Description
Tasty and nutritious a great dish to warm the tummy in the winter!
Ingredients
- Onions
- Carrot
- Garlic
- Beef Stock
- White Wine
- Tomato Sauce
- Dried Thyme
- Salt And Pepper
- Green Cabbage
- Vegetable Oil
- Ground Marjoram
- Lean Ground Beef
- Ground Lean Pork
- Rice
Instructions
- Combine half the onion and garlic, all of the carrot and 1 cup of stock in a large saucepan
- Bring to a boil
- Reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, until the vegetables are very soft
- Add remaining stock, the wine, tomato sauce, 1 teaspoon thyme and 1 / 2 teaspoon salt
- Simmer over very low heat
- Meanwhile, prepare the cabbage rolls
- Put the whole head of cabbage in a large pot of boiling water
- Boil for about 5 minutes until leaves are loosened
- Remove cabbage and carefully peel off 12 leaves
- Return these to the boiling water and cook until soft, about 5 more minutes
- Remove from pot and drain carefully so they remain whole
- Chop enough of the remaining cabbage to make 1 cup
- Heat oil in a frying pan over medium heat
- Add remaining onion and cook until soft, about 5 minutes
- Add remaining garlic and cook 1 minute
- Add 1 / 2 teaspoon thyme and the marjoram and stir briefly
- Combine this mixture with the ground meats, rice, and chopped cabbage
- To this add 1 teaspoon salt, 1 / 4 teaspoon pepper and 1 / 2 teaspoon thyme
- Form meat mixture into 12 ovals
- Cut large rib from each of the 12 cabbage leaves
- Put 1 meat oval on each leaf and roll up half way
- Fold 2 ends in and finish rolling place in large casserole dish
- Cover with tomato sauce mixture and cover with foil
- Bake in 350 degree oven for about an hour