Stuffed Cabbage Rolls
Author: Kristen Barkley
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Serves: 4
Tender cabbage leaves filled with delicious ground beef, cauliflower rice and tomatoes.
Ingredients
- Cabbage Rolls
- 1 large head green cabbage
- 2 lbs. ground beef
- 1 egg
- 1 medium onion, grated or minced
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 t salt
- 1 t black pepper
- ½ c cauliflower rice
- Tomato Sauce
- 2 T butter
- 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
- 1 medium red onion, chopped (medium dice)
- 1 jar Jovial diced tomatoes 18 oz
- 1 jar Jovial crushed tomatoes 18 oz
- ½ c red wine
- 2 T lemon juice
- 1 T honey
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Chopped parsley, for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven To 350 F
- Prepare your cabbage leaves. This is time consuming and a tester of patience. Cut around the bottom of the core. Carefully peel Leaves away from core and remove.
- Place a few leaves at a time in hot boiling water. About 2 minutes each. You want them soft but also able to hold some shape.
- Remove from pot and place in bowl filled with cold water. Allow them to rest there until your ready to roll.
- Mix beef, egg, onion, garlic, salt, pepper and cauliflower rice. You're going to have to get your hands dirty to blend this well and fill cabbage leaves.
- Now you can start on tomato sauce. In hot skillet with melted butter, saute onion and garlic for 3 minutes on medium-high heat.
- Add red wine and allow to simmer for 3 minutes. Add diced tomatoes, crushed tomatoes, lemon juice, honey, salt and pepper.
- Bring to bowl and then turn down to simmer for 10 minutes.
- Lay a Cabbage leaf out flat on a cutting bored. Make sure what would have been the inside of the cabbage leaf is right side up towards the sky, and the core is pointing towards you.
- Take ⅔ cup meat and roll into a cylinder and place an inch above bottom of cabbage leaf. Roll from bottom of leaf. Tuck in sides of leaf as you go.
- Roll up and place in large baking dish 13x9 lined with Tomato Sauce. Repeat until Dish filled. Usually 8-10 large stuffed leaves.
- If you have left over meat you can brown it in a skillet and add to tomato sauce.
- Spoon tomato sauce over the top and Cover casserole dish with foil. Cook for 2 hrs. Remove and serve with cauliflower dill mashers