Lazy Stuffed Cabbage Casserole

Hugce's Note:

We love stuffed cabbage, but it takes quite a bit of time to prepare, my mom gave me this delicious casserole and it sure is one of our favorites.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 45 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 1 lb chopped beef or 1 lb other meat
• 2 cups cooked rice
• 1 medium onion , chopped
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 egg
• 2 lbs cabbage , chopped
• 1 (8 ounce) can chopped tomatoes or 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
• salt and pepper

Directions:

1. Mix chopped beef, rice, onion, butter, and egg.
2. Salt and pepper to taste.
3. Grease 3 quart casserole.
4. Line bottom of casserole with 1/2 cabbage; add 1/2 meat mixture; top with rest of cabbage, then rest of meat mixture.
5. Top with chopped tomatoes or tomato sauce.
6. Cover, bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour; uncover and bake an additional 30 minutes.
7. Tastes just like stuffed cabbage without all the work.

Reviews

[Chef #428644]

I made this into real stuffed cabbage, no lining pan or covering. Using big-leaf Napa cabbage helps. I blanched about 10 cabbage leaves for 3 minutes, then plunged into ice water to stop them cooking (they are bright green). I added 1.5 Tbsp garlic salt, a shot of
Worcestershire sauce, and some tomato sauce to beef mixture. I left out the butter (butter???). I put about 1/2 c beef mixture on each leaf, rolled it part way up, folded in the sides, rolled the rest of the way up, put in prepared baking dish seam side down and away we went. It really tasted great.

[MAKK((]

I saute the chopped onion in butter. My grandmother sauted hers in fatback. Anyone know what fatback is or is it just sold in Pittsburgh? Butter is better for your health. I don't use egg. Lots of canned crushed or chopped tomatoes, tomato juice and a can of tomato soup, undiluted. I just cut the cabbage up into 4 pieces and par boil it. Then put the filling ontop then the tomatoes, sauce, juice & soup ontop and bake. Sometimes I put peppper slices in it for flavor as I love stuffed peppers too. Yumm!

[Notabay]

The recipe as-is was okay. It was very dry like mentioned in previous reviews so my cabbage was crunchy. I will make another attempt using the suggestions of the other reviewers.