Cabbage Rolls

Plan Z Phase: This is a Z2 (ZReduction) recipe. This recipe was submitted by Plan Z dieter Amy.

Servings: Serves 6

Ingredients:

  • 1 head of cabbage
  • 2 tomatoes
  • ½ onion, chopped
  • 5 tsp salt
  • 1 ½ tsp pepper
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 1 can tomato paste (make sure it’s sugar-free.  Hunts makes one with no sugar)
  • 1 ½ cups water
  • 3 pkts Truvia
  • 1 lb ground veal
  • 1 lb ground sirloin

Instructions:

Core the cabbage and place the whole head in a pot and fill with water. You want to bring the water to a boil and then boil until the leaves are pliant and starting to pull away from the head. While that is boiling you chop up the tomatoes (I left the seeds and the core in) and put in a bowl and sprinkle with 3 tsp of salt. Then put half of your chopped onion and 2 cloves of garlic finely minced in with the tomato and stir around and let it sit and marinate together and allow the salt time to pull out some of the water from the onion and tomato. Mix the rest of the chopped onion and the last clove of garlic (finely minced) in with the ground sirloin and ground veal, along with 1 tsp salt and ½ tsp pepper.

When the cabbage is done, drain and allow some time to cool. I finished the sauce while it was cooling. To finish the sauce add 1 tsp pepper, 1 can tomato paste, 1 ½ cups of water and 3 pkts of Truvia. You can then put in your food processor or blender to mix. (I used a hand blender I have and that worked just fine.)

To assemble, lay a few of the leaves in the bottom of a 9″ x 13″ pan to cover. Then spread a thin layer of the sauce on top. You will lay out a cabbage leaf, then grab some of the meat mixture and mold into a sort of oval shape – about the size of a jumbo egg. Roll the meat inside of the cabbage leaf and repeat until you have 16 of them. Put the rolls in the pan and pour on the sauce. Any extra cabbage can be added in between the rolls if you want or you can save it for another use. Bake at 350 for 1-½ hours.

We were really happy with the way it turned out and I think you could adjust the seasonings to your own taste if you want more garlic or more salt, etc.

Enjoy!

Cheers,