Best Stuffed Cabbage With Cranberry Sauce Recipes

STUFFED CABBAGE WITH CRANBERRY SAUCE

Steps:

• Mix the cranberry sauce, tomato sauce, 1 cup water, lemon, and sugar in a saucepan.
• Bring to a boil; then add the raisins and the fresh cranberries.
• Peel, core, and dice the apple and add.
• Simmer for another 5 minutes.
• Core the cabbage and place in a large pot with water to cover.
• Bring to a boil and then simmer, covered, about 10 minutes or until wilted.
• Cover with cold water and drain.
• (Alternately, you can place the cored cabbage in the freezer for several days. Defrost 24 hours before making the cabbage. It will wilt naturally.) In a large bowl mix the meat, rice, salt and freshly ground pepper to taste, egg, onion, 1/2 cup water, and ketchup, blending with your fingers until well mixed.
• Trim the ribs off the cabbage, remove the outside leaves, and line a large flameproof casserole with them.
• Pull off the inside leaves and place them one by one on a board, outside down.
• Fill with a heaping tablespoon or two of the filling, depending on the size of the leaf.
• Fold up like an envelope, top first, then bottom and then the 2 sides.
• Place seam side down in the lined casserole.
• Repeat with the rest of the cabbage and the filling.
• Pour the sauce over the stuffed cabbage and simmer, covered, for 2 hours.
• Then place the stuffed cabbage in a preheated 300 degree Fahrenheit oven and bake, uncovered, for one half hour more.
• Tip: Another American way to make this dish is to make a sauce of 3/4 cup ketchup, 1- 1/2-2 cups tomato juice, 3/4 cup brown sugar, the juice of 1 large lemon, and sour salt to taste.
• Make this dish ahead.
• It tastes much better the next day.
• Also, this is a good recipe to double.
• Freeze one portion for unexpected guests.

MOM'S CLASSIC STUFFED CABBAGE ROLLS

Steps:

• Remove core from cabbage. Place whole head in a large pot filled with boiling, salted water. Cover and cook 3 minutes, or until softened enough to pull off individual leaves. If the leaves do not pull off easily, return the cabbage to the pot to boil a minute or two more. When the leaves are cool enough, use a paring knife to cut away the thick center stem from each leaf, without cutting all the way through.
• In a large bowl, add in the ground beef, pork, rice, onion, garlic, salt, pepper, eggs, ketchup, tomato paste, and parsley. Mix gently to combine. Add in 2/3rd of a can of tomato soup (almost 3/4 of a cup) and mix.
• To stuff the leaves lay down a single large leaf with the cut edge facing you (where the stem was) and place about a 1/2 cup of the meat mixture in the lower third of the leave. If the leaf is huge add more, if smaller add less meat. Fold the sides of the leaf over the meat and roll the cabbage up (like rolling a burrito). Repeat until all of the leaves are stuffed. If you have extra meat just roll it up as meatballs and place it in the baking pan with the stuffed cabbage.
• Preheat oven to 350F, rack in the center.
• In a large deep dish (4" at least) baking pan (or two 9×13" glass pans), spread out the remaining soup from the open can on the bottom of the pan. Open up a 2nd can and pour out 1/2 of it and spread out until the bottom of the pan in covered in a light coating.
• Place a single layer of stuffed cabbages on the bottom of your pan. Add the remaining half of the 2nd can of tomato soup. If you have leaves that are too small to stuff or are badly torn, add them on top of the soup.
• Add the 2nd layer of stuffed cabbage (you must make sure you have a 1/2" gap at the top of your pan and stuffed cabbage. It cannot go over the top of the pan. Top with the remaining can of tomato soup and spread out evenly.
• Spray the underneath of a large piece of foil. Place foil side down on the pan and close tightly around the dish. Place the pan on a larger cookie sheet to catch any spillovers.
• Bake for 3 - 4 hours or until the cabbage is tender when pierced with a knife. (I start to check mine after 2 hours 45 minutes).
• Remove from the oven, uncover and allow to cool for 15 minutes before serving.

FLOOSH'S STUFFED CABBAGE

Steps:

• Place cored cabbage head in an extra-large pot and cover with water. Bring the water to a boil on the stove. Once boiling, cover and cook for 5 to 7 minutes, rotating the cabbage occasionally with tongs or a large heat-resistant spoon, until the leaves soften, loosen, and begin to fall off the head. Remove the pot from heat. Carefully remove the cabbage head and leaves from the pot, drain it, and let it cool. Meanwhile, prepare the sauce and filling.
• To make the filling: Combine onion, garlic, turkey, ketchup, tomato paste, and sugar in a large bowl. Knead with your hands until the mixture is evenly combined. Set aside.
• To make the sauce: Combine cranberry sauce, jam or preserves, marinara sauce, and salt in a large glass measuring cup, and stir with a whisk or fork until smooth. Set aside.
• Once the cabbage is cool enough to handle, gently remove 14 large leaves. (Refrigerate the rest for another use.)
• Prepare the (empty) extra-large pot used to boil the cabbage by spraying it lightly with nonstick spray. Lay one cabbage leaf on a dry surface and spoon 2 heaping tablespoons of filling into the center of it. Spread filling out slightly and roll the cabbage up around the filling like a burrito, folding the sides in first and then rolling it up from the bottom.
• Place it seam-side down in the pot. Repeat with remaining 13 leaves and remaining filling, gently stacking the rolls in the pot, if needed. Pour the sauce over the cabbage rolls, covering as much of the exposed cabbage as possible.
• Cover the pot and set the stove temperature to low heat. Cook for about 1 hour, until the filling is cooked through.
• Gently remove the cabbage rolls and serve topped with the sauce. Garnish with scallions, if you like!

STUFFED CABBAGE (UKRAINIAN PROCKUS)

Steps:

• Combine the cranberry sauce, tomato sauce, 2 cups tap water and brown sugar and bring to boil.
• Reduce to a simmer and add white raisins.
• Simmer 5 minutes.
• Core the heads of cabbage and place into a large pot.
• Cover with boiling water.
• Cover the pot and cook 10 to 15 minutes.
• Remove from hot water.
• Then cover the cabbage with cold water and separate the leaves.
• You may have to replace the inner half of the cabbage into the hot water, in order to soften the rest of the leaves.
• When the rest of the cabbage is done, place that into the cold water and separate those leaves.
• In a mixing bowl place the raw ground meat, raw rice, 1 egg, 3 saltine crackers that are soaked and squeezed dry, graded onion, 1/4 cup warm water, 1 tablespoon ketchup, salt and pepper to taste.
• After mixing the meat mixture well, fill the cabbage leaves with the meat mixture, rolling them closed, and place the large golf ball sized balls into a deep roasting pan.
• Cover with the tomato sauce mixture.
• Cover the pan with the lid or with heavy duty aluminum foil and bake in pre-heated 375 degree oven for 1 hour.
• Remove the cover and continue to bake at 375 degrees for an additional hour.
• You can either serve immediately or freeze until needed.