Instead of cooking stewed cabbage with meatballs, why not add the leaves themselves to the stuffing. Due to the softness of the cabbage leaf, the meatballs are very juicy and tender.
A recipe for meatballs with cabbage
Ingredients:
- forcemeat (pork + beef) - 500 g;
- cabbage - 1/3 head;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- onion -1 pcs .;
- egg - 1 piece;
- tomato paste - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- flour - 2 tsp.
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Preparation
Before cooking meatballs with cabbage, lettuce is shredded and let in a frying pan with grated carrots and ground with onions.
Mince mixed with beaten egg, salt and pepper, carefully beat off until soft. Stew cabbage is added to the meat and is formed from a mixture of meatballs.
In a frying pan, we heat the butter, fry the meatballs until it turns brown. Tomato paste is bred in a glass of water, add flour and pour sauce meatballs. Stew the dish on a small fire for 15-20 minutes.
Chicken meatballs with cabbage and rice
Ingredients:
- chicken mince - 500 g;
- cabbage - 1/2 head;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- onions - 1 pc .;
- egg - 1 piece;
- boiled rice - half a century;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- sour cream - 150 g;
- water - 1 item;
- flour - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- vegetable oil for frying.
Preparation
Minced meat is repeatedly passed through a meat grinder along with onions and cauliflower. Add to the mixture of meat and vegetables half of a chicken egg, boiled rice, salt and pepper. With wet hands, we form small meatballs from 1-2 tablespoons of minced meat.
On vegetable oil, we spread the grated carrots and a little chopped onions. On top of the carrots put the formed meatballs and pour sauce from the water, flour and sour cream. Extinguish chicken meatballs for about 25-30 minutes. If you cook meatballs with cabbage in a multivark, then set the mode "Quenching" for 1 hour. We serve a dish, decorated with greens with any side dish.