Cabbage rolls can be cooked in a skillet or in a saucepan, baked in the oven, simmered in pots, but in the classic version they are cooked on a stove in a pan.
This method captivates with its simplicity and unpretentiousness. It's time to cook!
Cabbage rolls in a pan - general principles of preparation
Cabbage for stuffed cabbage needs to be prepared in advance. In the classic version, the head of cabbage is boiled in water, making incisions at the stump, sometimes it is completely removed with a sharp knife. Soft leaves are carefully removed. More and more often you can find lazy methods - heating a head of cabbage in a microwave in a form or in a bag will take 5-10 minutes, depending on the size of the cabbage. Next, the leaves also need to be removed, carefully cut a thick vein, wrap the filling inside.
Usually stuffing with minced meat. You can twist it yourself, buy in a store or in the market. The composition also does not matter, someone likes a mixture of pork and beef, someone loves the bird more. Cooking time will not differ much, since the meat is minced and rarely takes more than 40-60 minutes.
What else can be added to the filling:
• vegetables (carrots, onions, peppers, tomatoes);
• rice, sometimes other cereals;
• mushrooms;
• herbs, spices.
There are vegetarian cabbage rolls with minced meat, this dish will please the taste of fasting, its recipe is below. Stuffed cabbage stuffed with sauces. They can be from tomato and vegetables, sour cream, sour cream and tomato. Stuffed cabbage rolls are always on low heat. If the dish boils strongly, the bundles can lose their shape, boil, turn into porridge.
Cabbage rolls in a pan with tomato
Tomato sauce for cabbage rolls in a pan will be prepared on the basis of pasta, but you can take ketchup, tomato puree, increasing the total amount by 2-3 times.
Ingredients
• cabbage;
• 4 tablespoons of tomato paste;
• 500 grams of minced meat;
• 160 grams of rice;
• 150 g of onions and carrots;
• spices, water, oil.
Cooking
1. Prepare a head of cabbage. We make deep cuts around the stump, lower it to boiling water, boil the leaves to softness, remove and remove, lay them on the table. If necessary, lower the head again. We remove the thick core at the base of the sheets.
2. Boil dry washed rice until almost ready. Drain into a colander, let it cool. While the water is draining.
3. We take a large frying pan, pour oil, set to warm up. After chopping the onions, send it to the oil, after a couple of minutes we toss the grated carrots. Fry vegetables, then take half out of the pan into a bowl.
4. Add tomato to the pan, fry for a minute, pour a liter of water, salt and pepper, let the sauce boil, turn it off.
5. To the fried vegetables that we put in a bowl, add rice, minced meat, spices, stir the filling.
6. Put on each cabbage leaf a tablespoon of minced meat, turn off the envelopes.
7. At the bottom of the pan, pour a few bed of vegetable tomato sauce, lay out rolled cabbage rolls, a seam from the bottom.
8. Fill with the rest of the sauce. If he does not cover cabbage rolls, then you can add a little water from the teapot. Cover, simmer stuffed cabbage in a pan for 45-50 minutes.
Cabbage rolls in a pan in white sour cream sauce
In sour cream, cabbage rolls turn out to be completely different, tender, juicy, moreover, such a filling is prepared much easier and faster. Here we will cook the cabbage in the microwave.
Ingredients
• cabbage;
• 600 g of minced meat;
• 250 g of boiled rice;
• 2 onions;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 tbsp. l without a hill of flour;
• 2 tbsp. l butter;
• 450 g sour cream;
• 2 cloves of garlic, dill.
Cooking
1. Cut the stump, put the cabbage in the microwave cup, pour 0.5 cups of water, cover with a special lid, soak for five minutes. We take it out, remove the leaves, put the head of cabbage in the microwave again and steam it for a few more minutes.
2. Dice the onions. Fry. It is better to use butter, but if necessary we take vegetable. As soon as the onion is browned, take out about half with a spoon, this will be for the filling. Put flour in a frying pan, stir, warm up a little and spread sour cream. Warm up to a hot state, dilute the sauce with water from the kettle, add about two glasses, pepper and salt, remove from heat.
3. To the onion that was laid out from the pan, pour the rice, put the meat or chicken minced, stir, add salt.
4. We form ordinary cabbage rolls from cabbage leaves. Put in a pan, pour sour cream sauce, cook under the lid for about 50 minutes.
5. Chop the garlic and dill. Sprinkle the dish in a saucepan 2-3 minutes before the end of cooking. Let us brew.
Cabbage rolls in a pan with tomato and sour cream
Stuffed cabbage recipe with mixed gravy. The taste of the sauce is very expressive, and the color remains bright.
Ingredients
• 500 g of minced meat;
• 250 g of boiled rice;
• clove of garlic;
• 2 onions and carrots;
• 2 tomatoes;
• a glass of sour cream;
• cabbage, spices, oil.
Cooking
1. We chop one onion, chop a clove of garlic, add to the forcemeat, pour the boiled rice, pepper and salt, mix thoroughly.
2. We prepare cabbage in any way, turn the stuffed cabbage with the filling.
3. Onions and carrots that are left, fry together in a pan. We cut the tomatoes in half, three tomatoes on a grater, discard the skin. Pour into vegetables, fry for three minutes, add a glass of sour cream, stir, pour 600 ml of water.
4. Put the cabbage rolls in a pan, spill layers with sauce.
5. Cover, simmer after boiling for 40 to 50 minutes, depending on the size of the stuffed cabbage.
Cabbage rolls in a pan with mushroom gravy
A variant of delicious and fragrant cabbage rolls with tender mushroom gravy. It is prepared on the basis of sour cream, you can also use fresh cow cream, it also turns out fine. Stuffed cabbage cook the usual meat according to any recipe.
Ingredients
• 1 kg of stuffed cabbage;
• 300 g sour cream;
• 250 g of champignons;
• 2 onion heads;
• salt, pepper, oil;
• a spoonful of flour.
Cooking
1. Fry the chopped onion in a pan for two minutes.
2. Rinse fresh champignons, add to the onion, cook over high heat until all the water leaves them. Mix sour cream with flour until smooth, pour the mushrooms.
3. Warm the sauce until it begins to boil. Dilute with water, 350-400 ml are enough for that quantity of cabbage rolls. Salt, pepper, you can season the garlic sauce.
4. Stuffed cabbage is sent to the pan, pour the mushroom sauce on top.
5. Cover, simmer for an hour over low heat under a lid. Serve with sauce and mushrooms, garnish with fresh dill.
Vegetarian cabbage rolls in a pan (suitable for fasting)
Recipe for stuffed cabbage with vegetable filling. We prepare cabbage in any convenient way, above there are recipes for cooking in a pan and steaming in a microwave.
Ingredients
• cabbage leaves;
• 250 g of boiled rice;
• 2 carrots;
• 2 peppers;
• 2 onion heads;
• 1-2 eggplant;
• 5 tomatoes;
• salt, pepper, vegetable oil.
Cooking
1. Cut the eggplant into cubes, sprinkle the pieces with salt, leave to highlight the bitterness. Then rinse, squeeze well, fry in a pan until a slight blush, transfer to a bowl.
2. Add a little oil to the same skillet. We put chopped onions, carrots, fry for several minutes, put half to the eggplant, add the grated tomatoes. Stew the sauce for a couple of minutes, pour three glasses of water.
3. Cut the bell pepper into small cubes. Add to the filling, fill in boiled rice, put spices and mix everything thoroughly.
4. Form cabbage rolls with lean filling, put in a pan, spill with sauce with vegetables and tomatoes.
5. We put the stew on a small fire, cook for about half an hour.
Cabbage rolls in a pan with broth
A variant of cabbage rolls in light meat gravy based on light meat broth and vegetables. You can use beef, pork, chicken, turkey or any other meat. We take any stuffed cabbage with meat filling.
Ingredients
• large onion head;
• 1 liter of meat broth;
• carrot;
• 10 cabbage rolls;
• 2 tbsp. l oils;
• pepper;
• one tomato;
• parsley root.
Cooking
1. Cut the onion and parsley root into small cubes, pour into a preheated skillet, and fry for a couple of minutes.
2. Grate one carrot, put in vegetables, cook for another two minutes. Pour Bulgarian pepper.
3. Tomato can not be added, but it will make the color more interesting. Rub it finely, put it in a pan, simmer a tomato with vegetables for one or two minutes.
4. Pour into the total mass of hot meat broth. Add salt and pepper, stir, turn off.
5. Put cabbage rolls in a pan, pour meat broth with spices and sauteed vegetables.
6. Cover, bring to a boil, remove heat to a minimum, simmer stuffed cabbage in meat broth until cooked.
Cabbage rolls in a pan - useful tips and tricks
• Before boiling in a pan, cabbage rolls can be rolled in flour and sautéed in a skillet. This technique will make the taste better, and the sauce thicker.
• If the sauce contains a lot of tomato and it is sour, then the preparation of cabbage rolls will be delayed.
• Dilute gravy for cabbage rolls optionally with water. Sauces based on broths (meat, mushroom, vegetable) are much tastier.
• Vegetarian cabbage rolls can be cooked not only with rice and vegetables, there are very interesting recipes with buckwheat, mushrooms, pearl barley, beans, you can search for them or just turn on your imagination.
• All recipes that are designed for the stove can be adapted to the slow cooker, it is possible to use a quenching program.
• If the stuffing is without fat, then the filling may turn out to be a little dry. You can add a piece of butter to each cabbage roll or put a little melted fat.
