Cabbage Rolls With Mushroom Sauce

Recipe form RusCuisine.com

• Ready In: 1 hr 40 mins
• Serves: 6

Ingredients

• 1  onion, chopped
• 1  garlic clove, crushed (optional)
• 2  tablespoons butter
• 3⁄4 cup  uncooked rice
• 7  ounces ground beef or 7  ounces  veal
• 7  ounces ground pork
• 1  teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper
• 1  whole head cabbage
•  boiling water
• 2  cups beef broth or 2  cups  stock
• 1 (10 3/4ounce) can  condensed cream of mushroom soup

Directions

1. Stew chopped onion and garlic in butter in a large skillet for 3-5 minutes Add rice, meat, salt, and pepper. Stir just to mix well. Remove from heat. Remove core from cabbage. Place whole head in a large kettle filled with boiling water. Cover and cook for 3 minutes Remove softened outer leaves.
2. Take out all large leaves Cut thick centre stem from each leaf. Take one large cabbage leaf at a time,put 1 rounded tablespoonful of meat mixture in centre of a leaf. Roll leaves, covering stuffing from sides like an envelope. Put stuffed cabbage leaves with seam down close to each other on a frying pan.
3. Do not make more than 2 layers. Combine beef broth and mushroom soup; Pour over cabbage rolls. Bake in a well heated oven for 1 1/2 hours.