Heart Smart-Lazy Person Cabbage "Rolls"
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Ukranian
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Serves: scads
 
This is a double batch to share a casserole with a friend
Ingredients
  • 2 lbs. regular ground beef (I don't buy lean but after the meat has been browned, I place it in a colander and rinse it in very hot water to wash away the extra fat)
  • ham (whatever quantity you wish or have in your fridge, it is just for flavour), cut into strips or diced
  • 2 onions, diced
  • 4 cloves of garlic, minced
  • 1 T canola oil
  • 2½ cups of raw brown rice, prepared in advance
  • 2 heads of cabbage, parboiled and separated into leaves sauce
  • 2 cans of tomato sauce (in a pinch use tomato soup as I had to do)
  • salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
  1. Brown ground beef, and set aside
  2. Wipe out the saute pan and add canola, onion, garlic and ham.
  3. Cook until fragrant.
  4. Place these contents along with the cooked beef and cooked rice into a very large bowl and stir up with your hands.
  5. Place a small amount of sauce in the bottom of a lasagna pan (I use foil pans so that anyone that I gift it to, will not feel obliged to return the pan)
  6. Place a layer of cabbage leaves into the bottom of two pans.
  7. Evenly spread the meat and rice filling on top of the leaves.
  8. Place a second layer of leaves over top.
  9. Pour one can of tomato sauce over each casserole. If using soup-dilute with ½ cup of water).
  10. Heat in a 375 degree oven, 30-45 until heated through and the cabbage is tender.
Recipe by Food Musings at http://foodmusings.ca/recipes/entrees/heart-smart-lazy-person-cabbage-rolls/