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Ingredients
- 2 heads cabbage
- 3 lb. bacon, cut into sm. peices
- 2 lg. onions, chopped
- 3 lb. ground beef
- 3 cups uncooked white rice (not minute rice)
- 2 cans sauerkraut
- 3 to 4 cans tomato sauce
- 2 lb. ground pork
- 1 cup liquid smoke (optional)
Method
- Remove the center or heart of the cabbage.
- In a large pot, bring enough water to cover the cabbage heads to a boil.
- Once boiling, place one head in water.
- As the leaves fall off the head remove them from the water and place aside.
- Repeat with other head.
- Meanwhile, fry bacon in a skillet.
- After 1 minute, add onions and fry till translucent.
- Remove to large bowl and let cool.
- Once bacon and onions have cooled, place in the same bowl the raw ground beef, pork, and uncooked rice.
- Mix thoroughly with your hands.
- In a very large pot, pour 1 can sauerkraut and half the tomato sauce.
- A cap full of liquid smoke may be added at this point if you'd like.
- To roll cabbage cut away the large vein.
- Place a handfull of meat mixture in the center and roll it up, tuck the ends into the rolled up leaf and place in pot.
- Continue to roll until cabbage and meat are gone, building layers in the pot as you go.
- Do not fill pot all the way to the top.
- Cover the rolls with remaining tomato sauce and sauerkraut.
- To cook, fill pot with enough water to cover.
- Cover with lid and place on stove.
- Bring to a boil, turn heat down to low/med-low.
- Cook until rice is done.
