📋 Ukrainian Cabbage Rolls Recipe (with ground beef and rice)
These hearty, meaty cabbage rolls (holubtsi) are Scottish -style Ukrainian Cabbage Rolls stuffed with ground beef, rice, mushrooms, and smothered in tomato sauce! The cabbage is cooked in the microwave so these stuffed cabbage rolls quicker and easier!
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Prep: Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (121 degrees C ) and spray a large casserole dish or roaster pan with non-stick cooking spray.
Cook ground beef with onion and drain off fat. Cook rice. *I often do this the night before.
Place whole cabbage on a plate.
Cook cabbage in the microwave for 10 minutes, and then cool.
Meanwhile: Add cooked ground beef with onion, cooked rice, mushrooms and ketchup together in a large bowl.
Mix until combined. Add additonal ketchup to your preference, if desired.
Turn cabbage over and return to the microwave and cook for another 10 minutes.
Remove core from cabbage and carefully remove cabbage leaves.
Gently start peeling away the leaves.*If the leaves are not coming off easily (they are ripping), return to microwave for another 5 minutes.
Continue to very gently peel away the leaves.*If at any point this becomes difficult and the leaves are starting to rip, put the cabbage back in the microwave in 2 minutes increments.
Continue doing this until all the leaves have been removed. *you can trim off any bad parts on the leaves or discard leaves that bad. Save leaves that are too ripped to roll (you can use them in * You will probably have to cut away more of the core as you go along in order to remove the leaves without tearing them
Place a piece of cabbage on a work surface (I use a cutting board) and cut off about ½ - ¾ an inch of the tough part on the bottom of the leaf.
Add about a tablespoon of the filling to the middle of the cabbage leaf (this amount will depend on the size of each cabbage leaf)Â
Begin by folding the cabbage in on the sides, then fold the bottom.
Then continue to roll up the cabbage roll from the bottom, as you would a wrap
Continue rolling right up to the top*When you get to this stage, you can just gently push any rogue filling back into the cabbage roll and gently fold the loose leaf part over and place the cabbage roll (seam down) in the prepared casserole dish
Place gently in prepared dish.
Keep adding them to pan until they are all gone (stacking is fine). *See Pro Tip for leftover filling and ripped leaves.
Pour canned tomato soup on top of the layers of cabbage rolls and cover with lid.
Bake in oven for about 2 hours or until cabbage is tender. Serve warm
Notes
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Nutrition Facts
📋 Ukrainian Cabbage Rolls Recipe (with ground beef and rice)
Amount Per Serving (1 cabbage roll)
Calories 186Calories from Fat 36
% Daily Value*
Fat 4g6%
Saturated Fat 1g6%
Cholesterol 13mg4%
Sodium 112mg5%
Potassium 251mg7%
Carbohydrates 29g10%
Fiber 2g8%
Sugar 3g3%
Protein 6g12%
Vitamin A 90IU2%
Vitamin C 14.7mg18%
Calcium 32mg3%
Iron 1.2mg7%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.