Ingredients
1 large green cabbage (about 2 1/2 pounds)
1 large onion, chopped
0.5 cups uncooked rice
1 pound ground beef
1 pound ground pork
Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper
4 cups tomato sauce
bacon
sour cream
salt and pepper
Directions
Step 1
Remove center core of cabbage. In a large pot, bring 2 quarts water to a boil. Add cabbage and cook 2 to 3 minutes or until outer leaves are bright green and tender. Lift cabbage from water, and remove outer leaves. Return cabbage to boiling water, and repeat brief cooking and removal of leaves until all leaves are cooked.
Step 2
Boil rice in 1 cup of water until still undercooked
Step 3
In a medium skillet, melt butter over medium heat. Add onion and cook until tender, about 5-9 minutes. In a large bowl, combine onion mixture, rice, beef, pork, salt, pepper. Stir to combine.
Step 3
Add about 1/3 cup meet and rice mixture to one cabbage leaf. Fold sides of cabbage over filling, and, starting with the stem end, roll the cabbage up. Repeat with remaining leaves and filling.
Step 4
Transfer stuffed cabbage leaves to Dutch oven. Line them tightly. Top with reserved leaves. Add boiled water (can be reserved cabbage cooking water.) mixed with bacon salt and pepper.
Step 5
Bake at 350 for about one hour. After one hour pour tomato sauce over cabbage and bake for another hour until cabbage is very tender,
Step 6
Whisk sour cream with 3/4 cup of tomato sauce from the cooked stuffed cabbage rolls. Add sour cream mixture back to golabki, and stir to combine.