Cabbage rolls with cabbage and minced meat in the oven

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make cabbage rolls in the oven? Prepare the specified ingredients. Minced meat is better to take homemade, mixed. It is better to choose the ratio of meat to your taste, I have minced pork / chicken. Take cabbage with a thick fork, young, for another cabbage, the baking time will have to be increased. I took steamed kruglozerny rice. Prepare a heat-resistant mold for use in the oven.

2. Step 2:

   

   Pour boiling water over the selected rice. As soon as the water cools down, rinse the rice in running water.

3. Step 3:

   

   Boil water in a saucepan and immerse the whole cabbage in it. After 3 minutes, turn the head over. Then remove the heating, but leave the cabbage in the water.

4. Step 4:

   

   In a deep bowl, mix the selected minced meat, washed rice and chopped onion. Grated onions will make the minced meat juicier and the onion pieces will not be too noticeable. Add salt to taste and ground black pepper, mix the minced meat evenly.

5. Step 5:

   

   Remove the cabbage from the water and disassemble it into leaves by cutting them with a knife from the base side. If the leaves are hard and break when they are separated from the fork, then they should be kept in boiling water for a little longer.

6. Step 6:

   

   The base of the leaves is rough and hard. It can be cut together with a part of a soft leaf; you can cut it out with a triangle; or you can beat it off with a cooking hammer. Choose a convenient way of cutting leaves.

8. Step 7:

   

   Put minced meat on the edge of each sheet and fold the sheet with minced meat into an envelope. Excess leaf can be cut off with a knife.

9. Step 8:

   

   Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry cabbage rolls on each side over medium heat until golden brown. To reduce the calorie content of the dish and the cooking time, you can skip this step. Turn on the oven to preheat to 180 degrees.

10. Step 9:

    

    Put the fried cabbage rolls in one layer in the selected baking dish.

11. Step 10:

    

    In a deep bowl, mix the tomato paste, sour cream and water, add a pinch of salt and mix thoroughly. Pour this sauce over the cabbage rolls in the form.

12. Step 11:

    

    Cover the form with cabbage rolls with foil and put it in a preheated oven for 40-50 minutes. After 30 - 40 minutes of baking, remove the foil from the mold and bake without it.

13. Step 12:

    

    Serve ready-made cabbage rolls hot as an independent dish. But you can offer them potato dishes. Be sure to offer sour cream to the cabbage rolls.