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Laurie Potasiewicz's Golabki (Glumkies)
Ingredients
  • Large head of cabbage
  • 3 pounds ground beef
  • 3 cups white rice
  • 2 cans Tomato Sauce IN A CAN, not that prego or premade italianish sauce, actual cans of Tomato sauce with no seasoning.
  • Ketchup A BIG BOTTLE OF IT
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Garlic Powder
Steps
  1. You will need a large roasting pan or several small ones with lids.
  2. Cook Rice so it is almost cooked. I salt the water so it's not bland. once cooked put immediately into a bowl so it can cool down.
  3. Cut the core out of the cabbage as deep as you can and place it in the HUGE pot. (it needs to fit the head of cabbage, if your cabbage is not that big, adjust the pot size.) BE CAREFUL, Knives are sharp and the core is very hard!
  4. Fill the pot with enough water to submerge the head of cabbage. turn on high to allow it to come to a rolling boil.
  5. The Cabbage will start to look like it is becoming transparent. At this point peel the outer leaves off and set them aside to cool. Continue in this manner until you are down to the small core leaves.
  6. Take each leaf of cabbage and trim the thick vein in the center so the leaf is flat in the center, set aside, and continue until all the veins are flattened out
  7. .
  8. Mix your cooled down rice with the ground beef, season with salt and pepper. this is your mixture you will roll into your cabbage. Set aside.
  9. In a bowl, mix your two cans of tomato sauce and ketchup together. I measure out the ketchup in the empty tomato sauce can and I use a full can's worth of ketchup. Add salt and pepper to taste and add one or two shakes of garlic powder. Mix this well and set aside.
  10. PREHEAT OVEN TO 350. ( don't do it prior to this step so you are not wasting gas or electricity during the prep time.
  11. Put a thin layer of sauce on the bottom of your roasting pan and layer the pay with the outer leaves of the cabbage. It's ok to tear or cut them to fit.
  12. Time to roll the cabbage! I start with the largest leaves first!
  13. Take the cabbage and place it on the workspace in front of you so it looks like a bowl with the core end toward you.
  14. Scoop the meat and rice mixture into the bowl about 3 inches from the edge closest to you.
  15. Bring the edge of the cabbage near you over it and wrap it around the meat/rice mixture and tuck it under the other edge of the mixture, fold the sides over the ends, and roll the rest of the way.
  16. Layer the rolled Golabki on top of the cabbage leaves in the pan. Continue until the bottom is covered. Add a layer of the sauce over the top.
  17. Some people add another layer of cabbage leaves at this point, but I do not and they come out just fine. continue to layer the Golabki until you fill the pan or run out of the mixture.
  18. Cover pan.
  19. Bake in the oven for approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes. the sauce will be boiling around it, and a thermometer placed into the center pieces should come out at least 140 degrees.
  20. Remove from the oven and let rest about 20 minutes. They will continue to cook on the pan for a bit after removing it from the oven.
 

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