Sweet And Tangy Turkey And Rice Stuffed Cabbage
From midgelet 14 years ago
- 60 minutes to make
- Serves 10
Tip: freeze head of cabbage overnight. Perfect cold weather meal. If you don't like turkey, use any ground meat instead! The prunes give this sweet and tanfg dish an old world appeal
Ingredients
- 1 med head of green cabbage shopping list
- 1 lb ground turkey shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups cooked white rice shopping list
- 1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs shopping list
- 1 small onion grated shopping list
- 1 garlic clove minced shopping list
- salt and pepper shopping list
- 1 egg shopping list
- Sauce: shopping list
- 3 to 4 cups seasoned tomato sauce of choice shopping list
- 2 Tbs molasses shopping list
- 1/2 cup brown sugar or to taste shopping list
- juice from fresh lemon if desired shopping list
- salt and pepper to taste shopping list
- 10 prunes shopping list
How to make it
- Freeze cabbage overnight
- Next day thaw and drain any excess liquid.
- Discard first few outer large tough leaves.
- Peel away remainder of leaves from cabbage.
- You wont use all the leaves for recipe unless you double recipe.
- Leaves will be soft and pliable.
- Cut off tough ribs.
- Set leaves aside.
- Make meat mixture: combine turkey, rice, breadcrumbs, onion, garlic, salt and pepper to taste.
- Form meat mixture into small lemon size balls and place in center of cabbage leaves.
- Roll leaf to enclose meat and tuck ends under .
- Make sauce.
- heat tomato product and stir and dissolve in the molasses and brown sugar, lemon juice to taste.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
- This will make plenty of sauce for this dish plus extra.
- Place part of sauce in bottom of oblong baking dish.
- Place stuffed cabbage seam side down.
- Cover with more sauce.
- Tuck in prunes between stuffed cabbage.
- Cover with foil.
- Bake in a 350F oven about and hour .
- The flavor of this dish improves when allowed to cool, chill and reheat.
- Recipe will make from 9 to 12 pieces depending how much meat you really decide to place in cabbage leaves.
- Sauce as well as stuffed cabbage freezes well.
The Rating
Reviewed by 7 people-
This is a very interesting recipe!! Thank you!!
bostyn
in San Diego loved it
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Luv cabbage rolls this way thanks for sharin high5 Turkey a plus in this one thanks
momo_55grandma
in Mountianview loved it
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Love stuffed cabbage and this recipe is a very high 5!
mystic_river1
in Bradenton loved it
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