Holubky (basic Slovak Stuffed Cabbage Rolls)

Total Time: 2 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 3
• 3/4 cup rice
• 12 large cabbage leaves
• 1 lb ground chuck or 1 lb ground beef
• 1 teaspoon garlic salt (or to taste)
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper (or to taste)
• 1 (15 ounce) can tomato sauce, divided

Recipe

• 1 cook rice for 5 minutes; then drain.
• 2 remove core from cabbage and place in a large pot of boiling salted water.
• 3 boil until large outer leaves get slightly limp and separate from head (10 minutes); then remove and de-vein (save 2 cups cabbage water for sauce).
• 4 mix together meat, 1/2 cup tomato sauce, partially cooked rice, garlic salt, and pepper.
• 5 place about 4 tablespoons rice mixture (or according to size of leaf) on each cabbage leaf, fold the ends in over the filling and roll up.
• 6 stack tightly in a large pot or dutch oven.
• 7 add water saved from boiling cabbage and pour remaining tomato sauce on top.
• 8 cover and cook over medium heat for 2 hours (check occasionally to make sure the bottoms aren't scorching; turn heat down if they start to).
• 9 serve hot.