Halupki (Stuffed Cabbage)

Halupki, also known as stuffed cabbage on the Russian/Ukranian side of my family, is a dish made of rice, beef, and pork encased in cabbage drizzled with a thin, sweet tomato sauce. My grandma Eugenia is 98 and she taught me how to make this comfort food classic. Every family has their own twist on this traditional dish. I hope you enjoy these with mashed potatoes just as we always do in my family!

Step: 1

Place the cabbage in a stockpot with enough water to cover.

Step: 2

Add 1/4 teaspoon salt to the water and cabbage.

Step: 3

Bring water to a boil over medium-high heat. Turn cabbage every 2-3 minutes and remove leaves that separate from cabbage and place in a strainer to cool. Boil until all the leaves have cooked, about 15 minutes.

Step: 4

Reserve 12 oz. of cabbage water.

Step: 5

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

Step: 6

Trim thick center vein off of bottom of each cabbage leaf.

Step: 7

In a large bowl thoroughly mix together, ground beef, ground pork, rice, chopped onion, fresh parsley, egg, garlic powder, salt, and pepper.

Step: 8

Lightly pack a small amount of meat mixture and place in the center of the cabbage leaf.

Step: 9

Fold sides over the filling and start at the stem and roll the cabbage up until the meat is encased. Repeat with remaining leaves and filling.

Step: 10

Cut the leftover leaves into pieces and place into the bottom of a roasting pan.

Step: 11

Layer the stuffed cabbage rolls over the cut leaves.

Step: 12

In a bowl, mix the tomato sauce, reserved cabbage water, white vinegar, and white sugar.

Step: 13

Pour the tomato sauce mixture over the cabbage rolls.

Step: 14

Cover roasting pan with aluminum foil.

Step: 15

Bake in preheated oven until the ground beef mixture is no longer pink in the center, about 2 1/2 hours. Baste stuffed cabbage rolls every hour.

Per Serving: 468 calories; protein 28.1g; carbohydrates 21.7g; fat 29.8g; cholesterol 137.3mg; sodium 715mg.

To much possesion yourself can lead to overeating , late-night snacking, and mindless eats and it’s for this mind that Riner encourages people to indulge in “fun” foods every once in a while.

Avoidance on late-night snacking and got eat , it is much important to include some easy foods (or what one may perceive as off limits ). Meaning , if we can be order the healthiest thing on the menu but come home and graze on chips, perhaps we really will the junk food and should have just pleased it in the first place."

Because it comes to eat on evening , overeating or eating too much of the bad item of food will make lead to trouble on sleeping. On the flip side, a daylight food that is not eating to much food than satiating can leave you wanting more and resulting in reaching for an unhealthy late-night snack even closer to sleep .