Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, halupkis (stuffed cabbage). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Halupki, also known as stuffed cabbage on the Russian/Ukranian side of my family, is a dish made of rice, beef, and pork encased in cabbage drizzled with a thin, sweet tomato sauce. Every family has their own twist on this traditional dish. Combine tomato soup, broth, chopped tomatoes, and reserved cooking liquid and pour over halupki.
Halupkis (stuffed cabbage) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Halupkis (stuffed cabbage) is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have halupkis (stuffed cabbage) using 11 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Halupkis (stuffed cabbage):
- Get 2 heads cabbage
- Make ready 1 pound long grain white rice
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Make ready 1 pound ground beef
- Take 1/4 pound ground pork
- Take 1 large onion
- Make ready 3 tablespoons butter
- Take 1 can diced tomatoes
- Get 1 large can whole tomatoes
- Get 1 can tomato soup/1 can of water
- Take Paprika
Rolled the steamed cabbage rolls in tall pot with leftover cabbage leaf's in bottom added a few inches of water and steamed all the rolls about an hour then served with vinegar or sour cream on the sude. One pound long grain white rice. Cut the bottom cord off the cabbage. Watch carefully so stuffed cabbages don't burn.
Steps to make Halupkis (stuffed cabbage):
- Cut the bottom cord off the cabbage. Boil in water one head at a time.
- Bring to a boil, then simmer, then carefully peel the cabbage leaves off. Be patient. Cooking cabbage takes time (about 25 minutes)
- Cover the rice with just enough water to cover the rice. Season with salt prior to cooking rice.
- Low heat once rice is boiling. Cook for 10 minutes turn off heat. Cover the pot while simmering
- Remember, once the water begins to boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer for 10 minutes
- In a large bowl mix the hamburger and 1/4 pound ground pork. Do not cook
- Saute the onion in butter for several minutes
- Pour the onion/butter mixture into the rice and mix with meat mixture. Blend thoroughly
- Remove any thick cords from cabbage. Roll and fold then roll more. Kind of like a burrito
- Add unused cabbage leaves to bottom of pot. Place opening side face down. Add butter on each halupki and season with paprika. Keep layering
- In a medium size bowl mix together the diced tomatoes, large can of whole tomatoes (squeeze the whole tomatoes) can of tomato soup and can of water. Do Not Add this liquid mixture until you are about to bake
- Cover with foil
- Bake in the oven at 375 degrees for 45 minutes
- Reduce to 350 and bake for one and half hours more
- Family Secret-add some evaporated milk to the halupkis when serving for a creamy base**
Serve with pan juices and a drizzle of sour cream, if desired, and mashed potatoes and crusty bread. Cabbage rolls freeze well before or after cooking, and can be made in a slow cooker (see your manufacturer's instructions). Remove large outer leaves from cabbage and set aside. Place head in a large pot filled with boiling salted water. Cover and cook three minutes or until softened enough to pull off individual leaves.
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