Recipes Stuffed Cabbage Leaves

This Stuffed Cabbage Rolls recipe is tender cabbage leaves filled with lean ground beef and rice, and baked in a tangy homemade tomato sauce. Classic, simple comfort food!

Alternatively, if you’re short on time, make unstuffed cabbage rolls in a skillet – all the same great flavors, but less work.

Stuffed Cabbage Rolls can vary depending on the origin – some are made more sweet, some more savory, some made with only rice, others made with a combination of meats. I make my Stuffed Cabbage Roll recipe with ground beef, rice, and golden raisins! The raisins give great balance to the richness of the tomato sauce. If you don’t like raisins, you can omit them, but I’d recommend adding in some brown sugar to replace that missing sweetness.

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The brilliance about cabbage rolls is the meat and the rice cook in the cabbage leaves themselves. Similar to our homemade dolma (stuffed grape leaves.) They are definitely a labor of love, though, sort of like lasagna. They take time, but very easy to make, and absolutely worth it!

Making cabbage rolls is a process, but not difficult. And the end result is wonderful! Here’s a summary of how to make them.

Since cabbage rolls are stuffed with beef and rice, they’re quite hearty on their own, so if you decide to serve them with other dishes, make sure they’re lighter. We like to enjoy them with a dollop of sour cream or yogurt and a sprinkle of chopped fresh parsley. Some of our favorite pairings include cucumber salad, roasted carrots, latkes, and dinner rolls.

Stuffed Cabbage Rolls

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Don’t like raisins? The raisins in this recipe give great balance to the richness of the tomato sauce. If you don’t like raisins, you can omit them, but I’d recommend adding in some brown sugar to replace that missing sweetness.

Calories: 147 kcal | Carbohydrates: 14 g | Protein: 12 g | Fat: 5 g | Saturated Fat: 1 g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.5 g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3 g | Trans Fat: 0.2 g | Cholesterol: 28 mg | Sodium: 294 mg | Potassium: 495 mg | Fiber: 3 g | Sugar: 7 g | Vitamin A: 323 IU | Vitamin C: 37 mg | Calcium: 53 mg | Iron: 2 mg

Stuffed Cabbage With Rice Recipe

Nutritional information given is an automatic calculation and can vary based on the exact products you use and any changes you make to the recipe. If these numbers are very important to you, I would recommend calculating them yourself.

Subscribe for free to receive new weekly recipes and instantly get a week’s worth of family meals that are quick, easy, and inexpensive to make!Stuffed Cabbage Rolls are a classic, comforting recipe that has been around for ages. They are really easy to make and use easily available ingredients that you can find at your local grocery store. They are a great dinner or even appetizer recipe. With a tasty filling that is wrapped in cabbage and surrounded by a tomato based sauce, you can create a truly filling meal that feeds an entire family with affordable ingredients. If you haven’t made Cabbage Rolls in a while or have never tried them, go grab the ingredients and make it tonight!

Sugar cuts down on the acidity of the tomatoes. You’ll find nearly all good tomato sauce recipes have a little bit of sugar to balance out the flavors.

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Instead of microwaving, you can cook the whole cabbage in a large pot of boiling salted water until the leaves are soft enough to remove without tearing. Or you may remove the leaves and cook the leaves in boiling salted water for about 3 minutes each.  

Keep it simple since the stuffed cabbage rolls are a pretty filling meal by themselves. Steamed or roasted broccoli, corn on the cob, egg noodles, German spaetzle, garlic bread and/or a salad.

Yes, they will still be delicious with just the ground beef. Use 1 pound of ground beef and don’t worry about the pork. Keep everything else the same. 

Baked Stuffed Cabbage Rolls Recipe

Yes, you can cover and refrigerate or freeze the cabbage rolls unbaked.  When they are filled, placed in the pan, and covered in tomato sauce, you may then keep them in the fridge for a day before baking, or in the freezer for up to a month before baking.

I remove that hard center ridge from each cabbage leaf to create two smaller leaves to make them easier to roll up. Doing this also creates a softer and easier to eat cabbage roll. But if it doesn’t bother you, then you can certainly leave it in and create larger rolls.

Cabbage rolls can be frozen. Place in a freezer container and they will keep for up to 1 month. Let defrost in the refrigerator overnight. If you just want to store leftovers, place them in an airtight container where they will keep in the refrigerator for up to 3-4 days.

Vegetarian Stuffed Cabbage Rolls

Spray a 9×13-inch baking pan. Preheat the oven to 350F degrees. Use a long, thin knife to remove the core from the head of the cabbage.Place the cabbage in a covered microwave-safe dish with ½ cup of water. Cook on high power for 5 minutes.Turn the cabbage over and cook for another 10 minutes. Drain the water out of the cabbage bowl completely and allow it to cool enough to handle.

Then, peel the leaves off one at a time and allow them to dry and fully cool on a kitchen towel. While the cabbage is cooling, stir together the ingredients to fill the rolls. Combine the rice, ground beef, ground pork, chopped onion parsley, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, and pepper. Set this aside. Mix the tomato soup, diced/crushed tomatoes, and sugar in a separate bowl.Set this aside.

Pat the cabbage leaves dry with paper towels. Remove the hard ridges in the center of the cabbage leaves with a knife, creating two separate pieces. These would be very difficult to roll up if you didn’t do that. Taking one cabbage leaf at a time, place about 1 ½ to 2 Tablespoons of filling into each leaf.Roll up the leaf and tuck the ends under.Continue with the rest of the rolls.

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Pour half of the sauce into the base of the baking dish. Place rolls seam-side down into the baking dish. Place the cabbage rolls in two long rows, close to each other. (If your dish is smaller and you must layer the cabbage rolls, cover each layer with some tomato sauce.)Then pour the rest of tomato sauce over the cabbage rolls.

A classic and flavorful recipe, these Stuffed Cabbage Rolls are a dinner recipe everyone loves and the always come back for seconds!

Calories: 323 kcal | Carbohydrates: 29 g | Protein: 17 g | Fat: 16 g | Sodium: 735 mg | Fiber: 6 g | Sugar: 13 g

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“The Country Cook” is not a dietician or nutritionist, and any nutritional information shared is an estimate. If calorie count and other nutritional values are important to you, we recommend running the ingredients through whichever online nutritional calculator you prefer. Calories and other nutritional values can vary quite a bit depending on which brands were used.Stuffed Cabbage Rolls recipe is made with cabbage leaves stuffed with a flavorful mixture of ground meat and rice. After that baked to perfection in a tomato-based sauce. A delicious and filling dinner, which also freezes well, so you can meal plan and prepare it in advance.

Casserole recipes are a staple around here, and this one is definitely a favorite. I like how this classic dish is so easy to prepare, and a great way to use some leftover rice. Since this recipe is so popular on the blog, we have made a slow cooker version for you to enjoy. Also, if you are short on time, we recommend you try this Unstuffed Cabbage Rolls recipe. It has the same great flavors, but it cuts down the prep work.

The aroma that this dish gives off as it cooks simply brings back memories from my childhood when my mom used to cook it for us!

Vegetarian Stuffed Cabbage

Each bite is meaty, juicy, and perfectly balanced with the rice. The mixture of herbs and spices also plays an important role in making the flavors shine. The tomato sauce is a real winner in this dish, too.The homemade tomato sauce is outstanding, simmer to perfection with flavorful herbs!

The cabbage leaves themselves are not so flavorful, but they make a nice and sturdy wrap whose flavor simply matches the beefiness. They serve as a blanket and hold together the delicious meat mixture.

Also, I like how you can easily serve each portion of this dish in individual rolls, with no hassle and great presentation.

Old Fashioned Stuffed Cabbage Recipe

While the recipe has a few steps, they are totally worth it. First, I encourage you to make a double batch of homemade tomato sauce. Because it is so good, and you can store it in the fridge and use it on pasta during the week.