Hungarian Pigs In Blanket Recipes

HUNGARIAN PIGS IN THE BLANKET, MARANITOS HUNGAROS ENVUELTOS, SORMA OR TOLTOTTKAPOSZTA

Steps:

• 1. Fill very large heavy pot with about 16 ounces of water. Add a few grains of salt to the water put on stove to boil. Take large head cabbage and cut the core leval so the cabbage will stay sitting core side down in the pot. Cover and steam for about five minutes. Remove cabbage from the pot onto a large baking pan, like a lasagna pan. Slowly remove the leaves whole making sure not to tear them. This takes a while do all the cabbage like this when you get to some of the leaves that are hard again put cabbage head back into the pot and steam for about four minutes more until leaves start to soften. Again remove head to the large pan careful not to burn yourself. Remove the leaves very gently so they do not tear. Do not throw the large outer leaves nor the small leaves (inner part) of the cabbage away. Save them when you have taken all of the leaves off set them all aside. Leaves should be pliable and soft enough to roll around a ball of ground meat.
• 2. Next take your salt pork or you can use thick bacon if you dont have salt pork and render down in a large heavy pot. When the salt pork or bacon gets crisp remove from the pot to a seperate dish. In the rendered fat left in the pot add one of the diced onions and the mashed garlic saute until the onion is limp. Now add the mashed tomatos and the tomato juice. Now add the tablespoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of salt, the peppercorns and the bay leaves. Simmer this sauce with the broken down tomatos in it for 5 minutes. While the sauce simmers go to the next step.
• 3. In a large bowl combine and mix both of the ground meats. Add remaining diced onion, the paprika, 1 teaspoon salt, ground black pepper, raw rice, and the eggs. Mix well with your hands so as to incorporate everything very well. Let sit for a bit about five minutes. While the meat is resting open package of sauerkraut put in a colander or strainer and rinse under cool water. Leave over a bowl so the sauerkraut drains well.
• 4. Now take your meat and and roll about the size of a meatball in your palm, next take a cabbage leaf and put the meat at the base of the cabbage leaf and flatten the meat ball so it looks more like a sausage and roll the cabbage leaf around the meat. Continue to roll around the meat and then if the sides are to long take a knife and cut the sides down a little and then tuck each side of the cabbage leaf into the roll. Set the rolls in a pan seam side down. Do all of them like this until you have used all of the ground meat and used all of the cabbage leaves. There is always all the little ends that you cut off put them aside and the large outer leaves that you have saved and the inner small cabbage leaves.
• 5. Now you are going to assemble everything together. In a very large cooking pot. First get two ladlefuls of sauce and pour into the bottom of the pot. Begin to lay your little cabbage rolls all around on top of the sauce. Next get a handfull of the sauerkraut and sprinke over the cabbage rolls. Now get the crispy salt pork or bacon and lay the pieces over the cabbage rolls. Now get two more laddles of sauce and pour over the bacon and cabbage rolls. Now take more cabbage rolls and lay across the other rolls using them all. Now take some more of the saurkraut and sprinke over the cabbage rolls. Add another two ladlefulls of sauce over the rest of the rolls and take all of the pieces of cut up cabbage pieces and sprinkle over the rolls. Now take the the small cabbage leaves and cover all of the rolls. Put some more sauce over them and finally take the large outer leaves cover the small leaves if there is any sauce left pour over the top. Cover with a tight lid and over a low flame cook for two and half hours. do not uncover or disturb while cooking. After the time has passed check one cabbage roll cut in half if the rice is cooked cabbage rolls are done.
• 6. Sometimes my grandmother Julia would slice up delicious Hungarian sausage and cook it in the pot with the cabbage rolls. It is very hard to find hungarian sausage around here if you can find it it gives the pigs a wonderful flavor. Serve with crusty bread and cold beer. Delicious. Enjoy

SERBIAN STUFFED CABBAGE (SARMA)

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Steam the head of cabbage until the outer leaves are limp, then cool slightly and separate the leaves.
• With a paring knife, remove the tough ribs from the leaves without damaging them. Reserve the tougher outer leaves, but don't use for rolling.
• In a medium bowl, mix together the ground chuck, ground pork, rice, and onion soup mix.
• Adding a small amount of water will make the mixture easier to handle.
• Heap 2 tablespoons of filling onto each steamed, prepared cabbage leaf.
• Fold the bottom of the cabbage leaf up over the meat.
• Fold sides to the center and roll away from yourself to encase completely.
• Repeat until the meat filling is gone.
• Heat oven to 350 F.
• Discard the cabbage core and coarsely chop any remaining cabbage except the tough outer leaves you have reserved.
• Spread the chopped cabbage on the bottom of a large casserole dish or Dutch oven. Add the drained sauerkraut.
• Layer on the cabbage rolls, seam-side down.
• Cut the smoked ribs into pieces. Space the ribs or other smoked meat of choice between the cabbage rolls.
• Cover rolls with reserved tough outer leaves.
• Mix tomato sauce and soup with enough water to make a liquidy consistency.
• Pour over rolls until mixture is level with rolls, but not over the top.
• Cover the casserole dish and bake 1 hour.
• Then reduce temperature to 325 F and bake for 2 more hours.
• Let sit 20 to 30 minutes before serving.
• This dish freezes well.

PIGS IN A BLANKET

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Wrap cheese around each frankfurter then the biscuit around that. Put on cookie sheet with the overlap of biscuit faced down, so you don't have to use tooth picks.
• Bake in preheated oven until biscuits are brown, about 10 to 15 minutes.

HUNGARIAN PIGS IN BLANKET

Steps:

• steam cabbage until soft enough to fold.
• mix onion rice pork paprika and salt. place small amount of mixture on each cabbage leaf and roll tightly.
• In a large pan alternate layers of sauerkraut and cabbage rolls. Cover all with tomato juice.
• Cook @ 350 2-3 hours.

PIGS IN A BLANKET

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 °F.
• Unroll the crescent dough and tear along the perforations.
• Cut each dough section into 3 smaller triangles.
• Place a cocktail weiner on the narrow edge of each triangle. Carefully roll it towards the wider side.
• Transfer the snacks to a large baking sheet. Brush the pastry dough with melted butter. Sprinkle with salt.
• Using Bake for 12-15 minutes until cooked through and golden on top.
• Serve warm on a large platter.

CABBAGE ROLLS - REAL HUNGARIAN STYLE

Steps:

• Core cabbage, heat in salt water till leaves separate.
• Remove each leaf and drain in colander.
• FILLING--(2nd ingredient group):.
• To scald rice: Heat a generous amount of water in a heavy pan that will hold the heat.
• Make sure that the water will be more than enough to cover the rice.
• Make sure the water is at a rolling boil, if rice is not scalded enough it will be crunchy!
• Let stand for at least 5 minutes.
• Rinse with cold water, draining with sieve, then mix into rest of filling ingredients.
• Now fill the cabbage leaves with filling mixture; folding leaves.
• While rolling pigs, start cooking the stewing sauce in another pot.
• STEWING SAUCE--(3rd ingredient group):.
• Mix group together, bring to a boil, then simmer 5 to 10 minutes.
• TO ASSEMBLE:.
• Line the roaster with: sauce, layer of pigs, more sauce, sprinkle with bacon crumbs, layer of pigs, layer of sauce, sprinkle with bacon crumbs etc.
• Set oven at 350°F.
• Cover roaster, and once all comes to a kind of a boil, reduce temperature to about 300°F so it doesn't boil over.
• Cook about 2 more hours.
• The smoked sausage is optional.
• If using, mix it in among the other ingredients.
• NOTE: 3/8 cup dehydrated onions may be used instead of 2 small onions in recipe.

HOME MADE PIGS IN THE BLANKET

Steps:

• First you will need two stock pots one to boil your cabbage in and then take out to cool. .Once cooled dig out the heart helps getting the leaves to come off without tearing
• While the cabbage is cooking to loosen the leaves in the other stock pot Put all of your sauce ingredients in and cook on low for 1 hour. Starting with the crushed tomatoes and ending with the thyme
• While sauce is cooking and cabbage is cooling prepare your Filling In a large bowl Start with beef and end with Worcestershire sauce. Mix this together and now you are ready to assemble your pigs
• Gently pull leaves from cabbage and I put about a small handful pending on the size of leave and roll it up and I secure mine with a toothpick but you could leave this part out just becareful and place it on a platter till all pigs are rolled up and your filling is gone
• Once this stage is complete now Put 1/2 of your kraut down in broiler pan and spoon in half of your sauce Layer pigs then rest of kraut on top with the remaining sauce
• Once you have used up all ingredients, pour your Spicy V-8 juice all over the top. You can add more if you like but 1/2 bottle is plenty
• Set oven to 325* and cook for 2 1/2-3 hours with lid on and do not take lid off and do not stir. Once done Serve with mashed potatoes and top the Pig with Sour Cream