Unstuffed Cabbage Rolls Russian Galumpkis Recipes

STUFFED CABBAGE ROLLS (GALUMPKIS)

Steps:

• To make the sauce:
• Coat a 3-quart saucepan with the oil and place over medium heat. Add the garlic and saute for 1 minute. Add the tomatoes and cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes. Add the vinegar and sugar; simmer, until the sauce thickens, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and remove from the heat.
• Place a skillet over medium heat and coat with 2 tablespoons of the olive oil. Sauté the onion and garlic for about 5 minutes, until soft. Stir in the tomato paste, a splash of wine, parsley, and 1/2 cup of the prepared sweet and sour tomato sauce, mix to incorporate and then take it off the heat. Combine the ground meat in a large mixing bowl. Add the egg, the cooked rice, and the sauteed onion mixture. Toss the filling together with your hands to combine, season with a generous amount of salt and pepper.
• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Remove the large, damaged outer leaves from the cabbages and set aside. Cut out the cores of the cabbages with a sharp knife and carefully pull off all the rest of the leaves, keeping them whole and as undamaged as possible, (get rid of all the small leaves and use them for coleslaw or whatever.) Blanch the cabbage leaves in the pot of boiling water for 5 minutes, or until pliable. Run the leaves under cool water then lay them out so you can assess just how many blankets you have to wrap up the filling. Next, carefully cut out the center vein from the leaves so they will be easier to roll up. Take the reserved big outer leaves and lay them on the bottom of a casserole pan, let part of the leaves hang out the sides of the pan. This insulation will prevent the cabbage rolls from burning on the bottom when baked. Use all the good looking leaves to make the cabbage rolls. Put about 1/2 cup of the meat filling in the center of the cabbage and starting at what was the stem-end, fold the sides in and roll up the cabbage to enclose the filling. Place the cabbage rolls side by side in rows, seam-side down, in a casserole pan.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Pour the remaining sweet and sour tomato sauce over the cabbage rolls. Fold the hanging leaves over the top to enclose and keep the moisture in. Drizzle the top with the remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Bake for 1 hour until the meat is cooked.

UNSTUFFED CABBAGE ROLLS, RUSSIAN GALUMPKIS

Steps:

• 1. Start by cutting up your cabbage. You can make chunks,slices, whatever you feel like at the moment. Place it in a large sauce pan. Take half of your tomato juice or sauce, and pour it over the cabbage. Bring to a boil and then simmer for at least 15 minutes to reduce the cabbage and give you room for the porcupine balls.
• 2. While the cabbage simmers, mix the meat ball mixture. In a large bowl, mix the ground beef,eggs,soy sauce,pepper,onion powder, garlic powder and the rice. Mush it up with your hands and blend it all very well. Form this into meatballs by rolling a palm full in your hands.
• 3. After the cabbage is reduced and you have room in the pot, put the balls right on top of the cabbage. Add your 4 bay leaves and the rest of your tomato sauce or V-8 or tomato juice. Bring back to a boil and reduce heat and simmer for about 50 minutes to an hour. They are done when the rice if fully cooked.
• 4. NOTES: Mom used tomato sauce. I tried them with V-8 juice and they are good too. My Mom didnt use as much sauce/juice as I do now. I added more liquid due to the fact that the rice sucks it all up. The following day, you can add more sauce and ketchup because you will find that those thirsty meat balls sucked it all up again. Either that, or you can leave them and add more ketchup on top before reheating.

STUFFED CABBAGE ROLLS & KRAUT HUNGARIAN GALUMPKIS

Steps:

• 1. FOR THE CABBAGE: Core the cabbage. Bring a large pot of water to a boil, and boil whole head of cabbage until leaves start to pull away from core. Remove cabbage and SAVE THE WATER that it was boiled in. Let cabbage cool. Carefully remove the leaves until you get closer to the core with the white cabbage leaves. These are too hard to stuff, so chop them up to add to the pot later. With the reserved leaves, cut off the hard veins with a paring knife before stuffing leaves with the meat mixture.
• 2. FOR THE FILLING: Combine rice,beef,pork, salt, pepper,parsley,garlic powder and paprika. Mix very well. Put aside.
• 3. Stuff the cabbage leaves with meat filling. If you have left over meat filling, simply form them into balls. For an even easier version, make balls from the meat mixture and add cut up cabbage without stuffing them at all.
• 4. LAYER INTO POT AS FOLLOWS; A thin layer of the cabbage water 1/2 of the Cut up cabbage 1/2 of the Sauerkraut cabbage rolls and balls remaining 1/2 of the cabbage remaining 1/2 of the Sauerkraut Add saved water from boiling the cabbage to just cover the top.
• 5. Bring to a boil,covered, and then simmer on low, covered for at least 3 hours. This step can be done a day ahead, cool it down, and refrigerate until almost ready to serve. The flavor is better and more developed if you plan to serve it the next day. Regardless of time, continue with the next step.
• 6. Mix some cold left over water from the boiled cabbage and the cornstarch. Add this to the big pot of stuffed cabbage and balls. When almost ready to serve, warm up again. This will thicken the broth. Bring to a boil, then simmer until thickened.
• 7. Serve with a big dollop of sour cream. Yummmm

UNSTUFFED CABBAGE ROLL

Steps:

• Heat a Dutch oven or large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir beef and onion in the hot Dutch oven until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes; drain and discard grease. Add cabbage, tomatoes, tomato sauce, water, garlic, salt, and pepper and bring to a boil. Cover Dutch oven, reduce heat, and simmer until cabbage is tender, about 30 minutes.

STUFFED CABBAGE ROLLS (GALUMPKIS)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Add whole head of cabbage to a pot of boiling water. Boil for 3-4 minutes.
• Remove cabbage from water, drain and allow to cool.
• Once cooled, carefully peel leaves off of cabbage. You will need 12 leaves total.
• Cut the hard stem out of the bottom of each leaf, being careful to not tear the leaves. Set leaves aside.
• Add ground beef, rice, onion, diced tomatoes, egg and Worchestershire sauce to a bowl.
• Season to taste with the salt, pepper and garlic powder.
• Mix all ingredients well. Set aside.
• In a saucepan, mix the tomato sauce, garlic, sugar and lemon juice.
• Heat mixture through. Set aside.
• Fill each cabbage leaf with the ground beef mixture.
• Roll each leaf closed, folding in the sides as you roll.
• Place the rolls seam down in a baking dish.
• Cover the rolls with the sauce.
• Bake for 1 hour uncovered.
• Serve with sour cream.