STUFFED CABBAGE

Cabbages are such magnifique vegetables, I always cook it with passion, raw, cooked, stuffed, the aroma is like the parfum of earth.




Steam method

Serve 6-8
 
Ingredients :

1 green cabbage
250 minced pork
250 minced  veal
100 g bacon
5 tsp creème fraiche
3 eggs
5  garlic cloves, peeled
5-g dry bread
1 bouquet of parsley, chopped
Salt and Pepper.

 
Method :

1.     Steam the cabbage in ¾ litre of boiling water for 10 minutes.
2.     During this time crumb the dry bread and spray with water
3.     Leave it to swell.
4.     Peel and squash the garlic
5.     Slice the bacon finely
6.     Beat the 3 eggs with the crème fraiche
7.     When the cabbage is blanched, put it on the table, spread the big leaves
8.     Take out the heart of the cabbage then chop it very finely.
9.     Mix in a large bowl, the pork, the veal, garlic, parsley, bacon, dry bread
        and the eggs.
10.  Add the chopped cabbage leaves, pepper and salt.
11.  Mix again.
12.  Take half of the mixture, form into a smooth ball.
13.  Display this ball where the cabbage heart was.
14.  Restore the cabbage shape, leave by leave.
15.  Insert the rest of the mixture between the inner leaves.
16.  Make sure that the mixture is completely enveloped by the outer leaves.
17.  Truss with a cooking thread.
18.  Put the stuffed cabbage in a big pan with boiling water.
19.  Cover the pan and cook in steam mode for 1hour and 10 minutes.

 

To be sure it is well cooked, insert a knife in the cabbage, it should
go in easily and come out clean.

Serve with a tomato sauce.