Quickly and easily soften cabbage for stuffed cabbage without boiling water

Do you like cabbage rolls?

Everyone in our family loves stuffed cabbage rolls. But I never liked to cook them. I always started to freak out if the leaves fell apart, broke. I tried to replace it with Chinese cabbage - I didn't really like the taste. The only way to soften cabbage leaves, so that they can be easily wrapped in stuffed cabbage, which I knew before, is just to scald the cabbage with boiling water.

No, I also know that you can freeze. But not every head of cabbage will still fit on the shelves in my freezer. The shelves are at a fixed level, they cannot be removed, especially if they are frozen. Small cabbage forks are not suitable for stuffed cabbage. Yes, and it takes a long time to wait for thawing and so on.

As for the boiling water... Pulling out a large head of boiling water is a whole problem! And with each layer of leaves, this procedure had to be repeated again. It is precisely because of such difficulties that I do not like to bother with cabbage rolls, despite my love for this dish.

I have been for many years, but only now I have been advised to "process" cabbage correctly. The fact is that my sister's mother-in-law stayed at home while my sister and I went shopping. They returned - and there the cabbage rolls are stewed. The sister says to Marina Ivanovna: “They are probably worn out! But thanks for the surprise! We love this dish very much. And I also have a sauce for stuffed cabbage, for the first time I cooked it myself and it turned out delicious. "

And the mother-in-law replies: “Why should I suffer? The usual recipe, nothing special. I cooked it like everyone else. " I was surprised and also hinted that I did not cook cabbage rolls only because of the difficulties with parsing and softening cabbage leaves. This is a whole epic with boiling water and butchering. And she answers me: “What do you mean? What boiling water? Right there the microwave is big, so even a large head of cabbage can easily fit in. " Here, it turns out, is the secret.

Now I often stew stuffed cabbage at home, especially in winter I really want it with my signature sauce. It is enough to put the cabbage in the microwave for 10 minutes, pull it out and just disassemble each leaf. Easy to wrap, most importantly - fast! I advise others to try it too.

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