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Cooking Cabbage:
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For the stuffed cabbage, cook the lentils according to
Prep the cabbage: Bring a large pot of
arge leaves from the cabbage. Reserve the remaining cabbage for another use
minutes.
Core the cabbage and place in a large
Boil cabbage long enough that leaves separate
ot, in boiling water, separate cabbage leaves.
Once all possible
Remove core from cabbage, place cabbage head in steamer and steam
Remove 12 large leaves from cabbage.
Trim off thick part
Cook cabbage until limp and easy to roll, but not mushy.
Cook rice.
Mix raw ground beef with rice.
Season with salt and pepper. Use large cabbage leaf.
Roll ground beef and rice mixture in cabbage as a blanket, tucking in sides.
In large saucepan, pour tomato juice and add raw bacon strips.
Add stuffed cabbage.
Cook on medium heat 2 1/2 hours.
Remove 12 large leaves from cabbage. Trim off thick part of
ntil ready to stuff the cabbage leaves.
To prepare the
ough to easily hold cabbage head.
Add cabbage, and cook for
alt to the water and cabbage.
Bring water to a
Remove core from cabbage.
Separate the leaves and
he tough outer leaves from cabbage. Remove 2 large leaves and
nter core of the cabbage.
Add cabbage to the water and
auce is cooking, prepare cabbage.
Discard any tough outer
ough green outer leaves from cabbage; with sharp knife, remove core
eaves from the head of cabbage, and place them in a