- 1 1/5 pounds of ground beef
- Two medium onions chopped finely
- 1/2 cup raw rice
- Two carrots grated
- 1 tablespoon salt
- One tablespoon black pepper
- One tablespoon fresh garlic
- One tablespoon Hungarian paprika
- Two tablespoons
Tomatoe paste - 2 bay leaves
- 3 cups beef stock
- One to two teaspoon white sugar your preference
- Full head of cabbage
Core the cabbage out with out harming the leaves. Get a cooking pot fill with about two cups water. Put cabbage empty core down. Cook covered for twenty minutes just to soften the leaves.
In a separate mixing bowl mix all ingredients except the tomato paste and bay leaves(Tomato paste and bay leaves go into the stock.)
Mix the ingredients really well.
Stuff your leaves
And seam down in the casserole dish or cooking pot you will be using.
Single layer or double layer, you stack them as you like.
Stock, sugar, bay leaves and tomato paste, heat up then pour over the stuffed cabbage and simmer for at least one hour.
If in casserole cover with stock and bake at 350 degrees for an hour and a half.