Polish stuffed cabbage rolls --- man those polish sure can do some stuff with cabbage


1 large cabbage

1/2 pound of ground beef

1/2 pound of ground pork (or you can just use beef)

celery

onion

garlic

parsley

salt

black pepper

1 stick of butter

4 cups tomato puree (or sauce)


2 cups pre-cooked rice


Core the cabbage - steam it in a stock pot with 2 quart of water until tender

set cabbage aside to cool

save 2 cup of stock from the cabbage water


brown your meat

drain off excess grease

add onion, garlic, parsley, salt, black pepper, and butter, simmer for 5-10 minutes


get it good and hot so the flavor has time to blend in

add rice and 2 cups of tomato puree

mix it together


stuff your cabbage - place them in a pan


mix stock from when you boiled the cabbage with the remaining 2 cups of tomato puree

pour the mixture over the cabbage rolls (you want the liquid level to come halfway up the cabbage rolls)


bake in over at 350 for 45 minutes - or until cabbage is very tender

 

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My momma always called these "porcupines"


Either way...goood stuff, and about the only way I'll eat cabbage lol

 

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I know them as porcupines as well!


again something I haven't had in a while, gonna have to make it

the kids just love it

Really? In my family, we made porcupine balls out of the meat mixture, but there was no cabbage. I think my mom made pan gravy after they cooked up.

 

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shouldnt this have a few moure pounds of butter? it is polish food afterall.


every year for our christmas luncheon at work, we get polish catered. every year, the first thing i notice is the shear amount of butter everything is swimming in.

buttered cabbage is for the win

 

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I noticed that.

 

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