Golabki (Stuffed Cabbage Rolls)

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Description

Cabbage leaves are stuffed with ground beef, rice, then simmered in tomato soup. Works great in the oven or a slow cooker. Serve with pan juices and a drizzle of sour cream, or mix the pan juices with sour cream and ladle it over the cabbage rolls. Also, good with mashed potatoes and cucumber and sour cream salad. Cabbage rolls freeze well before or after cooking.

Ingredients

  • 1 head cabbage, cored
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 1 large onion, chopped
  • 1 pound ground beef
  • ½ pound ground pork
  • 1 ½ cups cooked rice
  • 1 teaspoon finely chopped garlic
  • 1 teaspoon salt, plus more to taste
  • ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper, plus more to taste
  • 3 (10.75 ounce) cans condensed tomato soup
  • 2 (12 fluid ounce) cans tomato juice, or more to taste
  • ½ cup ketchup

Instructions

  1. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Place cabbage head into water
  2. cover pot
  3. and cook until cabbage leaves are slightly softened enough to remove from head
  4. 3 minutes. Remove cabbage from pot and let cabbage sit until leaves are cool enough to handle
  5. about 10 minutes.
  6. Remove 18 whole leaves from the cabbage head
  7. cutting out any thick tough center ribs. Set whole leaves aside. Chop the remainder of the cabbage head and spread it in the bottom of a casserole dish.
  8. Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir onion in hot butter until tender
  9. 5 to 10 minutes. Cool.
  10. Stir onion
  11. beef
  12. pork
  13. rice
  14. garlic
  15. 1 teaspoon salt
  16. and 1/4 teaspoon pepper together in a large bowl.
  17. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
  18. Place about 1/2 cup beef mixture on a cabbage leaf. Roll cabbage around beef mixture
  19. tucking in sides to create an envelope around the meat. Repeat with remaining leaves and meat mixture. Place cabbage rolls in a layer atop the chopped cabbage in the casserole dish; season rolls with salt and black pepper.
  20. Whisk tomato soup
  21. tomato juice
  22. and ketchup together in a bowl. Pour tomato soup mixture over cabbage rolls and cover dish wish aluminum foil.
  23. Bake in the preheated oven until cabbage is tender and meat is cooked through
  24. about 1 hour.

Prep Time: 30 mins

Cook Time: 1 hr 10 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 50 mins

Servings: 8

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