Lazy cabbage rolls in the oven: 4 step-by-step recipes with photos

Continuing the theme of lazy cabbage rolls, you cannot miss this cooking option, like in the oven. How are they different from those cooked in a frying pan or saucepan? Firstly, the dish is lighter, since we will do without pre-frying, which means there will be no excess fat. And it’s healthier for the stomach. Secondly, again in ease, but this time we are talking about the simplicity of the process itself. With an oven it will become much easier. This should be especially of interest to those who are just beginning to learn the basics of cooking and have recently tried their hand at the kitchen. After all, what is often the problem with lazy cabbage rolls? They tend to fall apart during frying. But this will never happen in the oven! Unless you decide to intervene in the process and turn them from side to side, although this is not particularly necessary. So... take out the groceries, arm yourself with some device so that you can look at all our photos and read all the instructions step by step and go to the kitchen! We have prepared 4 recipes for you today!

Lazy cabbage rolls in the oven in tomato-sour cream sauce

The undoubted leader of our unofficial rating is lazy cabbage rolls in tomato-sour cream filling or sauce (as you are used to). We will prepare it thick, we will try to have a lot of it, so that our little darlings will simply drown in it. Then they will turn out juicy, soft and very appetizing!

Ingredients:

minced meat – 500g;
fresh cabbage – 300g;
carrots – 1 piece;
rice – 80g;
sour cream – 100g;
tomato paste – 1 tbsp;
flour - 1 tbsp. with a slide;
vegetable oil – 1 tbsp;
salt – 1.5 tsp;
ground black pepper – 1/4 tsp.

How to cook lazy cabbage rolls with minced meat, cabbage and rice in the oven

We will first stew the cabbage. To do this, chop it thinly and not very long.
Pour oil into a frying pan, heat it a little and add our cabbage. Stir and simmer for 5 minutes.
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During this time, peel and grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Add it to the pan. Reduce the heat, add a little salt, cover with a lid and simmer, stirring occasionally, until soft.
Let the rice cook in salted water. You can use any one that is available. You can also do it in bags (sometimes it’s even more convenient).
When both the cabbage and rice are ready, you need to let them cool a little. Then add them to the bowl with the minced meat. By the way, it will suit absolutely anything you have in the refrigerator. When cooking lazy cabbage rolls in the oven, even beef cabbage rolls are suitable. If in a frying pan it crumbles the most, then here it has practically no chance of falling apart.
Mix everything thoroughly. At the same time, add salt and pepper.
We form cabbage rolls from minced meat. From the specified quantity you can get 6-8 pieces. Place in a baking dish with sides.
In a bowl, mix sour cream, tomato, flour, salt and pepper.
We get a fairly thick paste.
Dilute it with cold water. To start, you will need 1.5 cups of water.
Pour the sauce over the cabbage rolls. It should cover them by at least 2/3 of the height.
Place in an oven preheated to 180°C. Bake our lazy doves for 45 minutes. During the baking process, if the filling evaporates and does not reach the middle of the cabbage rolls, add hot water little by little.

Serve ready to serve, making sure to generously sprinkle with gravy.

Author: Victoria S.

Let's remember how in kindergarten they cook cabbage rolls and call them lazy. The dish differs from ordinary ones not only in taste, but also in shape. But the ingredients are the same. The lazy cabbage rolls recipe comes in handy when you need to quickly feed the family and keep everyone happy. With ordinary cabbage rolls there is much more fuss, but in our case, we take minced meat, form cutlets from it, bake it in the oven in our favorite sauce and the dish is ready. Minced meat can be any kind. But since the recipe assumes that we will cook for children, it would be correct to use chicken.

What we need:

minced meat - 500 g;
boiled rice - 300 g;
onions - 1 pc.;
carrots - 1 pc.;
cabbage – 150g;
sunflower oil - 150 ml;
tomatoes - 4 pcs.;
salt - 1 tsp.

How to make lazy cabbage rolls in the oven like in kindergarten

Let's prepare the ingredients for lazy cabbage rolls. Wash the rice, add water, add salt, and cook until tender. One part rice will require two parts water.
Peel the onions and cut them into small cubes.
Peel the carrots and grate them on a medium grater.
Shred the white cabbage or simply cut it into thin strips with a knife.
Pour boiling water over it, cover with a lid, and leave for ten minutes to steam.
While it is steaming, simmer the vegetables. Take a frying pan, pour in sunflower oil, add chopped onion and simmer over medium heat until soft. When the onion becomes soft, add grated carrots, mix, and add a little salt. Simmer for another 2-3 minutes all together.
Sometimes cabbage remains hard even after steaming. In this case, it is recommended to saute it with vegetables. We stew onions, carrots and cabbage and get this bright, aromatic mixture.
Take a deep bowl, put rice, minced meat, and stewed vegetables into it. Don't forget to add salt.
Mix the minced meat.
All that remains is to make the preparations. After wetting your hands, take some minced meat and roll into balls in the form of cutlets. I got 14 pieces.
Place the cabbage rolls in a single layer in a baking dish or deep baking sheet, at a distance of 1-2 cm from each other. Pour the sauce over the preparations. The sauce may vary. I simply twisted the tomatoes through a meat grinder, then mixed 150 ml. the resulting tomato juice with 150 ml. water, salt to taste and pour over the preparations.
Place the form with cabbage rolls into the preheated oven. Cook for 30-40 minutes.

Agree that baked lazy cabbage rolls made like in kindergarten are easier to prepare than regular ones. However, they are just as tasty, but also dietary. Serve them as a separate dish or with any side dish.

Author: Tatyana

Tomato sauce: option No. 2

Use:

tomato juice (0.5 l);
20 g tomato paste;
one carrot;
garlic (a couple of cloves);
one onion;
5 g flour;
20 g sugar;
seasonings, salt, pepper (to taste).

They work like this: heat oil (vegetable) in a frying pan. The onion is peeled and finely chopped into cubes. The carrots are peeled and grated on a fine grater. Place the vegetables in a frying pan and fry until soft. Add chopped garlic and a little flour, mix everything thoroughly. Pour the ingredients with tomato juice, add tomato paste, sugar, salt and pepper, then simmer until tender.

Lazy cabbage rolls: recipe in the oven in sour cream sauce

If you bake lazy cabbage rolls in the oven just on a baking sheet without sauce, they will turn out dry and boring. The sauce makes all the difference. The most common options are tomato, tomato-sour cream and sour cream. This time I chose the latter option. Let's see step by step what came out of this.

Grocery list:

meat - 500 g;
rice - 3 tbsp. l.;
onions - 1 pc.;
carrots - 1 pc.;
white cabbage - 300 g;
flour - 1 tbsp. l.;
salt - to taste;
pepper - to taste.

For the sauce:

sour cream - 200 gr;
water - 100 ml;
flour - 1 tbsp. l.;
sunflower oil for frying;
salt - a pinch.

How to deliciously cook lazy cabbage rolls in the oven

First of all, grind the meat through a meat grinder.
For the dish, take round rice. Rinse the cereal with warm water. Fill with water and cook over low heat until tender.
Peel the onion and cut it into small cubes.
Pour sunflower oil into a frying pan and sauté the onion in it. Stir and simmer over low heat.
Peel the carrots and grate them on a medium grater. Add grated carrots to the pan. Mix the vegetables and simmer until the carrots are soft.
In a deep bowl, combine fried vegetables, rice, and meat.
Cut the white cabbage into short, thin strips.
Pour water into a saucepan and bring it to a boil. Salt the boiling water and put the cabbage in it.
Cook for about 3-4 minutes and drain in a colander.
When the cabbage has cooled, place it in a bowl with the meat and vegetables.
Pour a spoonful of flour into the minced meat for binding.
Don't forget to salt the stuffing for cabbage rolls.
Mix the contents of the bowl. If you need more salt, you can add a little ground pepper.
We scoop up the mass with a spoon, and with damp hands we form the pieces; they are very similar in shape to cutlets.
Roll in flour on both sides.
Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and heat it up. Place the lazy cabbage rolls in a frying pan and fry on both sides. Not until done, just lightly crusted. True, you can skip this stage if you don’t want to “weight” the dish.
We put it in a glass dish and prepare the sauce in which we will bake it in the oven.
Mix sour cream, water, flour, salt. You can put a piece of soft butter.
Pour the sauce over the cabbage rolls and place the pan in the oven. Cook in the oven for 20-30 minutes.

Author: Tatyana

Tomato sauce with dill and cumin

To season lazy cabbage rolls cooked in the oven, the sauce can be created from the following set of products. You will need:

one glass of meat broth;
1-2 heads of onions;
1 carrot;
20 grams of tomato paste;
oil (for frying);
garlic (several cloves);
ginger;
flour (1 tbsp);
cumin (5 g);
dill (dried) - 0.5 tsp;
salt;
seasonings;
several types of pepper;
sugar.

During the cooking process, they proceed as follows: the carrots are peeled and grated (finely). The ginger is peeled and chopped into plates. The onion is peeled and chopped. Cumin and garlic are pounded in a mortar. Heat oil (vegetable) in a frying pan, add ginger, garlic and cumin and fry. Then add the carrots and onions and simmer for a minute, after which the ginger is removed from the mixture. Add a little tomato paste (according to the recipe). After the color of the gravy acquires a bright red hue, add broth with flour diluted in it, salt and pepper, sugar and seasonings to taste. After this, the mass is simmered until thickened under the lid. Serve with oven-cooked cabbage rolls.

Lazy cabbage rolls with mushrooms in the oven

You will definitely like the recipe, because many women simply do not have time to spend a lot of time in the kitchen, especially on weekdays. There is nothing simpler than these cabbage rolls. We will simply grind the meat, onions, and cabbage together, make cabbage rolls and put a mushroom inside each one. Then we put everything into the mold, pour in the sauce and into the oven. The cabbage rolls will be ready within an hour after you enter the kitchen.

What we need:

chicken fillet with skin – 300 g;
beef – 300 gr.;
white cabbage – 200 gr.;
onion – 1/2 head;
large champignons – 100 gr.;
eggs – 2 pieces;
salt, spices for meat - to taste;
a mixture of ground peppers - to taste;
sour cream – 100 ml;
wheat flour – 5 tbsp;
tomato juice – 200 ml;
water – 200 ml;
sunflower oil – 3 tbsp.

Cooking lazy cabbage rolls with mushrooms in the oven

Chicken fillet, always with skin, so that the minced meat is not dry, rinse well and cut into large cubes so that it is convenient to grind it. You can add pork or beef to the chicken (I have it). We also wash the beef and cut it into large pieces.
Rinse the cabbage with water and cut off the top leaves. First we cut it into slices, like a watermelon, and then each crosswise into several parts.
Turn on the meat grinder, it is better to put a grate with small holes and grind all the meat. If you have a piece of lard, add it to make the cabbage rolls juicy.
It is advisable to take large champignons. Very large ones can be cut in half. Wash the mushrooms and dry with paper towels.
Using a meat grinder, chop the cabbage and half the onion. We put them in the meat, beat in the eggs, salt, pepper and add spices for the meat.
Knead with your hands, add flour and knead again.
Using a wet spoon, scoop up a little mass, put the mushroom on top and with wet hands add the minced meat on top, then shape it into a stuffed cabbage roll.
Place all the lazy cabbage rolls in a mold with high sides, greased with sunflower oil. Mix sour cream, tomato juice and water, you can add a little salt and mix everything. Pour the sauce over all the lazy cabbage rolls.
Place the pan in the oven preheated to 180°C. Baking time – 45 minutes.

Author: Alena

Bon appetit!

Sour cream sauce

You can create one of the most delicious dressings for lazy cabbage rolls cooked in the oven - sour cream sauce - from the following set of products:

250 ml chicken broth;
sour cream (250 grams);
flour (2 tbsp);
butter (for frying)
seasonings (to taste);
salt;
pepper

The recipe is not complicated at all. So even a beginner can make gravy for oven-cooked lazy cabbage rolls. With sour cream sauce they turn out surprisingly tender and satisfying. They work like this: heat a frying pan, melt butter on it, add flour (it is pre-sifted). Fry with constant stirring until the mixture acquires a golden color. Add chicken broth in portions. It is necessary to ensure that no lumps remain. Next, the mixture is thoroughly mixed again, salted and sprinkled with pepper. After the sauce boils, it is left to simmer for another 15 minutes over low heat. Before finishing cooking, add sour cream to the sauce and mix everything thoroughly. Stuffed cabbage rolls are poured with sauce and sent to the oven.

Preparation

They work like this:

First, prepare rice (dry, unsteamed, long-grain), boil it until half cooked: rinse, pour one glass of boiling water and cook for about 5 minutes over low heat.
After this, remove the pan from the heat and leave the rice covered for another 15 minutes (the water should be completely absorbed).
The cabbage is cut into small pieces (young cabbage can be chopped coarsely). Then the cabbage (chopped) is transferred to a saucepan, poured with boiling water, and left for 10-20 minutes under the lid until half cooked. You don’t need to steam soft cabbage, but simply add salt and grate it by hand. The thick one is lightly boiled for two to three minutes.
Peel and chop the onion. Grate the carrots on a grater (large). Bell peppers are cut into small pieces.
Heat a little oil (vegetable, refined) in a frying pan and place onion (chopped) on it. Fry for about 1-2 minutes until transparent.
Add carrots (grated) to the onion and fry for two to three minutes. Next, the fried vegetables (3 tablespoons) are set aside (later they will be added to the minced meat).
Then fry the sweet pepper along with the onion until soft.
Add 1 tbsp. spoon of flour and mix. Add tomato paste (two to three tablespoons) and fry a little. You can also add 3-4 tomatoes (chopped).
Pour some hot water (2-3 glasses), add salt and sugar and cook for 3-4 minutes.
Lastly, sour cream (20%) and pepper (ground black) are added to the gravy. If desired, add garlic (a couple of cloves). Bring the gravy to a boil, then remove from the heat. As a result, its taste should become pleasant, sweet and sour.
Then the dill (a small bunch) is washed, dried and chopped.
Lightly squeeze the cabbage with your hands. Place minced meat (according to the recipe), vegetables (fried), cabbage, dill (fresh, chopped) in a bowl. Beat in a chicken egg, add salt, pepper and mix everything. Rice (cooked) is transferred to a plate, cooled and sent to the rest of the products. Knead everything thoroughly with your hands (the result should be a moist, homogeneous meat mass). After this, cabbage rolls are formed, constantly wetting your hands in water.
Fill them with gravy. Place cabbage rolls with sauce in the oven and simmer at 180 degrees for half an hour.
Then take it out, cover it with foil and put it back in the oven for a few minutes. The finished dish is served hot, garnished with chopped fresh herbs.

Preparing vegetable gravy

Ingredients required:

two carrots;
three tomatoes;
two onions;
olive oil (for frying);
0.5 tbsp. l. tomato paste;
pepper;
seasonings;
salt;
sugar.

They work like this: finely chop the peeled onion. Peel and wash the carrots, grate them using a large grater. The tomatoes are kept in hot water for several minutes, the skin is removed and crushed into small cubes. Heat the oil in a frying pan. Add onions and fry until golden brown. Add carrots and stir-fry for one minute. Place tomatoes and tomato paste in a frying pan and stir. Pepper and salt, add a little sugar if necessary. Simmer the gravy for about 5 minutes under the lid over low heat.