How to cook lazy cabbage rolls?

Fans of cabbage rolls know how delicious this dish is. To him with the same love, both Ukrainians and Russians are treated. But the hostess knows not only that this delicious dish, but also realize that his cooking takes a long time. That is why in our rash century traditional cabbage rolls have become more and more often replaced by lazy cabbage rolls in everyday food, because they taste almost unchanged, and they are made much easier and faster. Let's leave the traditional cabbage rolls for the holidays and analyze how to cook lazy cabbage rolls quickly and deliciously.

After all, it is delicious lazy cabbage rolls that are a worthy compromise between traditional cabbage rolls and shortening cooking time. The drawbacks can be attributed only to their appearance, but when consumed there is a plus in that there is no need to use a knife. Variants of how to cook lazy cabbage rolls, a lot. They differ, as a rule, according to the form and method of preparation. We will analyze only those variants that make it possible to cook delicious lazy cabbage rolls quite easily.

For a family of four, it is enough to take half a kilo of cabbage and minced meat, a small onion, a glass of boiled rice and sour cream, a raw egg, as well as tomato paste, spices and salt according to your taste preferences.

One of the options for how to cook lazy cabbage rolls, we will consider those that can be cooked in a frying pan. As mentioned before, we boil rice. After cooling the rice, mix it with your stuffing. Finely chink the onions (you can grate it on a grater) and cabbage. We stir the chopped vegetables to our mixture of minced meat and rice, add spices and salt, as well as the egg. It is necessary for the ligament, so that our cabbage rolls do not crumble and keep their shape during the frying process. As a rule, the cutlets form rather large ones. They need to roll in breadcrumbs or flour. Then put it on a greased frying pan and fry until a ruddy crust is formed. As soon as the crust uniformly covers our cabbage rolls from two sides, it is necessary to add a tomato paste diluted in a small amount of water into the frying pan. We close the pan with a lid and extinguish until complete. You can spice up our dish if you serve it with mayonnaise or sour cream.

The next way, which we will consider, is how to prepare lazy cabbage rolls in the oven. In general, the technology of preparation and the composition of minced meat are similar to the first option, but cabbage with this method of cooking it is desirable to impart boiling water, as this will give it a certain softness. After forming cutlets from our stuffing, they must be fried in a frying pan. Only after they are covered with a beautiful crust, they are shifted to a dish for baking. Next, pour the cutlets with sauce from mixed in equal proportions of ketchup and sour cream. Then put the dish in the oven for half an hour. During this time, your dish will take on the appearance of the casserole and a very original taste.

We will analyze how to prepare lazy cabbage rolls in a saucepan, and preferably in a cast iron with a thick bottom and walls. The ingredients used for this dish are all the same as we called earlier, but the method itself is somewhat different from the previous two. In this case, we need to mix all the ingredients at the same time, including adding tomato paste and sour cream. We pour a glass of cold water, carefully mix everything. Leave the mixture as it is, in a saucepan and send it on a small fire, stew until ready. Preparation will take a couple of hours, but the taste will be unforgettable. Despite the fact that lazy cabbage rolls in a saucepan are not quite presentable, they are considered the most delicious of all previously considered options.