Lazy cabbage rolls in a pan - a quick and easy recipe 🍲

Kitchen appliances and utensils: cooker, pan, pan, kitchen scale and other measuring accessories, colander, wooden or silicone spatula, whisk, cutting board, sharp knife.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Knead the minced meat

1. First of all, we boil 250 g of rice until half ready, then we discard it in a colander and allow the excess liquid to drain. We take white cabbage and chop it with a sharp knife as finely as possible. We will need half a kilogram of the product already chopped. The shredded cabbage is transferred to a deep container, after which it is poured with boiling water and left in this form for 10 minutes.
   
2. Onions and medium-sized carrots are cleaned, washed and dried with paper towels. We put 350 g of minced meat in a deep bowl, then rub the peeled onion on a coarse grater on top of it.
   
3. We do the same with carrots, chopping it directly into a bowl with minced meat.
   
4. We discard the cabbage in a colander and wait until all the liquid has drained. Then we take the cabbage in our hands and squeeze out the remaining moisture.
   
5. Prepared cabbage, as well as cooled rice, are sent to a bowl with vegetables and minced meat.
   
6. There we break one chicken egg and add salt and pepper to taste. Knead with clean hands a homogeneous viscous stuffing. If you think that the minced meat is slightly dry, then add another egg.
   

We form cabbage rolls

1. Wet your hands slightly with cold water, then take a little minced meat and form a cutlet of the desired size. In a similar way we sculpt lazy cabbage rolls from the whole stuffing.
   
2. Pour in a heated pan 20-30 ml of refined sunflower oil. Roll each product thoroughly in flour, and then carefully spread it on hot oil. Fry cabbage rolls on both sides until a slightly amber shade appears.
   

Make the sauce

1. In a deep bowl for mixing the sauce we spread 30-40 g of tomato paste. If you are using sour tomato paste, then add an additional 1 tablespoon of sugar to the sauce. There we add 40 g of wheat flour, 50-60 g of sour cream, as well as salt and pepper to taste.
   
2. Lightly stir the ingredients, and then pour 400 ml of bottled cold water.
   
3. Beat the components with a whisk until a homogeneous liquid consistency is obtained.
   

The final stage

1. We put the fried cutlets in a pan, and on top of them lay 3 bay leaves and 10-15 peas of black pepper. Pour the cooked sauce there.
   
2. We send the product to medium heat and wait until the sauce boils. Slightly reduce the heat and boil cabbage rolls exactly 30 minutes. Meanwhile, we cut three cloves of garlic into thin slices, and finely chop a bunch of fresh parsley.
   
3. After half an hour, add chopped garlic and parsley to the cabbage rolls.
   
4. We cover the pan with a lid and simmer the dish for another three minutes.
   

Video recipes

Having carefully watched the video presented, you will quickly understand how to make lazy cabbage rolls in a saucepan yourself at home.