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Sunday, December 4, 2016

Vegan Stuffed Cabbage Recipe

Well, I tried the new stuffed cabbage recipe the other night.  I usually mostly like the meals I make.  To be completely honest, I did not like this recipe.  It could be that I made it the night before and then we reheated it the next night for dinner.  All of the sauce was absorbed by the rice and the rice became very mushy.  I also didn’t really like the dill flavor.  It tasted picklish to me and I couldn't get over the texture.  

My DH liked it okay.  He did taste it the night before when it was finished cooking and liked it better that night.  It would be interesting to hear if anyone else likes it.  I posted Golumkies in the 2013 Vegan MoFo Day 22.  Amazing that I haven’t made them since but I remember these being really good.  I think the difference is that I used cooked rice in the mixture and I didn’t cook them in the sauce for a long time.  I will have to make these again soon to redeem myself and my hankering for them. 

I am posting the recipe I made up the other night.  I had the full intention of following the recipe I found but of course I couldn’t.  I didn’t have fresh dill or parsley and I wanted to add the mushrooms and I didn’t think I wanted a lot of spice to it. I also didn’t steam enough cabbage to roll all the mixture.







Stuffed Cabbage

1 medium green cabbage, cut in half and cored
½ medium sweet onion, chopped fine
6 medium sized mushrooms, chopped fine
1 cup jasmine rice
2 T. dried dill
2 T. dried parsley
1 tsp. salt
½ tsp. salt
¼ tsp. ground all spice
½ tsp. sugar
3 T. olive oil
1 ½ medium onion sliced thin
3 campari tomatoes sliced thin
8 oz. tomato sauce divided in half
2 cups vegetable broth

Cut the cabbage in half and core it.  Boil the half of the medium green cabbage in about one inch of water until soft.  About 15 minutes.  Allow to cool.
In a bowl mix the finely chopped onions, finely chopped mushrooms, rice, dill, parsley, salt, pepper, ¼ tsp. ground all spice, ½ tsp. sugar and half the can of tomato sauce. 

Prepare the dutch oven.  Add the 3 T. olive oil and layer the onions and tomato slices.

Cut the cabbage in half again and separate leave.  Take about a teaspoon of the rice mixure and roll up.  Put seam side down over the onions and tomatoes.  Continue until all the cooked rice is used.  Sprinkle the remaining rice mixture over top the rolls.  Chop up the other half on the uncooked cabbage into about one inch pieces.  Pour the rest of the tomato sauce over top and the vegetable broth.  Put a small plate over top to keep ingredients down.  Cook on high heat for about 5 minutes.  Turn down to low and cover with the lid.  Let cook over low heat for about 30 minutes.  Remove the plate.  Cook for another 15 minutes until most of the liquid is absorbed and the rice mixture is cooked through. 








Thursday, January 10, 2013

Pasta Fagioli

Okay, I'm a total foodie and I love to cook. I love checking out vegan/plant based food blogs. But I also love the Food Network. Years ago I would watch Emeril every night at 8 p.m.  Now I mostly enjoy Restaurant Impossible and Diners, Drive Ins and Dives. It's hard though since almost every restaurant on DD&D features meat and/or dairy products.  It does give me inspiration because I like to figure out how I could make things plant based. Our homemade pizza dinner was from an episode the other night from DD& D and so is the pasta fagioli.

From all that I've ever known pasta fagioli to be a soup but this one Italian restaurant made it more like a meal that was pasta, sauce and beans. They used red kidney beans and I found another recipe online that used cannellini beans. So, I ended up using cannellini beans because we didn't have any kidney beans.  I will probably try it with both beans next time.  My family loves kidney beans but they aren't my favorite.


This meal was a super hit with my family.  I really think they loved the beans with the pasta.  I think I may not cook the pasta in the sauce next time.  I will just put the sauce and beans together and then spoon over the cooked pasta.


Pasta Fagioli
Olive oil  (about 2 – 3 T)
1 medium onion, finely chopped
3 cloves of garlic
1 15 ounce can tomato sauce
1 T julienne basil leaves
1 15 ounce can cannellini beans
4 cups water
1 tsp. salt
½ tsp. black pepper
1 tsp. sugar
16 ounces ditalini pasta

Directions
In a big pot over medium heat sauté onions in olive oil (enough to cover bottom of pot about 2 T); cook covered, stirring frequently until onions are translucent.  Add tomato sauce, basil, minced garlic and simmer on low for about 10 minutes.  I used my immersion blender and made this sauce smooth.  
Add the cannellini beans, water and uncooked pasta.  Cook until pasta is done approximately 10 - 15 minutes.   
Add more water and vegetarian bouillon if you want to make this more of a soup.