Mom’s Stuffed Cabbage

This recipe was passed down from my Slovak grandmother to my mother and now to me. Not fancy but simply delicious.

Unbalanced

% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Step 1

Put rice in colander and pour boiling water over it

Step 2

Boil 2 cups of salted water and add rice. Bring to boil again take off heat and allow rice to absorb all the water.

Step 3

1. Cut out the core of the cabbage. Boil cabbage in a large pot and cool. Take cabbage apart, one leaf at a time.

Step 4

Combine raw onion, meat, rice and egg, and seasonings and mix until all is combined.

Step 5

Place spoon of meat mixture on cabbage leaf and roll like a burrito.

Step 6

Line bottom of large pot used to boil, cabbage with bruised and extra cabbage leaves not suitable for rolling.

Step 7

Place rolled cabbage in pot stacking layer on layer until all leaves with meat are used.

Step 8

Cover cabbage with one can Campbell’s tomato soup and 1/2 bottle of ketchup and enough water to just cover the top of the cabbage.

Step 9

Simmer about two hours