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Stuffed cabbage leaves

Name: Stuffed cabbage leaves
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 36 min
Total time: 1 h 23 min
Yield: 8 people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 400 g sausagemeat; 2 eggs; 100 g grated cheese; 16 leaves green cabbage; 500 ml vegetable stock

The French classic "chou farci" is made with large green cabbage leaves which are blanched before being rolled into parcels around a sausage meat and cheese filling, then baked in the oven.

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Duration

1 hour 27 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: October 22^th 2026

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For 8 people, you will need:

1 400 g sausagemeat
2 2 eggs
3 100 g grated cheese
4 16 leaves green cabbage
5 500 ml vegetable stock
Total weight: 1,100 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation

45 min.

Resting

2 min.

Cooking

40 min.

All in all

1 hour 27 min.

Preparation 45 min.

Resting 2 min.

Cooking 40 min.

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Step by step recipe

Step 1 - ⌛ 5 min.

Begin by preparing the filling: put 400 g sausagemeat, 2 eggs and 100 g grated cheese into a bowl.

Step 2 - ⌛ 2 min.

Mix well.

Bring a large pan of salted water to the boil.

Step 3 - ⌛ 5 min.

Prepare the cabbage leaves (Savoy cabbage in the photo): cut the best of the large, outer leaves from the cabbage and trim off the thickest part of the stalk.

Try to use the biggest leaves you can, slightly curved with as little central stalk as possible (generally rather tough).

Step 4 - ⌛ 1 min.

Plunge a cabbage leaf into the salted boiling water and leave to cook for about 1 minute.

Step 5 - ⌛ 2 min.

Take the cabbage leaf out of the water and plunge into cold water for 2 or 3 minutes.

Step 6 - ⌛ 2 min.

Remove the cabbage leaf from the cold water, drain and dry on a tea-towel.

Prepare all the leaves like this.

Preheat the oven to 390°F (200°C).

Step 7 - ⌛ 15 min.

You can cut out the central leaf stalk if it is too tough or too thick.

Step 8

Now stuff the leaves: shape a ball of sausagement in your hand.

Step 9

Place this on a cabbage leaf...

Step 10

...and roll up.

Step 11 - ⌛ 15 min.

Stuff all the leaves and arrange in large roasting pan or oven-proof dish.

Step 12 - ⌛ 1 min.

Pour 500 ml vegetable stock into the dish to give a depth of about 1cm.

If you do not have any vegetable stock handy, poultry stock (or a stock cube diluted in water) is fine.

Step 13 - ⌛ 35 min.

Bake in the oven for about 35 minutes. Spoon the stock from the bottom of the dish over the leaves occasionally to keep them moist and do not let them brown too much on the top.

Step 14

Serve 2 leaves per person with or without the cooking juices, as you prefer.

Remarks

You can use minced meat instead of the sausagemeat, but this tends to be a bit drier.

You can also replace 1/4 of the stock with dry white wine.

Keeping: 1 or 2 days in the fridge, covered with plastic film. Freezes very well.

Source: Homemade.

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Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	8 g RDI=13 %	2 g RDI=1 %	16 g RDI=22 %	189 kcal RDI=9 %	791 kJ RDI=9 %
Per person	11 g RDI=17 %	2 g RDI=1 %	23 g RDI=31 %	260 kcal RDI=13 %	1,088 kJ RDI=13 %
Whole recipe	91 g RDI=139 %	17 g RDI=7 %	181 g RDI=247 %	2,078 kcal RDI=104 %	8,700 kJ RDI=104 %