Cabbage Rolls and Garlic Cheese Bread

[ChileRelleno]

10+ large cabbage leaves, 2 lrg heads cored
2# Ground beef, browned
2 cups diced onion
1 cup diced Red Bell pepper
1 heaping tsp minced garlic
2 heaping Tbsp Sun Dried Tomato in oil, minced
1.5 cup Rice, cooked
2 lrg Eggs, beaten
EVOO
Salt, Paprika, Garlic Herb mix
Toothpicks or cotton twine

1 24oz Classico Tomato/Basil sauce
3/4 stick Butter
1 tsp Italian Herbs mix, 1tsp Paprika
3 cups water

Use very hot water to soak & loosen the cabbage leaves, cool in cold water, shake of excess and set aside.
Keep leaves whole, shave the thick part of the vein flat along it's length to allow it to roll. Don't remove vein it makes it a PITA to roll.

Brown beef
Saute veggies & garlic
Add veggies, EVOO and spices to beef, mix well over medium heat.
Add rice and mix well again, set aside to cool.

Melt butter, add sauce, spices and water, simmer on low.
The sauce needs to be thin as to simmer the rolls, or it will thicken too much during cooking.

Place a generous amount of filling at base of leaf, roll forward half way, fold in sides and finish rolling, secure with toothpick or tie with twine.

Coat bottom of baking dish with sauce and fill with rolls.
Pour remaining sauce over top of rolls, tightly cover with foil.

Bake at 400' till cabbage is soft/tender to a fork.

















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[Cortez_Conversions]

Oh man! My mom makes those! Yum!!

[Long Enuff]

Pigs in a blanket. Good stuff!

[Dominick]

Oh man! My mom makes those! Yum!!

Mine too...slurp...Dominick

[ChileRelleno]

My Mom made them too, didn't everybody's?

For dessert we had Talenti gelatos.  

[Bryan Young]

My mom used call those stuffed cabbage. I've never had it for years now. So miss mom's cooking

[philaroman]

LOOKIN' GOOOOOOD!

instead of regular rice, try Arborio or buckwheat, for an interesting variation

[Long Enuff]

Chile, your recipe inspired me.  I blended it with one I had used before with Napa cabbage.  The Napa cabbage is more delicate, thinner and easier  to roll than the standard round cabbage.  For the sauce I just use a large can of whole tomatoes and crushed them with my hand added the chicken stock and a bay leaf etc. It was an out of the park home run. thanks for the inspiration.

[steelfish]

this is new to me but I love cabbage, so I will try it some day.

thanks Mr Chile for the recipe

[Shark Hunter]

Where's the hardware?

[ChileRelleno]

Where's the hardware?

Somehow didn't make it into the pic, but it was there... It's always there. 

[Shark Hunter]

I know.
That looks like some good eating.
I feel sorry who is gonna feel the aftermath.