Perfect cabbage rolls every time

[selzer]

1 medium head of Cabbage -- cut the core out and boil it until soft, about 12-14 minutes. Use cold water to cool it down.

Take 1 cup rice, and two cups of water and cook it in a pot for 20 minutes -- use the real stuff, not the instant stuff.

Add cooked rice to the following:
3# ground chuck
1# Bob Evans Pork Sausage -- original
3 eggs
3 small onions, chopped up small
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/2 can (8 ounce) tomato sauce (plain)

Take the other 1/2 can of tomato sauce and mix with 1 can Cambell's Tomato Soup, and one can water, stir until it is not lumpy and set aside.

Take a jar of sour kraut and fill the bottom of a cassarole with sour kraut, save at least as much for on top.

Peel pieces of cabbage and make little kapustas. Put in empty cassarole, and put some on top of the sour kraut. Fill each cassarole with kapustas. Add sour kraut to the top of the sour kraut one. Add tomato soup/sauce mixture to the other cassarole, cover the cabbages, with the juice and fill but do not let over flow. The top layer does not have to lay in sauce.

Cover the cassaroles and cook at 300 - 325 for 2 hours. My mother's oven is low so I cooked at 325 for 1.5 hours and then down to 300 for the remaining half.

Serve with real mashed potatoes, and corn.

Enjoy.

Squish -- with your hands

add 1/2 cup water and squish it in

Drain the cabbage and

[Stosh]

Oh my! I haven't heard anyone say kapustas since my grandmother passed away. I'm making this tomorrow and I'm sure it will bring good luck for the next year.

[CuriousKira]

Just made these over Christmas with my bf and his mom, they call them golumki.

[jocoyn]

Mmmmmm stuffed cabbage.......too bad my mother has gout now.
We made them with V8 juice one day by mistake (out of tomato sauce) and they were so good we kept using it.

[jprice103]

Originally Posted by CuriousKira

Just made these over Christmas with my bf and his mom, they call them golumki.

My grandmother was Polish, and that is what we called them too. That or halupki (don't know how to spell that so I spelled it like it sounds!!!)

[selzer]

Everything after Enjoy should be between
'take a jar of sour kraut' and 'peel the cabbage'

sorry about that, not sure how that happened.

golumki? My grandmother was Hungarian and so the family always called the kapustas or even pustas.

[ksotto333]

this is what we're having tomorrow..can't wait..

[wolfstraum]

my grandmother was Hungarian and my aunts on other side Slovak...mostly....we called them halupki or just plain old stuffed cabbage!

Too much WORK to do the rolls LOL....I layer saurkraut, cabbage and tomatoes and meat mix - sort of a Slovak lasagne! Tomato juice - not sauce or soup....tomato soup is for stuffed peppers!

making me HUNGRY!!!!!!!!!!!

Lee

[selzer]

We use the soup/sauce for stuffed peppers too. Very similar in preparation, only no sausage in stuffed peppers.

I am having company for dinner on Monday. I am making Chicken Paprika, Hungarian Goulash (not macaroni and beef), spatzum, and I will have a small cassarole of these too.

We always have pustas on New Years eve and then right after midnight. Pork and Cabbage for good luck in the New Year. Maybe it doesn't work, but we enjoy trying.

[KSdogowner]

Originally Posted by selzer

We use the soup/sauce for stuffed peppers too. Very similar in preparation, only no sausage in stuffed peppers.

I am having company for dinner on Monday. I am making Chicken Paprika, Hungarian Goulash (not macaroni and beef), spatzum, and I will have a small cassarole of these too.

We always have pustas on New Years eve and then right after midnight. Pork and Cabbage for good luck in the New Year. Maybe it doesn't work, but we enjoy trying.

Interesting stuffed cabbage recipe. I never heard of stuffing them with sausage or even sauerkraut. Love Goulash. Yum!!