Dinner: Golubtsy

Cabbage rolls filled with beef and rice.

Ingredients

1 tbsp black pepper
18 leaves cabbage
1 medium carrot
1 medium onion
2 small tomatoes
2 cups water
3 cups white rice
600 g lean ground beef (20% fat)

Instructions

1. Cook cabbage in simmering water for 20 minutes each side. In the mean time, prepare filling.

2. Cook or half-cook rice to yield 3 cups. Mix with ground beef, grated carrot, diced tomato and onion. Salt and pepper to taste. Mix well.

3. Peel 18 leaves off cabbage. Reserve the rest for something else.

4. Place a couple tablespoons of filling in a leaf, roll like a burrito, place in pot. Continue with remaining leaves.

5. Pour water into the pot. Simmer until cabbage is very soft and translucent; about an hour and a half.

6. Serve in a shallow bowl with sour cream, chopped dill and parsley, and spoon over a bit of the cooking water.

7. Caraway seeds may be cooked with the cabbage for taste and flatulence control.

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