Total Steps
10
Ingredients
16
Tools Needed
5
Ingredients
- 1 medium Cabbage
- 1.5 cup ground beef or ground lamb
- 1 medium diced onion
- 1 cup short grain rice
- cloves whole garlic, peeled
- minced garlic
- head whole garlic (with peel)(optional)
- Cumin(optional)
- Caraway(optional)
- Coriander(optional)
- Cinnamon(optional)
- Salt
- Black Pepper
- Cooking oil
- 1 cup Lemon juice
- 1 cup water
Instructions
Step 1
<a href="/8BSVY4LZ">Wash </a>and drain rice
Step 2
<a href="/7S3QCKWK">Mix </a>up the <a href="/5YGQYH5K">ground </a>meat, diced onions and rice; add cooking oil and the spices (Cumin, Caraway, Coriander, <a href="/DPSVTKVY">Salt </a>and Black Pepper) set aside.
Step 3
Prepare your cabbage leaves by <a href="/WRFN6T6X">separating </a>the leaves from the cabbage head. <a href="/XZBDDD5G">Cut </a>away stems, save them and use them at the bottom of the pot.
Step 4
<a href="/W7VKDJHH">Boil </a>the leaves a few at a time in <a href="/W7VKDJHH">boiling </a><a href="/DPSVTKVY">salted </a>water until they are soft enough to <a href="/LTNN8R88">roll.</a>
Step 5
Prepare <a href="/XSQB5XPJ">stuffing </a>of meat, rice, <a href="/DPSVTKVY">salt,</a> pepper and the above spices
Step 6
<a href="/XZBDDD5G">Cut </a>the leaves to form a cigar size <a href="/LTNN8R88">roll. </a>Place <a href="/XSQB5XPJ">stuffing </a>on each leaf, <a href="/8M4FMXQ6">fold </a>sides toward center and <a href="/LTNN8R88">roll </a>up from bottom into a cigar shape (similar with <a href="/XSQB5XPJ">stuffed </a>vine leaves). Do not over <a href="/XSQB5XPJ">stuff; </a>make sure that you have space for the rice to expand inside the cabbage <a href="/LTNN8R88">rolls.</a>
Step 7
<a href="/4NXSJQ3D">Press </a>together firmly. Place layer of the saved stems
Step 8
Place the whole garlic heads in between the <a href="/LTNN8R88">rolled </a>Malfouf.
Step 9
Sprinkle with <a href="/DPSVTKVY">salt,</a> caraway and cumin in between layers. Add water, <a href="/W7VKDJHH">boil </a>then <a href="/GFSF4J5F">simmer </a>for an hour to an hour and a half. Half way through the cooking time add <a href="/LTSH5D6W">crushed </a>garlic on <a href="/R34ZSY3M">top. </a>Let <a href="/GFSF4J5F">simmer. </a><a href="/GFSF4J5F">Simmer </a>gently until rice is tender in barely enough water to cover. Invert your pot in a platter
Step 10
You may <a href="/Y6MVNCHX">serve </a>this <a href="/QQVZX64Y">dish </a>hot or at room temperature, depends on your personal <a href="/WDCS6JL5">taste.</a>