Amy's Grandma's Stuffed Cabbage Holoptchis (omac)

Total Time: 1 hr 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 cabbage, cored
• 2 lbs ground beef
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1/4 cup rice, uncooked
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• kosher salt, to taste
• pepper, to taste
• garlic powder, to taste (optional)
• 2 onions, sliced
• 32 ounces tomato sauce
• 3/4 cup brown sugar or 3/4 cup splenda brown sugar blend, firmly packed
• 1/4 cup golden raisins or 1/4 cup brown raisins
• 1/2 cup lemon juice

Recipe

• 1 if you have the cabbage heads frozen, just put under running luke warm water and peel them off and dry them with paper towels.
• 2 mix the meat ingredients in a bowl with your hands until well blended.
• 3 place the leaves on a flat surface, i used a large cutting board and place a "meatball" amount in a leaf.
• 4 roll it until just covered and then fold in the sides and finish rolling and place in a large pot, seam side down.
• 5 continue until all is used up.
• 6 place the sliced onions on top of the cabbage rolls in the pot.
• 7 in a bowl (i rinsed the bowl that had the meat mixture and used that) mix all the sauce ingredients and pour over the onions.
• 8 bring the pot to a boil and then lower the heat, cover and simmer for an hour and a half.