Recipe of Award-winning Stuffed whole cabbage

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, stuffed whole cabbage. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Stuffed whole cabbage is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Stuffed whole cabbage is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook stuffed whole cabbage using 16 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Stuffed whole cabbage:

1. Take 1 medium green cabbage
2. Prepare 300 g minced meat (whatever meat you prefer, beef, lamb, turkey, chicken, sausages)
3. Make ready 1/2 cup cooked rice
4. Take 1 onion, chopped or grated
5. Get 1 bell pepper, finely chopped
6. Take 1/2 cup mixed herbs: mint, dill, parsley or coriander, finely chopped
7. Get cumin, turmeric, paprika, salt and pepper
8. Take Olive oil or any vegetable oil
9. Get cheesecloth
10. Prepare Ingredients for tomato sauce
11. Make ready 300 g canned tomatoes
12. Make ready 1 onion, finely chopped
13. Get 3 tbsp white sugar
14. Make ready 2 tbsp vinegar
15. Prepare 1 1/2 cup water
16. Get Oil

Steps to make Stuffed whole cabbage:

1. Ingredients
2. First of all we prepare tomato sauce. Heat the oil in a pan and saute chopped onion for until soft. Add the tomatoes, sugar, vinegar.
3. Add water and Cook for 5 minutes and set aside.
4. Bring salted water to a boil, and submerge whole cabbage for 6-7 minutes. Then peel the leaves.
5. In a bowl, add minced meat, cooked rice, grated onion, chopped bell pepper and fresh herbs. Season with spices.
6. Use your hand and mix all ingredients together.
7. Now, we need a large bowl lined with cheese cloth to hold whole cabbage together when once you layered to set. - What we do for the first layer is: put one large leave at the bottom of the bowl, then arrange largest cabbage leaves, overlapping (as you see in the photos) so they line the bowl.
8. Now, put 1/3 of meat mixture at the bottom of the bowl and spread the meat evenly..
9. Then, put couple of cabbage leaves top of stuffing to separate the layers. Make sure that the leaves completely cover the stuffing and sides of the the bowl.
10. Again, put some more meat mixture over the new layer of leaves and spread it. Use your hand or a spoon and press the meat down and continue the layering process until meat mixture is used up.
11. Finally cover the stuffing with some blanched leaves and tucking all of leaves down the sides of the bowl, as you see in the photos.
12. Gather ends of cheesecloth together, twist the cloth and squeeze it tightly.
13. Take the whole stuffed cabbage and drop it into the tomato sauce. Cover the pot with a lid and allow to cook for 1 hour over medium heat.
14. You may cook the stuffed cabbage in the oven. In this case, after wrapping the cabbage with cheese cloth, cover it with foil and pop it into the oven at 175C degree and cook it for about 2 hours.Take stuffed whole cabbage out of the pot and place it in a serving plate.
15. Let it cool a little bit and remove the cheese cloth. Cut the stuffed cabbage into the pieces and serve it with mixture of yogurt+ garlic or with tomato sauce or mustard sauce.

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