Golomki (Stuffed Cabbage)

The following is a Polish dish passed down from Anna (Dan’s great-grandmother) to Barbara (Dan’s grandmother) to Deborah (Dan’s mother) to Whitney (the love of Dan’s life!)

ingredients

1.25 lb ground pork
1.25 lb. ground beef
4 eggs
2 medium onions
2 cans or 1 large of tomato soup
2 heads of cabbage
rice
salt and pepper

directions

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1. Cut the bottom core from the heads of cabbage. Slowly boil heads of cabbage, pulling off leaves as they loosen.
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2. Remove the loose leaves from the boiling water and set each leaf aside
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3. Mix meat, eggs, salt and pepper
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4. Dice onion and fry in margarine. Add to mixture.
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5. Soften 1 C of rice. Add to mixture.
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6. Add water until mixture is loose (no longer sticky)
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7. Role meat in cabbage leaves and place in pan.
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8. Cover the rolls with any extra cabbage
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9. Mix tomato soup with only 1/2 the required water. Pour soup over golomki.
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10. Cover with foil. Cook at 340 for 1 1/2 to 2 hours.