Lazy cabbage rolls in tomato and sour cream sauce in the oven according to the step by step 🍲 recipe with photo

Kitchen appliances and utensils: hob, frying pan, grater, deep baking tray, garlic press.

Ingredients

Pour 150 g of rice into a stewpan, pour water so that it completely covers the cereal. Cook over low heat until cooked. You can take rice of any shape (round-grain, long-grain). Rice cooked until half cooked, rinse with running water and put in a colander in order to rid the cereal of excess fluid.
White cabbage (500 g) finely chopped. It should be very small pieces.
Salt chopped cabbage. Next, you need to well crush the salted slices so that the cabbage gives its juice. We do it with our hands. We transfer the well-wrinkled cabbage to a colander. After you need to get rid of excess juice by squeezing slices in your hands.
We cut one onion into small cubes.
We put cabbage and rice, which have lain in a colander for a long time and got rid of excess moisture, into a deep container. Add 600 grams of minced meat there. In this recipe for stuffed cabbage, you can use any stuffing: mixed, pork, chicken, beef.
Drive one chicken egg to combine all the ingredients into one mass.
At this point, add the desired spices and salt. The best combination for this dish is a combination of allspice, ground pepper and coriander (ground).
Pass through the garlic clove three cloves of garlic and toss to the total mass. Mix the ingredients thoroughly so that one forms a homogeneous mixture, and the spices are distributed throughout the mass.

Set the pan to warm up, add two tablespoons of refined vegetable oil (olive, sunflower) to it.
We cut one onion into cubes and throw it into a preheated pan. Fry until the onion softens.
On a coarse grater, grind one peeled carrot and add to the pan when the onion becomes transparent, mix and fry.
Combine the tomato paste in the amount of three tablespoons with four tablespoons of sour cream, mix until a uniform consistency is formed.
Add some clean water (100 ml).

With a tablespoon, pinch a little from the resulting mass of minced meat and form a small cutlet. The shape of the product can be any according to your desire, but not very large or thick (to bake well in the oven).
The resulting stuffed cabbage is slightly baked in breadcrumbs. If you don’t have any ready-made crackers at home, you can replace them with plain white flour or bran.
The same action is repeated with the whole amount of minced meat and spread the cabbage rolls on a deep metal baking tray, which we previously greased with vegetable oil. We try to form cabbage rolls of approximately the same size so that they bake well and retain juiciness.
On a baking sheet between cabbage rolls, spread the fried carrots and onions, distribute them evenly around the entire perimeter.
Pour the dish on top with the resulting sour cream and tomato sauce. It is necessary that the liquid covers the cabbage rolls by half, so you can add a little water. While the oven is heating up to 180 degrees with a tablespoon, pour the cabbage rolls with sauce on top.
Sent in the oven for 25 minutes. After that, we take out the dish and turn over each product.
Bake another 20 minutes.