5.0 from 3 votes
Cabbage Rolls
Cabbage Rolls - the recipe for a classic Eastern European dish.
Prep Time
1 hr
Cook Time
1 hr mins
Total Time
2 hrs 30 mins
Course:
Main Course
Cuisine:
Ukrainian
Ingredients
- 1 green cabbage
- 900 gms – 2 lbs. pork or ground pork
- 900 gms – 2 lbs. beef or ground beef
- 300 gms – 1½ cups dry rice I used long grain
- 2 yellow onions medium size
- 2 carrots medium size
- 90 ml – 6 tbsp olive oil or other vegetable oil, divided
- 5 garlic cloves
- 1 liter – 4 cups tomato puree or 4 tbsp of tomato paste
- 9 gms – 1½ tsp salt or to taste
- 45 gms – 3 tbsp sugar or to taste
- 8 gms – 2 tsp black pepper
- 3 bay leaves
Instructions
Rice:
Cabbage leaves:
Stuffing:
Tomato Sauce
Assembling
Notes
- Stuffed cabbage rolls are even better the day after. Some people like them browned-up in a skillet the next day.
- The pot with the stuffed cabbage rolls will keep in the fridge for several days. They also freeze very well.