Best Ever Cabbage Rolls Croatian Recipe
Made with carefully selected ingredients and wrapped in tender cabbage leaves, this cabbage rolls recipe promises a culinary adventure straight from the heart of Croatia.
Servings: 20 pieces
Ingredients
- 4 1/2 cup tomato juice save 4 cups to cover
- 8 cups water
- 1 large head cabbage sour
- 4 medium onion
- 4 garlic cloves
- 3 lbs ground pork
- 1/2 cup uncooked rice
- 1 cup smoked bacon cut into small pieces
- 2 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp pepper
- 1 tbsp paprika sweet
- 1 shoulder ham optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 370F.
- Saute onion and bacon in a frying pan.
- Mix ground pork, uncooked rice and seasonings together until well combined. Mix in the sauted onion and bacon.
- Add 1/2 cup of tomato juice into the mix.
- Remove the leaves from the cabbage.
- Form the meat mixture into a thick patty.
- Place the meat inside a cabbage leaf and tightly roll closed.
- Fill the bottom of a roasting pan with cabbage leaves and start placing the rolled cabbage on top.
- Continue rolling until the pan is full.
- Pour the remaining tomato juice plus 8 cups of water until all the cabbage is fully covered.
- Cover the pot and place in oven to cook for 2.5-3 hours.
- Heat up 3 tbsps of oil with 3 tbsps of flour in a pan. Add 2 cups of water and stir until combined. Pour into the pot and mix to spread around.
- Cover and continue cooking for 1 hour at 350F.