Saturday, April 25, 2009

Stuffed Cabbage/Sarmale

Ingredients
1 large soured cabbage
1 ¾ ground meat pork, beef or mixture
4 big onions chopped

1 cup rice

3 Tbl lard (oil can be also used)

5 tomatoes or 1 cup tomato bullion

salt and pepper for taste

1 qt sour cream

Preparation

Saute onions with oil, meat, salt, pepper, add rice and mix everything well.
Core the cabbage with a knife. Separate the cabbage leaves. Place the mixed in each cabbage leave and roll in. Pile the rolls in pot, after you finish with the rolls cover with a layer of julienned cabbage, then a layer of sliced tomatoes or bullion. Add water over the rolls and place the pot in the oven keep until the water reduce and the rolls are boiled. Serve with sour cream and polenta.

1 comment:

  1. Polish named this stuffed cabbage rolls Golabki, which mean "little pigeons". These stuffed cabbage rolls simmered in a tomato sauce are popular throughout Eastern Europe. In Russia are known as golubtsy.
    In Ukraine they are called holubtsi. Hungarians refer to them as töltött káposzta.

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