Hungarian Style Cabbage Rolls Soooo Good Recipes

HUNGARIAN CABBAGE ROLLS

Steps:

• Get out your big turkey roasting pan or other large roasting pan with lid.
• Cook both cabbages in boiling water, gently peeling off large outer leaves as they become pliable. Continue peeling off leaves until you have at least 25. Remove cabbage from pots and cool. Core when cool, and save the rest.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine ground pork (NOTE: the reason for using a ground shoulder roast is because you want more fat than in normally found in ground pork, but if already ground pork is your only option, go ahead and use it, but mix in about 1/2 cup Crisco or other solid shortening with pork).
• So, combine pork, garlic, uncooked rice, and paprika. Add enough hot water to make mixture workable, but not mushy.
• Now for your cabbage leaves, lay spine side up on cutting board, and with very sharp knife, trim the spine to make it thinner. Start at the top, in the leaf, and trim very gently until you get to the bottom where you can trim more deeply, to get a uniform thickness. Be careful not to puncture leaf or trim too deeply. This step makes the leaves so much easier to roll. Flip leaves over so that the "cup" side is up.
• Once your leaves are ready to roll, place a good 1/2 cup of pork mixture in your hand and shape into an oblong roll, about 1-1/2 inch thick and 3-4 inches long. Place this in center of cabbage leaf and make the roll, folding bottom up, then sides in, then roll to top. (kinda like a burrito) Continue till all filling and leaves are used.
• Coarsely chop your remaining cabbage.
• Preheat oven to 350.
• In bottom of roasting pan, place chopped cabbage and sauerkraut and mix together well. Lay your ham hocks all around, evenly distributed, and kinda poke them down into kraut and cabbage mixture.
• Now you place your cabbage rolls on top of all. Stagger placement so that the rolls aren't directly on top of one another.
• Pour hot water over the whole thing, just to barely cover.
• Put cover on roaster and bake at 350 for 2-1/2 to 3 hours until your rolls are quite firm.
• To Serve, place some kraut cabbage mixture on plate, top with cabbage rolls, usually about 3 per serving, and top with sour cream to taste.
• NOTE: You may want to have a 3rd head of cabbage on hand, just in case you can't get enough leaves off of two to use all your filling.

CABBAGE ROLLS - REAL HUNGARIAN STYLE

Steps:

• Core cabbage, heat in salt water till leaves separate.
• Remove each leaf and drain in colander.
• FILLING--(2nd ingredient group):.
• To scald rice: Heat a generous amount of water in a heavy pan that will hold the heat.
• Make sure that the water will be more than enough to cover the rice.
• Make sure the water is at a rolling boil, if rice is not scalded enough it will be crunchy!
• Let stand for at least 5 minutes.
• Rinse with cold water, draining with sieve, then mix into rest of filling ingredients.
• Now fill the cabbage leaves with filling mixture; folding leaves.
• While rolling pigs, start cooking the stewing sauce in another pot.
• STEWING SAUCE--(3rd ingredient group):.
• Mix group together, bring to a boil, then simmer 5 to 10 minutes.
• TO ASSEMBLE:.
• Line the roaster with: sauce, layer of pigs, more sauce, sprinkle with bacon crumbs, layer of pigs, layer of sauce, sprinkle with bacon crumbs etc.
• Set oven at 350°F.
• Cover roaster, and once all comes to a kind of a boil, reduce temperature to about 300°F so it doesn't boil over.
• Cook about 2 more hours.
• The smoked sausage is optional.
• If using, mix it in among the other ingredients.
• NOTE: 3/8 cup dehydrated onions may be used instead of 2 small onions in recipe.

HUNGARIAN CABBAGE ROLLS

Steps:

• Wilt the cabbage in hot water.
• Cook the bacon until crisp; chop and mix with the rest of the ingredients except for the tomato juice.
• Shape the meat mixture into 12 rolls, wrap in the cabbage leaves.
• Place in the pan the bacon was cooked in; add the tomato juice and simmer for 1 hour.

HUNGARIAN CABBAGE ROLLS

Steps:

• Boil cabbage and separate leaves when soft to roll. Save water.
• Combine hamburger, ham, egg, rice, salt and pepper in large bowl.
• Form rolls using meat mixture and cabbage leaves. Stack rolls in pressure cooker.
• Saute onion in 1 tbsp Crisco in 2-2.5 quart pan until clear.
• Add to fill with water from cooking cabbage. Add 2 tbsp vinegar. Bring to boil.
• Pour liquid and onion mixture over rolls.
• Cook 15 minutes and let cool down per cooker instructions.
• We only know the pressure cooker recipe. His grandmother cooked in large pot, but don't know how long.