Stuffed cabbage rolls with minced meat in the oven in tomato sauce

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   To cook very tasty cabbage rolls baked in the oven in tomato sauce, we will prepare all the necessary products according to the list: a small cabbage head up to 1 kg, minced meat, preferably pork or assorted, rice, onions, tomato sauce, vegetable oil, salt and spices.

2. Step 2:

   

   My cabbage head, remove the top damaged leaves and cut out the stalk.

3. Step 3:

   

   Put a whole head of cabbage in a saucepan and fill it with water. We put a pot of cabbage on the stove and bring it to a boil.

4. Step 4:

   

   At the same time with cabbage, cook rice – pour it into a saucepan, rinse. Pour half a cup of rice with a glass of water and put it to boil until the water boils over medium heat.

5. Step 5:

   

   Cut the onion into small cubes.

6. Step 6:

   

   Pour the onion into a frying pan with 1 tbsp vegetable oil, add spices and fry over medium heat for 5 minutes.

7. Step 7:

   

   Remove the boiled rice from the heat and let it cool down a little.

8. Step 8:

   

   Also remove the fried onion with spices from the fire and leave for 10 minutes to cool down a little.

9. Step 9:

   

   Combine rice and onion together in a bowl.

10. Step 10:

    

    Add minced meat and 1 tsp salt to the rice and onion in a bowl.

11. Step 11:

    

    Mince for cabbage rolls is well kneaded.

12. Step 12:

    

    We cook cabbage over low heat, during cooking with a fork, we remove the leaves one by one, which have boiled down to a light transparency and become plastic.

13. Step 13:

    

    We cut the thickened veins from the boiled cabbage leaves.

15. Step 14:

    

    Put a tablespoon of minced meat on each prepared cabbage leaf.

16. Step 15:

    

    Minced meat is wrapped in cabbage leaves and tucked inside the tips, forming cabbage rolls.

17. Step 16:

    

    Cover the baking dish with the remaining cabbage leaves.

18. Step 17:

    

    We put the formed cabbage rolls in the prepared form.

19. Step 18:

    

    Sprinkle cabbage rolls with 1 tsp salt, pour tomato sauce in the form and pour 2 cups of water.

20. Step 19:

    

    Cover the form with cabbage rolls with foil.

21. Step 20:

    

    Put the form with cabbage rolls in a hot oven and bake at 180 degrees for 40 minutes.

22. Step 21:

    

    After 40 minutes, remove the mold from the oven, remove the foil.

23. Step 22:

    

    We lubricate cabbage rolls with vegetable oil.

24. Step 23:

    

    Return the cabbage rolls to the oven and bake for another 20 minutes.

25. Step 24:

    

    Bake cabbage rolls until lightly browned.

26. Step 25:

    

    Take the form with cabbage rolls in tomato sauce out of the oven and serve hot on the table.