Ukrainian Prockus Stuffed Cabbage Low Carb Recipes

STUFFED CABBAGE (UKRAINIAN PROCKUS)

Steps:

• Combine the cranberry sauce, tomato sauce, 2 cups tap water and brown sugar and bring to boil.
• Reduce to a simmer and add white raisins.
• Simmer 5 minutes.
• Core the heads of cabbage and place into a large pot.
• Cover with boiling water.
• Cover the pot and cook 10 to 15 minutes.
• Remove from hot water.
• Then cover the cabbage with cold water and separate the leaves.
• You may have to replace the inner half of the cabbage into the hot water, in order to soften the rest of the leaves.
• When the rest of the cabbage is done, place that into the cold water and separate those leaves.
• In a mixing bowl place the raw ground meat, raw rice, 1 egg, 3 saltine crackers that are soaked and squeezed dry, graded onion, 1/4 cup warm water, 1 tablespoon ketchup, salt and pepper to taste.
• After mixing the meat mixture well, fill the cabbage leaves with the meat mixture, rolling them closed, and place the large golf ball sized balls into a deep roasting pan.
• Cover with the tomato sauce mixture.
• Cover the pan with the lid or with heavy duty aluminum foil and bake in pre-heated 375 degree oven for 1 hour.
• Remove the cover and continue to bake at 375 degrees for an additional hour.
• You can either serve immediately or freeze until needed.

UKRAINIAN PROCKUS (STUFFED CABBAGE - LOW CARB)

Steps:

• Combine the cranberry sauce, tomato sauce, 2 cups tap water, and Splenda and bring to boil.
• Reduce to a simmer and add white raisins.
• Simmer 5 minutes.
• Core the head or heads of cabbage and place into large pot.
• Cover with water and bring to boil.
• Cover the pot and cook 10 to 15 minutes.
• Remove from hot water.
• Cover the cabbage with cold water and separate the leaves. I use only the larger leaves to go completely around the meatballs.
• In a mixing bowl, place the raw ground beef, 1 egg, 3 saltine crackers that are soaked and squeezed dry, grated onion, 1/4 cup warm water, 1 tablespoon ketchup, salt and pepper.
• After mixing the meat mixture well, form into meatballs and wrap each meatball in a cabbage leaf rolling them closed, and place them into a deep roasting pan.
• Cover with the sauce mixture.
• Cover with a lid or heavy duty aluminum foil and bake in a pre-heated 375 degree oven for an hour.
• You can either serve immediately or freeze until needed.
• NOTE: I usually make a double amount of sauce to use over mashed potatoes, because it is so delicious.

UKRAINIAN HOLUBTSI OR STUFFED CABBAGE ROLLS RECIPE BY TASTY

Steps:

• Cook rice according to package directions and set aside to cool completely once done.
• Adjust oven rack to lower half of oven to allow for height of roasting pan. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Boil water in a large pot. While water is heating, remove tough outer leaves of the cabbage and reserve. Core around the stem of the cabbage at enough of an angle to remove. Gently place cabbage into boiling water core side down. Add additional water to ensure cabbage is not touching the bottom of pot.
• Reduce heat just a little and boil cabbage for about 5 minutes or until outer leaves become soft. Using kitchen tongs, remove the outer 2 or 3 leaves intact to a colander placed over a bowl to catch the water. Continue with remaining cabbage leaves one by one, allowing a minute or two between leaves for underlying leaves to soften. You want them to peel apart in one in-tact piece.
• In a large bowl, combine the ground beef, cooked rice, chopped onion, eggs, and salt. Using your hands, work the mixture until combined.
• Position your cooked cabbage leaves alongside your bowl with the mixture in preparation for rolling/stuffing the dumplings. Before stuffing, prepare a large roasting pan by emptying one can of condensed tomato soup or a bit of the canned tomatoes in the bottom and spreading to coat. You do not need much.
• Begin rolling/stuffing the cabbage leaves one at a time. Repeat until all of the meat mixture has been used.
• Once all of the cabbage rolls are tucked tightly in the roasting pan, scatter the pepper strips and the cherry tomatoes on top. If there are remaining unstuffed cabbage leaves left, chop them finely and scatter atop as well. Pour the canned tomatoes, the remaining can of tomato soup, and the Heinz Chili Sauce atop the dumplings. Sprinkle with dried basil and add bay leaves. Dunk the reserved outer leaves detached from the cabbage at the beginning of the recipe into the still hot water used to soften the cabbage. This is simply to remove any grit from the surface of the leaves. Use the outer leaves as a 'blanket' and cover the dumplings completely.
• Place the lid on the roasting pan and bake at 350°F for 2 hours. When 2 hours is up, turn off the oven heat, crack the oven door, and leave the roasting pan in the oven, undisturbed, for an additional hour.
• Let rest until rolls are set. Then, spoon sauce over the cabbage rolls and serve alongside fresh bread of choice.