Lasagna made from cabbage leaves with minced meat. Cabbage lasagna with minced meat and vegetables

It's no secret that traditional lasagna is a dish of Italian cuisine. After the conquest of Italy, lasagna became popular in many countries. To prepare classic lasagna, homemade pasta and fillings for every taste are used: from vegetables to minced meat.

From the name itself it becomes clear how cabbage lasagna differs from classic lasagna; instead of pasta sheets, we use cabbage leaves. Cabbage lasagna is much easier to prepare, and its taste is in no way inferior to traditional one. It is believed that cabbage lasagna was invented by the Slavic peoples, because it is so similar to cabbage rolls - a traditional dish in our area. Outwardly, they may not be at all similar, but the same ingredients are used. It is for this similarity that cabbage lasagna is popularly called lazy cabbage rolls.

Cabbage lasagna with minced meat is a dish that will not only please everyone at home and delight guests, but is also a healthy and very satisfying lunch or dinner. In this recipe, the set of products is designed for a mold measuring 18x25 cm (7-8 servings).

So, to prepare cabbage lasagna we will need:

Savoy, Peking or white cabbage - 6-7 leaves
Homemade minced meat – 600 g
Tomatoes – 4-5 pieces
Hard cheese– 200 g
Onion – 1 head
2 cloves garlic
Champignons - optional
Salt, pepper - to taste

For the sauce we need:

3 tbsp. flour
750 ml milk
Butter
1 small onion
Salt, pepper - to taste

Cooking steps

We start by preparing the cabbage leaves. To prevent the cabbage from becoming tough, the leaves should be thrown into boiling water for 3-4 minutes and then drained in a colander.
Then we move on to the filling. Remove the skins from the tomatoes and cut them into cubes; also finely chop the onion and garlic. Place the onion in a preheated frying pan and fry just until translucent, then add half the chopped garlic and tomatoes. Bring the mixture to a boil, add salt and pepper to taste and simmer with the lid closed over low heat for 20-25 minutes, do not forget to stir the sauce occasionally.
While the sauce for the filling is being prepared, we fry the minced meat in another frying pan and place it in a separate bowl. If you are using champignons in your recipe, then it’s time to chop them finely and fry them too. Mix the prepared minced meat and mushrooms in tomato sauce, add salt, pepper, chopped herbs and the remaining garlic, set the pan aside and proceed to preparing the sauce for the layer.
For the milk sauce, heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the finely chopped onion until soft. Then we add flour, mix thoroughly and, without stopping stirring, pour in the milk. Bring the sauce to a boil, cook for a few minutes until the sauce thickens slightly. Salt and pepper our sauce and mix again. To prevent foam from forming on the surface, put a small piece of butter in it.
Well, the final stage, perhaps the most enjoyable, is assembling our lasagna. Prepare cabbage lasagna for 45 minutes in the oven preheated to 180 degrees. Assembly begins by laying cabbage leaves on the bottom so that it is completely covered. Then the actions take place in the following sequence: grease the leaves with a small amount of milk sauce and lay out half of the minced meat, which, in turn, is also greased with sauce and sprinkled with grated cheese. We repeat the sequence: cabbage, sauce, minced meat, cheese, sauce. And the final touch: cover the top with the remaining cabbage, grease with sauce and cover with the remaining cheese.

In 45 minutes your lasagna will be ready. It is better to cut such a casserole when it has cooled down a little - otherwise there is a risk that all the beauty will fall apart. Cabbage lasagna with minced meat served with fresh vegetables and sour cream. If you love lasagna, then you will probably want to try the traditional recipe.

Boil the pasta in a large amount of salted water until al dente is ready - this is when the dough has a soft shell, but an uncooked core, and is slightly crunchy when you taste it. Place the minced meat in a heated frying pan and cook, stirring constantly, not allowing the meat to bake in lumps.
When the minced meat is almost ready add to it tomato paste diluted with boiled water cooled to room temperature. You can also use fresh tomatoes, previously rubbed through a metal sieve or tomato juice. At the end of cooking, sprinkle the meat filling with pepper and salt.
Cut the white cabbage into small strips, chop the onion into half rings. Fry vegetables on sunflower oil until soft. Grease the baking dish. Layer layers of lasagna sheets alternating the fillings - meat and vegetable.
Sprinkle the top layer of lasagna generously with grated Parmesan or other sharp cheese. Bake for 20 minutes in a preheated oven at 180 degrees. Lasagna with minced meat and cabbage is good both hot and on the second day, when the dish is soaked in juice.

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SUPERHOSTESS.RU continues to share recipes with you low-calorie dishes. Everyone in my family loves cabbage rolls, but I don’t always have time to cook them. That's why I make super lazy cabbage rolls or cabbage lasagna for my loved ones. It cooks quite quickly, besides, it looks beautiful and is eaten just as quickly. Let's cook cabbage casserole with meat together.

Cabbage lasagna - recipe

Required ingredients:

Head of cabbage;

One kilogram of minced meat;

Two or three onions;

Five pieces of tomatoes;

A glass of rice;

Three tablespoons of sour cream;

Salt, pepper, spices to taste.

First of all, let's prepare the tomato sauce. To do this, make small cuts on the tomatoes and pour boiling water over them for five minutes. Then we'll add salt hot water and pour over the tomatoes cold water. After this, the tomatoes will be quickly peeled. Cut the tomatoes into small cubes and simmer in a frying pan until our tomato sauce becomes homogeneous. Salt and pepper to taste, add a teaspoon of sugar and your favorite spices. I really like dried basil and paprika, you can add finely chopped bell pepper.

Now we disassemble the cabbage into leaves. You can use any cabbage for cabbage lasagna: white cabbage, Peking cabbage or, like me, Savoy cabbage. I like savoy cabbage because the leaves come off easily. Boil cabbage leaves in plenty of water for 3-4 minutes and cool slightly. While the cabbage leaves are cooking, prepare the minced meat.

Add to minced meat boiled rice, finely chopped onion, salt, pepper, favorite spices and mix it well. Combine tomato sauce with sour cream. You can grease each layer of our cabbage lasagna with it, or you can add it to the minced meat like I did and mix well. This will make it easier and faster to distribute it over the cabbage leaves. Now take a deep form and lay out a layer of cabbage leaves, then distribute the minced meat with tomato sauce and sour cream, then add a layer of cabbage leaves.

We do this with all layers, the top layer should be cabbage.

Grease the top of our cabbage lasagna with a small amount of sour cream and tomato sauce. Of course in classic recipe You need to sprinkle each layer with grated cheese, but we are preparing diet cabbage lasagna. I assure you that this dish will be very tasty even without cheese. Bake lasagna in a preheated oven for thirty to forty minutes. Then we let it brew for about ten minutes, cut it and serve it.

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Cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes.

Preparation time: 5 min.

Number of servings: 8 pcs.

Type of cuisine: European

Type of dish: main courses

The recipe is suitable for:
dinner.

Ingredients for the recipe “Cabbage lasagna with minced meat”:

Lasagna
White cabbage 700 g Onion 1 pc. Refined olive oil 2 tbsp. l. Ground black pepper 0.3 tsp. Fresh parsley 15 g Tomatoes in own juice 400 g Minced pork 600 g Salt 1 tsp Hard cheese 200 g

Bechamel sauce
Butter 40 g Milk 800 ml Wheat flour 50 g Ground nutmeg 1 tsp Salt 1 pinch

For greasing the mold
Butter 1 tbsp. l.

How to cook cabbage lasagna with minced meat and bechamel sauce

I suggest making cabbage lasagna. The dish is hearty and nutritious, so all men in your house should like it. Although women and children will also enjoy this lasagna with pleasure.

Cabbage lasagna is a hybrid of cabbage rolls and lasagna. The result is very delicious dish. Instead of young cabbage, you can use Peking or Savoy cabbage.

Preparation of the recipe “Cabbage lasagna with minced meat”:

Step 1

For work we will need young cabbage, cheese, minced meat, tomatoes in their own juice, parsley, salt, pepper, olive oil, onion.

Step 2

Peel the onion (1 pc.), cut into cubes and fry in oil (2 tbsp.) until soft. Add tomatoes in their own juice (400 g). Cook for 10 minutes.

Step 3

Separately, fry the minced meat (600 g) until cooked, season with salt and pepper to taste.

Step 4

Combine minced meat, onion-tomato mixture and chopped parsley (15 g).

Step 5

Prepare Bechamel sauce.

Bechamel sauce

Step 6

Wash the cabbage leaves and boil in boiling water for 2-3 minutes until soft. Cut off hard veins.

Step 7

Grease a baking dish with butter. Place a few cabbage leaves on the bottom of the pan and brush them with some of the sauce. Place some of the filling on top.

This is certainly not traditional Italian lasagne. In it, dough sheets are replaced with cabbage leaves. It has less calories. But nevertheless, the result is a juicy, aromatic, satisfying and very tasty dish. And another advantage of cabbage lasagna is its ease of preparation.

To prepare cabbage lasagna with minced meat, we will need the products indicated in the list.

Separate the cabbage leaves from the cabbage. If the sheet breaks, it's not a big deal. We cut off thickenings from the leaves.

Place the leaves in boiling water for a couple of minutes, then remove.

Place the minced meat in a frying pan with vegetable oil and fry, stirring constantly so that there are no lumps.

Finely chop the onion.

We send it to fry with the minced meat.

Let's start preparing the sauce. Melt the butter in a frying pan, add flour and fry, stirring, until the flour changes color slightly.

We get a thick oily mass.

Add milk, nutmeg to it and mix quickly with a whisk so that there are no lumps.

Add half the cheese to the sauce, which we first grate on a medium grater.

Add tomato sauce and garlic squeezed through a press to the minced meat.

Let's start assembling the lasagna. Grease the baking dish with vegetable oil. Line with cabbage leaves. Coat the cabbage leaves with sauce. Turn on the oven to warm up to 180 degrees.