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Traditional Cabbage Rolls with tomato sauce
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Old Fashioned Cabbage Rolls

These Old Fashioned Cabbage Rolls are a traditional Polish Recipe that makes the perfect comfort food. Tender cabbage is wrapped around seasoned meat and rice and topped with a homemade tomato sauce. 
Course Main Course
Cuisine Eastern European
Keyword cabbage, ground beef, rolls
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Servings 6 people
Calories 393kcal

Ingredients

  • 1 large head cabbage
  • 1/2 pound ground beef
  • 1/2 pound ground pork
  • 1 15 ounce can tomato sauce divided
  • 1 small onion chopped
  • 1/2 cup uncooked rice
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 14.5 ounce can diced tomatoes undrained
  • 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
  • 1/2 teaspoon sugar

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  • Cook the cabbage in boiling water until outer leaves pull away from head. Remove 12 large leaves from the head and set them aside for rolls. Finely chop the remaining cabbage and place it in the bottom of a 9x13 baking dish.
  • Combine the beef, pork, 1/2 cup tomato sauce, onion, rice, and salt in a large bowl. Mix well.
    Combine Filling ingredients
  • Cut out the thick vein from the cabbage leaf, making a V-shaped cut at the bottom of each leaf. Place around 1/4 cup of the meat mixture on a cabbage leaf.
    Place beef mixture in cabbage leaves.
  • Overlap the cut ends of the leaf and fold in the sides. Beginning from the cut end, roll up the cabbage leaf and place it on top of the chopped cabbage in the baking dish, seam side down. Repeat with remaining leaves.
    Roll Up cabbage rolls.
  • Combine the tomatoes, sugar, Italian seasoning, and remaining tomato sauce in a small bowl. Stir to mix.
    Combine Sauce ingredients
  • Pour the sauce over the rolls.
    Bake cabbage rolls in oven
  • Cover and bake until the cabbage rolls are tender, around 1 1/2 hours.
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Nutrition

Calories: 393kcal