Barbara Walters' Mother's Stuffed Cabbage Rolls
"This makes a lot and could be freezer meals or you could cut down ,it takes some time to do so would be better as freezer meals lol They are supposed to be very good Serve over wide egg noodles,or rice"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (316.6 g)
- Calories 267.3
- Total Fat - 11.4 g
- Saturated Fat - 3.9 g
- Cholesterol - 125.8 mg
- Sodium - 3272 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 20.8 g
- Dietary Fiber - 3.3 g
- Sugars - 13 g
- Protein - 18.8 g
- Calcium - 50.7 mg
- Iron - 2.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 20.5 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
In large bowl
Step 2
Combine ground beef, salt, pepper, celery salt, catsup, eggs and crushed crackers.
Step 3
Mix with hands just until mixture is well combined.
Step 4
Cut out and discard hard center core of cabbage. Place cabbage in large kettle.
Step 5
Pour boiling water over it
Step 6
Let stand until leaves are flexible and can be removed easily from the head, about 5 minutes.
Step 7
If necessary, return cabbage to hot water to soften inner leaves.
Step 8
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Step 9
Using a 1/4 cup measure, scoop up a scant 1/4 cup meat mixture.
Step 10
With hands, form into rolls, 3 inches long and 1 inch wide, making about 28 rolls in all.
Step 11
Place each meat roll on a drained cabbage leaf
Step 12
Fold top of leaf over meat, then fold sides and roll up into an oblong.
Step 13
Continue rolling remaining meat rolls and cabbage leaves.
Step 14
In bottom of lightly greased Pam sprayed 12 x 11 1/2 x 2 1/4 inch roasting pan, spread chopped onion evenly.
Step 15
Arrange cabbage rolls in neat rows on top of onion.
Step 16
In 2 quart saucepan
Step 17
Combine chili sauce (pour water in and shake to get all the chili sauce )and grape jelly with 1/4 cup water
Step 18
Heat over medium heat, stirring to melt jelly.
Step 19
Pour over cabbage rolls.
Step 20
Cover pan tightly with foil.
Step 21
Bake 2 hours.
Step 22
Remove foil
Step 23
Brush rolls with sauce
Step 24
Bake, uncovered, 40 minutes longer or until sauce is thick and syrupy and cabbage rolls are glazed.
Step 25
Serve with sauce spooned over rolls.
Tips
No special items needed.