Can’t be Stuffed Cabbage

Can’t be Stuffed Cabbage

Ingredients:

• 1/2 white cabbage – broken into leaves, boiled till tender + strained.
• 120ml Olive oil
• 1 red onion
• 1 carrot
• 3 garlic cloves
• 2 tspn Sweet Paprika
• 1.5 tspn Tumeric
• 1/2 tspn Black pepper
• 2 tspn salt (+ more to sprinkle over cabbage)
• 400g premium beef mince
• 4 heaped Tbspn tomato paste
• 1.5 L beef stock
• 2 Tbspn Pomegranate Molasses
• 400g medium grain rice
•  Crumbled Fetta & Parsley to serve .

Method:

1.  Dice onion, carrot, garlic and saute’ with salt + olive oil till translucent
2. Add spices, beef + salt and saute’ for further 5 min
3. Add Tomato paste, stock + Pomegranate Molasses. Simmer for 15-20 minutes. Adjust seasoning;
4. Super important – Take 1.5 cups of the sauce out and put aside (try not to have beef in it as much as you can);
5. Add rice to your sauce + mix;
6. Oil a deep oven dish (~30cmX23cm) and start layering
   ✔️sauce ✔️cabbage leaves (like lasagna sheets) with a sprinkle of salt ? + repeat about 4 times. Finish with a layer of cabbage and top it with reserved sauce. Make sure no rice is picking out.
7. Cover with baking paper & foil. Bake on fan-Forced oven on 165 for 1.5 hrs. Last 20 minutes uncovered.
8. Top with crumble feta & chopped parsley. Rest it for 15 min. Serve.

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