Cabbage rolls with gravy in a saucepan

How to make cabbage rolls with gravy in a saucepan?

1. Rinse the rice, put it in a saucepan, pour water (1-2 cm above the rice level), cook until tender. The process will take about 20 minutes.
2. In a large saucepan, bring salted water to a boil. While the water is boiling, wash the cabbage, remove the top leaves, cut out the stalk. Put the cabbage in a saucepan, cook for 5-7 minutes, then turn it over and cook for the same amount of time. If the cabbage is completely immersed in water, you do not need to turn it over and cook it additionally.
3. Remove the leaves from the cabbage without taking it out of the pan. Let the removed leaves lie in hot water for 2-3 minutes, then put them on a plate - let them cool down.
4. Make a criss-cross incision on the tomatoes, lower them into boiling water for 1 minute, then immediately into ice water. Remove the skin, and cut the flesh into small cubes.
5. Peel the carrots, grate them on a coarse grater. Finely chop the onion peeled from the husk.
6. Heat a frying pan with half of the vegetable oil, put half of the grated carrots and chopped onions in it. Fry until golden, then add tomato paste (2 tbsp. l.), stir, simmer for 2-3 minutes.
7. Put the minced meat in a large container, add rice, chopped tomatoes, stewed onions and carrots to it. Chop the dill and add it to the rest of the ingredients, add salt and pepper. Mix everything well. The filling is ready.
8. Cut large cabbage leaves in half, remove the hard core. Put 2-3 tablespoons of filling in the center of the sheet, wrap the cabbage rolls. Wrap the cabbage rolls until the filling and the prepared leaves are finished. Put the cabbage rolls in a dish with a thick bottom - a saucepan, a duck house.
9. Preparing the sauce: put 3 tablespoons of tomato paste, sour cream in a bowl. Add water, mixing everything. You need to add enough water so that the resulting sauce is enough to cover the cabbage rolls in the pan - approximately to the middle of the upper cabbage rolls.
10. Simmer cabbage rolls for 1 hour.
11. It remains to cook the roast. To do this, heat the remaining oil in a frying pan, put the remaining onions and carrots in it, fry until golden. Put the roast on top of the cabbage rolls - then simmer the dish for another 10-15 minutes.

Cabbage rolls with gravy are ready! Serve them to the table hot, putting them on serving plates, pouring the resulting gravy on top. You can also serve tomato sauce, fresh chilled sour cream to cabbage rolls.

Bon appetit!

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