Lean Cabbage Cutlets - Original Recipe

Kitchen appliances and utensils: hob, frying pan, deep dishes for minced meat, knife, cutting board.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. First, prepare the cabbage. Take 1.5 small heads of cabbage or one large, remove the top layer of leaves. As a rule, they can be spoiled, have dark spots. Cut small heads of cabbage into 2 parts. If you use a large one, then cut into 3-4 parts, so that it is convenient for you to chop. Chop with a knife or a special shredder. If possible, you can grind with a blender.
   
2. Send chopped cabbage into a deep saucepan, pour steep boiling water so that it is completely covered. Cover, leave for 1-1.5 hours, after this time drain the water through a colander.
   
3. Peel two large onions. If your onions are small, take a larger quantity so that the total weight is about 300 g. Wash, cut in half, and then chop in a very thin straw. Cut the halves of the large head again in half, and then cut into strips so that it does not turn out too long.
   
4. Take the deepest pan that you have, pour vegetable oil, let it warm up a little and send all the cabbage. Cabbage after roasting will give up excess moisture, will decrease in volume. The taste of fried cabbage cutlets will add piquancy.
   
5. First, make the stove fire maximum, cover the pan with the cabbage lid. Then reduce the heat to medium, remove the lid and fry, stirring occasionally, for 15-20 minutes so that all the water evaporates.
   
6. Pour some vegetable oil into a separate pan and send chopped onion. It also needs just a little let down, and not fry until golden brown.
   
7. Peel raw potatoes, rinse and grate with a coarse grater. Send it to a bowl to knead the minced cabbage.
   
8. Peel the middle head of garlic, pass through the garlic, send to the potato. The amount of garlic you can adjust yourself.
   
9. Grind a bunch of dill with parsley, send to potatoes.
   
10. Send fried onions here and mix well.
    
11. Add the cabbage in parts, mix the minced meat well after each serving of cabbage so that all the ingredients mix well with each other.
    
12. Add 4 tbsp. l semolina, mix well. The task of semolina is to absorb excess moisture. If you managed to achieve this, then this amount is enough.
    
13. Then add salt, pepper to taste, mix well, remove the sample, if necessary add the missing ingredients.
    
14. Add flour, mix. The amount of flour may also need different, we had 130 g.
    
15. If you managed to mold the cutlet with your hands, then you have added all the ingredients correctly. If the patties do not hold, add some more flour.
    
16. You can roll the billets in flour, semolina, breadcrumbs or fry without anything.
    
17. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, send workpieces from minced cabbage, and fry on both sides for literally 2-3 minutes.
    
18. Serve cabbage cutlets as an independent dish or to your favorite side dish, decorating with chopped herbs.
    

Video recipe

Watch the video, it will certainly be interesting for you to observe the process of preparing lean cutlets from cabbage, look at them in different types of frying, and hear the author’s opinion about the finished dish.

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