My mum found a recipe for stuffed cabbage rolls many years ago. I loved them. On my birthday, I always requested this dish as my birthday dinner. While in college, I would come home for visits and mum always made it for dinner my last night home. This continued until her passing in 2002. Stuffed cabbage rolls remain a comfort food for me. Thanks for giving an idea how to make them. I have not had them since.
it's a cool rainy day here in the mountains of VA I've got stuffed cabbage in the oven I used little molasses in place of sugar skipped the onions and added rice and corn to mine. Thanks so much, funny story my wife said you haven't made cabbage rolls in a while. I used to blend some sausage with burger but at 59 years old can't take that anymore so stay with the leanest burger I can get. I've never tried the sweet and sour wife loved the flavor of molasses garlic salt vinegar Cento crushed tomatoes
Gagata93 this brings back great memories. My stepmother who was Jamaican Chinese also made this dish with slightly different seasonings. I came across similar dishes when I lived in the then 'Eastern Block' /USSR during the 80s. Brings back wonderful memories of people and food. Thank you - I will be making this now for my own children.
Making this today. We have always added sauerkraut to ours versus the Apple cider vinegar and use half ground pork with beef and beef broth with a tablespoon of Worcestershire
Love the simplicity of this recipe. My mom made us our favorite meals on our birthdays. Mine was bbq chicken, potato salad and strawberry shortcake. I was a summer baby.❤️
My advice depending on how many your feeding is to double the recipe. I remember my mom making these they were even better warmed up after a few days like lasagna where the pasta softens more. Unbelievable with mashed potatoes and green beans. Can't wait to try this. The local supermarkets gave these in the deli. Sometimes Ill get 1 or 2 for myself.
Also in Greece, we usually make it with a white lemon-egg sauce and we call it dolmades (from the Turkish word dolma). My mom makes it all the time in winter. She also makes it in layers in a large "fait tous" pot : first the cabbage, then the stuffing usually beef and then again cabbage etc . When it's cooked, she spreads the lemon-egg sauce on top and let it stand for a while. That way she delivers the same comforting taste without the work ... !!!! Enjoy !!! So many countries share the same dish !!!! Peace, love and good food !!!
I absolutely love stuffed cabbage. My mother used to make it when we lived in the mountains of Virginia. I will try your recipe tomorrow night thanks for all you do.. God bless
I can't wait to try this. My mom would make this amazing Sunday morning breakfast complete with scrambled eggs, meats and pancakes! I remember it to this day!! She used a cast iron skillet for everything and the flavors all melted together!
I made these today with the exception of home canned tomatoes; just let the sauce simmer a little longer because they were juicy. They were excellent and very easy! The vinegar was a nice touch. I'll be making these again soon!! Thanks Sarah, and I enjoy your videos!
My mother made this dish too when I was growing up but my absolute favorite was cabbage stuffed pirogie. The cabbage was sauted with butter until it was buttery soft, then stuffed into the dough. She served it with just a drizzle of melted butter and sprinkled with salt and pepper. It was my Polish father's favorite dish and my mother hated making it because it was so putsy but I loved it!
My mom would make a version of this dish. It usually was a special occasion dish. Because its a dish which takes a few hrs to cook she didn't pre cook the onions / garlic. She used beef/ground pork mixed with rice (raw), rolled in cabbage. It was a layering of rolled cabbage , tomatoe sauce/paste, ricotta cheese, sauerkraut. It was so yummy.
Growing up my mom would always make the usual..meatloaf, tacos, spaghetti etc..So at the end of the week she would take any leftovers like the taco meat and mashed potatoes and fresh veggies and throw it all in a pot and make a big pot of soup..Granted it doesn't sound very good but it has always been the best soup I have ever eaten!! My best eating memories always go back to that soup!!
My mom made this really yummy chile de carne when I was little. It was made with really sautéed pork bites. My sister and I would always try to sneak a piece of the meat while Mom was busy! The chile was made with tomatoes garlic serrano peppers and salt squooshed in a molcajete (the morter and pestle used in Mexican cuisine) and poured over the crunchy meat. I make it now. It’s easy and inexpensive as far as the cuts of meat used. But whenever I visit my mom makes it for me and it tastes like a million bucks.
Yes, you definitely can freeze them before baking! Layer a bit of the chopped cabbage and sauce in bottom of casserole dish. Layer with the cabbage rolls. Add more sauce to cover. If it is a deep enough dish, make second and third layers of cabbage rolls. Cover with casserole lid, (foil, plastic wrap, whatever available) and cool before freezing. Or wrap to bake as usual, and freeze to store after baking. I have even wrapped them separately in foil, then paced with a small container of sauce, and sent home with relatives or neighbors or taken to friends to cook at their homes. If frozen unbaked, only partially thaw before baking. Bake 350 degrees F. covered, one hour. Remove cover, bake until done. Yum! Sometimes I assemble ingredients and chop into bite sized chunks, cover with sauce and bake as a casserole. In reading other comments, I purposely make extra sauce to top and to serve on the side. Also make extra sauce with lasagna. I serve them with mashed potatoes. Hope everyone enjoys their supper and gets warmed up. Kathy P. :O
Growing up, my mom made Greek Avgolemono soup. A thick and creamy, savory soup with lemon, eggs, rice and chicken. The consistency is similar to slightly thin warm rice pudding. So good on a cold winter's evening with a little s&p and a hunk of shepherd's bread.
This is a great easy recipe. I made it yesterday and it was amazing. Very much like my German Grandmother used to make. Being Northern Italian on my father's side, my favorite meal was Polenta with Roast-Beef. Using the polenta topped with brown gravy in place of potatoes was amazing. I could not get enough of it.
That looks absolutely delicious! My mom used to make that for me even after I moved out and had my own family. She has since become sick, and today I'm making it for her for the first time. #StuffedCabbage💗
Stuffed cabbage was one. I was anemic when I was younger and the doctor told my mother to feed me liver. Till this day I still love chicken liver with bell peppers and onion. Very satisfying. Your stuffed cabbage looks delicious .
My mother made two dishes that I absolutely loved. In the first she’d pour a bag of frozen lima beans (can be baby limas if you want) into the bottom of a roasting pan underneath the chicken you’re going to roast-the lima beans cooked in the roast chicken juices are the ultimate comfort food!! The second dish is porcupine balls cooked in the oven. My porcupine balls never taste like hers. ☹️
Sarah,You did a #1 job,Lots of great information,to the point advice.NO DOUBLE TALK!!!.Please keep up your recipe's.I will keep on looking for your help.Thank you& Happy all saints day.
My mother made this wonderful Red Thai Coconut Milk Curry with chicken, whole bird with skin, and served it over rice vermicelli. Super umami bomb with fall off the bone chicken. Served with fresh lime, fried garlic, Thai basil, mint, thinly sliced cabbage and mung bean sprouts!
I'm the only one in my family who truly enjoys boiled cabbage, or sauteed cabbage etc. I've seen something similar to this done with Bell Peppers (stuffed peppers with rice/meat/marinara). Another classic dish found in most 70's vintage dinner party mags HAHA. I particularly love sauteed cabbage with fennel seed, chili flake, butter, and garlic. It's a great side that goes with chicken, fish, or beef. Chinese dishes that utilize braised or sauteed cabbage are a favorite of mine as well.
I made these for New Years this year, and seasoned my tomato sauce / red gravy - like I do for meatballs. It was a hit! Thanks for sharing your Mom's jelly ingredient. Will have to give that a try next time. Favorite meal my Mom made - Bell peppers stuffed with crab meat.
Great video. Thank you! I am Cajun and make stuffed mirlitons. I believe in other parts they are calle vegtable pear. I boil them whole gently and cool, then half horizontally, cool & carefully scoop out squash with spoon. I stuffed with the Cajun trinity (onion, celery, bell pepper), lean grd.beef and sprimp. No tomatoes, but add parmesan cheese, bread cumbs, lots of herbs . We boil the shrimp heads and shells to make a reduced stock that is flavor punch i add for moisture. When i do this i make some for the freezer. Keey your videos coming. Thank you!
I love making chicken and dumplings. I never grew up with that recipe, but in my early 20's my friend brought me a bowl full of this amazing goodness when I got sick and ever since then this has been my comfort food.
that recipe looks amazing. my hungarian grandmother always made it too in a similar way so i usually cook it.but i use pork mince because cheaper and also more tender to eat in this dish.great job looks amazing.
yup def an old family fave, grandma used to use either hamburger or sausage, sometimes both together. i think with 5 kids and an extended family you just use what you have and she made a lot of them. i need to make this soon thanks
luv stuffed cabbage and I do because my mom made me stuffed peppers often so it was an easy addition to have stuffed cabbage and I love cabbage boiled alone with butter salt and pepper,same with peppers love theses veggies raw and cooked we need to bring them back into popularity lol! great easy recipe
Monday Soup - Which was only on rainy days not too often here in Los Angeles. It was part split pea starter pack w/ short ribs & cow knuckles potatoes & carrots and the 2nd day it was super thick and yum!! I do remember that she did make stuffed cabbage as well but not to much..
This does look really good. My mom made this often in the winter when I was little using a glass lasagna sized pan. An inexpensive and nutritious comfort meal.
My grandmother from czech/german background made kraut runzas for the whole family. She would make them once a year and freeze them. They made a great savory lunch or dinner meal.
Thank you Sarah Carey! You are awesome and I always enjoy watching your excellent cooking and advice! I have made these many times and love them like crazy! Thank you for your work as always!
I love stuffed cabbage, there is a technique how you roll the cabbage with the filling. My grandmothers has a perfect recipe. That's traditional for Christmas. We also make a vegetarian version of it, with carrots, mushrooms and rice.
I'm sharing that stuffed cabbage rolls were one of my Dad's favorite dishes that he would make for me. I came across your recipe and it brought back special memories. Thanks 👍.
I just made my own that I usually make. They're in the oven. One thing I've never done is add an egg. Next time I'll try it. I can't handle sweet with tomato so I probably won't ever make or try to sugar and apple vinegar additions but the cabbage on the bottom of the pan is a good tip also. Thanks for the vid
I make these for the freezer all the time. I make one pan for dinner and one for the freezer. You're right that you'll need more sauce when reheating the frozen ones, but then I like plenty of sauce with cabbage rolls anyway.
Making these today haven't had this since I was a little girl. My mom wasn't a good cook but my g-ma made these a lot. My favorite dish she made was sauerkraut and ribs (country ribs) with fried potatoes in a cast iron skillet.
There is not enough sauce in this recipe, Having been raised around a large polish population and watching many, many different cooks make their cabbage rolls, I can tell you that the filling and the sauce around the rolls is way, way to skimpy. You really need the insides to be moist and juicy when you cut into it, The juice from the meat and sauce added to the meat mixture should come pouring out when you open the package. Then the sauce from the outside that the cabbage rolls are sitting on, and the sauce that is on top, and juices of the internal meat mixture, all mix together on your plate or bowl, AND THAT is the joy of eating a cabbage roll. Maybe some people do like a dry version of this dish, I have just never ate any in my 64 + years. The saying different strokes for different folks might apply to cabbage rolls also. I would just double the sauce recipe add more inside with the meat, Thin it down some (water or tomato juice or veg broth) for the bottom cabbage layer and top layer, before baking. Also putting the aluminum foil directly on top of the acidic tomato sauce (acid from tomato's) will eat the foil and get into your food .. I suggest you put a layer of parchment or cling film on first, then foil on top before baking. This is a good starting recipe that I think people can spring board off from, I do like the basic techniques here, and people can add spices and herbs to the meat and sauce as the see fit .. Italian seasonings, of oregano and thyme and basil some savory or marjoram, use fresh or dry to your taste.
My Hungarian aunt would make her cabbage rolls putting sauerkraut as the bottom layer. I like your idea of using the rest of the small cabbage cut up with sugar and vinegar.....NO waste....looks delicious!
I love cabbage rolls, made them a lot when I was young though they contained no rice and were cooked separately from the sauce which was added when serving. Also this made them easier to freeze after cooking.
Was always hallupkees and stuffed peppers. I've made the stuffed peppers now a few times for my family, and they were a hit. So now I wanted to learn these. So thank you :)
We have this food in Turkey but we do it a little different so we peel the cabage than boil the leaves than wrap it with filling which is also meat. Oh and we domt cook it in the owen but slowly cook it in the saucepan. I think its delicious and one of my favorites I'll try this recipe with my mom :)
Spaghetti and meatballs was my favorite recipe as a kid growing up. Split pea ham soup as an adult. My Mom made both, and I make both from scratch now.
I just tried your recipe today. The only ingredient that kept this dish from getting a "10" was the addition of Sugar to the sauce. I wish I had skipped this part. Im Italian and cook gravy "Spaghetti Sauce" at least 3 times a week and I definitely do not add Sugar. I know some people do but to me it's like having dessert for the main dish. I will however try making your dish again -without adding the Sugar of course. Thank again for posting this recipe 🙂
I love my Mom's Cabbage Rolls. May she rest in Peace! I have never found anything that even comes close to her recipe. This recipe is close but her Cabbage Rolls were like Egg Rolls. They were very small and time consuming, but it was a labor of love.
This is a lovely recipe I’m definitely trying to tonight my favorite food growing up was pirogi and stuffed cabbage! I’m Ukrainian I love every food but these two are my favorite!
Cabbage rolls Baked Egg casserole Chicken Gizzards and Noodles My grandma did the cooking until she passed when I was 12. My mom took over cooking and she rarely made those dishes as I got older in the 70s. At that time they started cooking the latest greatest recipes. I wish I had been older and could learn from my grandma and mom how to cook my favorites.
Times are tough and food is going to get scarce, so I'm trying to do more with vegetables. Someone gave me a wonderful big head of cabbage. I don't like cabbage, but I thought I'd try this, since I'm polish. Hopefully my family will like it. I think my favorite food when I was young was when mom would make 'homemade' man and cheese, which was basically melted Velveeta and pasta with a jar of her home canned tomatoes. Amazingly good.
I prefer the minced garlic in the jar. The flavor is very rich because it has had time to seep out. It's also very convenient and doesn't make your fingers stinky. Just my preference, but I do mention it in my cooking show whenever I use it
Hi , great job, you can freeze a head of cabbage, thaw it out and the leaves are soft, I trim the rib off the leaves to thin it, but you have to cook for longer time to cook the Cabbage, a half day simmer is necessary, I pour a jar of pasta sauce on the rolls and cook them on a overed pan on my electric griddle.
Sarah, I know it won’t be popular with everyone but my mother would occasionally make liver and onions. OMGosh, it was so delicious. I wish I knew how to make it really really tender. Please show us.
Gosh Sarah, I really appreciate seeing this recipe ! I never even think about making cabbage rolls but I love them !!!! Thank You, and Happy New Year !!!
So, super secret replacement for the vinegar and sugar, I use 3/4-1 cup of CocaCola. I like the acidity and the sweetness it brings. I also really deepens the flavor of the tomato in the sauce.
My favorite meal that my mother made was Spanish rice. It's a very easy recipe. I found out that this was my grandmother's recipe some years later. I still make it.
I think is a great idea. I’m vegan so I’ll be using a plant based stuffing and binder but the method and concept is fantastic. I’ll definitely wanna make it....maybe stuffed with a pre cooked farro.
My favourite foods that my mother made was tripe casserole, sweet potato curry, and pea soup with pigs trotters. I'm trying your recipe but I've just found that the outer leaves of my cabbage were soggy. I peeled those off but the leaves that were OK were a bit small. I used them anyway and had to bring out my aubergine to stuff that with the remainder of the filling. I hope it works. It's my first time. I'm learning. Tomorrow, I'm going to the market to buy a huge locally grown Shropshire cabbage. I won't stop making this until I've perfected it.
My mum found a recipe for stuffed cabbage rolls many years ago. I loved them. On my birthday, I always requested this dish as my birthday dinner. While in college, I would come home for visits and mum always made it for dinner my last night home. This continued until her passing in 2002. Stuffed cabbage rolls remain a comfort food for me. Thanks for giving an idea how to make them. I have not had them since.
it's a cool rainy day here in the mountains of VA I've got stuffed cabbage in the oven I used little molasses in place of sugar skipped the onions and added rice and corn to mine. Thanks so much, funny story my wife said you haven't made cabbage rolls in a while. I used to blend some sausage with burger but at 59 years old can't take that anymore so stay with the leanest burger I can get. I've never tried the sweet and sour wife loved the flavor of molasses garlic salt vinegar Cento crushed tomatoes
It's a staple on every Polish house. And it's sooo comforting! Great recipe, thank you!
Yes, we called it golabki's growing up. Love it!
Also in Hungary!
“Sarmale” in Romanian 🙋🏻♂️
There was this wonderful polish woman in my childhood who made cabbage rolls. It was fascinating watching her do it. It always seems like a mystery.
Gagata93 this brings back great memories. My stepmother who was Jamaican Chinese also made this dish with slightly different seasonings. I came across similar dishes when I lived in the then 'Eastern Block' /USSR during the 80s. Brings back wonderful memories of people and food. Thank you - I will be making this now for my own children.
My mom used to make fried chicken with biscuits and gravy every Friday. I miss my mom.
Damn i'd miss your mom too! Craving it now so bad!!😍🤤
I enjoyed this video especially because her mom made it and it reminds her of her childhood. Also, she is to the point.
I miss my mom too 😢
My mom was n
ot a very good cook. But I miss her anyway.
Making this today. We have always added sauerkraut to ours versus the Apple cider vinegar and use half ground pork with beef and beef broth with a tablespoon of Worcestershire
Love the simplicity of this recipe. My mom made us our favorite meals on our birthdays. Mine was bbq chicken, potato salad and strawberry shortcake. I was a summer baby.❤️
My advice depending on how many your feeding is to double the recipe. I remember my mom making these they were even better warmed up after a few days like lasagna where the pasta softens more. Unbelievable with mashed potatoes and green beans. Can't wait to try this. The local supermarkets gave these in the deli. Sometimes Ill get 1 or 2 for myself.
Lahana sarması! I’m Turkish and that’s what we call stuffed cabbage😍 I know a lot of other cuisines have it too, it’s one of my absolute favorites🌸
Also in Greece, we usually make it with a white lemon-egg sauce and we call it dolmades (from the Turkish word dolma). My mom makes it all the time in winter. She also makes it in layers in a large "fait tous" pot : first the cabbage, then the stuffing usually beef and then again cabbage etc . When it's cooked, she spreads the lemon-egg sauce on top and let it stand for a while. That way she delivers the same comforting taste without the work ... !!!! Enjoy !!! So many countries share the same dish !!!! Peace, love and good food !!!
I absolutely love stuffed cabbage. My mother used to make it when we lived in the mountains of Virginia. I will try your recipe tomorrow night thanks for all you do.. God bless
I can't wait to try this. My mom would make this amazing Sunday morning breakfast complete with scrambled eggs, meats and pancakes! I remember it to this day!! She used a cast iron skillet for everything and the flavors all melted together!
I made these today with the exception of home canned tomatoes; just let the sauce simmer a little longer because they were juicy. They were excellent and very easy! The vinegar was a nice touch. I'll be making these again soon!! Thanks Sarah, and I enjoy your videos!
So comforting watching and listening to her cook
My Mom made chicken smothered in mushroom sauce it was incredible and I still make it today. She also made incredible potatoe salad
My mother made this dish too when I was growing up but my absolute favorite was cabbage stuffed pirogie. The cabbage was sauted with butter until it was buttery soft, then stuffed into the dough. She served it with just a drizzle of melted butter and sprinkled with salt and pepper. It was my Polish father's favorite dish and my mother hated making it because it was so putsy but I loved it!
My mom would make a version of this dish. It usually was a special occasion dish.
Because its a dish which takes a few hrs to cook she didn't pre cook the onions / garlic. She used beef/ground pork mixed with rice (raw), rolled in cabbage. It was a layering of rolled cabbage , tomatoe sauce/paste, ricotta cheese, sauerkraut.
It was so yummy.
Growing up my mom would always make the usual..meatloaf, tacos, spaghetti etc..So at the end of the week she would take any leftovers like the taco meat and mashed potatoes and fresh veggies and throw it all in a pot and make a big pot of soup..Granted it doesn't sound very good but it has always been the best soup I have ever eaten!! My best eating memories always go back to that soup!!
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It sounds very good with some vegetable broth added. Buttered Toast on the side makes me want to smile.
There is NOTHING like a big pot of "whatever we have" soup. Brings back memories of my childhood too...
Me and my sister always called garbage soup cuz we were being kids..lol But it was and still is our fave thing our mommy made!!
My mom made this really yummy chile de carne when I was little. It was made with really sautéed pork bites. My sister and I would always try to sneak a piece of the meat while Mom was busy!
The chile was made with tomatoes garlic serrano peppers and salt squooshed in a molcajete (the morter and pestle used in Mexican cuisine) and poured over the crunchy meat.
I make it now. It’s easy and inexpensive as far as the cuts of meat used. But whenever I visit my mom makes it for me and it tastes like a million bucks.
Yes, you definitely can freeze them before baking! Layer a bit of the chopped cabbage and sauce in bottom of casserole dish. Layer with the cabbage rolls. Add more sauce to cover. If it is a deep enough dish, make second and third layers of cabbage rolls. Cover with casserole lid, (foil, plastic wrap, whatever available) and cool before freezing. Or wrap to bake as usual, and freeze to store after baking. I have even wrapped them separately in foil, then paced with a small container of sauce, and sent home with relatives or neighbors or taken to friends to cook at their homes. If frozen unbaked, only partially thaw before baking. Bake 350 degrees F. covered, one hour. Remove cover, bake until done. Yum! Sometimes I assemble ingredients and chop into bite sized chunks, cover with sauce and bake as a casserole.
In reading other comments, I purposely make extra sauce to top and to serve on the side. Also make extra sauce with lasagna. I serve them with mashed potatoes.
Hope everyone enjoys their supper and gets warmed up. Kathy P. :O
I made this. Even added grape jelly as you said. But I don't know how much is needed so I jyst added a big heaping spoon. So awesome, and thank you 😊
In Mississippi we call it stuffed cabbage. No matter how it's made or where I see it, I think of home.
Thx
I'm a Mississippian and it's always on the table for family reunion. I look forward to it!
I live in Mississippi and that’s what we call it.
Growing up, my mom made Greek Avgolemono soup. A thick and creamy, savory soup with lemon, eggs, rice and chicken. The consistency is similar to slightly thin warm rice pudding. So good on a cold winter's evening with a little s&p and a hunk of shepherd's bread.
This is a great easy recipe. I made it yesterday and it was amazing. Very much like my German Grandmother used to make.
Being Northern Italian on my father's side, my favorite meal was Polenta with Roast-Beef. Using the polenta topped with brown gravy in place of potatoes was amazing. I could not get enough of it.
That looks absolutely delicious! My mom used to make that for me even after I moved out and had my own family. She has since become sick, and today I'm making it for her for the first time. #StuffedCabbage💗
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My mom made this all the time when I was growing up! She would put it in the slow cooker sometimes as well.
Stuffed cabbage was one. I was anemic when I was younger and the doctor told my mother to feed me liver. Till this day I still love chicken liver with bell peppers and onion. Very satisfying. Your stuffed cabbage looks delicious .
My mother made two dishes that I absolutely loved. In the first she’d pour a bag of frozen lima beans (can be baby limas if you want) into the bottom of a roasting pan underneath the chicken you’re going to roast-the lima beans cooked in the roast chicken juices are the ultimate comfort food!! The second dish is porcupine balls cooked in the oven. My porcupine balls never taste like hers. ☹️
Sarah,You did a #1 job,Lots of great information,to the point advice.NO DOUBLE TALK!!!.Please keep up your recipe's.I will keep on looking for your help.Thank you& Happy all saints day.
My mom always made pork chilli for the holidays. Its a native american/spanish dish that is amazing!!!!
My mother made this wonderful Red Thai Coconut Milk Curry with chicken, whole bird with skin, and served it over rice vermicelli. Super umami bomb with fall off the bone chicken. Served with fresh lime, fried garlic, Thai basil, mint, thinly sliced cabbage and mung bean sprouts!
I'm the only one in my family who truly enjoys boiled cabbage, or sauteed cabbage etc. I've seen something similar to this done with Bell Peppers (stuffed peppers with rice/meat/marinara). Another classic dish found in most 70's vintage dinner party mags HAHA.
I particularly love sauteed cabbage with fennel seed, chili flake, butter, and garlic. It's a great side that goes with chicken, fish, or beef. Chinese dishes that utilize braised or sauteed cabbage are a favorite of mine as well.
I made these for New Years this year, and seasoned my tomato sauce / red gravy - like I do for meatballs. It was a hit! Thanks for sharing your Mom's jelly ingredient. Will have to give that a try next time. Favorite meal my Mom made - Bell peppers stuffed with crab meat.
Great video. Thank you! I am Cajun and make stuffed mirlitons. I believe in other parts they are calle vegtable pear. I boil them whole gently and cool, then half horizontally, cool & carefully scoop out squash with spoon. I stuffed with the Cajun trinity (onion, celery, bell pepper), lean grd.beef and sprimp. No tomatoes, but add parmesan cheese, bread cumbs, lots of herbs . We boil the shrimp heads and shells to make a reduced stock that is flavor punch i add for moisture. When i do this i make some for the freezer. Keey your videos coming. Thank you!
My comfort food my mama always made was corned beef and cabbage with potatoes. To me that is like a hug from my mama. Oh, how I miss her so.
My mom and my grandma used to make this dish when I was a child! Thanks for the inspiration! 💜
I love stuffed cabbage.
Your video simplifies the presentation and hopefully will inspire everyone that watches
Polish Golumpki....missing my Mom and Dad who always made it, delicious beyond words! ❤
I love making chicken and dumplings. I never grew up with that recipe, but in my early 20's my friend brought me a bowl full of this amazing goodness when I got sick and ever since then this has been my comfort food.
that recipe looks amazing. my hungarian grandmother always made it too in a similar way so i usually cook it.but i use pork mince because cheaper and also more tender to eat in this dish.great job looks amazing.
My grandmother made similar stuffed cabbage, though she added raisins as a sweetener to the rolls. Thanks for this!
yup def an old family fave, grandma used to use either hamburger or sausage, sometimes both together. i think with 5 kids and an extended family you just use what you have and she made a lot of them. i need to make this soon thanks
Classic polish dish, thanks for sharing!
In western Pennsylvania we call them stuffed cabbage or hulupki. Served with a savory tomato sauce and Mashed Potatoes,
luv stuffed cabbage and I do because my mom made me stuffed peppers often so it was an easy addition to have stuffed cabbage and I love cabbage boiled alone with butter salt and pepper,same with peppers love theses veggies raw and cooked we need to bring them back into popularity lol! great easy recipe
My 6yo daughter now wants to make this recipe. My favorite recipe from my mom is Anticuchos. It's Peruvian shish-ka-bobs and they are amazing!
Monday Soup - Which was only on rainy days not too often here in Los Angeles. It was part split pea starter pack w/ short ribs & cow knuckles potatoes & carrots and the 2nd day it was super thick and yum!!
I do remember that she did make stuffed cabbage as well but not to much..
I will make it tomorrow... I love the way you cook, very clean and nice. thanks
This does look really good. My mom made this often in the winter when I was little using a glass lasagna sized pan. An inexpensive and nutritious comfort meal.
One of my favorite comfort foods as well. It’ll never be as good as moms was but I’ve been craving it for months!!! Thank you
My grandmother from czech/german background made kraut runzas for the whole family. She would make them once a year and freeze them. They made a great savory lunch or dinner meal.
My fave dish that my mom made for me is red chili enchiladas with rice. No one can make mexican rice like she does!😋🥰
Thank you Sarah Carey! You are awesome and I always enjoy watching your excellent cooking and advice! I have made these many times and love them like crazy! Thank you for your work as always!
I love stuffed cabbage, there is a technique how you roll the cabbage with the filling. My grandmothers has a perfect recipe. That's traditional for Christmas. We also make a vegetarian version of it, with carrots, mushrooms and rice.
I'm sharing that stuffed cabbage rolls were one of my Dad's favorite dishes that he would make for me. I came across your recipe and it brought back special memories. Thanks 👍.
We did the same dish in Slovakia,but instead of fresh cabbage we used the fermented cabbage,I love it ,and instead of beef we used the pork mince
I just made my own that I usually make. They're in the oven. One thing I've never done is add an egg. Next time I'll try it. I can't handle sweet with tomato so I probably won't ever make or try to sugar and apple vinegar additions but the cabbage on the bottom of the pan is a good tip also. Thanks for the vid
I make these for the freezer all the time. I make one pan for dinner and one for the freezer. You're right that you'll need more sauce when reheating the frozen ones, but then I like plenty of sauce with cabbage rolls anyway.
Making these today haven't had this since I was a little girl. My mom wasn't a good cook but my g-ma made these a lot. My favorite dish she made was sauerkraut and ribs (country ribs) with fried potatoes in a cast iron skillet.
Made this two days in a row
It’s delitious and easy the way u explained it thank u
I made it this evening it came out great, my mother use to fix it for me when i was a child
There is not enough sauce in this recipe, Having been raised around a large polish population and watching many, many different cooks make their cabbage rolls, I can tell you that the filling and the sauce around the rolls is way, way to skimpy. You really need the insides to be moist and juicy when you cut into it, The juice from the meat and sauce added to the meat mixture should come pouring out when you open the package. Then the sauce from the outside that the cabbage rolls are sitting on, and the sauce that is on top, and juices of the internal meat mixture, all mix together on your plate or bowl, AND THAT is the joy of eating a cabbage roll. Maybe some people do like a dry version of this dish, I have just never ate any in my 64 + years. The saying different strokes for different folks might apply to cabbage rolls also. I would just double the sauce recipe add more inside with the meat, Thin it down some (water or tomato juice or veg broth) for the bottom cabbage layer and top layer, before baking. Also putting the aluminum foil directly on top of the acidic tomato sauce (acid from tomato's) will eat the foil and get into your food .. I suggest you put a layer of parchment or cling film on first, then foil on top before baking. This is a good starting recipe that I think people can spring board off from, I do like the basic techniques here, and people can add spices and herbs to the meat and sauce as the see fit .. Italian seasonings, of oregano and thyme and basil some savory or marjoram, use fresh or dry to your taste.
Yes, cabbage rolls MUST be juicy. I personally like fall/winter cabbage for the rolls. I never cut the heads in half.
i agree It Hass to be smothered in sauce
I agree, they look a bit rushed and thrown together. I’m not polish but I saw another video before this and it was much neater.
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Yes I like.juicy sloppy rolls..a touch of.balsamic vinegar to boot..
My Hungarian aunt would make her cabbage rolls putting sauerkraut as the bottom layer. I like your idea of using the rest of the small cabbage cut up with sugar and vinegar.....NO waste....looks delicious!
I love cabbage rolls, made them a lot when I was young though they contained no rice and were cooked separately from the sauce which was added when serving. Also this made them easier to freeze after cooking.
Looks wonderful! Gonna make this tonight. My mom made this too. One of my fav dishes she also made was chicken and dumplins.
Was always hallupkees and stuffed peppers. I've made the stuffed peppers now a few times for my family, and they were a hit. So now I wanted to learn these. So thank you :)
We have this food in Turkey but we do it a little different so we peel the cabage than boil the leaves than wrap it with filling which is also meat. Oh and we domt cook it in the owen but slowly cook it in the saucepan. I think its delicious and one of my favorites I'll try this recipe with my mom :)
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Would a slow cooker work?
Jacqueline Robinson Yes it works perfectly
Chicken and dumplings was my all-time favorite growing up. She would make it every year on my birthday.
my childhood dish as well! (born in Estonia) has to be enjoyed with the soured cream! you should definitely try!
We call it sarma. That and stuffed peppers are one of those winter dishes everyone loves!
I've never made cabbage rolls but I've had them & they are delicious. But anything with cabbage, to me, is delicious ....
Spaghetti and meatballs was my favorite recipe as a kid growing up. Split pea ham soup as an adult. My Mom made both, and I make both from scratch now.
I just tried your recipe today. The only ingredient that kept this dish from getting a "10" was the addition of Sugar to the sauce. I wish I had skipped this part. Im Italian and cook gravy "Spaghetti Sauce" at least 3 times a week and I definitely do not add Sugar. I know some people do but to me it's like having dessert for the main dish. I will however try making your dish again -without adding the Sugar of course.
Thank again for posting this recipe 🙂
I love my Mom's Cabbage Rolls. May she rest in Peace!
I have never found anything that even comes close to her recipe. This recipe is close but her Cabbage Rolls were like Egg Rolls. They were very small and time consuming, but it was a labor of love.
This is a lovely recipe I’m definitely trying to tonight my favorite food growing up was pirogi and stuffed cabbage! I’m Ukrainian I love every food but these two are my favorite!
Stuffed cabbage or peppers are so delicious..... great video. Brought back memories of my mom making these dishes
Never had cabbage rolls in my life, but I love cabbage so I'm going to try this out tonight. Thanks for the video.
Cabbage rolls
Baked Egg casserole
Chicken Gizzards and Noodles
My grandma did the cooking until she passed when I was 12. My mom took over cooking and she rarely made those dishes as I got older in the 70s. At that time they started cooking the latest greatest recipes. I wish I had been older and could learn from my grandma and mom how to cook my favorites.
White rice fried cabbage shredded baked real bacon pieces mixing all together so good
I grew up eating these in my Polish family, only ours weren’t sweet. My grandma made them with the tomato sauce and sauerkraut.
It went in with no sauce on top but came out with sauce on top! Magic!!
my mom used to make this all he time she also used to put caraway seeds in it. give a little extra nice flavor also.
Times are tough and food is going to get scarce, so I'm trying to do more with vegetables. Someone gave me a wonderful big head of cabbage. I don't like cabbage, but I thought I'd try this, since I'm polish. Hopefully my family will like it.
I think my favorite food when I was young was when mom would make 'homemade' man and cheese, which was basically melted Velveeta and pasta with a jar of her home canned tomatoes. Amazingly good.
I prefer the minced garlic in the jar. The flavor is very rich because it has had time to seep out. It's also very convenient and doesn't make your fingers stinky. Just my preference, but I do mention it in my cooking show whenever I use it
Made these yesterday, perfect... sauce was excellent. Thanx
I made this tonight and it was delicious!!
So delish! My mom made Dutch Indonesian food. Chicken Balado was my favorite and is my favorite to this day. I make it for my son now.
Hi , great job, you can freeze a head of cabbage, thaw it out and the leaves are soft,
I trim the rib off the leaves to thin it, but you have to cook for longer time to cook the
Cabbage, a half day simmer is necessary, I pour a jar of pasta sauce on the rolls and cook them on a overed pan on my electric griddle.
Sarah, I know it won’t be popular with everyone but my mother would occasionally make liver and onions. OMGosh, it was so delicious. I wish I knew how to make it really really tender. Please show us.
That's so delicious! In Russia it calls golubtsi, it's also traditional dish for Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
Romania too!
In Poland golabki
In Colombia we all them Indians, and for the sweet flavor we use ripe plantains on top. Instead of vinagre we use lime juice.
Also a traditional Croatian dish called Sarma. Didn't realise so many other countries did this also.
It is nice to see so many people coming from different countries and having their own variations of stuffed cabbage. God, I miss sarma :(
Gosh Sarah, I really appreciate seeing this recipe ! I never even think about making cabbage rolls but I love them !!!! Thank You, and Happy New Year !!!
My mum made this when we were young, I loved it, she called it "golumkies " or something like that, now I am motivated to make this.
So, super secret replacement for the vinegar and sugar, I use 3/4-1 cup of CocaCola. I like the acidity and the sweetness it brings. I also really deepens the flavor of the tomato in the sauce.
My favorite meal that my mother made was Spanish rice. It's a very easy recipe. I found out that this was my grandmother's recipe some years later. I still make it.
TY, that was a weekly dish growing up. RIP Mom.
My mom was a great cook but she made an awesome lasagna! 😋 I make it the same way and I have received such great compliments!
I think is a great idea. I’m vegan so I’ll be using a plant based stuffing and binder but the method and concept is fantastic. I’ll definitely wanna make it....maybe stuffed with a pre cooked farro.
Your recipe for the stuffed cabbage rolls sounds amazing it is definitely on my list to try...
this really makes my mouth water... really looks delicious...
My favourite foods that my mother made was tripe casserole, sweet potato curry, and pea soup with pigs trotters.
I'm trying your recipe but I've just found that the outer leaves of my cabbage were soggy. I peeled those off but the leaves that were OK were a bit small. I used them anyway and had to bring out my aubergine to stuff that with the remainder of the filling. I hope it works. It's my first time. I'm learning. Tomorrow, I'm going to the market to buy a huge locally grown Shropshire cabbage. I won't stop making this until I've perfected it.