Cabbage Rolls

Name: Cabbage Rolls
Prep time: 2 h 30 min
Cook time: 2 h 30 min
Total time: 2 h 30 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 8 bay leaves; 3 Tbsps butter; 794 grams whole peeled tomatoes, with liquid; 737 grams condensed tomato soup; 2 teaspoons dried dill weed; 454 grams extra-lean ground beef; 4 cloves garlic, minced; 1 teaspoons ground black pepper; 2 onions, chopped; 227 grams pork sausage; 177 milliliters uncooked long-grain rice; 1 teaspoons salt; 2 large heads savoy cabbage; 237 milliliters water; 1 teaspoons white sugar

Cabbage Rolls is a gluten free recipe with 12 servings. This recipe covers 25% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This main course has 289 calories, 17g of protein, and 10g of fat per serving. If you have water, garlic, rice, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the water you could follow this main course with the Watermelon-Peach Slushies as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 2 hours and 30 minutes.

Instructions

Wash rice thoroughly. In a medium saucepan, combine 2 cups rice and 4 cups water. Bring to boil; reduce heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes or until all of the water is absorbed.

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Water

Rice

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Sauce Pan

In the meantime, remove the core from the cabbages using a thin, long knife.

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Cabbage

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Knife

Place 1 cabbage in a microwave proof container with a lid with core side down.

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Cabbage

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Microwave

Pour 1/2 cup water into the container with the cabbage, cover and microwave on HIGH (full power) for 10 minutes. Carefully turn cabbage over and cook covered for an additional 10 minutes. When cabbage is cooked, let sit until it is cool enough to handle. Separate leaves carefully, removing any tough ribs. Cook the second cabbage in the same manner.

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Cabbage

Water

Ribs

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Microwave

Divide chopped onions in half.

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Onion

Saute one half of the onions in 3 tablespoons butter; cook just until translucent (do not brown). In a large mixing bowl, mix together both the cooked and uncooked rice, cooked and uncooked onions, ground beef, pork sausage, garlic, dill weed, salt, black pepper and sugar and mix well to blend.

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Black Pepper

Pork Sausage

Ground Beef

Dill

Butter

Garlic

Onion

Sugar

Rice

Salt

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Mixing Bowl

Spoon about 2 tablespoons of mixture onto each cabbage leaf. Bring one end of cabbage leaf over mixture, roll and tuck ends in to prevent any filling from falling out.

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Cabbage

Roll

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Prepare two 9x13 inch casserole dishes by placing some left over cabbage leaves in bottom of each. Arrange cabbage rolls in a single layer tight against each other.

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Cabbage

Roll

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Casserole Dish

Oven

In a food processor or blender, process condensed tomato soup and tomatoes.

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Condensed Tomato Soup

Tomato

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Food Processor

Blender

Pour tomato mixture over the cabbage rolls until just covered.

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Cabbage

Tomato

Roll

Place 4 bay leaves on top of sauce in each dish. Cover each dish tightly with aluminum foil.

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Bay Leaves

Sauce

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Aluminum Foil

Bake in a preheated 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven for 2 hours. Once cooked, remove the dishes from the oven and let cool for 15 minutes before removing aluminum foil.

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Oven

Serve hot.