I was taking my morning walk through my garden's and realized that my Cabbage is ready to harvest, so I decided tonight for supper I was going to make Homemade Cabbage Rolls, with Green Beans and a Broccoli Sunrise Salad. This Post will reveal my grandmother's simple recipe for Homemade Cabbage Rolls. The recipe is 60 years old and first time sharing with the outside world.
First you will need the ingredients:
Ground Pork only I know many use both ground beef and pork mix but I just use ground Pork.
Once I have my ground pork in the pan I start adding 1/4 cup of fresh Garlic diced up fine, 1/3 cup of white onions, 1/3 cup of Green Peppers, and 1/4 cup of Celery -ALL these ingredients from my garden.
Can't forget the Salt and Pepper. I use only Sea Salt.
While your Pork is cooking you will want to put your regular non sticky white rice on to boil, you will need 2 cups.
Then while your Pork and Rice are cooking, You will need to all important Cabbage to be boiling to become soft to release it's leaves with ease. Approximately 30 mins on medium High.
Once the Pork with all the vegetables and Garlic are done browning, you will want to add it to your cooked rice. Mix it all up.
Then comes the fun stuff. Your Cabbage should be just about ready so remove the cabbage from heat and just run a little cold water in the pot so it is cool enough to the touch. Then you will want to gently roll or pull off a leave and lay in flat and fill it with the pork/ rice mixture just about a spoonful and a quarter. Then you will want to fold the two ends into the middle and wrap the sides around and lay it flat in a baking dish, like a Lasagna dish.
Once you have filled the dish with the cabbage rolls, then grab your favorite tomato sauce or stewed tomatoes. and pour the entire can all over the top as I have started to do in the picture.
Then you will want to place Aluminum foil over the top so as to not dry them out, and place it in the oven for 25 minutes on 350 degrees, and voila, you have homemade Cabbage Rolls.
It was really nice serving them with these wonderful green beans.
Hope you guys will try this recipe.
Happy Trails