How to cook cabbage rolls in a slow cooker? To many, this dish seems classic, because our mothers cooked it in an ordinary pan. It is hard to imagine that such a versatile kitchen device, like a crock-pot, can help please homemade stuffed cabbage. Meanwhile, the technology is almost no different from traditional. Let's see how to cook cabbage rolls in a slow cooker. Serving this wonderful dish is recommended with sour cream or with sauce based on it.
How to cook cabbage rolls in a slow cooker? Selection of meat and vegetables
This nutritious, simple and elegant dish starts with choosing the right meat. Of course, you can buy ready-made stuffing in the store. But if you yourself choose a juicy piece of beef or pork (and it is better to cook from two types of medium-fat meat) and grind it in a meat grinder or with a knife, then your cabbage rolls in the Redmond-M70 multicooker will become a real work of culinary art. By the way, the following recipe for minced meat is perfect for stuffing stuffed peppers. The selection of cabbage for cabbage rolls is also an important stage of preparation.
It should be small, oblong (then the leaves will be of optimal shape, it will be convenient to wrap them). Summer cabbage is not quite suitable for cooking cabbage rolls in the Panasonic-18 multicooker. But if there is no choice, then you can take it, reducing the quenching time. Winter cabbage, on the contrary, is harsh. The hardest parts may need to be cut out of it. Then it is disassembled into leaves and boiled. You can also cook a whole head of cabbage or put it in the microwave for a while in the “Defrost” mode. After that, it will not be difficult to separate the sheets.
How to cook cabbage rolls in a slow cooker. We continue processing products
While boiling cabbage, mix the chopped meat (five hundred grams) with your favorite spices (pepper, coriander, cumin, paprika), one finely chopped onion and half a glass of rice. As for which rice to put in cabbage rolls, there are different opinions. Some housewives put it raw - in this case, the cooking time will increase, and you will need to take into account the fact that this cereal absorbs a lot of liquid during cooking and can make your dish dry and hard. Therefore, it is better to put rice, which is pre-cooked until half cooked. Salt the minced meat, rub a small carrot into it, put chopped (in no case crushed) garlic. Wrap the prepared stuffing in cabbage leaves, making sure that they do not deform during further processing.
Before cooking cabbage rolls in a slow cooker, fry one more onion and one carrot in a bowl in the “Baking” mode. It takes about fifteen minutes. Then you need to put a few tablespoons of tomato paste and cook for another five minutes. Put the prepared cabbage rolls in a bowl, fill them with water (the liquid should completely cover them), set the “Quenching” mode to one and a half hours or an hour, depending on the condition of the cabbage. Serve the dish hot.
Lazy cabbage rolls are prepared from the same set of products, only minced meat is not placed in cabbage. Instead, it is chopped and mixed with meat. The finished dish resembles a
stewed cabbage with minced meat to taste
.