Author Notes
Around the new year I get nostalgic, especially for my Oma's cooking. She lived in a rent controlled apartment building along with many of her life-long friends for over 50 years. The whole building always smelt of cooking and mostly cabbage.
Stuffed cabbage rolls where my favourite. She never past on a recipe, and it's been many years since I have had them. Since grains don't do so well with my digestion I have substituted carrots for the rice, and everything else is fairly traditional about the recipe. —Sandra Ramacher
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Ingredients
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1
large cabbage
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2 pounds
minced meat
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2 cups
grated carrots
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2 teaspoons
mild paprika
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1 teaspoon
ground black pepper
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1 teaspoon
salt
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1
medium onion - chopped
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1
egg
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2 pounds
tomatoes
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4 cups
tomato sauce
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1 teaspoon
mild paprika
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1 tsp
salt
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1 teaspoon
ground black pepper
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1 tablespoon
honey
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1 cup
sauerkraut
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3
bay leaves
Directions
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Core the cabbage and remove outer leaves until you get to the pale green leaves.
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Place the cabbage with the cored end down into a double broiler filled with a little water.
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Simmer for 20-30 minutes until the outer leaves start to drop away from the cabbage.
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Remove the soft leaves and place cabbage back into the broiler until the rest of the leaves have become soft. You should be able to get 16 leaves.
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Slice the top off the thick middle stem of each leaf.
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Meanwhile, place the paprika, ground black pepper, salt, onion and egg into a food processor and process until the mixture becomes the consistency of a paste.
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Mix with the grated carrots into the minced meat.
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Divide into 16 equal portions and roll into the cabbage leaf.
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Chop up the left over cabbage and place into the bottom of a deep baking dish.
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Chop the tomatoes and place into a food processor with the tomato sauce, paprika, salt, pepper and honey and process until chopped up into a liquid sauce.
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Then combine with the sauerkraut and bay leaves.
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Place the first layer of cabbage rolls onto the layer of chopped up left over cabbage. Pour over half the sauce.
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Place another layer of cabbage rolls on top and pour over the rest of the tomato sauce.
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Cover the dish with foil.
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Place into pre-heated oven (340F/175C) for 2 hours. Take the dish out of the oven and let rest for 15 minutes before serving.
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