Meatballs with cabbage and rice

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make meatballs with cabbage? Prepare the products for cooking. Wash and peel the vegetables. Minced meat can be bought ready-made or cooked at home mixed - pork-beef. Remove the top leaves from the cabbage.

2. Step 2:

   

   Finely chop the cabbage and peeled onions.

3. Step 3:

   

   Grate carrots on a coarse grater.

4. Step 4:

   

   Heat a little vegetable oil in a frying pan, put out the vegetables on medium heat until half cooked.

5. Step 5:

   

   Cook thoroughly washed rice after boiling water for 7-8 minutes, without rinsing, discard it in a colander, let the water drain. Let it cool down.

6. Step 6:

   

   Do the stuffing. Add egg, salt, a pinch of nutmeg to it, mix everything well.

8. Step 7:

   

   In a large deep container, carefully mix the cooled rice, stewed vegetables, minced meat until smooth, beat it against the walls of the container. After that, the stuffing binds well.

9. Step 8:

   

   With wet hands, form balls - future meatballs.

10. Step 9:

    

    Fry the meatballs on both sides until their sides are browned. If the pan is large and deep, use it. But I didn't have all the meatballs in one layer, there were a lot of them. In this case, take a cauldron or a duck house, fill the meatballs up to half with water.

11. Step 10:

    

    Let the contents of the cauldron boil, add tomato, spices, pepper and salt.

12. Step 11:

    

    Simmer on low heat for about 30 minutes, add sour cream to the sauce and cook the dish for another 10 minutes.

13. Step 12:

    

    This is how ready-made meatballs look. Bon appetit!