Cabbage Rolls - Real Hungarian Style

Total Time: 3 hrs Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• 2 heads cabbage
• 2 cups long grain rice, scalded
• 2 lbs lean ground beef
• 1 lb fresh lean lamb sausage
• 2 small onions, minced
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 1 cup water
• 4 teaspoons salt
• 2 teaspoons fresh ground black pepper
• 2 teaspoons paprika
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 2 quarts sauerkraut
• 2 (28 ounce) cans canned tomatoes
• 4 cups tomato juice
• 1/8 cup dried onion flakes
• 8 tablespoons sugar
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1/4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon paprika
• 1 lb bacon, cooked
• 2 lbs sausage, smoked

Recipe

• 1 core cabbage, heat in salt water till leaves separate.
• 2 remove each leaf and drain in colander.
• 3 filling--(2nd ingredient group):.
• 4 to scald rice: heat a generous amount of water in a heavy pan that will hold the heat.
• 5 make sure that the water will be more than enough to cover the rice.
• 6 make sure the water is at a rolling boil, if rice is not scalded enough it will be crunchy!
• 7 let stand for at least 5 minutes.
• 8 rinse with cold water, draining with sieve, then mix into rest of filling ingredients.
• 9 now fill the cabbage leaves with filling mixture; folding leaves.
• 10 while rolling pigs, start cooking the stewing sauce in another pot.
• 11 stewing sauce--(3rd ingredient group):.
• 12 mix group together, bring to a boil, then simmer 5 to 10 minutes.
• 13 to assemble:.
• 14 line the roaster with: sauce, layer of pigs, more sauce, sprinkle with bacon crumbs, layer of pigs, layer of sauce, sprinkle with bacon crumbs etc.
• 15 set oven at 350°f.
• 16 cover roaster, and once all comes to a kind of a boil, reduce temperature to about 300°f so it doesn't boil over.
• 17 cook about 2 more hours.
• 18 the smoked sausage is optional.
• 19 if using, mix it in among the other ingredients.
• 20 note: 3/8 cup dehydrated onions may be used instead of 2 small onions in recipe.