Description
Stuffed Cabbage Rolls are a comforting dish featuring seasoned meat and rice wrapped in tender cabbage leaves. This stuffed cabbage rolls recipe brings together homemade cabbage rolls golabki with rich tomato sauce for a satisfying meal. Perfect for family dinners and classic polish golumpki cabbage rolls lovers.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 head green cabbage
- 1 cup long grain white rice uncooked
- 1 pound lean ground pork or ground turkey
- ½ pound lean ground beef
- 2 small yellow onions diced
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- ½ teaspoon dried dill
- 3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley or 1 tablespoons dried parsley
- salt and black pepper to taste
- 1 (14.5 ounce each) can diced tomatoes with juices
- 1 egg
- 1 ¾ cups tomato sauce divided
- 1 (10.75 ounce each) can condensed tomato soup
Instructions
- Place cabbage leaves into boiling water for about 2 minutes until they soften, then set them aside to cool.
- Heat oven to 350°F.
- Prepare rice following package instructions but shorten cooking by 5 minutes to keep it slightly underdone. Set aside.
- In a skillet cook pork or turkey, beef, onions, garlic, and seasonings until meat is fully cooked and no pink remains. Drain excess fat. Stir in rice, diced tomatoes, ⅓ cup tomato sauce, and egg.
- Combine remaining tomato sauce with condensed tomato soup and spread a thin layer of this sauce in a 9×13 inch casserole dish.
- Trim thick stems from cabbage leaves then place about ¼ to ⅓ cup filling in the middle of each leaf. Fold sides over the filling and roll tightly seam side down into the pan. Repeat with all leaves and filling.
- Pour the remaining sauce over the rolled cabbage and cover tightly with foil. Bake for 75 to 90 minutes.
- Remove from oven and let stand for 15 minutes before serving.
Notes
- To separate cabbage leaves, cut approximately ¼ inch from the base and immerse the whole head in boiling water for 2 minutes
- Peel softened leaves and repeat until all leaves are removed
- Trim thick stems from boiled leaves
- For smaller leaves, overlap to fill even if uneven
- Leftover filling can be added to tomato soup or stuffed into zucchini or bell peppers
- Cabbage rolls freeze well before or after baking
- Prep Time: 45 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
- Category: Beef, Casserole, Dinner
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: Polish
Nutrition
- Calories: 488
- Sugar: 9g
- Sodium: 431mg
- Fat: 24g
- Saturated Fat: 9g
- Carbohydrates: 40g
- Fiber: 5g
- Protein: 25g
- Cholesterol: 108mg