Italian stuffed cabbage rolls in delicious sauce. Lately the family doesn’t want to eat others

These cabbage rolls are quite a time-consuming dish, but their taste fully compensates for all the efforts. If you change them from regular cabbage to savoy cabbage, they will literally melt in your mouth. Nobody will complain about the hardness of the vegetable used.

Stuffed cabbage rolls are a traditional dish, not only in Poland. They appear in various forms and under different names in almost all Slavic and Balkan countries. Our traditional cabbage rolls are stuffed with meat and rice wrapped in white cabbage leaves. They usually come in combination with tomato sauce. But stuffed cabbage rolls are much more delicate than traditional ones. This is due to the fact that savoy cabbage leaves are thinner, but not so much that the dish falls apart. Thanks to this, we obtain a dish that simply melts in your mouth. Mediterranean spices give the cabbage rolls an Italian characteri.e. basil and oregano. This affects the taste of the dish, which is similar to spaghetti.

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The recipe for Italian stuffed cabbage rolls in tomato sauce is not much different from the traditional recipe. The difference lies in the type of cabbage and spices.

Ingredients:

• a head of savoy cabbage,
• 1/2 kg of minced pork,
• egg,
• 100 g of rice,
• onion,
• 2-3 cloves of garlic,
• carrot,
• 350 ml broth,
• 2-3 tablespoons of tomato paste,
• a spoon of flour,
• 2 tablespoons of butter,
• spices to taste: salt, pepper, sweet ground pepper, hot ground pepper, dried basil and oregano, sugar, chili.

Preparation method:

Boil the cabbage in salted water, gently separate the leaves and remove the veins. Cook the rice until semi-soft and set aside to cool. Chop the onion and grate the carrot on a coarse grater, fry both vegetables in butter. Add rice, fried vegetables, egg and spices to the meat and mix everything thoroughly.

Place two tablespoons of stuffing on the cabbage leaves and roll them up like croquettes. Melt the butter in a pot or large frying pan, place the cabbage rolls on it and pour the broth over it. Simmer everything over low heat for half an hour. Pour off the broth from the cabbage rolls, add tomato paste and season with salt, pepper, sugar and paprika. Cover everything with flour and finally add the pressed garlic. Pour the sauce into the cabbage rolls and cook for another five minutes. Finally, you can sprinkle the dish with basil and oregano.

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