast... Put the resulting minced meat in a deep dish.

Rub fresh cabbage on a coarse grater, pour boiling water over it and let it stand for 20 minutes to soften it, then squeeze it out and add it to the minced meat.

Rub the carrots too, but only on a medium grater.

Chop the onion and garlic quite finely.

Add boiled and washed rice to the minced meat with cabbage, salt, pepper and mix,

then put carrots, onions, garlic to them and drive in two eggs, mix thoroughly. Minced meat for lazy cabbage rolls is ready!

From the resulting mass we form tall cutlets - cabbage rolls. Dip each cutlet in breadcrumbs, put in a pan and fry in oil.

Ready-made lazy cabbage rolls in cutlets can be served with a garnish of vegetables.

For those who love cabbage rolls with sauce, you can cook your favorite, pour the cabbage rolls over them and send them to bake in the oven.

Bon appetit Recipe Notebook wishes!

If you have any other suggestion on how to cook lazy cabbage rolls, we are waiting for your recipes in the comments below.

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