Cabbage rolls with tomato filling: recipe

Cabbage rolls with tomato sauce are able to make many. But if you want to cook not a meat but a vegetarian dinner, then you will have to try. To do this, only fresh vegetables and cereals should be purchased.

Today we will tell you about how you can make cabbage rolls with tomato stuffing yourself, as well as a classic dish with minced meat and rich broth. These recipes can be used not only to prepare a simple, but festive table.

Make cabbage rolls with tomato filling

If you or your family members are vegetarians, we recommend that you take note of the following recipe. It does not require a lot of ingredients and time, but the dish cooked with it is just as good as where the meat is used.

So, to make stuffed cabbage with tomato filling, we will need:

• Rice croup long grain - ½ cup;
• Chicken egg of small size rustic - 1 pc .;
• White cabbage - 1 elastic fork;
• Drinking water or vegetable broth - about 1 liter;
• Bulb bitter - 1 large head;
• Sweet paprika - ½ small spoon;
• Oat flakes - 3 large spoons;
• Sea salt is not large - apply as desired;
• Fresh greens - to decorate the dish;
• Tomatoes ripe red - 3 large pcs.

Preparation of vegetable forcemeat

Meatballs in tomato, the recipe of which we will consider later, are prepared much longer than the vegetarian ones. After all, the vegetable dish becomes usable already half an hour after the beginning of the heat treatment. That's why this dinner can be done not only if you are a vegetarian, but also when you do not have much time to create a meat dinner.

To prepare cabbage rolls with tomato filling, first you need to make a vegetable forcemeat. To do this, it is necessary to rinse and boil the rice cake in advance, and then rinse it in cold water and strongly vstryanut, depriving the entire liquid. Then you need to blanch the ripe tomatoes. After removing the peel from them, tomatoes should be crushed into the porridge with a blender.

After the ingredients have been processed, in one bowl you need to combine oatmeal, boiled rice, tomato gruel, beaten egg, finely chopped bitter onions, paprika and sea salt. All ingredients must be mixed with a large spoon until a thick, uniform mass is obtained.

Preparation of white cabbage

Meat or vegetarian cabbage rolls without tomato are fresh and not as tasty as we would like. That's why this vegetable should be used in any case. Also the presented dish requires obligatory application and white cabbage. It must be rinsed, carefully cut off large and whole leaves, and then remove all thickenings from them and scald with boiling water.

The process of forming and cooking a dish

After the leaves of the white-headed vegetable are softened, they must be laid out on the board, and then put in the middle part of the previously prepared forcemeat. Turning the paper with the envelope, it should be sent to a deep saucepan. When it is full, it is necessary to pour in such a vegetable broth that it only slightly covers the golbtsi.

After adding water, it should be boiled, and then cook the contents of the dishes for half an hour.

Correctly served for a family dinner

Now you know how to quickly and easily cook stuffed cabbage with tomato filling. Serve such a lean dish for dinner preferably with greens and a slice of bread.

We make meat cabbage rolls with tomato paste and sour cream

If you want to make a more satisfying lunch, then the vegetable mince should be replaced with meat. For this we need the following products:

• Rice croup long grain - ½ cup;
• Chicken egg of small size rustic - 1 pc .;
• White cabbage - 1 elastic fork;
• Drinking water filtered - about 1 liter;
• Bulb bitter - 2 large heads;
• Sweet paprika - ½ small spoon;
• Pork + beef - 300 g each;
• Salt sea - apply as desired;
• Fresh greens - to decorate the dish;
• Tomato paste - 3 tablespoons large;
• Sour cream + mayonnaise - one and a half large spoons.

Making minced meat

Before you make meat cabbage rolls, you should boil rice long grain cereal, and then rinse it in cold water and take away all the moisture, shaking with a sieve. Next, you need to grind the meat product and the bulb heads with a meat grinder. After that, grind and mince should be put in one bowl, and then add to them a beaten egg, sweet paprika and sea salt. Mixing the ingredients with your hands, you should get a thick and fragrant mass.

Form and prepare the dish on the stove

Before preparing cabbage rolls with tomato paste, they should be properly formed. This is done in exactly the same way as the vegetarian dinner that is presented above.

First, you need to separate cabbage leaves from the head (preferably, they are large and complete), and then subject them to blanching (that is, scald with steep boiling water and withstand it for a while). After that, they are required to lay out on a flat plate or a cutting board, and then fill with previously prepared meat minced meat. Next, the formed product should be placed in a large and deep pan.

After filling dishes with meat cabbage rolls, tomato paste should be put to them, and then pour all the ingredients with ordinary filtered water (you can have meat or vegetable broth).

Boil the contents of the pot, products from cabbage and minced meat should be cooked on low heat for about 40 minutes. After this time, they need to add thick sour cream and fatty mayonnaise. After that, the dish needs to be covered again and cooked in the same mode for another ¼ hour. This time should be enough to ensure that cabbage rolls become completely soft, and also form a tasty and rich broth-gravy.

We present to the table a meat dinner with a fragrant broth

Having made meat stuffed cabbage rolls, they should be distributed on deep plates, and then pour tomato-sour cream sauce that was left in a saucepan. Decorating the dish with fresh green herbs, it is immediately necessary to present it to the household. In addition to it you can serve some more sour cream or mayonnaise, as well as a loaf of bread. Enjoy your meal!

Let's sum up the results

As you can see, vegetarian and meat cabbage rolls with tomatoes are prepared very quickly and easily enough. It should be noted that some housewives make such a dish not only with meat or vegetables, but also add fried mushrooms to it. With this ingredient, the dinner becomes even more flavorful and tasty. Also in broth it is recommended to lay out such vegetables as grated carrots and chopped onions.