Ingredients

  • 1 large white cabbage
  • water, salt 1 tsp/1 l
  • 400 g minced lean pork or 400 g minced lean beef
  • 1 onion
  • 18 liter water (from cabbage cooking)
  • 14 liter chopped cabbage
  • 14 liter boiled rice
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 14 teaspoon white pepper
  • 1 teaspoon marjoram
  • 1 -2 tablespoon syrup
  • butter or margarine
  • water (from cabbage cooking, for basting)
  • 13 liter pan juices
  • 2 tablespoons flour
  • cream

Method

  • Cut the stalk off the cabbage and cook the cabbage in salted water until the leaves are soft.
  • You can carefully loosen the outer leaves as they soften.
  • Lift the cooked cabbage onto a large plate to drain.
  • Loosen the leaves one by one and chop the small inner leaves for the filling.
  • Finely chop the onion and fry in small amount of oil until translucent but not brown.
  • Combine the meat, rice, chopped cabbage and seasonings into a smooth mixture.
  • If the mixture is too thick, add some more of the cabbage cooking water.
  • Flatten the cabbage leaves.
  • Lift a good tablespoonful of filling onto the leaf and roll it up tucking the edges round the mixture.
  • Place the rolls side by side in a baking dish, pour syrup and a little fat over them.
  • Bake the rolls for 1 hour at 200 C.
  • Half way turn the rolls over and baste them every now and then with the cabbage water.
  • Strain the pan juices and thicken with flour mixed with water.
  • Add a little cream.
  • Serve the cabbage rolls with boiled potatoes and lingonberry puree.