Cabbage Rolls Simmered in Tomato Sauce
- 500 grams Ground meat (beef and pork mix)
- 10 leaves Cabbage leaves
- 1 Onion
- 1/2 tsp each Salt, pepper, nutmeg
- 3 tbsp Panko
- 1 tbsp Lard
- 1 Egg
- 10 Boiled quail eggs
- 1 can Canned whole tomatoes
- 400 ml Water
- 1 Soup stock cube
- 2 clove Garlic
- 5 tbsp Ketchup
- 1 tsp Japanese Worcestershire-style sauce
- 3 tbsp Red wine
- 3 Bay leaves
- Cut out the cabbage core, and carefully peel off the leaves one at a time.
- Put the leaves in boiling water for 1 minute to wilt them.
- Shave off the protruding edge of the stalks.
- The removed cabbage leaf cores are used, too.
- Chop them up finely and gently squeeze out the excess moisture.
- Roughly mince the onion.
- Put the ground meat, chopped cabbage leaf cores, onion, egg, lard, salt, pepper, and nutmeg in a bowl and mix well.
- Put the meat mixture in a shallow tray and divide into 10 equal portions.
- Wrap each hard boiled quail eggs with a portion of the meat mixture.
- Seefor an easy way to boil the eggs.
- Wrap the filling neatly in the cabbage leaves.
- Make sure to wrap them tightly.
- Secure the leaves with toothpicks.
- Prepare the tomato sauce: Open the canned tomato into a bowl.
- Crush the tomatoes with your hands, and strain through a sieve.
- Add the other sauce ingredients.
- Crush the garlic cloves with the side of a knife.
- Put the cabbage rolls in the pan in a single layer, add the sauce and simmer over low heat for 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes, put the cabbage rolls on serving plates, take the garlic and bay leaves out of the pan, and simmer the sauce for 5 minutes over high heat to reduce it.
- Adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper to taste.
- Spoon the tomato sauce over the cabbage rolls and serve!
- The cabbage rolls are also delicious simmered in a clear soup!
- For that version see.
- For a method to easily boil quail eggs, see.
cabbage, onion, salt, lard, egg, eggs, tomatoes, water, cube, clove garlic, ketchup, sauce, red wine, bay leaves
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/155797-cabbage-rolls-simmered-in-tomato-sauce (may not work)