Stuffed cabbage leaves

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Stuffed cabbage leaves
Stuffed cabbage leaves
Servings:Serves 4 to 6 people
Calories per serving:708
Ready in:1 hour 20 minutes
Prep. time:20 minutes
Cook time:1 hour
Difficulty:Average difficulty
Recipe author:Chef
First published:20th January 2013
Cheese and tomato sauce added, ready for the oven
Finished mince with two baby cabbages

This is a great recipe for home grown cabbages from your garden. It is a French recipe, typical of the Lorraine region.

It was nice but the stems of the cabbage were rather tough so when I next make it I will use 1 large cabbage and make two `leaves` from each one by cutting in half and discarding the stem.


Ingredients

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Mise en place

  • Preheat the oven to 190° C (375° F - gas 5)

Method

  1. Clean and trim the cabbage, removing any woody parts.
  2. Blanch the cabbage in salted boiling water for 15 minute. Remove and drain, reserving the cooking liquor.
  3. Cook the sausage-meat in 5 or 6 tablespoons of the cabbage liquor for about 15 minutes, breaking it up now and then. When the meat has cooked for 15 minutes, remove and drain, reserving the cooking juices to add to the tomato purée.
  4. Squeeze most of the milk from the bread and break into small pieces.
  5. Mix the garlic, cooked sausage meat, bread and herbs together and season well.
  6. Remove the leaves, cutting out any really hard stalks and add 1 tablespoon of the sausage-meat to each leaf and roll into an oval.
  7. Mix the tomato purée with about 284 ml (1/2 pint) of the cooking liquor.
  8. Pack the rolled leaves into an oven-proof dish and pour the tomato sauce over the top.
  9. Place a few dabs of butter over the cabbage and sprinkle with the grated cheese.
  10. Add another grind of pepper and Bake for 25 minutes.

Serving suggestions

Serve with jacket potatoes or mashed potatoes.

Chef's notes

Rather than buy dubious sausage meat, I used a 250 g of pork fillet (blitzed in a food processor with a metal blade) and 250 g minced beef. I also added a little fat from my Home smoked bacon.

2 baby cabbages and were just enough. When cooking them, half cover them with water, boil with a lid and turn them often.

I added a glug of white wine to the tomato sauce as there was some in the fridge.


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