Lazy cabbage rolls in the oven in tomato and sour cream sauce - 5 step by step recipes

Lazy cabbage rolls, although they differ in a simplified way of cooking, are not at all for the lazy. And the most versatile and harmonious tomato-sour cream sauce, which is created for dishes with minced meat and cabbage, will help to complement a simple dish.

Lazy cabbage rolls in the oven in tomato-sour cream sauce with cabbage, rice and minced meat

A dish cooked in the oven turns out to be as dietary as possible, light and evenly baked, and this result is achieved not by every cooking method. Feel free to resort to this recipe if you are interested in this result.

Cooking time: 90 min.

Cooking time: 60 min.

Servings - 4.

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  First, we will cook the rice, which is necessary for making stuffed cabbage rolls. We send the groats into boiling water, salt and bring to a boil again. Then we reduce the heat to a minimum and cook for ten minutes. Put the finished rice on a sieve, drain off the excess water and leave to cool at room temperature.
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  We clean the head of cabbage by removing the top leaves and cutting out the stump. Then we cut the chopped cabbage leaves into small cubes. We do the same with onions.
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  Put chopped cabbage with onions into a bowl and fill it with freshly boiled water, then leave it to infuse for 10 minutes. After this time, we discard the vegetables in a colander so that all the water is glass.
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  Cut the chili pepper lengthwise, remove all the seeds and chop as finely as possible. Now we put all the content together. Add cooled rice, cabbage with onions and chopped pepper to the minced meat. Mix everything well, add salt and pepper to taste.
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  From the prepared mixture we form cabbage rolls in the form of cutlets. We dip them in bread crumbs and send them to fry in a frying pan preheated with vegetable oil. Fry until lightly browned.
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  Transfer the toasted cabbage rolls to a baking dish. And we turn on the oven to warm up to 180 degrees.
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  For the sauce, combine tomato paste with fat sour cream, add pepper and salt and mix carefully so that the spices are evenly distributed throughout the volume.
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  Cover the lazy cabbage rolls with the ready-made tomato-sour cream sauce, which were previously transferred to the mold. We send cabbage rolls to stew for 40-45 minutes in a preheated oven.

Serve the dish hot, arrange in portions and decorate with fresh herbs. Enjoy your meal!

Lazy cabbage rolls with Chinese cabbage, tomato paste and sour cream

Peking cabbage is not only an excellent alternative to white cabbage, but also surpasses it with its juicy and incredibly tender young leaves. And the finishing touch to the dish is given by the combination of sourness of tomato paste and sour cream.

Cooking time: 150 min.

Cooking time: 80-90 min.

Servings - 2.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat - 300 gr.
• Sour cream (20%) - 2 tablespoons
• Tomato paste - 2 tablespoons
• Chicken egg - 1 pc.
• Rice - 180 gr.
• Peking cabbage - 1 pc.
• Wheat flour - 3 tablespoons
• Bulb onions - 2 pcs.
• Carrots - 2 pcs.
• Salt to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Spices to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Cut the Chinese cabbage into thin slices.
2. Chop the peeled onions as finely as possible.
3. We pass any meat to your taste through a meat grinder, or we use purchased minced meat.
4. The next step is to add chopped vegetables to the minced meat, drive in an egg with one and mix well. At the same stage, you need to add salt and pepper.
5. Finally, add cooked white rice to the bulk and carefully mix all the contents. Then we form small cabbage rolls, pre-wetting our hands in cold water.
6. Roll the formed cabbage rolls in flour and put on a baking sheet, greased with vegetable oil. We send the form with cabbage rolls to a preheated oven for 20 minutes so that all the components grab.
7. At this time, we will prepare vegetable frying in tomato-sour cream sauce. To do this, cut the onion into cubes and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown. Then add grated carrots to the onion, a little Chinese cabbage, spices to taste and simmer over medium heat until soft.
8. Add sour cream with tomato paste as a sauce to vegetables and mix well. In this form, we stew vegetables for a couple of minutes.
9. For softness and extra juiciness, pour in a little boiled water and continue to simmer under a closed lid for another 10-15 minutes, until the liquid has completely evaporated.
10. After 20 minutes, remove the baking sheet from the oven and cover the cabbage rolls with vegetable gravy. It remains to bring the dish to full readiness. Return the cabbage rolls covered with vegetables to the oven and bake for 15-20 minutes.
11. We check the readiness of the stuffed cabbage and invite everyone to the table. You can serve the dish both independently and in addition to the side dish.

Enjoy your meal!

Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls with minced chicken in tomato-sour cream sauce

If you are in doubt with the choice of minced meat, stopping at chicken, you will definitely not regret it. After all, it is unpretentious in preparation and is always appropriate in vegetable dishes.

Cooking time: 50 min.

Cooking time: 30 min.

Servings - 6-8.

Ingredients:

• Minced chicken - 500 gr.
• Tomato paste - 2 tablespoons
• Sour cream - 1 tablespoon
• White cabbage - 800 gr.
• Rice - 200 gr.
• Bulb onions - 2 pcs.
• Carrots - 1 pc.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Salt to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Initially, chop the onion and carrots and send them to be sautéed in a frying pan preheated with vegetable oil. Fry vegetables until golden brown.
2. Then add minced chicken to the softened vegetables and continue to simmer over medium heat until it darkens. This will take about 10 minutes, after which we immediately add tomato paste and sour cream. Mix everything well and continue to simmer in tomato-sour cream sauce.
3. In parallel with this, we chop the prepared head of cabbage as finely as possible and send it to the frying pan. In the meantime, we will boil rice in the traditional way until it is semi-cooked.
4. As soon as the rice is slightly boiled, transfer it to the pan and stir again. Add pepper at the same stage.
5. 10 minutes before turning off, we bring our dish to taste, adding salt and all kinds of spices.
6. We serve the dish hot, adding chilled sour cream if desired.

Enjoy your meal!

How to cook lazy cabbage rolls in layers in tomato and sour cream sauce?

Incredibly delicious vegetable casserole called lazy cabbage rolls. The dish will be especially delicious in the summer season, which is rich in vegetables.

Cooking time: 60 min.

Cooking time: 35-45 min.

Servings - 6.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat - 500 gr.
• Tomato paste - 50 ml.
• Rice - 1 tbsp.
• White cabbage - 1 pc.
• Onions - 2 pcs.
• Carrots - 1 pc.
• Sour cream (20%) - 250 ml.
• Parsley - 1 bunch.
• Dill - 1 bunch.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Salt to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Put the well-washed rice groats in a saucepan with boiling salted water, in proportions 1: 2, and cook over low heat.For complete cooking, 15 minutes will be enough, during which time the rice will cook, and all the liquid will finally evaporate. Then cool the rice and leave until next use.
2. Remove the largest of all leaves from the head of cabbage and send it to boil in boiling salted water for 10-15 minutes. Then we drain the water, and leave the cabbage leaves to cool.
3. At this time, rub the carrots on a coarse grater, and cut the peeled onions in half rings. Fry all chopped vegetables in a frying pan preheated with vegetable oil until golden brown.
4. Then put tomato paste, sour cream and, in addition, a little water in a frying pan, mix everything well and continue to simmer the dressing for five minutes.
5. At this point, combine the already cooled rice with minced meat and mix carefully. Then, on a baking sheet, lay out half of the entire frying and exactly the same amount of meat filling, leveling the surface with a spatula.
6. Lay cabbage leaves on top of the minced meat.
7. The first three layers are ready. In the same sequence, lay out the next layers from the remaining ingredients.
8. Put a sheet of foil on top of the mold and send it to an oven preheated to 180 degrees for one hour. After this time, we remove the baking sheet with ready-made lazy cabbage rolls, which we begin to divide into portions. Serve with chopped parsley.

Enjoy your meal!

Juicy lazy cabbage rolls in the oven in tomato-sour cream sauce without frying

The classic version of lazy cabbage rolls requires a minimum of your efforts and at the same time is not inferior in taste to traditional cabbage rolls, therefore, be sure to try it and you will like it.

Cooking time: 60 min.

Cooking time: 35-45 min.

Servings - 4-5.

Ingredients:

• Chicken meat - 350 gr.
• Tomato paste - 400 ml.
• White rice - 1 tbsp.
• White cabbage - 300 gr.
• Onions - 1 pc.
• Carrots - 1 pc.
• Sour cream (20%) - 150 ml.
• Vegetable oil - 1.5 tbsp.
• Salt to taste.
• Black pepper to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Cut the prepared chicken into cubes and beat in a blender until smooth at high speeds.
2. Chop cabbage leaves at random and transfer to a blender bowl. Beat all the ingredients again.
3. Then we move on to preparing the rest of the vegetables. Cut the peeled onions into cubes, and three carrots on a medium grater.
4. Boil rice until ready and combine with chopped onions and chopped carrots.
5. Transfer the contents from the blender bowl to the same container, add salt and pepper and mix thoroughly.
6. Let's start forming stuffed cabbage rolls. We sculpt cutlets that are not very large in size and immediately put them in a baking dish greased with vegetable oil.
7. While the oven is heating to 180 degrees, prepare the sauce. Mix sour cream and salt with ground pepper into the tomato paste. Mix all components well until smooth. Cover the cabbage rolls with the prepared sauce and bake at 180 degrees for 30-40 minutes.
8. We serve ready-made cabbage rolls in portions to the table, decorating with chopped herbs if desired.

Enjoy your meal!