Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, stuffed whole cabbage. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Carefully add stuffed cabbage, with twisted cheesecloth facing down. Place stuffed cabbage head (stem-end down) in sauce; over high heat, heat to boiling. When done, remove from Dutch oven and place cabbage in a deep platter, remove string. Spoon sauce over cabbage, slice cabbage head into wedges to serve.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook stuffed whole cabbage using 16 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Stuffed whole cabbage:

1. Make ready 1 medium green cabbage
2. Prepare 300 g minced meat (whatever meat you prefer, beef, lamb, turkey, chicken, sausages)
3. Get 1/2 cup cooked rice
4. Make ready 1 onion, chopped or grated
5. Get 1 bell pepper, finely chopped
6. Get 1/2 cup mixed herbs: mint, dill, parsley or coriander, finely chopped
7. Take cumin, turmeric, paprika, salt and pepper
8. Get Olive oil or any vegetable oil
9. Make ready cheesecloth
10. Prepare Ingredients for tomato sauce
11. Prepare 300 g canned tomatoes
12. Make ready 1 onion, finely chopped
13. Prepare 3 tbsp white sugar
14. Get 2 tbsp vinegar
15. Prepare 1 1/2 cup water
16. Get Oil

Pack the stuffing into the cabbage cavity. Cover the dish with foil and bake. Place the whole stuffed cabbage in pot in the sauce. Remove and baste the cabbage with sauce.

Instructions to make Stuffed whole cabbage:

1. Ingredients
2. First of all we prepare tomato sauce. Heat the oil in a pan and saute chopped onion for until soft. Add the tomatoes, sugar, vinegar.
3. Add water and Cook for 5 minutes and set aside.
4. Bring salted water to a boil, and submerge whole cabbage for 6-7 minutes. Then peel the leaves.
5. In a bowl, add minced meat, cooked rice, grated onion, chopped bell pepper and fresh herbs. Season with spices.
6. Use your hand and mix all ingredients together.
7. Now, we need a large bowl lined with cheese cloth to hold whole cabbage together when once you layered to set. - What we do for the first layer is: put one large leave at the bottom of the bowl, then arrange largest cabbage leaves, overlapping (as you see in the photos) so they line the bowl.
8. Now, put 1/3 of meat mixture at the bottom of the bowl and spread the meat evenly..
9. Then, put couple of cabbage leaves top of stuffing to separate the layers. Make sure that the leaves completely cover the stuffing and sides of the the bowl.
10. Again, put some more meat mixture over the new layer of leaves and spread it. Use your hand or a spoon and press the meat down and continue the layering process until meat mixture is used up.
11. Finally cover the stuffing with some blanched leaves and tucking all of leaves down the sides of the bowl, as you see in the photos.
12. Gather ends of cheesecloth together, twist the cloth and squeeze it tightly.
13. Take the whole stuffed cabbage and drop it into the tomato sauce. Cover the pot with a lid and allow to cook for 1 hour over medium heat.
14. You may cook the stuffed cabbage in the oven. In this case, after wrapping the cabbage with cheese cloth, cover it with foil and pop it into the oven at 175C degree and cook it for about 2 hours.Take stuffed whole cabbage out of the pot and place it in a serving plate.
15. Let it cool a little bit and remove the cheese cloth. Cut the stuffed cabbage into the pieces and serve it with mixture of yogurt+ garlic or with tomato sauce or mustard sauce.

Place the whole stuffed cabbage in pot in the sauce. Remove and baste the cabbage with sauce. Place the ball of cabbage in a medium pot, and it is ready to cook. Place into the center of a cabbage leaf. Fold the sides of the leaf over and roll the ball up into the leaf.

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