Author: Marko Balašević
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Last Updated:
August 08, 2022
Stuffed cabbage is a tasty and nutritious dish. Who doesn't love them - these cabbage rolls? They come with various fillings: with rice and meat, with buckwheat and cracklings, with rice and mushrooms, with corn porridge, with pearl barley and minced meat.
Stuffed cabbage is a tasty and nutritious dish. Who doesn't love them - these cabbage rolls? They come with various fillings: with rice and meat, with buckwheat and cracklings, with rice and mushrooms, with corn porridge, with pearl barley and minced meat.
And what delicious Lviv cabbage rolls, typical for this particular region of Ukraine, stuffed with grated potatoes and served with wild mushroom gravy. For cabbage rolls, fresh or sauerkraut leaves are used, and in spring - young beet leaves.
It seems that wrapping cabbage rolls is a rather long process, especially when a huge pot is being prepared for these cabbage rolls for a large company of guests. Because of this, many housewives do not want to take on the preparation of traditional cabbage rolls, but prefer to cook lazy cabbage rolls, where nothing needs to be wrapped. Although there is nothing complicated in wrapping cabbage rolls. If you already have prepared cabbage leaves and minced meat on hand, then the process of wrapping cabbage rolls will not take you much time.
Recipes with the ingredient white cabbage
Step 1
For work, we need ready-made stuffing for cabbage rolls with rice and spices, prepared steamed cabbage leaves, a kitchen board, and a knife. For 500 grams of minced meat, you will need about 900 grams of cabbage leaves
Step 2
For each boiled leaf, cut off a thick vein from the outside with a sharp knife.
Step 3
Lay the cooked cabbage leaf on a cutting board with the inner side facing up. From the end where the leaf was attached to the stump, lay out 2-3 tablespoons of the filling.
Step 4
Cover the top of the filling with the edge of the sheet.
Step 5
Wrap the right and left edges of the sheet over the filling.
Step 6
Roll up the sheet further. Thus, wrap all the cabbage rolls.