Cabbage is appreciated for its many beneficial properties and ease of preparation. This vegetable goes well with any kind of meat, rice, carrots, onions, and other vegetables. Do not count the dish of cabbage. For example, light for the body, nutritious, aromatic cabbage cutlets with minced meat can be prepared in different ways. And all this is incredibly tasty!
Cabbage cutlets with minced meat: general rules
The first of the two main ingredients - cabbage - can be combined with minced meat in one dish in raw and boiled form. Fresh vegetable grind with salt for softness. In other recipes it is boiled until half cooked in salted water.
Methods for slicing cabbage for cutlets can be different: a cube, straws, chips. The main thing is to chop the vegetable as small as possible. In order not to suffer with slicing, cabbage leaves are cut into strips and passed through a meat grinder along with meat, onions, carrots.
Stuffing for cabbage cutlets can be made from any kind of meat. However, experienced chefs recommend choosing low-fat pork, young beef or veal, and turkey for such a dish. Good in cabbage cutlets and mixed minced meat from different types of meat.
The principle of manufacturing cabbage cutlets with minced meat is simple:
1. All ingredients are mixed until mass is uniform:
2. Hands make round or traditional oval cutlets.
3. Bread in flour (breadcrumbs).
4. Fry on both sides in a small amount of vegetable oil in a pan or bake in the oven with sauce.
Serve a dish with side dishes of rice, potatoes, vegetables, cereals.
Classic cabbage cutlets with minced meat
The recipe involves 2 cooking options. In the first, cutlets are simply fried in a pan. In the second, they are first fried and then stewed in tomato sauce. Which feed to choose is a matter of taste.
Take:
500 g of white cabbage;
500 g of pork and ground beef;
Onion;
· 2 tbsp. l tomato paste;
Pepper, salt.
How to cook:
1. Cabbage and onions are cut into small cubes or scrolled in a meat grinder.
2. Mix with minced meat, salt, pepper, add bay leaf.
3. Form oval flat cutlets. Fried in a pan, put in a cauldron.
4. Tomato paste is diluted with water, seasoned with spices to taste.
Cabbage cutlets are poured with minced meat with improvised sauce and stewed in a closed cauldron over a quiet fire for 40 minutes.
Piquant cabbage cutlets with minced meat in the oven
A slightly modified recipe with a wide variety of ingredients. Aromatic seasonings and herbs give the finished dish an original taste and delicious aroma.
Take:
· 700 g chicken;
100 g of fat;
400 g of white cabbage;
250 g of onion;
300 g of carrots;
1 egg
100 g semolina;
40 g flour;
· 20 g of tomato paste;
85 g butter;
300 ml of water;
· 2 bay leaves;
Carnation asterisk;
· Salt;
Ground pepper;
· Greens - dill, basil, parsley.
How to cook:
1. Fillet, lard, cabbage, peeled onions and carrots are chopped in a chopper, sludge is passed through a meat grinder.
2. Egg, semolina, pepper, salt are driven into the minced meat. Knead for 5 minutes.
3. Form cutlets. Spread on a baking sheet sprinkled with vegetable oil, at a small distance from each other. Bake at 200 degrees for 20 minutes.
4. Flour the butter in melted butter in a pan (5 minutes). Tomato paste is diluted with water and poured into a pan. Add all the spices, mix. Cook for 2 minutes.
5. Baked cabbage patties with minced meat are poured with hot sauce. Bake in the same mode for another 7 minutes.
Ready, slightly cooled dish sprinkled with a mix of chopped herbs.
Lazy cabbage rolls or cabbage patties with minced meat and rice in the oven
To taste, these cabbage rolls are even better than in the traditional version. In addition, they are prepared much easier and faster.
Take:
750 g of white cabbage;
200 g of veal minced meat;
· 0.5 tbsp. rice;
Carrot
Onion;
Egg
250 ml of tomato juice;
50 ml of kefir or sour cream;
250 ml of water;
1 tsp mustard;
40 ml of vegetable oil;
· salt pepper.
How to cook:
1. Rice washed, cook until tender. Throw back into a colander and washed again.
2. Onion, diced, and grated carrots are fried in a pan for 23 minutes.
3. Add finely chopped cabbage to the vegetables. Stir, cover. Stew, stirring occasionally, 10 minutes.
4. Stewed, slightly cooled vegetables are combined with rice and minced meat. They beat an egg, salt, and pepper. Knead the minced meat.
5. Form and lay out small burgers in a baking dish.
6. For the sauce mix tomato juice, sour cream, mustard, water.
Lazy cabbage rolls are poured with sauce and baked for 40 minutes at 200 degrees.
"Tricky" cabbage cutlets stuffed with minced meat
An original recipe reminiscent of the technique of making Belarusian sorcerers or potato zraz. But the taste is completely different.
Take:
500 g of white cabbage;
500 g of minced pork;
Onion;
· 250 g of finished mashed potatoes;
· clove of garlic;
· salt pepper;
· vegetable oil;
· Breadcrumbs.
How to cook:
1. Cabbage finely chopped. Salt and crush with your hands to make it soft.
2. Diced onions and mashed potatoes are added to the cabbage. Salt, season with spices, pepper. Knead dough for cabbage cutlets with meat filling.
3. Add chopped garlic, salt and pepper to the pork headlights. Knead and beat well.
4. Small cabbage is made from cabbage and potato dough. Wrap them in a teaspoon of minced meat.
Cutlets roll in breadcrumbs. Fry on both sides in well-heated lean oil for 2 minutes. The crust on the cutlets should turn out to be ruddy with a golden tint - you should not overcook the vegetable dough.
Cauliflower cutlets with minced meat "Original"
It is worth changing only one ingredient in the recipe - it turns out a completely new dish. The experiment with cauliflower in minced meatballs confirms this theory.
Take:
· Head (about 1 kg) of cauliflower;
· 700 g of chicken meat;
Crimean onion - 1 pc.;
· 2 eggs;
3 cloves of garlic;
½ tbsp unsalted pistachios;
· 2 tbsp. l chopped parsley;
· Breadcrumbs;
Vegetable oil;
· Salt, nutmeg, pepper mixture, sage - to taste.
How to cook:
1. Cauliflower is divided into small inflorescences. Boil until half cooked in salted water (15 minutes). Cool by draining the water. Puree in a blender.
2. Bulb and chop the onion and pistachios. Mix with parsley and sage.
3. All components of the dish are combined together. Knead homogeneous minced meat.
4. Hands make round cutlets, roll in breading and fry in vegetable oil on both sides.
Served cauliflower cutlets with minced meat with a side dish of mashed potatoes, salads from fresh vegetables. To complete the flavors, the dish can be poured with sour cream or cream sauce.
Cabbage cutlets with minced raw cauliflower and oatmeal
Another interesting recipe for cabbage cutlets. This time cauliflower is not boiled, but raw is used.
Take:
· 600 g of cauliflower;
· 300 g of pork and ground beef;
· 2 onions;
· 2 eggs;
4 cloves of garlic;
· 4 tbsp. l oatmeal;
Fresh dill and basil (to taste);
· Salt, ground pepper.
Sauce:
· 2 tbsp. l Greek yogurt;
1 tsp finely chopped dill;
· salt pepper.
How to cook:
1. The cabbage is washed, divided into inflorescences and finely cut. Puree in a blender.
2. Oatmeal grind in a coffee grinder.
3. Onion grated.
4. Vegetables, oatmeal flour, minced meat, eggs, chopped herbs, seasonings and spices are combined in one container. Knead the minced meat.
5. Cutlets are formed by hand and fried in vegetable oil in the usual way.
When serving, pour with sauce made from Greek yogurt, dill, pepper and a pinch of salt.
Fermented cabbage cutlets with minced meat
Those who have not tried such an unusual dish will be surprised how well sour cabbage goes well with minced meat. The taste of cutlets is original, but very pleasant. The dish is fragrant, juicy, nourishing.
Take:
250 g of sauerkraut cabbage;
550 g of ground beef;
35 ml of soy sauce;
1 tsp ground ginger;
120 g of onion;
3 cloves of garlic;
75 g of mayonnaise;
· 25 ml of sesame and sunflower oil.
How to cook:
1. Cabbage is squeezed out well from the brine, finely chopped.
2. Onion cut into small cubes. Garlic is squeezed through the garlic.
3. Sauerkraut is combined with ground beef, garlic, onions, ground ginger, half soy sauce. Knead homogeneous minced meat.
4. Form and fry in vegetable oil small cutlets. You need to fry for 3-4 minutes on each side - so sauerkraut will remain crispy, and the meat is juicy.
From the second part of soy sauce, mayonnaise and sesame oil make a sauce. Hot cabbage cutlets are watered with them when serving.
Baked Sauerkraut Chops with Minced Meat
This recipe will appeal to those who prefer low-calorie diet foods. Oven cutlets are cooked simply and very quickly.
Take:
250 g of sour cabbage;
500 g of chicken meat;
· Onion;
· 3 slices of white bread;
· Egg
· 2 tbsp. l sour cream;
· salt pepper;
Vegetable oil.
How to cook:
1. Bread is soaked in water.
2. Sauerkraut, onions and soaked bread scroll in a meat grinder.
3. Mix the resulting vegetable and chicken minced meat. They beat an egg, pepper, and salt to taste. Knead until smooth.
4. The baking dish is sprayed with vegetable oil. Spread the patties formed from the prepared minced meat into it.
5. Bake in an oven heated to 200 degrees for 20 minutes.
After sour cabbage cutlets with minced meat are removed from the oven, greased with sour cream and returned. Bake until cooked (7 minutes) in the same mode.
Useful Tips
To make cabbage patties even tastier, you can add crushed nuts, apple, pumpkin or sunflower seeds, caraway seeds to the minced meat. The taste of the dish will become richer and richer if cabbage with minced meat is combined with sweet pepper, kohlrabi, red sweet onion.
Aromatic herbs, seasonings and spices will give cabbage cutlets a delicious aroma.
For breading, you can use not only ground crackers, but also flour - wheat, corn, buckwheat.
Cabbage patties with minced meat are served with salads from fresh vegetables, stewed or baked vegetables, mashed potatoes, cereals, rice. If the dish is presented as an independent dish, various sauces are offered for cabbage cutlets - creamy, tomato, sour cream, mushroom, cheese.
Important! Cabbage cutlets with minced meat are served warm. Therefore, after frying (baking, stewing), the dish should rest for about 10 minutes in the container in which it was prepared.
