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Crock-Pot Cabbage Rolls
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Tender cabbage leaves are stuffed with a delicious ground beef and rice mixture and then allowed to simmer away in the slow cooker in a tomato based sauce in this delicious recipe for Crock-Pot Cabbage Rolls! You can also prepare the rolls ahead of time and freeze them for a dinner the whole family will love!

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Crock-Pot Cabbage Rolls

It is a bit of a mystery where the stuffed cabbage roll comes from. Poland, Russia, or somewhere else? I am not really sure despite a lot of Google research. There have been versions of stuffed cabbage leaves for thousands of years so it is a little hard to tell.

This version however is a old family recipe that I have adapted to a slow cooker recipe. With a ground beef and rice filling and a tomato sauce that is based on canned tomato soup and vegetable juice the finished cabbage rolls are super tasty and to be honest one of my favorites!

I know what your’e saying…canned tomato soup and vegetable juice? WHAT? That is not traditional! And you would be right. But don’t knock it until you try it. The tomato soup adds a yummy texture with a little creaminess (even though you don’t add milk to the soup) and the tomato juice adds some nice zing. A touch of Worcestershire sauce added to the sauce brings forth a pop of umami flavor and the whole thing is just wonderful.


Ingredients Needed:

  • Fresh Cabbage – You will need 1 large head of cabbage.
  • Yellow Onion – Peeled and diced.
  • Extra Lean Ground Beef – I always use the leanest ground beef possible in most of my recipes to save on fat calories. You can also use ground pork, turkey or venison or a combination of your favorite ground meats.
  • Cooked White Rice – You will need to cook the rice ahead of time or if you have leftover cooked rice that works great in this recipe.
  • Eggs
  • Kosher Salt
  • Black Pepper
  • Canned Tomato Soup – The soup will be condensed tomato soup and you will use it straight from the can without diluting it with water or milk. If you are on a gluten free diet look for brands that do not contain gluten such as Pacific Foods or Pacific Foods.
  • Vegetable Juice – I used V8 brand.
  • Worcestershire Sauce – Look for gluten free brands such as Lea & Perrins if you are on a GF diet.

Directions:

  1. Core the head of cabbage and carefully remove each individual leaf off of the head and wash to remove dirt.
  2. Place clean cabbage leaves inside a steamer (or use a large pot with a steamer basket and tight fitting lid) and steam of 60 seconds. Remove steamed leaves and cool leaves by placing them in a bowl of ice water. Set aside.
  3. In a large skillet on the stove-top cook the diced onions until translucent; about 3 to 5 minutes. Set aside.
  4. In a large mixing bowl, add the raw ground beef, eggs, salt, pepper, cooked onions and rice and mix well with your hands to combine thoroughly.
  5. Taking one steamed cabbage leaf at a time, add two to three tablespoons of the meat mixture on a cabbage leaf.
  6. Using your hands, gather the meat on one end of the lead and neatly roll the cabbage leaf around the meat mixture.
  7. Layer the rolled cabbage rolls into the bottom of a 3.5 quart casserole slow cooker or a 6 quart or larger oval slow cooker. Layering the rolls as you add them to the slow cooker until you have used all of the meat mixture.
  8. In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together the canned tomato soup, vegetable juice and Worcestershire sauce.
  9. Pour the tomato sauce evenly over the top of the cabbage rolls.
  10. Cover and cook on LOW for 4 to 5 hours or until the meat filling inside the cabbage rolls is cooked through and no longer pink inside.

Products Needed:

  • 3.5 Quart Casserole Slow Cooker OR 6 Quart Slow Cooker (Or Larger)
  • Knife
  • Cutting Board
  • Rice Cooker With Steamer OR Steamer Pot
  • Large Skillet
  • Mixing Bowls
  • Measuring Cups And Spoons
  • Can Opener

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Crock-Pot Cabbage Rolls
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Crock-Pot Cabbage Rolls Recipe
Homemade cabbage rolls are a comfort food for with their delicious ground beef and rice filling stuffed inside cabbage leaves and then simmered in the slow cooker in a yummy tomato based sauce. You can even make these cabbage rolls ahead of time as a freezer meal that you can cook later for dinner any time you are craving this Eastern European dish.
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Crock-Pot Cabbage Rolls Recipe
Homemade cabbage rolls are a comfort food for with their delicious ground beef and rice filling stuffed inside cabbage leaves and then simmered in the slow cooker in a yummy tomato based sauce. You can even make these cabbage rolls ahead of time as a freezer meal that you can cook later for dinner any time you are craving this Eastern European dish.
Crock-Pot Cabbage Rolls
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Votes: 44
Rating: 3.43
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Servings 6People
Prep Time 45minutes
Cook Time 4Hours On LOW
Ingredients
  • 1 Head Fresh Cabbage
  • 1 Large Yellow Onion Diced
  • 2 Pounds Extra Lean Ground Beef
  • 1 Cup Cooked White Rice
  • 3 Large Eggs
  • 1 Teaspoon Kosher Salt
  • 1 Teaspoon Freshly Ground Black Pepper
  • 10.75 Ounces Canned Tomato Soup
  • 11.5 Ounces Vegetable Juice Such As V8 Brand
  • 2 Tablespoons Worcestershire Sauce
Servings: People
Ingredients
  • 1 Head Fresh Cabbage
  • 1 Large Yellow Onion Diced
  • 2 Pounds Extra Lean Ground Beef
  • 1 Cup Cooked White Rice
  • 3 Large Eggs
  • 1 Teaspoon Kosher Salt
  • 1 Teaspoon Freshly Ground Black Pepper
  • 10.75 Ounces Canned Tomato Soup
  • 11.5 Ounces Vegetable Juice Such As V8 Brand
  • 2 Tablespoons Worcestershire Sauce
Servings: People
Rating
Votes: 44
Rating: 3.43
You:
Rate this recipe!
Servings 6People
Prep Time 45minutes
Cook Time 4Hours On LOW
Instructions
  1. Core the head of cabbage and carefully remove each individual leaf off of the head and wash to remove dirt.
  2. Place clean cabbage leaves inside a steamer (or use a large pot with a steamer basket and tight fitting lid) and steam of 60 seconds. Remove steamed leaves and cool leaves by placing them in a bowl of ice water. Set aside.
  3. In a large skillet on the stove-top cook the diced onions until translucent; about 3 to 5 minutes. Set aside.
  4. In a large mixing bowl, add the raw ground beef, eggs, salt, pepper, cooked onions and rice and mix well with your hands to combine thoroughly.
  5. Taking one steamed cabbage leaf at a time, add two to three tablespoons of the meat mixture on a cabbage leaf.
  6. Using your hands, gather the meat on one end of the lead and neatly roll the cabbage leaf around the meat mixture.
  7. Layer the rolled cabbage rolls into the bottom of a 3.5 quart casserole slow cooker or a 6 quart or larger oval slow cooker. Layering the rolls as you add them to the slow cooker until you have used all of the meat mixture.
  8. In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together the canned tomato soup, vegetable juice and Worcestershire sauce.
  9. Pour the tomato sauce evenly over the top of the cabbage rolls.
  10. Cover and cook on LOW for 4 to 5 hours or until the meat filling inside the cabbage rolls is cooked through and no longer pink inside.
  11. Garnish with chopped fresh parsley if desired before serving and ENJOY!
Nutrition Information
Calories: 424kcal, Total Fat: 13g, Saturated Fat: 6g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 1g, Cholesterol: 177mg, Sodium: 707mg, Potassium: 666mg, Carbohydrates: 37g, Dietary Fiber: 6g, Sugars: 11g, Protein: 40g, Vitamin A: 18%, Vitamin C: 148%, Calcium: 12%, Iron: 36%
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Filed Under: Entrees, Freezer Meals Tagged With: 10 Ingredients Or Less, Beef, Cabbage, Chopped Onions, Comfort Food, Cooked Rice, Eggs, Frugal, Gluten Free, Ground Beef, Ground Deer Meat, Ground Hamburger, Ground Venison, Hamburger, High Fiber, Low Fat, Low Sugar, Onions, Pepper, Rice, Salt, Tomato Soup, V8, V8 Juice, Venison, White Rice, Worcestershire Sauce, WW

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Comments

  1. michele says

    November 16, 2013 at 11:13 AM

    Thing is if you freeze uncooked cabbage, I hope you don’t plan on eatting it. It’s impossible to eat! It turns real TOUGH and stringy. ..it will choke you. You can cook them then freeze.

    Reply
    • Linda says

      November 16, 2013 at 11:35 PM

      good to know Michele, I will cook them all first and then freeze them. Hoping to make this for dinner this weekend.

      Reply
    • Dimitri says

      March 15, 2014 at 1:28 PM

      You boil the cabbage 1st, before you wrap the raw ground meat and roll them. You can freeze raw no problem. I do it all the time.

      Reply
    • Sara says

      May 27, 2014 at 4:12 PM

      Well If you freeze the whole head of cabbage in the deep freeze then let it thaw out the leaf peel off easy and no more hard labor over a hot pot of water and less problems with uncooked spots where when your peeling tend to rib the leaves

      Reply
  2. Megan says

    January 22, 2014 at 1:39 PM

    O… M…. G…!!!!! This recipe is the super best. I know this sounds overly enthusiastic, but it really is awesome. This is the first time I have attempted anything like this, and it worked out grand. Plus, I had some left to eat the whole week. (tiny family) They reheat well and taste just as delicious as when first baked. I made this recipe a week ago and just ate some for lunch now. Dash a little hot sauce on top and you are ready to go. Thanks so much for this, it was a hit!

    Reply
    • Lady Katie says

      January 22, 2014 at 4:54 PM

      glad to hear! aim to please.

      Reply
  3. Ashley says

    February 2, 2014 at 11:50 AM

    Do you cook the ground beef first or put it in cabbage rolls raw?

    Reply
    • Lady Katie says

      February 2, 2014 at 2:12 PM

      raw. Mix it and then put it in. The meat will cook while it is in the crock-pot and absorb all those flavors.

      Reply
  4. Jaxx says

    February 25, 2014 at 2:58 PM

    I had suck a hard time peeling the leaves off..

    Reply
    • Jaxx says

      February 25, 2014 at 3:00 PM

      Meant such a hard time peeling them off

      Reply
    • Dimitri says

      March 15, 2014 at 1:30 PM

      You drop the whole cabbage into a pot of boiling water, the cabbage leaves will begin to come off easy, and much easiet to wrap. Don’t cook the cabbage all the way through, just enough for you to be able to work with it and wrap the meat.

      Reply
  5. Dimitri says

    March 15, 2014 at 1:35 PM

    This dish is a stable at my house, once a weak you make enough for 2 pots. You can eat this stuff for 2-3 days. Another thing you can do is buy grape leaves and use them instead of the cabbage, they sell them in glass jars pickled. It gives it an amazing earthy taste! Sometimes I chop up the grape leaves and mix it up with the meat, and wrap it up in cabbage! You can add anything you like to spice it up, peppers, or bacon into the ground meat stuffing, this food never gets boring! Galuptsi(cabbage rolls) are the best!

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  6. Dimitri says

    March 15, 2014 at 1:48 PM

    before you drop the cabbage to boil, you need to cut into, and cut out the root, Also the center part on the leaf of the cabbage where to root travels up the leaf, you want to cut some of that off at the base, to make the cabbage leaf even thickness, it makes it easy to wrap.

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  7. Dimitri says

    March 15, 2014 at 1:51 PM

    The smaller cabbage leafs don’t throw them away, after you stack up all the rolled galubtsi, just lay the smaller cabbage leafs on top, they will taste great after cooked with the meat stuffing! 🙂

    Reply
    • Lady Heidi says

      March 15, 2014 at 6:12 PM

      Great tip Dimitri, thanks for sharing!

      Reply
  8. Sara says

    May 27, 2014 at 4:16 PM

    I actually take the whole head of cabbage and put in the deep freeze. After is is frozen I take it out the day before I plan to make them and let it thaw. After it is thawed the leave peel off like butter and no more laboring over a hot pot of water.

    Reply
    • Connie says

      October 3, 2016 at 10:18 AM

      How long can you leave head of cabbage in the freezer

      Reply
      • Lady Heidi says

        October 4, 2016 at 6:34 AM

        Hi Connie, I don’t think you should freeze a whole head of cabbage for any length of time. I have seen some recipes for cabbage rolls where they froze the head of cabbage just overnight then thawed. That makes the leaves pliable enough to roll up the cabbage rolls without steaming the cabbage first.

        Reply
  9. Tanya says

    September 28, 2014 at 9:48 PM

    These are great with some lemon juice sprinkled over them after you’ve plated.

    Reply
    • Lady Heidi says

      September 29, 2014 at 10:08 AM

      I bet that would add some great tang Tanya!

      Reply
  10. Eric says

    October 29, 2017 at 11:28 AM

    No pork???This Isn’t piggies without pork Hamburg mix in my opinion

    Reply
    • Lady Heidi says

      October 31, 2017 at 10:18 AM

      You could use pork for sure. Do a half and half mixture with the hamburger or do all pork.

      Reply
      • Bob says

        November 3, 2018 at 10:37 PM

        I use pork and veal equal amounts.Add washed rice and diced onion.I add one egg paprika salt , pepper , garlic salt. Cover with water add a large can of tomato juice. Cook in slow cooker or on the. Stove in a large pot for 3hours.

        Reply
        • Lady Heidi says

          November 4, 2018 at 10:01 PM

          Sounds great Bob!

          Reply
  11. Christie Rockey says

    June 10, 2019 at 7:01 AM

    Love this recipe! It’s so easy. I cut out the stem, and with a two pronged fork, plunge the whole head into a boiling pot of water with vinegar. As the leaves parboil, peel them off the head with tongs. I also add two tablespoons of garlic to the meat mixture.

    Reply
    • Crock-Pot Ladies says

      June 15, 2019 at 9:54 PM

      So glad you enjoyed these slow cooker cabbage rolls Christie!

      Reply

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