Stuffed whole cabbage
Stuffed whole cabbage

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, stuffed whole cabbage. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Stuffed whole cabbage is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Stuffed whole cabbage is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook stuffed whole cabbage using 16 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Stuffed whole cabbage:
  1. Take 1 medium green cabbage
  2. Get 300 g minced meat (whatever meat you prefer, beef, lamb, turkey, chicken, sausages)
  3. Make ready 1/2 cup cooked rice
  4. Make ready 1 onion, chopped or grated
  5. Make ready 1 bell pepper, finely chopped
  6. Get 1/2 cup mixed herbs: mint, dill, parsley or coriander, finely chopped
  7. Prepare cumin, turmeric, paprika, salt and pepper
  8. Get Olive oil or any vegetable oil
  9. Get cheesecloth
  10. Make ready Ingredients for tomato sauce
  11. Take 300 g canned tomatoes
  12. Prepare 1 onion, finely chopped
  13. Get 3 tbsp white sugar
  14. Prepare 2 tbsp vinegar
  15. Prepare 1 1/2 cup water
  16. Get Oil

It also reheats well and is good cold. This doesn't have the usual tomato based sauce poured on top, but I have done it that way too and both ways are excellent! My good friend and accomplished amateur cook Jean-Michel Valette speaks fondly of his childhood days in France, when he often visited his grandmother. The dish he loved best was her stuffed whole cabbage.

Instructions to make Stuffed whole cabbage:
  1. Ingredients
  2. 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.
  3. Add water and Cook for 5 minutes and set aside.
  4. Bring salted water to a boil, and submerge whole cabbage for 6-7 minutes. Then peel the leaves.
  5. In a bowl, add minced meat, cooked rice, grated onion, chopped bell pepper and fresh herbs. Season with spices.
  6. Use your hand and mix all ingredients together.
  7. 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.
  8. Now, put 1/3 of meat mixture at the bottom of the bowl and spread the meat evenly..
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Gather ends of cheesecloth together, twist the cloth and squeeze it tightly.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.

Through trial and error, we came up with something close that makes Jean-Michel very happy. Read on for a perfect recipe to make on a cold weekend day. I was chatting with a friend of mine about cooking ….surprise….surprise…; she was telling me about an interesting dish her family and friends really enjoyed. Tuck in the edges of the leaves then tie and wrap tightly with cheesecloth. Cabbage leaves are wrapped around a beef and rice mixture, then baked in a sauce made from tomato soup in this old-time favorite.

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