Stuffed cabbage is the perfect homemade dish for a hearty family dinner.

INGREDIENTS

• 500 g of beef shovel

• 1 onion

• 1 carrot

• 0.5 cups of rice

• 1 head of cabbage

• salt and pepper to taste

• 3-4 tbsp. l. tomato paste

• 3-3.5 glasses of water

• vegetable oil

To prepare cabbage rolls, it is very important to choose cabbage correctly - the head should be medium in size, dense enough, but not rigid, otherwise the leaves will break. We used water for the sauce, but you can cook it from vegetable or meat broth. And to serve ready-made cabbage rolls, sour cream and any fresh herbs are ideal

Head cabbage peeled off the top leaves, then heat a large pot of water and head nips on the fork to dip it into boiling water for 3 minutes. Carefully take off the soft leaves from the cabbage, if the leaves are harder near the center - repeat the procedure with boiling water. Carrots of sodium on a large grater, chop onion. Heat the frying pan with vegetable oil and fry the carrots with onion until light golden.

In a large bowl, twist the beef through a meat grinder, add the fried carrots and onion, rice, salt and pepper to taste, carefully stir the minced meat. Spread the softened cabbage leaves on the table, add minced meat and roll rolls to the center of each sheet.

Rolls of cabbage leaves with minced meat are laid in a saucepan with thick walls with a base down. Mix in a bowl of water with tomato paste, salt and pepper to taste. Fill sauce with stuffed cabbage - their tops should remain uncovered, bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to a minimum and the carcasses cabbage under the lid for 45-50 minutes.

And our cabbage rolls are ready. Bon Appetit. There is not anything better than a home dish.