Easy | Cabbage | Rolls

[Music] hi everybody welcome back to be my cook in today's video we're going to be making easy cabbage rolls stay tuned for this recipe you're going to need 1 pound of ground chuck 1 to 2 heads of cabbage sauerkraut 2 pans of tomato sauce salt pepper 3/4 of a cup of white rice that is uncooked and 3 generous tablespoons of onion some foil and some toothpicks I'll show you the next step [Music] now in my large stockpot I have water in here getting ready to boil and what we're going to do is we're going to add a couple tablespoons of white vinegar to the pot and we're going to let this start to boil and then we're going to put in our cabbage now we're going to set aside our meat mixture for now and we're going to start to work on our cabbage now this cabbage I've already scored the bottom of it in the square right where the root is this one I'm going to show you take your paring knife and put the knife in as far as you can get it and make a square around the core and that's all we have to do it the leaves are going to come off of this core when we boil the cabbage so it's not a problem so just leave it the way that it is I'm going to put in one head in our pot at a time [Music] our water has been boiling I'm going to take off our lid and we're going to slowly put our cabbage in very carefully now I put our cabbage in core side down and we're just going to let this boil until the leaves become soft and you're going to have to take the leaves off one by one and we're going to drain the leaves our cabbage is boiling and we're going to leave this cabbage boiling for about 15 minutes then we're going to take off the leaves and we're going to drain them and then I'll show you the next step our cabbage has been cooking for five minutes and I want to show you that a leaf has already come off we're just going to leave it in there and you can see that where they're coming off from the core here right about there okay now periodically you're going to want to turn this cabbage over a leaf popped off there we go good I have a couple leaves have come off my cabbage and it's been cooking for about 6 minutes so we still have a few more minutes to go we're just going to leave those leaves in there to continue to cook and soften now while our cabbage is cooking we're going to start working on our meat next year now the first thing we're going to do is we're going to add in our rice I don't know if I'm going to use all of this 3/4 of a cup I kind of like to look at it and see what it looks like we don't want too much rice we kind of want a little even mixture of rice to ground chuck so once I get this mixed up we'll have a better understanding of what this looks like because our rice is uncooked once it starts getting the juices from the ground chuck is actually going to cook inside cabbage roll and it's going to expand so we want to make sure that we have the right amount of rice to our meat looks like I can use a little bit more I think I'll use the hoe 3/4 of a cup I'm gonna stir that around yeah that looks about right now I'm going to take one of my small cans of tomato sauce and I'm going to add a little less than half of that to our mixture we're not going to add the whole can we just want a little bit more flavor in our meat mixture [Music] we're going to save the rest of that can for the top of the cabbage rolls we're going to add some pepper and some salt [Music] now we're going to add our onion [Music] okay so I'm not going to use the whole three tablespoons I have about a generous tablespoon left when you're making these you have to make adjustments and I've been making these for a long time so I know what I want it to look like okay now I have some of our juice from our sauerkraut I'm going to add that to the meat mixture as well just a little bit [Music] okay this is what it looks like now we're going to cover this with plastic wrap put it in the refrigerator and we'll get back to it as soon as all of our cabbage is done our timer just went off for 15 minutes of cooking our cabbage and I'm going to take some of these leaves out and we'll put them in this bowl to drain now I'm going to give this cabbage a little bit longer because our leaves they don't want to disengage from the core right now so I'm going to leave it go for another five minutes I took out the other cabbage and I have some of the leaves that I want draining in this bowl and I'm going to add our other cabbage very carefully to the boiling water core side down and we're going to give this another 15 minutes to cook now the reason why I took this one out of the stockpot is because I really don't want to use all of these super white and small leaves I want to use mostly the green ones that's why usually if I'm making cabbage rolls I'm gonna buy two heads of cabbage because I really want the greener parts of the cabbage I have my work station all set up I have some wax paper on my board I have some toothpicks ready I have all the cans open I grab some tomato juice to put on the top of the cabbage rolls I put my sauerkraut in a bowl I have the first head of cabbage the leaves right here I have my 13 by 9 casserole dish I have a cookie sheet lined with foil just in case it spills over and I don't want it on my oven I have some paper towels that they're ready because this gets pretty messy I also have some more paper towels so what I'm going to do now is this first cabbage that I cooked these leaves are pretty hot so I'm just going to go ahead and put them in this casserole dish for now while we're waiting for the other cabbage to cook so that they cool down and they're easier to handle [Music] now these little ones that I have here are mostly of the white I don't try to use those right away I try to use these nice green ones but in a pinch these ones come in handy but I'm pretty sure I probably won't be using those my second cabbage is doing very well it's been cooking for about four minutes I'll show you the next step after we get all the cabbage cooked while we're waiting for our last cabbage to cook go ahead and pre-heat your oven at 350 now that all of our cabbage is cooked let's prep our casserole dish we're gonna take some of our tomato juice we're gonna put in the bottom of the dish just to cover the dish now we're going to put some pepper in there and some salt now I'm going to take a little bit of my sauerkraut and put that at the bottom [Music] all around just a little bit alright now this is prepped now once we get our cabbage rolled we're going to put them inside the dish now to prepare our cabbage leaf there's this big seam through here and we want to cut that out because it's very hard so I want to take my paring knife and I'm gonna try to shave it down without cutting the cabbage because it's very hard to roll the cabbage when that seam is left the way that it is now you can see that it's more flat now I'm going to take our beef mixture [Music] I would say this is about two tablespoons worth we're going to put it in cabbage leaf right up that seam that we got rid of and we're going to fold it over fold it over fold it over like you're making a burrito and all the way down now we're going to take our toothpicks and I usually put two in there and don't forget that they're in there tell the people that you're going to be serving that there's toothpicks in there and we're going to set it in the dish and we're going to continue [Music] you want to make them the same size that they all cook evenly in the pan [Music] now this meal actually is very easy once you get the hang of it it's pretty easy and it's pretty fast it doesn't take that much time you can make it ahead of time you can make it on a Sunday night eat it Sunday night and have leftovers for Monday it even tastes better the next day now that I have all of my cabbage rolls in my dish what I'm gonna do is I'm going to take the rest of the can of the tomato sauce and I'm going to pour that on the cabbage rolls and then I'm going to take the second can and I'm going to add a little bit of sugar to this one now I have a small bowl here and I'm going to add the second can of tomato sauce in this bowl and I'm gonna add about a tablespoon of granulated sugar and we're going to stir that around I'm going to set that aside for now now I'm going to take some pepper and some salt and the rest of our sauerkraut I'm going to put on the top now you don't have to bake these in the oven I'm gonna bake them in the oven at 350 for about an hour and I'm gonna check one of them and see if the meat is done and then I'm going to take the foil off and I'm going to let it cook for another 15 minutes and they should be done [Music] you also can use a crock-pot and put these in the crock-pot and put them on low heat for eight hours if you wish I've done that before now we're going to use our sauce that we put the sugar in and we're going to put that all around the top now the reason why you want to use sugar is because there's a lot of tomato products in here and it can get a little sour so we don't want to have super sour cabbage rolls because we do have some of kraut we want to have a nice balance just get the rest in there now what I'm gonna do is I'm going to fill up the casserole dish as much as I can with the tomato juice we don't want to get it too close to the top because it will bubble over and we don't want that but we do want a nice sauce when these are done that's about right okay we didn't use all of it now I'm going to cover this with foil and we're going to put it in the oven now I'm going to take some parchment paper and I'm just going to put that over the top of the dish then I'm going to add some foil on top of that now the reason why I'm doing that is sometimes there's a reaction between the foil and tomato products and it kind of gives it a little bit of a strange flavor so to keep that from happening use the parchment paper first okay now we're gonna put it in the oven let's take a look at our cabbage rolls I just took them out of the oven you often steaming out of the oven now they've been cooking for about an hour and 10 minutes at 350 I'm now going to put them back into the oven for 15 more minutes just so the liquid starts to evaporate a little bit and then I'll show you what they look like now I'm going to serve my cabbage rolls with some mashed potatoes so I'm just going to peel some potatoes and get those cooking while I'm still waiting for the cabbage rolls to get done [Music] now sometimes I don't make mashed potatoes with my cabbage rolls but because it's just me and my husband I'm going to make potatoes tonight because I want to have cabbage rolls again for tomorrow [Music] now tomorrow when we eat our cabbage rolls we're not going to have mashed potatoes unless we have leftovers tonight but this is what I mean when you can have one dish that can last you a couple days it's always kind of nice to have these kind of dishes in your your menu planning [Music] [Music] okay let's get these into the pan our potatoes are in the pot we're going to get those to boil and when they are fork tender we're going to take them out and we're going to mash them let's give a check to our potatoes know a few more minutes [Music] here's our easy cabbage rolls out of the oven now we're just gonna let those sit for a while and cool down while we're waiting for our potatoes to get done let's check on our potatoes yeah they're done so I'm going to drain these and put them in a bowl and we're gonna get these mashed up now that I have our potatoes in the bowl I'm going to add four tablespoons of butter [Music] I'm going to add a little bit of milk [Music] this is whole milk by the way it's about a quarter cup I'm going to add some salt now a lot of you would be mashing your potatoes with something like this potato masher I have a fork and I'm just going to mash them with a fork because I'm going to use my mixer and I'm actually going to whip these potatoes [Music] [Applause] [Music] I want to get them in smaller pieces here for my mixer to be able to whip these correctly and periodically if it's too thick I might have to add a little bit more milk and you might have to add a little bit more salt to your taste [Music] okay let's try this use my mixer [Music] [Music] [Music] okay let's take a look that's what we want nice whipped potatoes okay let's give it a taste [Music] oh it's good I don't need any more salt and I don't need any more milk so our easy cabbage rules are now done and I'm going to show you how I'm gonna serve it now let's get one of these out [Music] now let's get two of them put them on the plate with our mashed potatoes now I want to take another spoon and grab some of this topping and put that on the potatoes and a little bit more on our cabbage rolls there you have it here is our easy cabbage rolls with a side of mashed potatoes if you liked this recipe please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing to my channel thanks 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Length: 24min 49sec (1489 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 07 2020