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Cabbage Rolls
 
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Prep Time: 5 Minutes
Cook Time: 1 Minutes
Ready In: 6 Minutes
Servings: 5
Ingredients:
1 large white cabbage
water, salt 1 tsp/1 l
400 g minced lean pork or 400 g minced lean beef
1 onion
1/8 liter water (from cabbage cooking)
1/4 liter chopped cabbage
1/4 liter boiled rice
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon white pepper
1 teaspoon marjoram
1 -2 tablespoon syrup
butter or margarine
water (from cabbage cooking, for basting)
1/3 liter pan juices
2 tablespoons flour
cream
Directions:
1. Cut the stalk off the cabbage and cook the cabbage in salted water until the leaves are soft.
2. You can carefully loosen the outer leaves as they soften.
3. Lift the cooked cabbage onto a large plate to drain.
4. Loosen the leaves one by one and chop the small inner leaves for the filling.
5. Finely chop the onion and fry in small amount of oil until translucent but not brown.
6. Combine the meat, rice, chopped cabbage and seasonings into a smooth mixture.
7. If the mixture is too thick, add some more of the cabbage cooking water.
8. Flatten the cabbage leaves.
9. Lift a good tablespoonful of filling onto the leaf and roll it up tucking the edges round the mixture.
10. Place the rolls side by side in a baking dish, pour syrup and a little fat over them.
11. Bake the rolls for 1 hour at 200 °C.
12. Half way turn the rolls over and baste them every now and then with the cabbage water.
13. Strain the pan juices and thicken with flour mixed with water.
14. Add a little cream.
15. Serve the cabbage rolls with boiled potatoes and lingonberry purée.
By RecipeOfHealth.com