Cabbage rolls in sour cream sauce in the oven

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make cabbage rolls in sour cream sauce in the oven? Prepare the products according to the list. You can take any minced meat - beef, pork, chicken, turkey. I have beef-pork. Choose cabbage with a loose head, it will be easier to disassemble it into leaves. If necessary, defrost the minced meat.

2. Step 2:

   

   Remove the top leaves from the cabbage, rinse the head. With a sharp knife, cut out the stalk.

3. Step 3:

   

   Rinse the rice under running cool water several times. Then fill it with cold water and put it to boil. At the same time, put a large saucepan on the fire, half full - it should fit a cabbage head. Bring the rice to a boil and boil it for a couple of minutes. Then discard the rice on a sieve and let cool. When the water in a large saucepan boils, lower the cabbage into it. Boil the cabbage for 5 minutes.

4. Step 4:

   

   Take out the head, but do not turn off the fire under the pan. Carefully, since the cabbage is hot, remove the upper leaves from it. When the leaves stop moving away easily, put the head back into boiling water and cook it for a few minutes.

5. Step 5:

   

   Thus, remove all the large leaves from the cabbage. From my small head it turned out 13 pieces.

6. Step 6:

   

   Put the minced meat in a large bowl. Add boiled rice, salt and pepper to it.

7. Step 7:

   

   Peel one onion and chop it in any way. I grated it on a coarse grater, but you can just finely chop it.

8. Step 8:

   

   Mix the minced meat well until smooth. Why did we boil the rice until it was half cooked? Raw rice will take all the moisture from the minced meat, and the filling will become dry. And rice, which is cooked until ready, will turn into porridge with further cooking.

9. Step 9:

   

   Cut off the hard part of the base from the cabbage leaves with a sharp knife.

10. Step 10:

    

    Put a tablespoon of minced meat on the sheet.

12. Step 11:

    

    Fold the cabbage leaf, covering the minced meat.

13. Step 12:

    

    Roll up the sheet on each side and twist the cabbage roll.

14. Step 13:

    

    That's such a neat little darling turns out.

15. Step 14:

    

    Put the cabbage rolls in a baking dish. My form is 25*20 cm in size.

16. Step 15:

    

    Prepare the sauce. Peel the onion and cut it into quarters of rings.

17. Step 16:

    

    Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan, put the onion. Fry the onion for a few minutes until golden brown.

18. Step 17:

    

    Add sour cream to the onion, stir and bring to a boil.

19. Step 18:

    

    Pour a glass of water into the pan. I used a decoction in which cabbage was cooked. Add salt and pepper, mix. Bring the sauce to a boil. I also added finely chopped dill at the end.

20. Step 19:

    

    Pour the cabbage rolls sauce.

21. Step 20:

    

    Bake cabbage rolls in the oven, preheated to 190 ° C, top-bottom mode, for 45-60 minutes. Determine the exact time and temperature of baking according to your oven. Cabbage rolls should be browned on top. Serve ready-made cabbage rolls with sour cream or any sauce.