Cabbage rolls from young cabbage

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the products.

2. Step 2:

   

   First cook the rice. It should be rinsed well under running water, filled with filtered water and put on high heat. When the rice boils, reduce the heat and cook for five minutes.

3. Step 3:

   

   Flip the rice into a colander and leave to cool. We specially cooked the rice until it was half cooked. If you put raw rice in minced meat, it will absorb all the liquid and the filling will turn out dry. If you put completely boiled rice, then the filling will turn out to be mushy.

4. Step 4:

   

   Now let's do the cabbage. It is necessary to cut out the stalk. To do this, we make vertical incisions along the edges, slightly mowing them to the middle.

5. Step 5:

   

   Bring water to a boil in a large saucepan, it should be about half. We lower the forks and cook for five minutes.

6. Step 6:

   

   Take out the fork and cool it. Now it will be very easy to divide the cabbage into separate leaves without breaking them.

7. Step 7:

   

   Closer to the middle, the leaves will remain stiff, I boil them a little separately. Do not pour out the water after the cabbage, it will be useful to us.

8. Step 8:

   

   Cut off the thick stem from the cooled leaves.

9. Step 9:

   

   Peel the onion, finely chop one onion and add it to the minced meat. Rice is also sent there. Salt, pepper and knead well.

10. Step 10:

    

    We put a lump of minced meat on the edge of the cabbage leaf, bend it from three sides and wrap the envelope.

12. Step 11:

    

    Like this.

13. Step 12:

    

    We do this with all the minced meat and leaves.

14. Step 13:

    

    Prepare the sauce. Onions and carrots are cleaned, onions are cut, carrots are three on a grater. In a cauldron or frying pan in which cabbage rolls will be cooked, heat the oil and fry the onion and carrots for three minutes.

15. Step 14:

    

    Add tomato paste, stir and fry for another minute. Turn off the heating.

16. Step 15:

    

    Add sour cream, mix well.

17. Step 16:

    

    Dilute our sauce with cabbage water to a liquid state. Salt to taste. We still don't pour out the water.

18. Step 17:

    

    Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the cabbage rolls on it, having previously rolled them in flour.

19. Step 18:

    

    Fry for a minute on each side, until golden brown.

20. Step 19:

    

    Put cabbage rolls in a cauldron with sauce. If necessary, top up the water. Simmer for an hour on medium heat.