Stuffed cabbage with sweet and sour sauce

8 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 Head green cabbage; about 3 lb.
2 pounds Extra lean ground beef
1 medium Potato; peeled and grated
1 small Onion; chopped
2 larges Eggs; lightly beaten
½ cup Ketchup
½ cup Matzo meal; or bread
½ cup Water
1 Bay leaf; Salt and pepper; to
16 ounces Tomato sauce
⅓ cup Brown sugar
14 ounces Cranberry sauce
¼ cup Lemon juice
1 tablespoon Lemon juice; additional * see note

Directions

ROLLS

SAUCE

Combine all sauce ingredients and mix in blender or food processor with metal blade. Pour into a 4-qt oven proof stewing pot and let simmer over medium heat while you prepare the cabbage balls.

Core the cabbage. Pull off as many leaves as possible till they become too small to hold filling. Bring 1 cup of water to a boil, place the leaves in the water, cover, turn to simmer, and let cook for 10 minutes till soft, or microwave with ¼ cup water o Combine ground beef, grated potato, chopped onion, eggs, ketchup, matzo meal (or bread crumbs) and ½ cup water. Mix well. Season with salt and pepper.

Fill the cabbage leaves by placing about 1 tablespoon of the ground meat mixture in the middle of each leaf. Fold over the sides and roll the cabbage ball away from you.

Place seam side down in the simmering sauce. Continue till all the cabbage leaves have been used. (If you have some ground beef balls left over, just add them to the sauce.) Cut up remaining small pieces of cabbage and distribute them evenly over the top of the balls. Add the bay leaf. Check for seasonings. (You may wish to add more lemon juice, cranberry sauce or brown sugar, according to your taste.) Simmer, covered on top of the stove for 20 minutes.

OVEN: 350 Bake uncovered for 20 minutes more to brown the top.

NOTES : Excellent. Lots of extra ground meat made lots of meatballs and cooked in same pot, freezes well..used ground turkey...can reduce lemon juice...

Recipe By : Something Different for Passover / Frances AvRutnick1986 Categories :

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