How to Make Classic Cabbage Rolls (Grandma's Traditional Recipe) | Allrecipes

[@ladydeeluck]

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[@mikeneurohr27]

I've had those before and they pair well with mashed potatoes. A really hearty dinner thank you for sharing your family recipes.

[@dedrajade5394]

My sister makes gravy out of the sauce, puts it over mashed potatoes.

[@janiebea100]

My ex mother - in law would make mashed potatoes with every dinner. She had 3 boys that she had to fill up some way and potatoes are a cheaper way.

[@hrhdmk5845]

I can’t eat cabbage rolls without potatoes 🥔! Even just steamed or boiled is fine, all the flavour is in the cabbage rolls, the potatoes absorb the sauce/juices! 😋😋😋

[@tinasewock2237]

Mashed is the perfect side always make with 😋

[@justinehyre2975]

Cabbage rolls are my absolutely most favorite food!!! I have loved them since I was about 4 years old!! I am now 76 and that has not changed!! I learned from my mother who learned from a older German woman who ran a restaurant in Valhalla NY back in the 1940s. Just made them for New Year's!! Our recipe steams the cabbage to loosen and tenderize it. The filling is ground beef, cooked rice( that may be my idea as sometimes the raw rice did not cook completely), salt, pepper, paprika and a little oregano. The sauce is tomato sauce or tomato puree watered down with salt, pepper and paprika. Once the rolls are in the sauce they are topped with sauerkraut and caraway seeds. I do them on the stove in a huge pot as I cook them for the whole family!! I have thought of doing them in a roaster in the oven. But maybe will try the slow cooker next time!! I am ready to make more now!!

[@monicareno4088]

My great grandmother’s family was German on her mother’s side and she passed down the cabbage roll recipe. We always put our rice in raw and use finely chopped bell pepper and onion in our ground beef mixture. This has always been my favorite meal. Thank you for sharing. 😊

[@barbararice1196]

Great recipe, love cabbage rolls! Thanks Nicole.

[@StayWithDelicious]

The entire house was filled with excitement, all thanks to the flavors of this dish!

[@steveshick5539]

My mother was of Polish decent, she used onions, but insisted on cooking them first. She always insisted on not too much rice, and always used plain tomato sauce. I'm certain your recipe is wonderful and I love your channel!

[@doloreswilliams6826]

Memories. My mother used to make this and I used to make this with tomatoes sauce.

[@laurapopescu8442]

As a Romanian we never boiled the rice first. That’s why grandma said to boil for about two hours but every body is entitled to make their own way. The leaf i would have cut it in half and make them smaller. Happy New Years 🎉

[@charisasmith8554]

@shimmeringsleep1365 go away racist.

[@vickiepatterson1748]

I've made cabbage rolls once but my mom used to make them often. I love the tomato soup in this dish! I often use canned tomato soup in recipes instead of tomato sauce. It's not as acidic and is better tolerated! This dish is really like a warm hug!🤗

[@Thisisit120]

Love all the work that you put in on this and I love cabbage rolls. I did it once and then modified it to a casserole chopped up half the cabbage and layered it like lasagna and it's just as delicious but much easier.

[@stevekaczmarczyk9701]

They are Soo good,, have them ever Christmas,,,,,,in the summer time,,we cut the cabbage up and cook it in a electric skillet,,we call it cabbage scraps,,we bake it in the oven,, ready for 5 of them now,,,,

[@stevekaczmarczyk9701]

Anytime,, keep cooking great stuff,,, from Richmond Virginia USA

[@jennholden-myers1631]

Oooo!!! Nicole!!! My husband is THANKING you now!! I only work on dinners by #1. you and #2. a couple others (chef John, & wyse guide). THIS is one I didn't think of but our Great God did. PTL that He inspired you to make cabbage rolls. My husband will be doing a happy dance now!!

[@travelchannel304]

Oh wow! In a skillet. Interesting! Ill try it that way. My mother.did it in a dutch oven or stock pot.

[@kalanimiller2560]

My Hungarian family uses barley instead of rice. We layer it with sauerkraut and lots of paprika. So yummy!

[@MimisPOV]

I was just thinking what I want to make for a healthy meal. Cabbage rolls are perfect. Thank you 👏🏼

[@frankt...]

My Polish grandma use to make this. She'd steam the cabbage head in a big pot then pull off leaves gently. Use nice thick tomato soup. We called it stuffed cabbage. She and my dad would call it in Polish gołąbki pronounced "gaw-WHOMP-kee". It means "Doves". If you Google "Polish Stuffed Cabbage" this name comes up.

[@RichardL7836]

Fantastic recipe, good luck getting a head of cabbage naturally grown in Minnesota looking like that. Good video.

[@sandybowman7140]

NICOLE, THANK U FOR LISTENING!! THIS IS THE RECIPE I WANTED!!! U are so kind to simplify it & use the canned tomato for ease & keep it inexpensive! Sending big hugs! ❤❤❤

[@beekind1940]

Topping these with a dollop of sour cream bumps it up a notch. My Ukrainian grandmother made them this way.

[@denisedean8749]

@@beekind1940 oh yes!!! Always sour cream

[@karenrussell8319]

My mouth is watering Very similar to my Mother’s recipe. ( we’re Croatian) We served them with creamy mashed potatoes ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@mopesrus7266]

I love sarma. Reminds me of my grandmother's cooking.

[@bambinal1437]

I was born in Texas and raised in California. My mom made cabbage rolls almost every month throughout the year and although we had the tomato soup to put over it/tomato broth, I always put some hickory smoked barbecue sauce on my cabbage roll and it is absolutely delicious. My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

[@jinagibbs7108]

Love cabbage rolls!

[@girevka]

Thanks for this. I will admit that I'm not convinced about the canned tomato soup but I greatly appreciate your tips on preparing the cabbage leaves. :)

[@richardmanginelli2624]

My mom made this all the time in the winter, made it in the oven to help heat the house up after we came home from school

[@wardrobelion]

I found an awesome Mennonite cookbook with cabbage rolls in it and I modified it slightly and it is delicious. The soup broth is tomato paste and water with chopped onion and salt, pepper,sugar and lemon juice. It almost tastes like lemonade and rich tomato. Yum yum yum! I've used ground lamb before and even pork/ beef mix in my filling. Thanks for sharing this recipe. I've never used MSG but I'm not afraid of it either 😊

[@Treasures100]

❤Thank you..looks delicious

[@_CatBug_]

Cabbage rolls and sour cream will always be a classic

[@lisaalso7875]

Another way, and a perhaps easier way to remove the cabbage leaves, is to remove the core and place the entire head in a pot of boiling water for a few minutes. Take it out, remove the outter leaves as far as you can and place the cabbage back in the water to loosen and soften additional leaves, etc.

[@lynnnelson6689]

That is the perfect way - no tearing. Then trim the leaves to same circumference so the rolls are the same size. Make them small not humungous.

[@LeslieDellavella]

We cook stuffed peppers in tomato soup as well, great flavor!

[@zainMIS]

A very popular Arab recipe, done differently in every region. In Palestine we make it with rice, spices (7 spice mix, dried mint, ground cumin ..etc) uncooked rice, a mix of lamb and beef (ground), we put the rolls in a huge pot, put whole garlic cloves (lots), the juice of one lemon (or two or three!) and more cumin. Cook it on low heat for one hour and a half. A true comfort meal that is highly filling and nutritious.

[@donnamullins2089]

Looks delicious. Growing up this was a staple to feed 6. Thanks Nicole.

[@colleentsoulas1387]

Love it!!! I also add sautéed salt pork to this dish..adds great flavor

[@hrhdmk5845]

I think your instinct to add minced garlic was a very good one, that’s what I plan to do. And of course, I *must* have potatoes with my cabbage rolls… just boiled is perfectly fine. I may just have to try and make these, I have always been intimidated by that cabbage leaves prep step… but you made it look pretty doable. I’m thinking Vegeta instead of just plain old msg… it has other seasonings in it that taste very old-school European to me. Maybe some dried marjoram too 🤔. Thanks for this video!🧡

[@banzaitnt]

I need to go cross cultural and add more to the filling like raisins or capers or some type of nuts as well as different spices. Luv it

[@nanettemacy9376]

We would take the whole head if cabbage cook in a large pot with water and use the whole head to make a lot of rolls. We used the can of tomato soup but I used V8 to give it bit of flavor. We ate it with mashed potatoes.

[@Michelle-Gx3jq]

That looks delicious ❤

[@chnbal]

Looks good. My Ukrainian grandmother (Baba) she made them meatless with just cooked rice and some salt, rolled them small, like barely 2 inches, then just baked them plain with a bit of oil and water to keep them from drying out. Then my mom, my Babas daughter, adopted the recipe but added some cooked bacon cut into small bits with chopped cooked onion, and added some finely shredded carrots, not a lot, to the cooked rice, rolled them small as well, then baked them in tomato soup. Now I make a version of my Babas and my moms just to honour them as they are now both passed on. The only thing different that I do is that I use sticky rice, they used long grain. I find it so much easier to roll them with sticky rice. I don’t make the hamburger kind because I was told traditional is usually meatless from the region of Ukraine my Baba was from and that is just how I do it now too, with the exception of bacon. I don’t mind them with hamburger, but I just eat other people’s this way. I guess every region had their own way of making them. Also my Baba and my mom boiled the whole head of cabbage to separate the leaves as do I. It’s just sooo much easier.

[@kimmie-kat]

My Slavic grandma used V8 juice instead of the tomato soup. It was yummy

[@vickiepatterson1748]

@@kimmie-kat I changed mine to V8 juice too! I think it compliments the dish!😘 I also love using V8 juice in soups and other dishes that have lots of vegetables!

[@CarolCannuli]

Me too! But we called them pigs in a blanket! 😊

[@chnbal]

I’ve made them with V8 juice and they were good but too tart for me. My husband really likes them with V8 juice but I have compromised and also add a little tomato soup to sweeten them, or just make them with only tomato soup. My Ukrainian aunt loves hers with, wait for it, pasta sauce lol. Hers are good too. Thanks for sharing your version.

[@denisedean8749]

@@kimmie-kat yes tomato soup is too sweet

[@_Rick_S]

My grandma's recipe is almost identical to this but I usually make a weeknight cheater version 😂 I make the ground beef with onions and garlic in a pan, paper towel some of the grease out, then add the rice, tomato soup and a bag of shredded coleslaw. Cook for a few minutes until the cabbage is starting to soften, done in about 30 minutes. Plus the cabbage still has a little crunch to it, it's so good that way. Not 100% grandmas but it's great on a weeknight and even better the next day

[@lbarmstrong1]

Thanks for this tip! The rolling seems like it would take me a long time, so fancy (I'm not one who loves to cook). But I'm liking the bag slaw idea!

[@cindirocks322]

Wonderful.

[@fallenangel1049]

My Busha did them in the pressure cooker 15 min….i do them about 25 min in electric pressure cooker because psi are not as high as stove top pressure cooker. And we used ground chuck onion cooker rice salt and pepper. Cooked cabbage and the tomato soup, oh my so good

[@andrewingram2108]

One of my favorites! Well done

[@dianethompson6363]

I make these from my grandmothers recipe. I steam in microwave. Way easier.

[@toombs6287]

I’m going to make this.😍🔥

[@bonniesandy9512]

My grandmother came from Hungry and her brother made the cabbage rolls. Oh, delish! Wish I could make them but my family 😩

[@Barbara-s3b9m]

Polish Comfort Food❄️👌For Me😊

[@miqsh70]

Few differences wish my Polish recipe: we boil the whole cabbage to separate leaves, so you don’t have to cut them, raw rice not cooked and pork, never beef 😅 and it has to be boiled longer for cabbage to be more tomato infused. Like in the owen or crock pot. Tomato soup is something I can try for sure 👍

[@laurapopescu8442]

My mom use to boiled the whole cabbage too.

[@AmericanSCPO]

I come from a polish family, and my parents used beef, not pork. I ate a lot of cabbage rolls. I'm pretty sure every family has their own twist on just about every recipe. I think I'll give the pork a try. I love pork.

[@lynnnelson6689]

No tomato soup please.

[@caracoates4834]

My Polish grandma used the tomato soup too. I think that in the 70s when convenience foods became more popular she started to take short cuts. It does give a thicker sauce, but in my opinion sweeter too. I think she used to use a combination of both beef and pork for the filling. Sad, I wish she had written down her recipes.

[@lynnnelson6689]

@@caracoates4834 That explains why they used tomato soup. My Family never use it.

[@Morena1268]

One of my comfort foods of all time, thank you for sharing❤

[@jackiemiller8174]

I use the soup on stuff peppers. It is so good.

[@trentbdog]

This channel and Nicole are AWESOME!

[@elizabethmaggard9466]

Looks so delicious 😋

[@FAMOFSIX]

This looks soooooo yummy wish I could chop onion that well. Happy new year 😊 my good friend loves MSG

[@aprile271]

Good job as always nicole

[@larrya3989]

❤❤❤❤happy new year ❤❤❤

[@calmwell8424]

This is my mom's recipe minus the rice. Campbell's tomato soup was the secret sauce. We're Japanese American...thank you for sharing!

[@mizzwycked7931]

My mom was Japanese and my dad was German/Croatian. One of them (I can’t remember which one) didn’t care for the tomato based sauce so my mom would make it with cream of mushroom soup instead. SO GOOD! I love them either way🤗

[@DjChelan]

Now this is Perfection!

[@cindirocks322]

Thanks you!!!!

[@khem460]

We usually cook in the oven with sour kraut on top with a couple pieces of bacon. I love cabbage rolls! Yum!

[@Lisa-hl2pt]

I just got back from visiting my mom- she made some for me. ❤️ She said her Slovak grandma made them on the stove but she’s always baked them. And an Italian neighbor taught her to put a couple strips of bacon on top of the sauerkraut and a little flour on top of that.

[@bonniepwtf]

Brings back good memories ❤

[@susanmolnar9606]

In fact Hungarian stuffed cabbage is in my rotation this week. With some slight variations.

[@MAXBLU04]

Omg...my fav!

[@mrbear1302]

My grandmother made these and she would add a few raisins to the tomato sauce which helped with the acidity.

[@sandywilde9774]

Love cabbage rolls but I use barley instead of rice. I like the texture better.

[@joeyhardin1288]

Thank you. HAPPY NEW YEAR. Had these yesterday for lunch with the family

[@moeruss2726]

Growing up my Grandmother made cabbage rolls and they were delicious! She made them with a sweet & sour homemade tomato sauce. That’s how I make them for my family but I use ground Turkey instead. 🥬

[@annedavidson1726]

Recipe? I love a sweet and sour cabbage roll!

[@danadyd59]

I use tomato sauce instead of the soup, and uncooked rice. I also add shredded onion, and minced garlic. Yours looks good though!

[@KimmyMatyi]

Yummy

[@gogogadgetgore]

Really enjoy your personality Great recipe and video

[@SuperFredAZ]

My Russian _ Jewish mother added a bit of sweetness with raisins and honey and a bit of sour using lemon. She called it sweet and sour stuffed cabbage, huluptious

[@barbarahuntsinger8574]

Add cinnamon, it’s amazing

[@yochananbendavid57]

We're Hungarian and this is halfway how we do it. We steam the whole head of cabbage after cutting out the core. No egg. No tomato soup. Stewed tomatoes and tomato juice, onion, and rice and ground beef.

[@susanmolnar9606]

Sounds exactly how my Hungarian grandmother taught me. Had to use tomato juice. She came straight from Hungary before WW11.

[@REK8088]

I'm sure those are good, but me being Polish and making these all the time...Never made them like this.

[@jenniferhansen3622]

I have an unstuffed cabbage roll casserole recipe that's very, very good. 😊

[@melmicsim]

We used to steam the entire head of cabbage & then peel off the leaves. Everything tastes best the next day after the fillings have had a chance to develop.

[@debracubitt6191]

Happy New Year

[@SnakePoison777]

We like sarma a lot but with pickled cabbage or sour crout. The tangy was it adds to the stuffing is much needed

[@mikepamgragg7042]

I like to use part ground pork with beef. And not too much rice. As far as the V8 in one comment, that mixed with the tomato soup sounds good.

[@RobertaReal7980]

I love stuffed cabbage but I can't do the tomato soup, it's such a weird taste so I use tomato sauce instead.

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You’ve a gift!

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Love y’all recipes

[@larrysmith6499]

Love it

[@mariaconsuelothomen]

We use a deep pot to boil the cabbage leaves.

[@lyudmilaaksan2232]

I'm Ukrainian and my mom told me to put half ground pork half ground beef. And also after wrapping them put bay leaves on the bottom of the pot and cook very slowly. She even put a plate or smaller lid on top to keep them submerged.

[@shimmeringsleep1365]

Then make your own video and stop trolling this one

[@lyudmilaaksan2232]

@@shimmeringsleep1365 Oh? And who made you the advocate of allrecipes ? Do you have your own cooking channel?

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​@@shimmeringsleep1365 I'm pretty sure we know you're the only troll here.

[@chnbal]

@@lyudmilaaksan2232 Oh there are a few trolls commenting on people’s posts including mine 🙄 Thank you for sharing the way you make them.

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[@tdjpopo]

This is a veeery simplified recipe for beginners. It's missing pickled cabbage leaves and ground pork, that need to stew for hours in a broth that includes ham hocks, paprika, bay leaves-- everything that gives the cabbage rolls flavor!

[@marianatarta2190]

The best stuffed cabbage rolls are the Romanian ones:saurkraut,pork,smoked meat,sote onions and rice, paprika and boiled în big number(40 at least)!

[@BrendaRoe-zm8ll]

Put your cabbage in the freezer to freeze and it will be tender according to Rachel Ray.

[@bilominonino]

alot of people from Dominican Republic made this dish alot of years ago like with chicken filling and I seen it with rice filling on a stove top with no oven bake

[@llamalover02]

God, FINALLY, someone who understands what MSG actually is.

[@stuartpierce121]

You do such a great job! Could you sometimes do a low carb meal. Thanks Jennifer 😊

[@FriedaHildebrandt]

I would like to get the full recipes for this meal please

[@charlese.prospecting6627]

Absolutely

[@Mockey999]

It is called "GOŁĄBKI" which translates to "little pigeons". Very good tho.

[@MinaDevi-c6v]

Very testi mam ❤❤❤❤

[@learningto-cook]

Grandmas rule! I'm dreaming with my grandma's soup.

[@ladyann5778]

We always cook ours in gravy we boil the whole cabbage to get the leaves of of the cabbage it's a German recipe

[@JamesDavis-jw6nj]

Folks slamming'!

[@kellierush1499]

The secret is spicey v8 juice for tge sauce and i few fennel seeds

[@margaretcurren7577]

My mom called these pigs in a blanket. She made the very best.