Stuffed whole cabbage. My husband's great about trying new recipes—like this one I experimented with before getting just right! This twist on cabbage rolls might sound like a lot of work but is quite easy and makes for a great presentation. Place the whole stuffed cabbage in pot in the sauce.
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Cove opening in cabbage with reserved cabbage leaves.
You can cook Stuffed whole cabbage using 16 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Stuffed whole cabbage
- Prepare 1 of medium green cabbage.
- It's 300 g of minced meat (whatever meat you prefer, beef, lamb, turkey, chicken, sausages).
- It's 1/2 cup of cooked rice.
- You need 1 of onion, chopped or grated.
- It's 1 of bell pepper, finely chopped.
- You need 1/2 cup of mixed herbs: mint, dill, parsley or coriander, finely chopped.
- You need of cumin, turmeric, paprika, salt and pepper.
- You need of Olive oil or any vegetable oil.
- Prepare of cheesecloth.
- It's of Ingredients for tomato sauce.
- It's 300 g of canned tomatoes.
- You need 1 of onion, finely chopped.
- It's 3 tbsp of white sugar.
- You need 2 tbsp of vinegar.
- You need 1 1/2 cup of water.
- You need of Oil.
Rach takes stuffed cabbage to a level that'll blow your mind! Stuffed Whole Cabbage is one main dish that is particularly enjoyed. A complete meal in itself, this is a good option to prepare. Stuffed Cabbage Rolls are a dish consisting of blanched cabbage leaves wrapped around a variety of fillings.
Stuffed whole cabbage step by step
- Ingredients.
- First of all we prepare tomato sauce. Heat the oil in a pan and saute chopped onion for until soft. Add the tomatoes, sugar, vinegar..
- Add water and Cook for 5 minutes and set aside..
- Bring salted water to a boil, and submerge whole cabbage for 6-7 minutes. Then peel the leaves..
- In a bowl, add minced meat, cooked rice, grated onion, chopped bell pepper and fresh herbs. Season with spices..
- Use your hand and mix all ingredients together..
- Now, we need a large bowl lined with cheese cloth to hold whole cabbage together when once you layered to set. What we do for the first layer is: put one large leave at the bottom of the bowl, then arrange largest cabbage leaves, overlapping (as you see in the photos) so they line the bowl..
- Now, put 1/3 of meat mixture at the bottom of the bowl and spread the meat evenly...
- Then, put couple of cabbage leaves top of stuffing to separate the layers. Make sure that the leaves completely cover the stuffing and sides of the the bowl..
- Again, put some more meat mixture over the new layer of leaves and spread it. Use your hand or a spoon and press the meat down and continue the layering process until meat mixture is used up..
- Finally cover the stuffing with some blanched leaves and tucking all of leaves down the sides of the bowl, as you see in the photos..
- Gather ends of cheesecloth together, twist the cloth and squeeze it tightly..
- Take the whole stuffed cabbage and drop it into the tomato sauce. Cover the pot with a lid and allow to cook for 1 hour over medium heat..
- You may cook the stuffed cabbage in the oven. In this case, after wrapping the cabbage with cheese cloth, cover it with foil and pop it into the oven at 175C degree and cook it for about 2 hours.Take stuffed whole cabbage out of the pot and place it in a serving plate..
- Let it cool a little bit and remove the cheese cloth. Cut the stuffed cabbage into the pieces and serve it with mixture of yogurt+ garlic or with tomato sauce or mustard sauce..
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Why not stuff the whole darned cabbage instead! Now I know you're likely thinking it must be really hard to. Immerse the head of cabbage in the boiling water for a few minutes, peeling off each leaf with tongs as soon as it s flexible. Using a potato peeler gouge out some of the stem from the cabbage. Whole Stuffed Cabbage Recipe. by CookEatShare Cookbook.