How To Make Gołąbki | Homemade Polish Stuffed Cabbage Rolls

ground pork

🥗Healthier: ground turkey

💰Cheaper: ground beef

Ground turkey is leaner, while ground beef is often less expensive.

cabbage

🥗Healthier: Swiss chard

💰Cheaper: collard greens

Swiss chard offers similar texture and nutrients, while collard greens are often cheaper.

tomato sauce

🥗Healthier: homemade tomato puree

💰Cheaper: canned tomatoes

Homemade puree reduces preservatives, while canned tomatoes can be more affordable.

butter

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Olive oil is healthier, while margarine can be a less expensive alternative.

Add mince, all dente cooked rice, caramelized white onion and garlic, dried marjoram, dried oregano, sweet paprika powder and egg to a big bowl and mix this well.

Leave this in the fridge overnight. The longer the better.

Cook the cabbage in a cooking pot with boiling water and plenty of salt for 7 minutes.

Take the cabbage out and let it rest for 8 minutes.

Take off 14 cabbage leaves and trim the stems.

Add 50 grams of filling in a cabbage leave and roll it like a burrito.

Divide to a oven dish the rest of the cabbage leaves and add the cabbage rolls on top.

Mix the beef stock with tomato puree and add this to the oven dish.

Cover the oven dish with silver foil and add it to a preheated oven at 180℃ for 95 minutes.

After 95 minutes take it out of the oven and add the cabbage rolls on a plate.

Pour the liquid that is in the oven dish in a cooking pan.

Add back the cabbage rolls and cover with silver foil. Let them steam on your workspace. Not in the oven.

Bring the liquid in the cooking pan to a small boil.

Add the tomato Passata to it while stirring.

Keep it on a small boil while stirring for 5 minutes.

Add all spice, bay leaves, salt and black pepper and keep stirring for another 5 minutes.

Add some butter and stir this in. Let it rest.

Add some tomato sauce on a plate.

Add the steamed cabbage rolls.

Add a bit more tomato sauce with some fresh dill.

Cooking Techniques

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