Cabbage and Meat Rissoles (Lazy Cabbage Roll Patties)
January 30th, 2016 in Beef, Main Dishes by Julia Volhina
Total cooking time: 1h 20min
EnjoyYourCooking already has recipe for Lazy Cabbage Rolls casserole, this recipe variation uses almost the same ingredients, but in form of cabbage and meat patties baked under tomato and sour cream sauce.
Again, they are much easier and faster to prepare comparing to traditional cabbage rolls (this is why they are called “lazy”), but taste is very similar.
These patties constitute complete meal, but some vegetables or salads can be served along as a side dish.
Ingredients:
Patties:
1 lb of ground meat (beef or chicken or a mix to taste)- 1 lb of cabbage
- 1 big carrot
- 1 big onion
- 0.5 cup of rice
- 1 egg
- Small bunch of fresh fill
- 2 garlic cloves
- Pepper to taste
- Salt to taste
- Oil
Sauce:
4 tablespoons of sour cream- 4-6 tablespoons of tomato sauce (can be replaced with 2 tablespoons of tomato paste)
- Water or vegetable broth about a cup (or less)
- Pepper to taste
- Salt to taste
How to prepare, step-by-step:
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Prepare ingredients:
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Boil rice to until it is almost ready (see step-by-step instructions if needed), pour it over to colander to drain all water out and set it aside to cool down:
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Warm up deep skillet with a bit of oil, peel and chop onions, add them to the skillet and fry over medium heat until softened and slightly colored, stir from time to time:
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While onions are cooking, peel and grate carrot over big slots; once onions are ready add carrots to the skillet, continue cooking carrots and onions together for about 5 mins, stir from time to time:
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Meanwhile, chop cabbage (you can do it with a knife or a shredder, but some kind of food processor works best here), discard hard stem part; start gradually adding chopped cabbage to the skillet (it may seem that there a too much cabbage to fit, but the volume will reduce with cooking), until all cabbage is in:
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Cook all vegetables over moderate heat for 10 mins together (you want to get soft cabbage); continue stirring:
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Move cooked vegetables to a mixing bowl:
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Add cooked rice; mix it all and let it cool down to room temperature:
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Then peel and press garlic cloves in:
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Add chopped dill:
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Mix again:
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Add all ground meat:
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Season with salt and pepper to taste:
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Crack an egg in:
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And mix everything well (I used hands):
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Let’s mix sauce (you will need about 1.5-1.75 cups of sauce, use water or vegetable broth to add up to the mixture of sour cream and tomato sauce (or paste) to get this amount or sauce):
Take sour cream 
Add tomato sauce and water (if needed) 
Add salt and pepper to taste
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Warm oven to 365F. Form patties (for each scoop meat mixture with a tablespoon, roll meatball and then press it from two sides to receive a patty) and then arrange patties in a deep baking pan:
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Pour sauce over patties:
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Put baking pan to warmed up oven for 30 mins:
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Serve hot with sauce poured over:
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