Many people think that cabbage rolls can be delicious only with minced meat? However, this misconception is wrong! In this review, you will learn several lean options for this dish: 4 recipes.
Lean stuffed cabbage rolls with buckwheat
Buckwheat is a healthy food product that must be included in the diet of every person. Using this cereal for making lean cabbage rolls, you can get not only a healthy meal, but also a very tasty and satisfying one. This dietary and vegetarian dish is suitable for fasting and fasting days.
Ingredients:
- Cabbage - 1 head of cabbage
- Buckwheat - 200 g
- Onion - 1 pc. in the filling 1 pc. in the gravy
- Carrots - 1 pc. in the filling 1 pc. in the gravy
- Dried mushrooms - 15 g
- Flour - 1 tablespoon
- Salt with pepper - to taste
- Any oil - for frying
Step by step cooking:
- Sort the buckwheat and fry in a dry frying pan. This will give the stuffed cabbage extra flavor. After the cereal, rinse and boil until medium cooked.
- Prepare the head of cabbage for the filling using any of the above methods.
- Peel the onion and carrots and chop finely. Then fry until transparent in a skillet in oil.
- Combine fried vegetables with buckwheat. Season them with salt and ground pepper and stir the minced meat.
- Place the filling on the cabbage leaf and roll it up in a roll or envelope.
- Place the cabbage rolls in one layer in an ovenproof dish.
- Prepare the gravy. Pour boiling water over dry mushrooms and leave for 20 minutes.
- Saute the peeled and grated onion with carrots in a pan.
- Add mushrooms to vegetables and continue to fry food for another 5 minutes.
- Pour a glass of water and mushroom broth into the pan in which the mushrooms have been soaked. Season everything with salt and pepper.
- Boil the sauce and pour the cabbage rolls over them.
- Close the form with a lid and send to a brazier heated to 180 degrees for 1, 5 hours.
Lean cabbage rolls with vegetables
Delicious homemade lean cabbage rolls with vegetables are a great option for lunch or light dinner. Vegetarian vegetable cabbage rolls, without the use of minced meat and sour cream, are absolutely not inferior in taste to the classic ones.
Ingredients:
- White cabbage - 1 head of cabbage (about 1.5 kg)
- Rice - 200 g
- Onion with carrots - 2 pcs.
- Tomato juice - 1 l
- Sunflower oil - for frying
- Salt, pepper, herbs, bay leaf - to taste
Cooking cabbage rolls with vegetables:
- Boil the rice in water until almost cooked. The proportion of rice and water is 1: 2.
- Grate the peeled onion and carrots and sauté in oil until golden brown.
- Combine boiled rice with frying. Season food with salt and pepper.
- Prepare cabbage and cabbage leaves for the filling. To do this, use one of the options described above.
- Fill the cabbage leaves with the filling, fold them into an envelope and place in a thick-bottomed saucepan.
- Pour the tomato juice over the cabbage rolls. Place a lid on the saucepan and simmer over low heat after simmering for about 1 hour.
Lazy lean cabbage rolls recipe
Since the preparation of cabbage rolls is considered a rather troublesome and difficult task, many housewives refrain from preparing them. However, in order to please yourself and loved ones with such a delicious dish, you can cook delicious lazy cabbage rolls. This is a faster and easier way to prepare this dish.
Ingredients:
- Rice - 200 g
- Cabbage - 500 g
- Champignons - 1 kg
- Carrots - 2 pcs.
- Onion - 2 pcs.
- Tomato juice - 1 l
- Salt, pepper, herbs, bay leaf - to taste
- Lean oil - for frying
Step by step cooking:
- Boil rice until half cooked.
- Finely chop the cabbage and fry in a pan in oil. The degree of roasting can be varied independently.
- Grate the peeled onion and carrots and fry in a pan until golden brown.
- Finely chop the mushrooms and fry in oil.
- Combine all products and mix. Season with salt and pepper.
- Form the minced meat into small oval cutlets resembling the shape of cabbage rolls and place in an ovenproof dish.
- Pour the flax cabbage rolls with tomato juice. Wrap the form with food foil and send the dish to bake in an oven heated to 200 degrees for 40 minutes.
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