Saturday morning I got a hankering for some homemade stuffed cabbage. I really haven't had the stuff, since my Grandmother had a month long stay in the hospital several years ago, nearly dying. She hasn't been able to make it since, because it is just too much for her to handle.

So I called my mom for the recipe, she couldn't find it, so a call to grandma was made for the recipe. And I made a batch of it Saturday.

Here we go.........And it makes A LOT of food, so expect leftovers.

The Toth Family Hungarian Stuffed Cabbage recipe

1 lb ground beef (uncooked)
1/2 lb ground pork (uncooked)
3/4 cup uncooked rice (do not use instant rice)
1 onion
2 small to medium sized heads of cabbage
1 large can of whole, peeled tomatoes
1 large jar or cans of Libby's Crispy Sauerkraut (I used more, because I LOVE sauerkraut)
Kilbasa (as much as you want)

1) Mix meat and uncooked rice. Add chopped onion, salt, pepper, and paprika as desired. Add a little bit of tomato juice to the meat mixture for moisture. Set aside.

2) Cut out center cores of the cabbages and place in a pot of boiling water, turn the cabbage for good coverage and remove the cabbage leaves with a fork as they begin to welt off. You don't need to use ALL of the leaves from each cabbage, save the more inner parts of the cabbage for later.

3) Place approximately 2 tablespoonsful of the meat mixture on a cabbage leaf and roll up, tucking the ends in like a burrito.

4) Use a LARGE stock pot.
-layer the bottom of the pot with chopped cabbage left over
-layer in 1/2 of the sauerkraut (rinsed and drained in a collander)
-layer in 1/2 of the tomatoes
-add 1/2 of the kilbasa (cut up)

5) add the stuffed cabbage on top of your layers

6) Once again add a layer of chopped cabbage, the other 1/2 of the sauerkraut, tomatoes, and the rest of the kilbasa.

7) Add enough water to the pot to just cover the food and bring to a boil.

8) Reduce to low heat after pot is brought to a boil. Simmer for 3 hours on low.

9) A lot of liquid/juice will be produced as the pot simmers thoughout cooking. Remove some of this liquid and save off to the side. Later in the cooking process you will notice that the food in the pot will need some of the liquid added back in.

10) cook fo 3 hours on low

When it's done you will have some YUMMY stuffed cabbage, with sauerkraut and kilbasa. Serve it with a dolop of sour cream over the top. And some bread and butter off to the side is good too!

It was damn good, and we still have enought to eat Stuffed Cabbage everyday for lunch.

Stuffed cabbage is da bomb

And it tasted soooooo good

Well, I guess that I will just have to try it out... at your house. I'd be splattered on the glass door if KG got a hold of cabbage.

Any samples?

Ate them all a few weeks ago.

Making stuffed cabbage again today

It was excellent.

I'm glad you liked it Sweetie. Because we're going to be eating it all week long, except for Thursday

I'll be making this for the Golf Tourney Pot Luck

got any samples

Nope. Not bringing it out after all. Don't have the time to make it.

Bump for Kenny G.

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So I can print out the recipe.

I've been recruited to make this for Christmas Eve Dinner tomorrow night. Gonna start prepping the rolls today

Hmmm. I might have to try this. Not so sure about the sauerkraut though, although I think it may be one of those foods I just think I don't like but really have no basis for that opinion.

It's a stuffed cabbage type of day.......half batch only