At the WLBOTT Test Kitchen and Tractor Lube Station, we are continuing our journey into the Twelve Dishes of Ukrainian Christmas. Yesterday, we made cabbage rolls, which is our current favorite.
Our starting point was based on a recipe from All Recipes.
Ingredients (slightly modified from the All Recipes version)
- 1 head red cabbage (reserve a cup of chopped cabbage)
- water
- 1 ½ cups uncooked black rice
- olive oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- salt and pepper to taste
- shredded cheese (large quantities)
- 1 large can of tomato soup
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350° F[1]. Grease a large casserole dish.
- Place whole head of cabbage (minus the reserved cup) into a covered bowl and microwave for about 5 minutes. Keep it covered for another 5 minutes. The cabbage will be pliable.
- Cook the rice.
- Add olive oil to a skillet, and saute the onion and reserved, chopped cabbage. Stir mixture into cooked rice, add cheese, and season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Cut leaves off cabbage and cut any larger leaves in half. Spoon globs of rice mixture into each leaf and roll tightly. Stack rolls in layers in the prepared casserole dish. Pour tomato soup over the rolls, using enough just to cover.
- Cover and bake in the preheated oven. We cooked it for about an hour and it was perfect.
[1] The temperature setting on the WLBOTT Test Oven is broken, so everything is cooked at 350°.
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