Slow Cooker Cabbage Rolls
This Slow Cooker Cabbage Roll recipe is simple and so delicious. If you've never been a lover of cabbage, these slow cooker cabbage rolls just may make you one.
Servings 8 -10 servings
Ingredients
- 2 lbs. ground beef 80% lean
- ½ lb. ground pork
- 1 ½ tsp. garlic powder
- ½ tsp. black pepper
- ½ tsp. crushed red pepper or more to taste
- 1 ¼ tsp. salt
- ½ tsp. sugar
- ½ of 1 large onion chopped fine- reserve the other half for lining the slow cooker
- 1 cup uncooked instant white rice
- 1 or 2 heads of green cabbage
- For the sauce:
- 1 28 oz. can crushed tomatoes
- 1 Tbsp. flour
- 1 ½ tsp. sea salt
- 4 Tbsp. brown sugar
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.
- Carefully place the cabbage in the water and gently turn with a mesh strainer or wooden spoon.
- Every few minutes, with the strainer or spoon, loosen a few leaves and carefully remove.
- Set aside to cool.
- Do this until the cabbage leaves are softened and removed.
- While the cabbage is being cooked you can mix together the filling.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the beef, pork, garlic powder,pepper, crushed red pepper,salt, sugar, 1/2 of the onion and rice.
- Mix until combined well.
- In a small mixing bowl, whisk together the ingredients for the sauce.
- Slice remaining cabbage and onion and layer the bottom of your slow cooker.
- Cover with 1/3 of the tomato sauce.
- When the cabbage is cool enough to touch, with a knife, turn the cabbage over and remove the stem being careful not to pierce through the cabbage leaf.
- Fill the cabbage with about 1/2 cup of filling and roll gently, not too firmly, while tucking in the sides.
- Line them across the sauce in the slow cooker.
- Cover with another 1/3 of the sauce.
- Place your final layer of cabbage rolls in the slow cooker and cover with remaining sauce.
- Place the lid on the slow cooker and cook on Low for 8 to 9 hours or on High for 5 hours.
- When the it is done cooking, remove the lid and let cool for 15 minutes or so.