Cabbage rolls with tomato paste and garlic from young cabbage

For pretreatment of cabbage leaves, it is necessary to take a saucepan, fill it up to half with water and boil it. In hot water, you need to lower the cabbage for 1-2 minutes and gradually remove all the leaves from it. In parallel with this process, it is necessary to boil rice until it is half cooked.

Minced meat is mixed with rice until a homogeneous mass. If it turns out to be thick, then you can add 150 ml of water to it. Add salt and season to taste.

Put 1 tablespoon of minced meat in each cabbage leaf and wrap it in an envelope. Then the finished "envelopes" need to be rolled in flour and fried in a frying pan on both sides until ruddy.

After roasting, cabbage rolls should be transferred to a saucepan. Then chop the onion, carrot, garlic and fry everything for 5-8 minutes. At the end, add tomato paste and 200 g of water, simmer for 2-3 minutes.

The finished sauce should be filled with cabbage rolls. Add a small amount of water to the resulting mass so that it completely covers all the cabbage rolls. After boiling, boil for 30-40 minutes. Cabbage rolls from young cabbage can be served with sour cream as a side dish to new potatoes or mashed potatoes.