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Pigs In A Blanket Aka Cabbage Rolls Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Thegoldminer / All my dishes 1 year, 7 months ago This recipe is adapted from Lorisrecipes; listed as her Grandma's pigs in the blankets aka stuffed cabbage rolls. I made some slight modifications, it provided a prefect base recipe for me to work with. Give kudos to Lorisrecipes. Click any pic to enlarge.... More Prep:20m Cook:45m Servings:8	Thegoldmine
	easy and a great dinner

Chop onion

Chop green pepper

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Core the head

Boil the head

Blankets

Beautiful color

Ready for piggy

Third cup heaped

Piggy ready for bed

Tucked in

Sweet and Sour sauce

Sauce added to half

Mommy pig

Mom and piglet

Whole Family

Sauces

Chopped for the bed

Family off to bed

Everyone in bed

Putting on the sauce

Coverd with sauce

Grave yard

Picture perfect

Dinner is served!

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Ingredients

• 2 heads of cabbage

• 1 onion

• 1 bell pepper

• 2 lbs. ground beef (12-15% lean)

• 2 cups cooked white rice

• 2/3 cup of breadcrumbs

• 2 eggs

• 2 tbls of garlic powder

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 2 tbls of pepper

• 2 large cans of tomato sauce (29 ounce can)

• 1 large can of V8 (Fill 29 ounce can once emptied)

• 2 cups of water. Rinse each tomato sauce can.

Directions

Prepare the white rice, according to instructions. You may also substitute minute rice.

Cut cores out of raw cabbages, place in pot of boiling water.

Pick off leaves as they loose from the head. Place cooked leaves on platter. Use the big leaves and then a few of the middle size. The smaller inner part of the head is now removed and chopped to create the blanket in the pan for the rolls to cook on.

Prepare the meat mixture. Fine dice the onion and bell pepper, add to meat with the rice. I prefer spreading the meat out and then sprinkling on the garlic, salt pepper and breadcrumbs, this way it is evenly spread out.

Beat egg and pour over meat. Mix all ingredients into meat.

Cutting sideways, reduce thickness of the center "vein" out of each leaf, place 1/3 heaped cup of meat on medium size blanket. For the first 4-5 large blankets, I added another pinch of meat to the 1/3 heaping cup. Roll all the pigs up and set aside on a cookie sheet. Place chopped cabbage in the pot you cooked the cabbage in.

In a large mixing bowl, pour in tomato sauce, V8, and water from rinsing tomato cans. Mix well with whisk. Pour 2 cups over the chopped cabbage bed.

Gently place the pigs on their "beds" of cabbage. Add the remaining sauce; pour some on each layer of pigs. Pigs should be covered.

Cook on medium high heat, until the pigs come to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 45 minutes.

Makes about 20 blankets.I added the Sweet and Sour Sauce to half the mixture. The flavor was great but the pigs were mushy. Need to figure out how to keep them from mushing out. I will try adding 1 teaspoon sugar next time and maybe some curry! Good stuff.

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Comments

minitindel 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Sounds great got my five hey what happened to your pic ive been having trouble all last week it took me 5 attempts each time then it popped up annoying

minitindel 1 year, 7 months ago said:
THE PICS LOOK GREAT I LOVE CABBAGE ROLLS

thegoldminer 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Thanks, yep I love make them and then freeze a couple in a zip lock bag. Makes a great lunch! It was a fun recipe to work with. Now to figure out the Sweet and Sour sauce. The pigs with the sauce really tasted good!!!!!!!

liezel 1 year, 7 months ago said:
This is really a great recipe. Love your pics too (as always). Thanks for sharing. Bookmarked!

turlak 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Your pics are great! I love the captions! I haven't made cabbage rolls in a while. I use buckwheat groats instead of rice...it's just different. I would have never thought to use sweet and sour sauce! Pretty interesting.
Have a great week!
~Dawn

daisey11 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Yum I will trying this recipe out soon. I love cabbage rolls. I will have to freeze a few myself for a later day. Great pictures too...

sgeb59 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Cannt wait to try this.

thegoldminer 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Fellow foodies, thank for all the comments. I just found Sweet and Sour in a dry mix package. I will try this to get the flavor and hopefully end the mush factor. I will make it in a day or two and repost the new recipe if it turns out ok. JJ

luvshk 1 year, 7 months ago said:
I've made this - just a little different. Always called them cabbage rolls. Thanks for the reminder!

thegoldminer 1 year, 7 months ago said:
I have always called them cabbage rolls, but it is the title of the recipe I used and I always give credit where it is due. I am working on the next roll recipe, working on perfecting the ultimate cabbage roll. I have some interesting flavorings coming by mail. JJ

lunasea 1 year, 6 months ago said:
JJ, this looks great and I love your pictorial presentation. Great job! I can't wait to try your recipe. ~Vickie

juels 12 months ago said:
These are great! I grew up on food like this, your version is delicious! Love your addition of sweet and sour sauce to the meat mixture. You have to go by the way meat looks/feels. It's kind of like mixing a dough. Don't add too much liquid to it at a time, and if it feels mushy, you can just add more rice and breadcrumbs.

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