Sarmale, the Romanian Cabbage Rolls

Steps Making Recipes Sarmale, the Romanian Cabbage Rolls using 12 ingredients and 5 steps

Sarmale, the Romanian Cabbage Rolls - Traditional Romanian Cabbage Rolls (Sarmale) are always part of our Christmas dinner! Sour cabbage (Sauerkraut) leaves stuffed with a mix of pork/beef/veal ground meat, slow cooked in tomato sauce with some smoked bacon and fresh thyme. Traditional Romanian Cabbage Rolls (Sarmale) Recipe. My recipe for traditional Romanian Cabbage Rolls (Sarmale) are made with sour cabbage stuffed with pork, beef, and little bit of bacon. They're the best cabbage rolls you will ever have!

I've made it probably a hundred times, and have rolled thousands of them!

Ever wanted to make authentic Romanian Cabbage Rolls also known as sarmale.

You can cook Sarmale, the Romanian Cabbage Rolls using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients cook Sarmale, the Romanian Cabbage Rolls

1. You need 350 gr beef minced.
2. Prepare 150 gr pork minced.
3. You need 1 package sour cabbage, available in eastern europe deli.
4. It's 1 cup rice, wash and drain.
5. It's 3 piece white onion.
6. You need 3 piece garlic.
7. Prepare 3 tbsp sweet red paprika powder.
8. It's 3 tbsp vegeta, the vegetable stock.
9. It's salt and pepper.
10. Prepare olive oil.
11. It's crispy bread.
12. Prepare sour cream.

Sarmale, the Romanian Cabbage Rolls step by step

1. Heat the pan in a medium heat, saute the garlic and white onion in olive oil till its fragrant, then add the rice, sweet red paprika powder, vegeta and salt and pepper, cook for about 15 mins.
2. Add the minced meat in a bowl, and mix with the garlic onion rice till all mixed well together..
3. Stuffed the sour cabbage with the meat and rice mixture,and roll it.
4. Place the cabbage rolls in a pot, and cover with water, cook in high heat until boiling and simmer in low heat for about 1 hour until meat cooked.
5. Best serve with crispy bread and you can add sour cream on the top. super easy and yummmy!!!.

Sarmale, the Romanian Cabbage Rolls - They are easier to make than you think. This traditional Romanian Sarmale stuffed cabbage rolls recipe is rich in flavor and features fresh herbs, tomatoes, and sustainably sourced pork that is rolled in cabbage and baked to perfection in a delicious tomato sauce. The Romanian cabbage rolls I make are soft, very soft, if cooked properly they will almost melt in your mouth. I had tougher cabbage rolls before, cooked by other people, and although sarmale are always good, I have to say that for me they have to be soft. This is a recipe that my grandmother made and was made and served at church dinners as I was growing up. It is very similar to Hungarian Cabbage Rolls and very different from the Polish style. No holiday would be complete without these along with Fresh & Smoked Sausage, Mamaliga with. Thank you and good luck