Cabbage rolls stuffed with rice and minced meat: only 90 calories!

The ingredients

For about fifteen rolls you will need: 450 grams of minced meat; a cauliflower; one egg, one cup of cooked rice; a spoonful of parsley; a teaspoon of chopped garlic; half a chopped onion; half a teaspoon of black pepper; three quarters of a teaspoon of salt.

For the tomato sauce: 425 grams of tomato sauce; 400 grams of diced peeled tomatoes; two tablespoons of olive oil; two tablespoons of brown sugar; a teaspoon of minced garlic; a teaspoon of red wine vinegar; half a chopped onion; enough pepper and salt.

The preparation

The first thing is to clean the cauliflower by removing the hard and leathery part underneath, the one where the leaves gather; then you wash the leaves you have obtained and blanch them for five minutes in a steam pot (in which the water generates the steam that cooks the food).

Then you heat some oil in a non-stick pan and brown some onion: fry it for four minutes, then add the chopped garlic and fry it for half a minute or so.

Then add the peeled tomatoes, tomato sauce, salt and pepper, then mix and boil for a couple of minutes, then add the brown sugar and vinegar and boil everything over a low heat. for about ten minutes, stirring occasionally.

Meanwhile, place the minced meat in a bowl with the onion, rice, salt, pepper, garlic, parsley and egg, then mix it together with a wooden spoon.

Once this is done, remove the stem from the cauliflower leaves and lay them out on a cutting board, after which they are stuffed with a generous spoonful of minced meat and rolled up like a “cannoli”.

At that point you take a baking dish, place a layer of sauce on it and place the rolls on it, which are then covered with more sauce.

The last operation is to line the surface of the pan with aluminum foil and put everything in the oven at 180 degrees for about an hour and twenty.

Enjoy your meal!

Preparation time: twenty minutes
Cooking time: approximately one hour and 40
Total time: 2 hours
Portions: fifteen rolls
Calories: 90 per roll