Classic Cabbage Rolls Recipe

Next fourth dimension you lot come across big, beautiful, light-green heads of cabbage inwards the market, select cause got of 1 upward as well as brand this delicious Classic Cabbage Rolls Recipe!

Who tin range the sack resist a pan total of tender cabbage leaves stuffed amongst rice, seasoned Blue Planet beef as well as caramelized onions simmered inwards a rich love apple tree sauce! This is a filling as well as delicious dish certain to delight your hungry family. Once assembled, you lot tin range the sack embrace as well as refrigerate until ready to bake. That makes this a peachy recipe for fellowship too! No demand to live inwards the kitchen upward to the concluding minute.

I honey these kinds of recipes, piece of cake to make, delicious as well as skilful plenty for entertaining. This Cabbage Rolls Recipe makes plenty to accept leftovers for a few lunches, or some other dinner the adjacent day. Cabbage rolls move along well, reheat beautifully, as well as the flavor merely keeps getting better.

Making cabbage rolls is a household unit of measurement affair.

While growing upward I recall my Aunt Libby ever made cabbage rolls when nosotros came for a visit; it was her go-to signature dish. All the ladies helped inwards the kitchen rolling upward cabbage rolls inwards assembly employment fashion, making to a greater extent than than plenty to feed our hungry crowd. They perfected the tuck, crimp as well as coil maneuver as well as inwards no fourth dimension nosotros were all stuffing our faces amongst her perfect piffling cabbage rolls. This was a favorite of my dad’s as well as he ever asked Aunt Libby if she would brand them for him again.

TIPS for making the stuffed cabbage rolls recipe:

The filling comes together speedily as well as easily, like to an piece of cake meatloaf. The sauce is super piece of cake to brand too. The cabbage leaves are the exclusively thing that demand a piffling finessing to instruct far piece of cake to coil upward the beef filling. Here are a few tips that volition assistance brand this recipe a breeze!

• Buy the biggest caput of cabbage you lot tin range the sack find.


• Look for a cabbage that is a piffling loose, amongst leaves that are piece of cake to pare off.


• Select a cabbage amongst plenty of night light-green leaves on the outer layers. These large light-green leaves brand the best rolls.


• If you lot tin range the sack exclusively honour modest tight cabbages, selection upward 2 as well as then you lot accept plenty of the bigger outer leaves to utilisation for rolling upward the filling.


• If you lot honour yourself amongst a lot of inner, lighter colored, modest leaves, they volition function merely fine but they demand to live cooked a piffling longer to brand them pliable as well as soft plenty for rolling.


• Don’t worry if each cabbage foliage is non the same size. Adjust the amount of filling as well as then you lot are able to coil it upward easily.


• Use toothpicks to secure the cabbage if needed on the smaller rolls.


• There are 2 unlike methods I recommend for preparing (precooking) the cabbage leaves. Core the cabbage as well as carefully pare off the leaves taking aid non to tear them. For this get-go method you lot tin range the sack boil the leaves for a few minutes inwards a stockpot of salted water. If you lot accept a difficult fourth dimension removing the tight leaves from the caput of cabbage, house the whole cored caput inwards a large mixing bowl covered amongst plastic wrap. Microwave for iii minutes on high until the outer leaves of cabbage are pliable as well as translucent. Carefully withdraw the wilted, outer leaves amongst tongs as well as repeat the procedure until you lot accept plenty for the recipe. Whichever method you lot use, brand certain you lot tin range the sack bend, as well as coil the leaves easily to shape the rolls.

Cabbage rolls tin range the sack live flora inwards many cultures.

Cabbage Rolls Recipes tin range the sack live flora all over the world. They’re real pop inwards Europe every bit good every bit mainland People's Republic of China as well as Iran. Cabbage rolls tin range the sack live made amongst beef, pork or lamb, as well as are sometimes seasoned amongst ginger, cinnamon as well as nutmeg. My Aunt Libby was of Lebanese descent where the beef as well as rice mixture is most popular. In our recipe the rich love apple tree sauce is a piffling sweetness as well as sour, for a lovely complex flavor as well as mild bite. I know you’re going to honey it too!

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Classic Cabbage Rolls Recipe

Prep Time

40 mins

Cook Time

1 hr

Total Time

1 hr 40 mins

 

Tender cabbage leaves stuffed amongst rice, seasoned Blue Planet beef as well as caramelized onions simmered inwards a rich love apple tree sauce

Course:

Main

Servings: 8 Servings

Author: Tricia

Ingredients

For the cabbage rolls:

• 
  16-18
  large cabbage leaves
  


• 
  2
  tablespoons
  vegetable oil
  


• 
  1 1/2
  pounds
  lean Blue Planet beef
  


• 
  1
  cup
  cooked rice
  


• 
  1
  large onion,
  chopped
  


• 
  1
  clove
  garlic,
  minced
  


• 
  1/2
  teaspoon
  crushed cherry pepper flakes
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  salt
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  pepper
  


• 
  1
  large egg,
  lightly beaten
  


• 
  1/2
  cup
  milk
  

For the sauce:

• 
  1
  15-ounce tin range the sack love apple tree sauce
  


• 
  1
  15-ounce tin range the sack diced tomatoes (do non drain)
  


• 
  1/4
  cup
  light chocolate-brown sugar
  


• 
  1/4
  cup
  white balsamic vinegar
  


• 
  1/4
  cup
  water
  


• 
  2
  tablespoons
  cornstarch mixed amongst 1/4 loving cup water
  


• 
  1/4
  cup
  chopped parsley leaves for garnish
  

Instructions

1. 
   
   Preheat oven to 375F.
   
   

To prepare the cabbage rolls:

1. 
   

   Heat a large pot of salted H2O over high rut until boiling. Drop the cabbage leaves, a few at a time, into the boiling water. Cover as well as laid upward for virtually iii minutes or until wilted as well as pliable. Remove amongst tongs to a strainer to drain. Repeat until all leaves are par-boiled. Remove the thick fundamental ribs past times cutting along both sides of the rib inwards a long narrow triangle. Discard ribs. Set leaves aside. (SEE NOTES  BELOW)

   
   


2. 
   

   Heat petroleum inwards a large ovenproof skillet (or Dutch oven) over medium-high rut until shimmering. Add the onion as well as laid upward until starting to caramelize, virtually five minutes. Add the garlic as well as crushed cherry pepper flakes as well as sauté for 30-seconds. Remove the skillet from the heat. Transfer one-half the onion to a large mixing bowl.

   
   


3. 
   
   Off heat, add together the Blue Planet beef, cooked rice, salt, pepper, egg as well as milk to the remaining onion mixture inwards the skillet. Stir amongst a wooden spoon to combine. Divide the Blue Planet beef as well as rice mixture evenly betwixt the xvi cabbage leaves. Overlap the cutting ends of the cabbage to forbid the filling from spilling out. Place the filling over the surface area that overlaps as well as crimp inwards the sides. Roll the foliage tightly around the filling to create a tidy roll. Place the cabbage roll, seam side down, inwards the at nowadays empty skillet, Dutch oven or baking dish. Repeat until all filling is used.
   
   

To prepare the sauce:

1. 
   
   In the mixing bowl amongst the remaining onions, add together the love apple tree sauce, diced tomatoes, chocolate-brown sugar, vinegar as well as water. Pour over the cabbage rolls. Cover the skillet amongst a lid or foil as well as bake until the sauce is bubbling as well as the rolls are heated through, virtually 45 minutes. Remove the lid as well as spoon some of the sauce over the cabbage rolls. Continue to bake, uncovered, for an additional fifteen minutes.
   
   


2. 
   
   Carefully withdraw the cabbage rolls to a serving plate. Put the skillet amongst the sauce on the stove overstep as well as rut on medium. Whisk together the cornstarch as well as H2O as well as slow add together to the sauce inwards the skillet. Heat until thickened. Pour the love apple tree sauce over the cabbage rolls as well as serve forthwith garnished amongst parsley.
   
   

Recipe Notes

• There are 2 unlike methods I tin range the sack recommend for preparing (precooking) the cabbage leaves. Core the cabbage as well as carefully pare off the leaves taking aid non to tear them. For this get-go method you lot tin range the sack boil the leaves for a few minutes inwards a stockpot of salted water. If you lot accept a difficult fourth dimension removing the tight leaves from the caput of cabbage, house the whole cored caput inwards a large mixing bowl covered amongst plastic wrap. Microwave for iii minutes on high until the outer leaves of cabbage are pliable as well as translucent. Carefully withdraw the wilted, outer leaves amongst tongs as well as repeat the procedure until you lot accept plenty for the recipe. You tin range the sack exercise 1 method or the other, or a combination of both. Whichever method you lot use, brand certain you lot tin range the sack curvature as well as coil the leaves easily to shape the rolls.

Here are a few to a greater extent than hearty household unit of measurement agency dinner recipes you lot mightiness enjoy:

Try our piece of cake Beef Stroganoff Recipe made amongst tender, quick-cooked strips of beef, sliced shallots, mushrooms as well as paprika simmered inwards a flavorful sauce of beef broth, dry out white vino as well as sour cream.  Serve over egg noodles, mashed potatoes or rice for an piece of cake company-worthy dish that comes together inwards nether an hour. Click HERE to instruct the recipe for Beef Stroganoff.

 

The Dublin Coddle is a delicious savory Irish Gaelic classic made amongst potatoes, onions, rashers (bacon) as well as bangers (sausages) amongst a piffling chicken broth as well as beer thrown in. This would also live peachy amongst cabbage too. Click HERE to instruct the recipe for Dublin Coddle.

 

Turkey Tetrazzini Recipe – seat your leftover turkey to function inwards this creamy, hearty casserole loaded amongst peas, carrots, Parmesan cheese as well as plenty of mushrooms. Click HERE to instruct the recipe for Turkey Tetrazzini.

 

Haha – my hubby flora this at the farmer’s marketplace position – what would you lot brand amongst all this cabbage? Cabbage rolls of course!

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Thanks as well as then much for stopping by! Tricia

Originally posted Oct 2012, updated Oct 2018

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