Slow Cooked Cabbage Rolls
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 6 or more hours
Servings: 6
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Ingredients
- 1 large head of cabbage
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 tablespoon oil or butter
- 1 pound lean ground meat (beef, lamb, turkey)
- 1 cup cooked rice
- 1 28 oz. can diced, seasoned tomatoes
- salt and pepper 
 
Adapt this basic recipe to suit your taste by adding herbs, additional vegetables, nuts or raisins
to the meat and rice mixture.
 
Directions
  • Remove any discolored or badly damaged leaves from the cabbage and put the whole head

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into a large pot with an inch or two of water. Cover and simmer until the outer leaves peel off
easily, 5 - 10 minutes (or put in a plastic bag and microwave a minute, remove softened leaves
and repeat until you have enough leaves). Reserve remaining cabbage for another use.
  • While
    the cabbage softens, heat oil in a skillet and cook onions (and any other vegetables such as carrot
    celery, etc that you may wish to add) about 5 minutes. Add crumbled ground meat and cook a few
    more minutes, until no longer pink.
  • Drain off any excess fat that may have accumulated and
    stir in rice. Add salt and pepper to taste.
  • Put about 1/3 cup (depending on size of leaf) in
    the center of a cabbage  leaf and roll up, folding stem in first. As each leaf is
    finished, put it in the slow cooker, seam side down. Pour tomatoes over, cover and cook on low for
    7 - 8 hours, or on high 3 -4 hours.


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