Another one of my favorite recipes from my Grandma is Cabbage Roll
I used to call it "Pigs in a Blanket" but my grandmother said that is not what we were eating.😆 Sometimes I called it that just to irritate her. She still loved me.
Here are the ingredients:
- Head of green cabbage
- Large pot of boiling water
- 2 lbs of ground beef/turkey
- 1 cup of white long-grain rice, cooked (rice should double in quanity once cooked)
- 1 large can of tomato sauce
- One small onion, chopped into very small pieces
Start by browning the ground beef. Ground turkey works, as well. Season the ground beef/turkey with salt and black pepper. Add the chopped onion and cook it until the onions are starting to get soft.
Cook the rice.
Mix the ground beef/turkey, rice and chopped onion together.
Boil individual large leaves of cabbage, until tender. It should turn a bright green color
Without burning your fingers. Roll the cabbage closed and put them in the pan with the edges down so that the ground beef/rice mixture will stay inside while the dish cooks.
Once you use up all the ground beef and rice mixture, pour the tomato sauce over the cabbage rolls. Err on the side of "enough sauce" other wise the cabbage leaves will get tough in the oven.
Bake the cabbage rolls in a 350 degree oven for 30-40 minutes. The tomato sauce should be bubbling and the edges of the cabbage golden brown.
Carefully remove the rolls from the baking dish. You will want a spatula about the widith of the rolls. Don't be alarmed if some of the ground beef/rice mixture slips out.
Cabbage rolls is good with crusty whole wheat bread or my favoite, Knfela (German Dumplings and Potatoes). My grandmother would also serve a green leafy salad with the cabbage rolls.
As a kid my favorite thing was to eat the extra ground beef/rice that was left in the pan. So yummy!!
Beware if you under-cook the cabbage in the boiling water or in the oven, the cabbage can be tough.
Sehr gut!!!
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