Romanian · Romania
Slow-Cooked Sarmale
Cabbage rolls with pork and rice cooked slowly in a rich sauce
Ingredients
Method
- Prepare cabbage leaves by blanching
- Mix pork, rice, onion, garlic, salt, and pepper
- Fill each cabbage leaf with the mixture
- Arrange in a pot, add broth and tomato paste
- Cook on low heat for 1.5 hours
- Add olive oil before serving
- Check that the ground meat reaches 71°C (160°F) throughout before serving.
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