Stuffed cabbage leaves

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

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:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
45 min.	2 min.	36 min.	1 hour 23 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Begin by preparing the filling: put 400 g Sausagemeat, 2 eggs and 100 g grated cheese into a bowl.
2	Mix well. Bring a large pan of salted water to the boil.
3	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).
4	Plunge a cabbage leaf into the salted boiling water and leave to cook for about 1 minute.
5	Take the cabbage leaf out of the water and plunge into cold water for 2 or 3 minutes.
6	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).
7	You can cut out the central leaf stalk if it is too tough or too thick.
8	Now stuff the leaves: shape a ball of sausagement in your hand.
9	Place this on a cabbage leaf...
10	...and roll up.
11	Stuff all the leaves and arrange in large roasting pan or oven-proof dish.
12	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.
13	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.
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.

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