Lazy blueberry - a favorite dish of the economical mistress

With the onset of spring days,to stay in the sun, in the fresh air, and do not want to stand at the stove. But they need something to feed them home, and we begin to recall simple, simple recipes that allow us to "kill two birds with one stone" - to cook deliciously and quickly. To such a dish, a wand-zashchalochke, you can safely include a lazy bluebird. Lazy it is called because the hostess does not need to bother herself and wrap cabbage leaves in the form of cabbage rolls. Some believe that they were invented by a lazy mistress. We can not agree with this. Most likely such cabbages were invented by the economical and smart wife to please her husband, because in the spring to find completely intact cabbage cabbages, which are necessary for classic stuffed cabbage, it is very difficult.

From all the variety of recipes for the preparation of lazy cabbage rolls, one can easily identify the basic set of products that is necessary for this dish. Let's talk about this in more detail.

Cabbage. For lazy cabbage rolls, cabbage, whose heads have dense white leaves, is the most suitable. Dense thickenings - veins on cabbage leaves are experienced housewives or cut out altogether, or twisted in a meat grinder. But most of the cabbage is finely shredded, and then doused with boiling water or boil only a few minutes. In this way, the time for quenching cabbage leaves is reduced, the cabbage quickly becomes soft.

Chopped meat. The most suitable composition for the preparation of lazy cabbage rolls is a mixture of two types of meat - beef and pork. If you take only ground beef, the dish will be lean, if only pork - fat.

Onions and carrots are cleaned and chopped. Sometimes they are fried in vegetable oil before filling. Lovers also add Bulgarian pepper.

To prepare the sauce for lazy cabbage rollstomatoes in their own juice. But the budget option is more often - tomato paste or sauce. To make the sauce more tender and interesting to the taste, add sour cream to it.

Rice is usually boiled until half cooked in a large amount of water. Do not forget to salt water. A lot of water is needed so that rice does not turn into a mess.

It is in lazy cabbage rolls that one or more eggs are often added. They will not let the cabbage roll fall apart when frying.

Each spice selects to your liking. Most often it is black pepper, bay leaf, garlic, some put cardamom in a dish. You can do easier and buy a packet of ready-to-eat seasonings, which is called: "For cabbage rolls."

At the place of cooking, the bluebird can be divided intotwo main types: lazy blue, stewed in a saucepan on the stove and a lazy blueberries baked in the oven. In the latter case, lazy cabbage rolls are covered after cooking with an appetizing crust.

Now that all the necessary products have been bought, it's time to prepare lazy cabbage rolls.

Recipe 1. It suits those who adhere to the principles of healthy eating.

1. Peel 2 pieces of onions and carrots, chop and fry in vegetable oil.

2. 300 g of minced meat also fry.

3. Chop the cabbage half very finely.

4. Rinse well 1 cup of rice.

5. Take 1 liter of hot water and dissolve in it 2 cubes of vegetable broth.

6. Stir all ingredients of the stuffing and pour the prepared broth.

7. Stew on low heat under the lid for about 30 minutes. Shortly before the readiness, add a laurel leaf to the dish.

Recipe 2. Mega-fast recipe.

1. Take 2 onions, 2 carrots, minced meat and scroll through the meat grinder.

2. Add there 2 eggs, greens and 3 slices finely chopped garlic.

3. Salt, pepper and mix again.

4. From the received forcemeat form with wet hands cutlets, roll them in breadcrumbs.

5. Fry the lazy blue on vegetable oil on both sides under the lid until it is ready.

You can do otherwise. Form the lazy cabbage rolls on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil, pour over their sauce (sour cream + tomato + spoonful of flour) and bring them to readiness in the oven. Then roll the cabbage rolls in breadcrumbs is optional.

If there is no time for cooking, dostudent lazy cabbage rolls. Recipe: in a saucepan lay layers of cabbage, vegetables, minced meat, again cabbage. Lazy cabbage rolls with layers sauce from tomato, sour cream and greens and cook for about 45 minutes at a temperature of 220 degrees.