Good afternoon, my dear readers! Today I will cook healthy and very tasty lazy cabbage rolls in the oven. They are quick and easy to prepare. After all, we won’t roll the minced meat into cabbage leaves. We will chop the meat and cabbage and make juicy and tasty cutlets. And let the appearance of this dish be somewhat simple. But the taste is quite worthy of becoming a regular guest on our table.
The classic version involves adding a little boiled rice to the minced meat. However, my husband, for example, claims that you need to combine one thing with meat: either rice or cabbage. To each his own. Nothing bad will happen if your dish contains more of some product, and some not at all.
Stuffed cabbage rolls can be cooked in a frying pan or in a slow cooker. But the most amazing ones will undoubtedly come out in the oven. In addition, there is no pre-frying in a large amount of oil. This treat will delight all lovers of healthy and tasty food.
Here I have collected all my favorite versions of this popular second dish. They are all very tasty and quite simple to make. If desired, you can cook buckwheat or mashed potatoes as a side dish. And it’s best to eat this dish without any side dish at all, since half of it consists of cabbage and rice.
The calorie content of a serving is small - does not exceed 150 kilocalories per 100 grams. Anyone who wants to lose weight should pay attention to this. Of course, if you add less rice and more cabbage during cooking, its calorie content will be significantly reduced. If you are watching your weight, then it is better to take minced meat from lean meat.
Lazy cabbage rolls with cabbage and minced meat in the oven in tomato and sour cream sauce
The classic version of the dish involves minced cabbage, meat and rice. Fried onions and carrots are also added to it. However, no one will forbid us to cook without rice or carrots.
The specified product standards are not mandatory, choose according to your taste.
Most often, housewives prefer to take meat, rice and cabbage in equal proportions.
But, if you want a meatier dish, reduce the amount of rice and cabbage. A lower-calorie option means increasing the vegetable part.
What products to take:
- Cabbage - 500 gr.
- Rice cereal - half a cup
- One onion
- One medium carrot
- Minced meat - 0.5 kg.
- One egg
For the sauce:
- Tomato paste - 2 tbsp. spoons or 4 fresh tomatoes
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Carrots - 1 pc. average
- Sour cream - 150ml.
- Water - 0.5 l.
Preparation:
1. You can take any kind of minced meat you like. I prepared a mixed one - from pork and beef. I put a saucepan of salted water on the stove. When it boils, add the cereal and boil until tender. I wash the finished rice again in a metal strainer under the tap. And you can let it stand for a while so that all the water drains away.
2. I put a quarter of a small head of cabbage in a colander and lower it into a pan of boiling water. Let it stand covered for 10-15 minutes. I take it out and let the water drain too.
3. Peel, wash and finely chop the onions. I grate the carrots, also peeled and washed, on a coarse grater. I won’t fry them, I add them raw to the minced meat.
If you want a richer taste, fry the vegetables in vegetable oil.
4. Drain the water from the cabbage and squeeze it lightly. The leaves have become soft and now I chop them as small and thin as possible. Combine all ingredients in a large bowl.
5. Mix all the ingredients, add an egg, add spices and salt. I mix and get homogeneous minced meat.
6. You can make cutlets in any way you like. Traditionally, lazy cabbage rolls have an elongated shape, but you can also make them round, in the form of meatballs.
7. Place the semi-finished products in a heat-resistant form with high sides and pour the sauce over two-thirds of the height of the sides.
You can throw a couple of bay leaves and a few peppercorns into the gravy.
8. Place the baking sheet in a heated oven for 35 minutes. Temperature no more than two hundred degrees. You can cover the pan with a piece of foil so that the sauce evaporates less. But under no circumstances should you close it tightly. Otherwise it will boil over and crawl out from under the lid.
Preparing the sauce:
1. Chop the onion into smaller pieces.
2. Peel the carrots and grate them with a coarse grater.
3. Pour the vegetables into a heated frying pan and fry until soft.
4. Mix tomato paste with sour cream and beat well until the mass is homogeneous.
If the sour cream is very thick, be sure to dilute the sauce with water.
5. Pour the resulting mixture over the vegetables in the frying pan and stir. If necessary, add warm water to the required thickness.
Cooking time must be monitored by the position of the sauce. It shouldn't boil completely. If you see this situation happening, it is better to add a little water or broth to the pan. To ensure that the dish does not burn, you can put a layer of cabbage leaves on the bottom of the baking sheet. Eat for your health!
Delicious lazy cabbage rolls in the oven
Sometimes I’m too lazy to roll real cabbage rolls, and then I cook “sloth rolls”! There are different recipes for lazy cabbage rolls: in a saucepan, in a frying pan, in layers, but I like to cook lazy cabbage rolls in the oven, with sour cream, in the form of small cutlets.
Ingredients:
For cabbage rolls:
- Minced beef, pork-beef or chicken – 0.5 kg;
- Fresh cabbage - a third of a medium head of cabbage;
- Rice – 2/3 cup;
- Eggs – 2 pcs.;
- Salt, pepper, herbs.
Gravy:
- Carrots – 2-3 pcs.;
- Onions - 1-2 pcs., and in the summer version you can take a bunch of green onions with heads;
- Tomato paste – 1-2 tablespoons – or grate 2-3 fresh tomatoes;
- Water - 0.5 cups;
- Sour cream or cream - 1 cup.
How to deliciously cook lazy cabbage rolls in the oven:
- You can take the minced meat ready-made, it’s faster and easier. But it’s tastier and healthier to make minced meat.
- Wash the rice, add 1.5 cups of water and boil until almost fully cooked, so that it is almost soft.
- Finely chop the cabbage, and then you can further chop it by cutting long strips into 2-3 pieces. This is true for late cabbage, but young cabbage with its delicate leaves and without additional chopping is almost not felt in cabbage rolls.
- Salt the shredded cabbage, knead it with your hands, pour boiling water over it, cover and leave for 10-15 minutes until it becomes soft. For young tender cabbage, five minutes is enough.
- Then place the cabbage in a colander to drain the water.
- Combine the minced meat, boiled rice and cabbage, add salt and pepper and mix well.
- Add eggs and mix some more.
- It’s great to add a generous bunch of greens to summer cabbage rolls! Dill, parsley, green onion!
- Grease a baking sheet or oven dish with vegetable oil. We wet our hands in water, form small oblong cutlets and place them in rows in the mold.
- Drizzle each cabbage roll with sour cream or sour cream.
- Cook the lazy cabbage rolls in the oven at approximately 180C for half an hour. While the cabbage rolls are baking, let's prepare a delicious gravy for them!
- Fry chopped onion in vegetable oil in a frying pan.
- Then add grated carrots to the onion and continue sautéing, stirring.
- Add a couple of tablespoons of tomato or grated tomatoes, dilute slightly with water and simmer for 3-4 minutes.
- Gravy for lazy cabbage rolls is ready!
We take out the mold and pour the sauce over the cabbage rolls, then put them in the oven again for 20-30 minutes. You can check readiness by carefully removing and tasting one cabbage roll.
These are very tasty lazy cabbage rolls, and if you serve them with cool sour cream or cream, they become even tastier!
Step-by-step recipe for cabbage rolls without frying, like in kindergarten
If your child went to kindergarten, then he probably asked you to make lazy cabbage rolls just like in kindergarten. This recipe is for all mothers and their little fidgets. Well, all dads like him too.
This dish is very convenient, because it contains not raw, but boiled meat, which significantly reduces the cooking time.
Minced meat composition:
- White cabbage - 600 gr.
- Boiled beef - 400 gr.
- Rice - 5 tbsp. spoons
- Tomato paste - 1 tbsp. spoon
- One medium onion
- Sunflower oil - 2 tbsp. spoons
- Chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
Preparation:
1. Finely chop the onion into cubes. Pour into a thick-walled saucepan or deep saucepan and lightly fry in vegetable oil.
2. Add finely shredded cabbage strips and simmer, closing the lid. Reduce heat to medium.
There is no need to add any water or broth yet. The cabbage will soon release juice.
Stir occasionally to prevent the vegetables from burning. Add tomato paste, salt, spices and bay leaf to the vegetables. Continue to simmer until half cooked.
4. After 10 minutes, use a potato masher to compact the contents of the pan until juice appears on the surface.
5. Spread the washed round rice on the vegetables in an even layer and smooth it out.
No need to mix the ingredients yet!
6. Add about a glass of water to the pan so that it slightly covers the cereal. Close the lid and leave to simmer on low heat for another 15 minutes.
7. At this time, you can grind the boiled meat in a meat grinder. As for meat, I recommend taking beef. Especially for kids. Despite the fact that chicken breast is considered dietary, it should not be given to a small child. Chicken is very allergic.
8. Place the twisted meat in a pan with vegetables. Now mix everything thoroughly. Let it simmer for about 10 more minutes. Check the degree of readiness of the rice. If the cereal is still hard, you need to add a little water and simmer.
9. Boil and peel hard-boiled eggs. Cut them into small pieces. Then we send them to the pan with the finished dish and mix.
I would like to note that food in kindergartens complies with Soviet GOST standards, and is therefore balanced and healthy. It’s worth taking this recipe into service.
This dish is very tasty and nutritious. Both kids and adults will like it.
Recipe for lazy cabbage rolls made from minced chicken in sour cream sauce
Cooking cabbage rolls according to this recipe is easy and quick, and the result of your labor will definitely please you. Oh, it’s delicious and the most important thing is not high in calories. This is a completely new dish, not at all similar to the usual dish. The combination of tender chicken breast and sour cream is always a winner.
Ingredients:
- chicken breast fillet – 1 kg
- onions – 2 pcs.
- white cabbage – 0.5 kg
- chicken eggs – 2 pcs.
- rice (dry) – 0.5 cups
- sour cream – 3-4 tbsp. spoons
- salt, ground allspice, your favorite spices - to taste
- greens - optional
Preparation.
Pass the meat and onions through a meat grinder. Boil the rice for 5-10 minutes until half cooked, drain in a colander, do not rinse. Finely chop the cabbage and crush it slightly with your hands.
In a large bowl, combine all ingredients (except sour cream) and mix well.
Form oblong cabbage rolls and place them in a glass or any other deep baking tray.
Dilute sour cream with water in such an amount to cover the pieces, leaving their tops uncovered.
Add bay leaf to the gravy, add salt and pepper, pour over the sauce and place them in an oven preheated to 190 degrees for 30 minutes. During cooking, the gravy will be partially absorbed and boil away. The cabbage rolls will brown well and become aromatic and very tasty.
Lazy cabbage rolls made from minced chicken in sour cream sauce. Author
Recipe for lazy cabbage rolls on a baking sheet with gravy
This recipe is suitable for tomato sauce lovers. Soft juicy buns in tomato sauce will not leave anyone indifferent. They make a great family lunch option.
Unlike previous recipes, in this version we will not shred the cabbage, but cut it into squares with a side of 1.5 cm. So that it can be felt in the cutlets and not mixed with the meat.
Although this option does not include rice, no one will stop you from adding a handful if you want.
Ingredients of lazy cabbage rolls:
- Half a medium head
- Two large onions
- 4 cloves garlic
- 700 g mixed minced meat
- 2 eggs
- Salt, pepper - to taste
For the gravy:
- One large onion
- One carrot
- 0.5 liters of twisted tomato pulp
- 1 cup boiling water
- Salt, pepper, dried garlic, bay leaf
Preparation:
1. Place the cabbage cut into pieces into boiling water and leave for 5-7 minutes. After this, drain in a colander and squeeze a little. Chop onion and garlic.
2. In a deep bowl, mix the minced meat and vegetables, add salt, pepper and 2 raw eggs.
3. From the resulting minced meat, make cutlets of any shape. Place them in a baking dish, pre-greased with oil.
4. Place in a heated oven and bake at a temperature of 200 degrees. Everyone’s power levels are different, but 40 minutes is enough for me.
5. To prepare the gravy, you will need to peel and finely chop one onion. Sauté the onion in a frying pan with oil until transparent. Grate the carrots, add to the onion and fry until soft. Add a couple of tablespoons of flour to the vegetables in the frying pan and stir well.
6. For the tomato sauce, add half a liter of tomato pulp, twisted in a meat grinder, to the frying pan.
If the gravy is too thick, add a glass of boiling water and stir.
7. Our lazy cabbage rolls are already fried in the oven until almost ready. Remove the pan from the oven and pour in the sauce. You can throw in a couple of bay leaves and peppercorns. Make sure that the gravy does not reach the edges of the dish, otherwise it will boil over.
8. Let the dish finish cooking in the oven. Reduce the temperature to 180 degrees. Another 30 minutes and the dish will be completely ready.
Before serving, place the cabbage rolls on serving plates and pour over the tomato sauce. Bon appetit!
How to cook lazy cabbage rolls in a frying pan in sour cream sauce
The aromatic dish will require quite a bit of time to prepare, but the result will amaze everyone with its tenderness. The cabbage rolls turn out juicy, soft and light, and the taste is much tastier than ordinary cabbage rolls prepared with whole cabbage leaves.
Required:
- Minced meat – 400 g.
- Tomato paste – 40 ml.
- Cabbage – 300 g.
- Sour cream – 40 ml.
- Onion – 160 g.
- Spices.
- Salt.
- Carrots – 160 g.
- Vegetable oil.
- Rice – 120 g.
- Flour.
- Egg – 1 pc.
Step by step process:
Chop the onion very finely with a sharp knife. If you don’t want to mess around, you can grind the vegetable using a blender.
Finely chop the cabbage. To do this, first chop it, and then grind it more finely.
Grate the carrots on a fine grater.
Pour oil into a hot frying pan. Add onion. Simmer for a few minutes until the vegetable acquires a light golden hue.
Add carrots. Simmer until soft.
Separately, stew the chopped cabbage. There is no need to cook for very long. Enough for her to settle down.
Add warm vegetables, eggs, salt and your favorite spices to the minced meat. Knead the minced meat until smooth.
Form the mixture into oblong patties. Roll each well in flour. Place on a large plate or sheet.
Add cutlets to heated vegetable oil and fry on both sides.
Place the lightly fried cabbage rolls into a form convenient for you.
In a separate bowl, mix sour cream with tomato paste. If you wish, you can add a little dry garlic.
Coat all cabbage rolls well and evenly with sour cream. Fill with warm water so that the liquid covers them halfway. Don't forget to add salt.
Cover with a lid and place in the oven for half an hour. Temperature 180°C.
Remove the lazy cabbage rolls from the oven and leave for 10 minutes without opening the lid. Serve hot.
Lazy cabbage rolls with minced meat and rice in sour cream sauce
This is the recipe my mother always made. Why she didn't put tomatoes in the sauce, I don't know. But we always ate lazy cabbage rolls in sour cream. Very soft and delicate in taste.
My sour cream is homemade, quite rich and thick. So I'm going to add a lot of water to the sauce.
If you take sour cream from the store and it’s a bit runny, you don’t have to dilute it with water at all.
Product composition:
- Minced beef - 0.5 kg.
- Rice - 50 g dry cereal
- Cabbage - 200 gr.
- Sour cream - 150 ml.
- Testicles - 3 pcs.
- Onion - one medium
- Carrot - 1 pc.
- A small bunch of greenery
- Salt, pepper and paprika - to taste
- Water - 1.5 cups
How we will cook:
1. Since sour cream is quite fatty, it is better to choose dietary minced meat. I prefer beef. Salt and pepper the minced meat and mix with finely chopped onion. Immediately add the finely grated carrots there.
2. Boil the rice until cooked, rinse and place on a sieve. While the liquid is draining, let's work on the cabbage.
3. A quarter of the head of cabbage should be chopped into short strips and lightly mashed with your hands. In a large bowl, mix minced meat, rice and cabbage sticks. We break the eggs there. They serve as a good connecting element for all other components. I also chopped up some greens.
4. In this photo, ready-made cabbage rolls are already stuck on. Now you need to fry them in a heated frying pan on both sides until you get a tasty crust. I fry it directly in the frying pan in which I will bake it later. It is very comfortable.
5. Prepare the sauce: mix sour cream, flour, water and finely chopped herbs. Add salt, paprika, red and black pepper.
6. Pour sour cream sauce into the frying pan and place the dish in the oven, heated to 180 degrees. Since we have already fried the cabbage rolls, we only need them to boil for about five minutes.
A very appetizing and tender dish that turned out great! Invite all your family and guests to taste it!
Lazy cabbage rolls in the oven
Ingredients:
- Minced meat - 500 g (250 g pork and 250 g beef)
- Cabbage - 250 g.
- Rice - 100 g.
- Carrots - 2 pcs. average
- Onions - 2 large heads
- Tomatoes - 3-4 pcs. or 1 cup rolled
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Flour - 1 tbsp. l.
- Tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l.
- Water - 2-3 glasses
- Garlic - 1-2 cloves
- Salt, sugar, pepper
How to cook sloths from Chinese cabbage
This cooking option is for special occasions. For example, if you really want lazy cabbage rolls, but you only have Peking on hand, then use this option.
In general, of course, a recipe for those who are losing weight or simply stick to proper nutrition. Rolled oats instead of rice significantly reduces the calorie content of a serving. And turkey is a meat quite rich in proteins, but low in fat.
We want to cook a lot at once and put half of the semi-finished products in the freezer as reserves. Therefore, it contains a large number of products. Those who wish can reduce the ingredients.
What we need:
- Ground turkey - 1 kg.
- Carrots - 1 piece
- Onion - 2 pcs. average
- Peking cabbage - 1 kg.
- Testicles - 2 pieces
- Rolled oats flakes for breading
- Salt and pepper - to taste
Preparation:
1. Grate the carrots on a fine grater. Peel the onion and chop into cubes. Shred the Chinese cabbage into thin and short strips. Season the vegetables in a bowl with salt and pepper and mash them a little with your hands to release the juice. Let them stand for a while.
2. After 10 minutes we see that the cabbage has already released a lot of juice. Add ground turkey and a couple of eggs to the vegetables.
4. From the resulting minced meat we make cutlets of any shape. Roll them well in oatmeal flour.
Rolled oats flakes can be ground in a coffee grinder or crushed in a mortar.
At this time, you can already turn on the oven to heat up to 200 degrees.
5. Place baking paper on a baking sheet and grease it a little with oil. Now we lay out the cabbage rolls so that they do not touch each other.
6. The lazy cabbage rolls will take about 40 minutes to cook in the oven. However, the heating of all stoves is different. So keep an eye on the dish. It is especially not recommended to go online while cooking.
This cooking option without gravy guarantees a crispy crust. And the minimal amount of oil in this recipe makes the finished dish low in calories.
If you serve some lean salad with the cabbage rolls, you will get a wonderful dinner for those who care about their figure.
Cooking cabbage rolls in the oven
The step-by-step recipe will give you a complete picture of how to create a delicious dish. It couldn't be simpler.
We will need:
- Minced meat - 700 grams
- Young cabbage - 1 head
- Chicken egg, onion, carrots - 1 piece each
- Rice – 120 grams
- Bay leaf - 2 pieces
- Tomato paste - 2 tablespoons
- Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons
- Black peppercorns - 5 pieces
- Flour - 4 tablespoons
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Dill - 1 bunch
- Salt, ground black pepper to taste
Preparation:
- We start with preparing the products. If your minced meat is ready, take it out of the freezer in advance. So that it has already melted and is soft. I recommend to my readers to prepare the minced meat themselves, it’s safer. Because you will be confident in the quality of the product.
- To save time, immediately set the rice to cook. Before doing this, rinse it well, do this several times. Pour water in a ratio of 1 to 1. Once the rice is cooked, rinse it as well. This is done to prevent lumps from forming.
- Next, peel the onions and carrots. Finely chop the onion and grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Take a frying pan and fry the chopped products in vegetable oil. Don’t forget to stir and fry until the onion is golden brown.
- You can have minced meat either pork or pork with beef or chicken.
- Let's start with the cabbage. We remove the top leaves, they are mostly damaged and dirty. Chop not too finely. Then press it with your hands.
- Now we need a deep bowl in which we will put our ingredients. Add minced meat, boiled rice, chopped onions, carrots and cabbage. We also season with salt and ground salt to taste. And so that the cabbage rolls keep their shape, we add a chicken egg for the bunch. Mix everything well
- Forming cabbage rolls. I make them more than traditional cutlets. Wet your hands with cold water. And coat the resulting cutlets in flour. The flour will additionally hold its shape so that they do not fall apart during stewing.
- Take a deep baking container. In our case, this is a deep glass bowl. Pack the cabbage rolls tightly. Now dissolve the tomato paste in boiling water. Salt a little and add sugar for taste. And pour the cabbage rolls with tomato sauce.
- You can use tomato juice instead of tomato paste.
- Throw in peppercorns, bay leaves and finely chopped garlic. Add chopped dill here. Place in the oven for 35 minutes, before which you need to preheat it to 180 degrees.
- Ready. Place on a plate. Decorate with greens. Can be served with sour cream.
Most of the time is spent preparing the products. Fast and tasty.
