Galuskies Food

GALUSKIES

Steps:

• Place cabbages in a large stockpot filled halfway with water; add vinegar. Cover and steam over low heat until leaves are tender, 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Remove cabbages, reserving vinegar cooking water. Rinse with cold water to chill the cabbage, then separate the leaves.
• Meanwhile, bring 3 cups water and rice to a boil in a saucepan over high heat, then reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer until the rice is tender, about 20 minutes. Remove from heat and fluff with a fork; set aside to cool.
• Heat a large skillet over medium heat. Brown the ground beef and sausage with the onion, salt, garlic salt, and pepper, 7 to 10 minutes. Drain and set aside to cool.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Cover the bottom of a large roasting pan with a single layer of cabbage leaves.
• Prepare the filling by stirring together the rice, cooked meat, and sauerkraut until well blended. Place 1/3 cup of filling into each leaf and roll into a cylinder, tucking in the ends as you roll it up. Place the rolls into the roasting pan. Pour in enough of the cooking liquid from the cabbage to come halfway up the sides of the rolls. Cover pan with a tight fitting lid or aluminum foil.
• Bake in preheated oven for 1 1/2 hours. Serve warm or at room temperature.

STUFFED CABBAGE ROLLS (GALUMPKIS)

Steps:

• To make the sauce:
• Coat a 3-quart saucepan with the oil and place over medium heat. Add the garlic and saute for 1 minute. Add the tomatoes and cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes. Add the vinegar and sugar; simmer, until the sauce thickens, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and remove from the heat.
• Place a skillet over medium heat and coat with 2 tablespoons of the olive oil. Sauté the onion and garlic for about 5 minutes, until soft. Stir in the tomato paste, a splash of wine, parsley, and 1/2 cup of the prepared sweet and sour tomato sauce, mix to incorporate and then take it off the heat. Combine the ground meat in a large mixing bowl. Add the egg, the cooked rice, and the sauteed onion mixture. Toss the filling together with your hands to combine, season with a generous amount of salt and pepper.
• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Remove the large, damaged outer leaves from the cabbages and set aside. Cut out the cores of the cabbages with a sharp knife and carefully pull off all the rest of the leaves, keeping them whole and as undamaged as possible, (get rid of all the small leaves and use them for coleslaw or whatever.) Blanch the cabbage leaves in the pot of boiling water for 5 minutes, or until pliable. Run the leaves under cool water then lay them out so you can assess just how many blankets you have to wrap up the filling. Next, carefully cut out the center vein from the leaves so they will be easier to roll up. Take the reserved big outer leaves and lay them on the bottom of a casserole pan, let part of the leaves hang out the sides of the pan. This insulation will prevent the cabbage rolls from burning on the bottom when baked. Use all the good looking leaves to make the cabbage rolls. Put about 1/2 cup of the meat filling in the center of the cabbage and starting at what was the stem-end, fold the sides in and roll up the cabbage to enclose the filling. Place the cabbage rolls side by side in rows, seam-side down, in a casserole pan.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Pour the remaining sweet and sour tomato sauce over the cabbage rolls. Fold the hanging leaves over the top to enclose and keep the moisture in. Drizzle the top with the remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Bake for 1 hour until the meat is cooked.

PIGS IN A BLANKET

Steps:

• 1. Mix pork sausage, rice, water and pepper in a large bowl. You can add a little more water if mixture is too thick. cover and refidgerate until cabbage is ready.
• 2. Bring a large pan of water to a boil and place head of cabbage in boiling water until leaves loosen and become limp. Seperate leaves and stack on a plate.
• 3. Using a 1/4 or 1/3 measuring cup, scoop pork mixture out to form an oblong roll. place one piece on a cabbage leaf and roll up. repeating with remaining pork mixture. This amount usually yeilds about 24 pork rolls.
• 4. Drain sauerkraut in a collander and layer about 2 lbs in the bottom of an electric roaster or large crock pot. sprinkle with about 2 Tbsp brown sugar and a thin layer of onions. then layer with cabage rolls.
• 5. Cover cabage rolls with another layer of sauerkraut, then brown sugar the onino and cabage rolls, repeat until you end up with a top covering of sauerkraut. any extra cabbage leaves can be laid on top of the kraut to cook as well.
• 6. Set roaster to 325° and slow cook for at least 10 hours. keep checking every few hours to make sure your kraut is not burning on the bottom. In crock pot set temp to high for the first 6 housr the on low the remaining 4 hours.
• 7. Serve with mashed potatoes at the strike of the new year for good luck! I usually start my pigs about 1:00pm then have them as the new year comes in!

STUFFED CABBAGE ROLLS (GALUMPKIS)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Add whole head of cabbage to a pot of boiling water. Boil for 3-4 minutes.
• Remove cabbage from water, drain and allow to cool.
• Once cooled, carefully peel leaves off of cabbage. You will need 12 leaves total.
• Cut the hard stem out of the bottom of each leaf, being careful to not tear the leaves. Set leaves aside.
• Add ground beef, rice, onion, diced tomatoes, egg and Worchestershire sauce to a bowl.
• Season to taste with the salt, pepper and garlic powder.
• Mix all ingredients well. Set aside.
• In a saucepan, mix the tomato sauce, garlic, sugar and lemon juice.
• Heat mixture through. Set aside.
• Fill each cabbage leaf with the ground beef mixture.
• Roll each leaf closed, folding in the sides as you roll.
• Place the rolls seam down in a baking dish.
• Cover the rolls with the sauce.
• Bake for 1 hour uncovered.
• Serve with sour cream.

GALUSKIES

Steps:

• Place cabbages in a large stockpot filled halfway with water; add vinegar. Cover and steam over low heat until leaves are tender, 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Remove cabbages, reserving vinegar cooking water. Rinse with cold water to chill the cabbage, then separate the leaves.
• Meanwhile, bring 3 cups water and rice to a boil in a saucepan over high heat, then reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer until the rice is tender, about 20 minutes. Remove from heat and fluff with a fork; set aside to cool.
• Heat a large skillet over medium heat. Brown the ground beef and sausage with the onion, salt, garlic salt, and pepper, 7 to 10 minutes. Drain and set aside to cool.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Cover the bottom of a large roasting pan with a single layer of cabbage leaves.
• Prepare the filling by stirring together the rice, cooked meat, and sauerkraut until well blended. Place 1/3 cup of filling into each leaf and roll into a cylinder, tucking in the ends as you roll it up. Place the rolls into the roasting pan. Pour in enough of the cooking liquid from the cabbage to come halfway up the sides of the rolls. Cover pan with a tight fitting lid or aluminum foil.
• Bake in preheated oven for 1 1/2 hours. Serve warm or at room temperature.

GALUSKA FOR STEW (DUMPLINGS)

Steps:

• Mix eggs, flour, water, salt to form a smooth batter.
• Boil a pot of water with the 4 teaspoons of salt.
• Dip teaspoon in hot water; scoop a teaspoon of batter and put in water.
• It should just slide of the spoon.
• Keep dipping the spoon in the water and scoop more batter until the pot is full.
• You may have to do more then one pot of dumplings.
• Cook 1 or 2 minutes or until the dumplings rise to the surface.
• Drain and keep warm.
• Pour 1/2 of the melted butter over the dumplings so they won't stick.
• Serve dumplings separately or put in stew or soup.