Vegetable cabbage rolls with rice without meat

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make lean and vegetarian vegetable cabbage rolls with rice without meat? We will prepare all the necessary ingredients for cooking vegetable cabbage rolls. Let's take a dense cabbage, not a large fork with clean leaves. The rest of the vegetables should also be without signs of spoilage.

2. Step 2:

   

   Rice thoroughly washed to clear water. Put the rice in a saucepan, pour water 1:2 and put it on medium heat. Bring to a boil and cook the rice over medium heat for 5-7 minutes, until half cooked. We throw it on a sieve, rinse it and let the water drain completely.

3. Step 3:

   

   While the rice is standing, let's do the cabbage. Let's wash the head thoroughly and carefully remove 8-9 leaves. Put it in a saucepan with water and boil in salted water until soft. It will take about 3-4 minutes. If you make a lot of cabbage rolls, then you can go the other way. To do this, we put the cabbage in the microwave and cook at the highest power for 5 minutes. Remove the soft leaves and continue cooking in the microwave oven until all the leaves are removed.

4. Step 4:

   

   Peel, rinse and finely chop the onion. Pour the oil into the pan, put the onion.

5. Step 5:

   

   Peel the carrots, wash them and grate them on a coarse grater. Add to the pan with chopped onions.

6. Step 6:

   

   Wash the bell pepper, peel it from the stem and seeds, cut into cubes. Add to the pan with vegetables.

7. Step 7:

   

   Wash the tomato and cut it into a large cube, add it to the frying pan with vegetables.Fry on medium heat for 7-10 minutes. We put the vegetables in a bowl.

8. Step 8:

   

   Add rice, salt, pepper and mix in a bowl with fried vegetables.

9. Step 9:

   

   Wash, dry and finely chop the greens. Add to the bowl with the future minced meat and mix. You can take any greens to your liking. I have parsley and dill.

11. Step 10:

    

    Add tomato paste to the minced meat and mix. If desired, tomato paste can be replaced with your favorite ketchup. We taste it and, if necessary, we also salt it.

12. Step 11:

    

    Turn on the oven to warm up to a temperature of 180 degrees. We cut off the hard part of the cabbage leaves and beat it off a little with a kitchen hammer.

13. Step 12:

    

    Spread minced meat on the edge of the leaves, about 2 tablespoons, depending on the size of the leaf.

14. Step 13:

    

    Wrap the filling in a cabbage leaf, turning up the edges.

15. Step 14:

    

    Pour water into a bowl, add tomato paste, salt and pepper. Mix everything together.

16. Step 15:

    

    In the baking dish, put the cabbage rolls seam down and pour tomato sauce.

17. Step 16:

    

    Put in a hot oven and cook for 40-50 minutes until ready.

18. Step 17:

    

    Remove the cabbage rolls from the oven and serve immediately. Enjoy your meal.