Grandma Milkas Sodoma Croatian Cabbage Rolls Recipes

GRANDMA MILKAS SODOMA, CROATIAN [CABBAGE ROLLS]

Steps:

• Place cabbage in a large pot, If you take the time to core the cabbage it will be easier to remove the leaves.
• Fill pot with water until the cabbage is floating. Set temperature to low boil.
• Finely dice the onion and the garlic.
• In a large bowl, combine rice,onion, garlic, hamburger, pork sausage,salt, pepper.
• Mix thoroughly, and form into two inch balls.
• Carefully remove cabbage leaves,.
• With the bottom of the leaf towards you, place a ball on the leaf and roll leaf one comlpete roll, then tuck the sides of the leaf in and continue rolling.
• Place all of the balls on a cookie sheet.
• When all of the balls are rolled, remove cabbage from water, Save the water.
• Chop up the remaining cabbage.
• You can either use the largest pot you have or a roaster oven, which is what I prefer.
• Place bag of sauerkraut on the bottom, add all of the balls, place remaining bag of sauerkraut on top, add the cabbage you chopped up.
• Pour in the water you saved from boiling the cabbage.
• Set Temp to low boil.
• Cook for three hours, the longer it cooks the better it tastes.

CROATIAN CABBAGE STEW ( PRISILJENO ZELJE")

Steps:

• Cut the cabbage to narrow strips approximately 5mm wide and 2-5 cm long.
• Heat water with vinegar and when it boils put cabbage in it.
• Cook for 3 minutes.
• During this put sliced bacon (in small cubes) on fat until transparent, add flour and brown it.
• Add cold water, tomato juice.
• Take out cabbage with hollow spoon, and throw the water out.
• Add caraway seeds, season with salt and pepper.
• Cook about 30 minutes or until cabbage softens.
• Serve as a side dish to sausages, pork chops, and similar meat and mashed potato.

FAUX CABBAGE ROLLS

Steps:

• Roughly shred cabbage heads.
• Place in large pan, cover with water, add salt, and butter. Cook until tender, drain.
• Mix together in large bowl ground beef, sausage, bread crumbs, rice, garlic powder and onion flakes.
• Press into bottom of large casserole dish.
• Place cooked cabbage on top.
• Cover with tomato sauce.
• Salt and pepper to taste.
• Bake at 350 for 40-45 minutes.

SODOMA

Steps:

• Boil cabbage 45 mins (so cabbage can be used to make rolls) set aside to cool.
• cover uncooked rice with water and soak until softened.
• combine beef, pork, rice in large bowl and mix, salt and pepper to taste.
• place a cabbage leaves flat on surface, place 1-2 TBS meat and rice mixture in leaf and fold up side then roll up.
• Strain sauerkraut retaining juice, set aside juice.
• rinse sauerkraut with cool tap water.
• sprinkle sauerkraut on bottom of large roasting pan.
• place cabbage rolls and 1-2 inch pieces of kielbasa covering bottom of roasting pan, then sprinkle with sauerkraut, continue to layer rolls and sausage then saurkraut until until pan is full.
• cover with water.
• place in oven at 350 for 1 1/2 hour.
• remove from oven, add juice from sauerkraut to broth in pan as needed.
• return to oven and cook for additional 1 1/2 hour.
• leftovers freeze very well.