Stuffed Piggies Food

SKILLET PIGGIES (CABBAGE ROLLS)

Steps:

• In a large skillet, brown ground beef and onions. Do not drain.
• Add in shredded cabbage and cook for about 5-8 minutes til cabbage starts to look wilted.
• Add in beef broth, tomato sauce, crushed tomatoes, and rice. Mix well.
• Add in salt, pepper,brown sugar, and caraway seeds.
• Bring to boil, reduce heat,cover and simmer for about 20 minutes or until cabbage is tender.

POLISH GOLOBKI (GAWUMPKI)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Boil cabbages until leaves are falling off. Remove leaves from water as they peel off and set aside.
• Melt margarine in a large skillet. Cook onions in margarine until translucent, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Mix cooked onions, ground beef, chicken with rice soup, rice, eggs, marjoram, salt, and pepper in a bowl.
• Take a cabbage leaf, lay it flat, and trim the thickest part towards the bottom of the leaf to make it easier to roll; repeat with all leaves. Take the darker outside leaves and line the bottom of the roasting pan with them.
• Scoop a portion of the beef meat mixture into a leaf and wrap the leaf around the mixture, enveloping the meat completely. Repeat until all of the beef mixture is used. Arrange the stuffed cabbage leaves into the roasting pan. Top with any remaining cabbage leaves. Cover the roasting pan with aluminum foil.
• Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour 45 minutes. Remove aluminum foil, peel back the top layer of extra cabbage leaves, and pour golden mushroom soup over the stuffed cabbage leaves. Replace top cabbage leaves, return roasting pan to oven, and continue baking until the soup is hot, about 15 minutes.

PIGS IN THE BLANKET AKA STUFFED CABBAGE

Steps:

• Wilt head of cabbage in large pot of boiling water for 5 minutes. Remove cabbage from pot, cool slightly and separate leaves, taking care not to break the leaves.
• Mix ground beef, sausage, cooked rice, garlic salt, paprika and pepper. Form 3 inch balls. Place meatball into cabbage leaf and fold leaf around the ball. Place roll into a large square of cheesecloth, cover and twist ends of the cloth to shape and tighten the roll. Remove cabbage roll and repeat until all filling is used.
• In a large roasting pan which has been coated with olive oil, place layer of cabbage rolls (folded side down), cover with 1 can of tomatoes, and repeat. Pour chicken broth over the layers.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Cover roasting pan and bake for 2 hours or until until cabbage is tender. Serve with mashed potatoes.

STUFFED PIGGIES

Steps:

• 1. Bring a large stock pot (12 quart) of water to boil. Core the cabbage and place upside down in the boiling water. ( or freeze head of cabbage the night before, thaw, and will be already softened ready to stuff. After about 5 minutes of blanching, drain cabbage upside down. Begin cutting each leaf from the core, drain on paper towels. Use whatever method might work better for you.
• 2. Carefully remove hard center vein, for easier rolling of the cabbage.
• 3. Chop whatever cabbage is remaining; scatter in the bottom of a 9 x 13 baking dish or larger. Set aside
• 4. Mix tomato soup with brown sugar, lemon juice vinegar, allspice, salt, crushed tomatoes and 1 1/2 cans of water. Feel free to taste and make sweeter or sour by adding more sugar or vinegar. I always make 1 1/2 times the sauce - we like to have plenty to drizzle over mashed potatoes. I don't like dry cabbage rolls either. Pour a thin layer over the cabbage on the bottom of the casserole.
• 5. Par cook 1 cup of rice in 1 cup of water and 1 tsp of salt for about 6 minutes. set aside. ( you don't want the rice completely cooked.)
• 6. Mix rice with ground beef, par cooked onion, eggs, Worcestershire sauce ,ketchup, paprika, salt and pepper.
• 7. One by one, take a cabbage leaf and cut any hard core at the bottom of the leaf out with by making a small triangle. Place about 1/3 cup or handful of the filling on the leaf, and roll and tuck from the top down. Place in rows in the pan, nice side up.
• 8. Cover with remaining sauce. Cover with foil. If you have leftover meat, make small meatballs and place all around where you have room. Bake 2 - 2 1/2 hours at 325 degree F.
• 9. Note: I sometimes rinse a bag of sauerkraut, drain well, and add that to the bottom of the baking dish. Add a little cracked black pepper, then cover with a small amount of sauce. Then lay my rolls on top... This particular time I did...