Video: Cabbage for Cabbage Rolls

Name: How to Peel Cabbage Leaves for Cabbage Rolls
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 15 min
Cuisine: European
Ingredients: White cabbage 1 head

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15 mins

Almost everyone likes cabbage rolls, but the cooking process often puts food lovers off. I do not argue that making the filling is fairly easy.

The trouble is usually the cabbage itself: separating the leaves from the head. It is quite tedious and difficult.

Cabbage is sold hard as granite, and it even rings when you tap it. When you peel leaves from such heads, the leaves crack. Usually the cabbage for cabbage rolls is heat treated, in simple terms boiled or scalded with boiling water.

Once I made a filling of ground pork with rice and added my favorite spices: savory, fenugreek, pepper and salt. A big head of hard cabbage gave me the idea of using the ability of water to make things slippery, and I tried running a stream of tap water under a cabbage leaf. The leaves came off easily and without damage.

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Ingredients

lots of cabbage leaves

White cabbage 1 head

Step-by-step recipe

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I have already described this way of separating the leaves:
cabbage for cabbage rolls. With this method, peeling the leaves off the cabbage is very easy.
You can boil the separated leaves, but it is much easier and faster to heat them in a plastic bag in an ordinary microwave, and they soften beautifully. Then they are easy to use for cabbage rolls. It is important not to overcook the leaves, or the cabbage rolls will fall apart as you roll them.
Next, prepare the leaves. Cut out the thick rib running down the middle of each leaf, put 1-2 tbsp of the ready meat and rice filling on it, and roll up the cabbage rolls. Then cook the cabbage rolls the way your family usually does. Ground pork with rice, spices and cabbage make excellent cabbage rolls. I recommend them with sour cream and sprinkled with chopped parsley!

Calories and macros

25 kcal

100 g

Protein1.3 g27% of kcal
Fat0.1 g5% of kcal
Carbs3.3 g68% of kcal

Calculated from the recipe ingredients, excluding salt and spices. Data: USDA and Matvaretabellen.

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