When preparing cabbage rolls, housewives use cabbage, which is one of the main ingredients of this dish.
For stuffed cabbage rolls you need boiled cabbage leaves. They are boiled in salted water in a large saucepan, then many people drain this water, but this would be one of the worst mistakes.
The trick is that you can't throw away the water in which the cabbage was boiled. You can use it to prepare another dish.
The water from the cabbage rolls can be used for the sauce.
How to make sauce
There is no clear recipe for making the sauce: everyone chooses their own proportions of ingredients: some like it hotter, others like it thinner.
The first thing to do is to save the cabbage broth, which we will use to make the sauce.
A small portion of cabbage rolls can be baked in the oven in sauce.
To prepare the sauce you will need: tomatoes, sour cream and cabbage broth.
Combine peeled tomatoes with sour cream. The ingredients can be mixed in a blender until a homogeneous sour cream-tomato mixture is obtained.
You need to add tomato paste, salt, spices to taste and pour this mixture over the cabbage rolls, then dilute with cabbage broth.
This sauce is incredibly tasty, it will suit both meatballs and cutlets. You can pour it over stuffed peppers, which will acquire a unique taste.
