Cabbage Rolls 1_2024

Stuffed Cabbage

Prosperity and good luck in the New Year!

Cabbage Rolls and Black-eyed peas are traditionally eaten on New Years Day as it was thought it would bring wealth and good luck!

Supplies

Ingredients

~Cabbage~

• Large head of fresh cauliflower

~Tomato Sauce~

• 2 tablespoons Olive oil
• 1/4 cup finely chopped Onions
• 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
• 1 (28 ounce) can crushed tomato
• 3 (15 ounce) cans tomato sauce
• 1/4 teaspoon sugar
• 2 cups Chicken broth
• __Parsley
• 2 teaspoon2 Paul Prudhomme’s Italian Magic Seasoning®
• Salt to taste

~Filling~

• 2 tablespoons bacon grease
• 1 pound ground chuck
• 1 pound ground pork
• 1/2 cup green bell peppers
• 1 cup onions
• 1 cup chopped green onions
• 1 teaspoon Steak Seasoning
• 3 cloves garlic
• 2 teaspoons Paul Prudhomme’s New Orleans Magic Seasoning®
• 2 cups cooked white rice

Preparation

~Cabbage~

Cook 2 cups of white rice and set aside.

Boil water in an 8-quart pot. Pull the leaves from the cabbage and par boil them until pliable (. Remove the leaves from water with tongs, shake off the excess water and set aside to drain on a cookie sheet. Cut the bottom of the leaf if it remains very hard.

~~Tomato sauce~~

In heavy gauge pot, heat olive oil and sauté the finely chopped onions. When translucent add crushed tomato sauce, crushed tomatoes, sugar, parsley and Paul Prudhome’s Italian Magic Seasoning® until well combined. Add tomato paste and chicken broth and mix well, then cook for 5 minutes and turn off heat.

• 1/4 cup finely chopped Onions
• 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
• 1 (28 ounce) can crushed tomato
• 3 (15 ounce) cans tomato sauce
• 1/4 teaspoon sugar
• 2 cups Chicken broth
• __Parsley
• __Paul Prudhomme’s Italian Magic Seasoning®

~~Filling~~

In a Dutch-oven or heavy gauge pot cook ground pork because it takes a little longer to cook. Add ground chuck and steak seasoning and cook until almost done Then add green bell peppers and onions until meat is completely cooked and the vegetables are very soft and brown. Add garlic and cook a few minutes. the cooked white rice and Creole Seasoning to taste.

Pour about ½ prepared tomato sauce in the bottom of the baking dish.

Spoon of meat and rice mixture onto a cabbage leaf and fold in the sides, then roll forward, securing it with toothpick if they begin to unroll. Place them close together in a baking dish to prevent them from unrolling.

Then pour the remaining tomato sauce over the cabbage rolls.

Bake at 350° for 30 minutes.

Enjoy Keeping It Creole!