Cabbage rolls are boiled in a double boiler for 30-40 minutes. In a regular saucepan – 20-25 minutes.
How to cook lazy cabbage rolls
Products
Rice – 100 grams (just over a third of a regular mug)
Minced meat – 500 grams
White cabbage – 700 grams (half of a medium fork)
Bow – 1 head
Carrots – 1 medium
Salt, black pepper – to taste
Water – half a glass
Tomato juice – half a glass
Vegetable oil – 3-5 tablespoons
How to cook
- Boil the rice over low heat.
- Cut the onion into thin strips and fry in vegetable oil in a saucepan or deep frying pan.
- Add finely grated carrots to the onion.
- Fry vegetables until golden brown over medium heat.
- Add minced meat to the gilded vegetables.
- Stirring, fry for 5-7 minutes.
- Add chopped cabbage to the pan and stir.
- After 3 minutes add rice cooked until half cooked.
- Pour tomato juice diluted with water into the mass.
- Add salt and ground black pepper.
- Stir and cover.
- Simmer over medium heat until cooked through.
Delicious facts
If you want to shape lazy cabbage rolls into cutlets, then cool the fried vegetables beforehand so that the minced meat does not change its consistency and does not burn your hands.
You can add some mushrooms, bell peppers, hot peppers to vegetables, or even replace rice with buckwheat – don’t be afraid to experiment with a combination of different ingredients.
If you do not have tomato juice on hand, then you can replace it with tomato paste by frying a couple of tablespoons along with vegetables, or dilute with water and add along with rice.
Don’t overdo it with cabbage if you don’t want its flavor to dominate your dish. In addition, the more cabbage there is, the more moisture will be released from it during stewing, which means that the cooking time will increase.
In order to give the dish a creamy aroma, you can add cream or milk instead of water, or dilute sour cream with water and add grated cheese at the end of cooking.