A large number of people know about stuffed cabbage, many people have it as a favorite dish. Meat wrapped in cabbage leaf is not a novelty in cooking. Similarly cooked in ancient times.
Now
stuffed
cabbage
is considered a traditional dish of Polish, Lithuanian and CIS cuisines
. Since minced meat began to be prepared relatively recently, in the XVIII century, then stuffed
cabbage
in its modern form came to us around the same time. Later, different variations of the dish began to be developed.
Let’s tell you about the recipe for Turkish stuffed cabbage.
Ingredients for Turkish stuffed cabbage:
- cabbage – 1.3 kg;
- ground beef – 400 g;
- garlic – 4 cloves;
- tomato paste – 2 tbsp;
- salt – tsp;
- black pepper – ½ tsp;
- chili pepper – tsp;
- onion – 70 g;
- parsley – 30 g;
- butter – 30 g;
- rice – 200 g;
- bulgur – 100 g.
Ingredients for the sauce:
- tomato paste – 2 tbsp;
- sugar – tsp;
- black pepper – tsp;
- salt – tsp;
- water – 450 ml.
Preparation of Turkish stuffed cabbage:
At the cabbage remove the cauliflower and send it to the microwave for 15 minutes. At this time, press the garlic into the minced meat, add tomato paste, salt, black pepper, chili pepper
. Dice the onion into small cubes and put it into the minced meat
.
Chop parsley and add it to the mince along with butter and washed bulgur and rice.
Thoroughly mix the mince with all the ingredients.
Remove the leaves from the cabbage, put a couple of leaves in a small bowl. Put minced meat in the leaves, wrap as if in a dollop.
For the sauce, mix tomato paste with sugar, salt and black pepper, pour water. Put stuffed cabbage in a pan with vegetable oil, pour the sauce and cook until boiling.
Then stew the stuffed cabbage for an hour on low heat under a lid.
You get juicy, flavorful Turkish stuffed cabbage.
This is a good way to try a new recipe for a well-known dish.
