Nana's Golabki is the ultimate comfort food! These Polish Stuffed Cabbage Rolls are mostly traditional - ground beef, pork, and rice wrapped and baked in soft cabbage leaves, but with a healthy surprise ingredient: mushrooms!
Course Main Course
Cuisine Polish
Keyword golabki
Prep Time 45 minutesminutes
Cook Time 1 hourhour30 minutesminutes
Total Time 2 hourshours15 minutesminutes
Servings 4
Calories 419kcal
Ingredients
1large head green cabbage
¾poundground beef
8ouncesportobello mushroomsfinely chopped
1small onionfinely chopped
1cupcooked white rice
1eggslightly beaten
15ouncestomato saucedivided
1clovegarlicminced
1tablespoonWorcestershire sauceoptional
Kosher saltto taste
Black pepperto taste
15ouncesdiced tomatoes
1tablespoonlemon juice
2teaspoonsbrown sugar
Instructions
Bring a large saucepan of lightly salted water to a boil. Add the head of cabbage and cook for 2-4 minutes or until softened. Drain, then carefully cut and remove the outer leaves. If necessary, add the inner head back into the water and cook for ad additional 2-3 minutes until most of the leaves are removable.
In a medium mixing bowl, combine the ground beef, mushrooms, onion, cooked rice, egg, 1/2 cup tomato sauce, garlic, 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce, and salt and pepper to taste. Mix thoroughly.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Cut a 'V' around the thick vein of ten of the sturdiest cabbage leaves and remove. Reserve 4 of the largest leftover leaves, then chop the remaining cabbage and place it in an even layer on the bottom of a large casserole dish.
Slightly overlap the cut ends of the prepared cabbage leaves to form a flat surface. Spoon a generous 1/4 cup of the beef mixture on top of the overlapped end, then tuck in the sides and roll up. Place seam side down on top of the bed of shredded cabbage. Repeat with remaining leaves.
In a separate bowl, combine the remaining tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, lemon juice, and brown sugar. Whisk to combine, taste, then season with salt and pepper as desired. Pour evenly over the cabbage rolls. Layer the large remaining cabbage leaves over the rolls and bake for 1 hours. Remove the top leaves (which will be pretty burned) and continue to bake for another 30 minutes, or until rolls are tender.