Vegan Cabbage Rolls

One of my Mom’s favorite meals were cabbage rolls. So I am creating vegan cabbage rolls, by using brown and wild rice as a substitute for the hamburger. I also like using chopped onion mixed in with the rice. I find that rice give it a nice flavor, so I don’t miss the hamburger. It also makes me feel good to be eating one of my mom’s favorite meals. My sisters and I used to help roll the cabbage rolls for her when we were younger. When you cook the cabbage, don’t over cook it as the leaves will become mushy. Once I cook the cabbage for 20 minutes, I pull it out and peel off as many leaves as are cooked, then put it back in for another 5 minutes, and so on until all the leaves are cooked. Sometimes I make a little pan of tiny cabbage leaves and leftover rice covered in tomato sauce to use up all of the ingredients. You can also cook these tasty oil free whole wheat biscuits. https://susansveganjourney.com/vegan-whole-wheat-biscuits/

Get Your Ingredients:

• 1 head cabbage
• 2 cups brown and wild rice
• 2 c 15 oz cans tomato sauce
• 1 cup saukraut optional
• 1/2 cup diced onion (optional)

Let’s Getting Cooking those delicious Vegan Cabbage Rolls:

• Cut 1/4 of the core out of the cabbage
• put cabbage in hot water, cover with lid and heat on medium heat for 30 minutes
• Add cups of rice to 3 cups of hot water, bring to boil, then cover and reduce heat to simmer for additional 40-45 minutes until rice is soft.
• Put peeled leaves on a plate. Once cool, add approximately 1/4 cup of rice. If you want to add extra flavor add I spoonful of diced onions. Roll up up in a cabbage leaf and tuck corners in to keep rice from spilling out. As the size of the cabbage gets smaller you will need less rice. So your cabbage rolls will all be different in size. I like to use all the leaves, so rolls will go from large to small. The size of your cabbage will determine how many rolls you have.
• Once cabbage is cooked the leaves will peel off easily.
• In 8 x 12 cooking dish, cover bottom with tomato sauce, then place rolled up cabbage roll on tomato sauce.
• Place each cabbage roll next to each other until pan is full.
• Once the pan is full, cover the rolls with tomato sauce. You can also cover with saukraut. I love saukraut and my husband does not, so I do half with saukraut and half without.
• Cover with aluminum foil and cook at 350 degrees for 1 hour.

Top with tomato sauce and I love to cover it with saukraut. My husband likes his with extra tomato sauce and we are both happy.

Enjoy!