Polish Gołąbki (Stuffed Cabbage Rolls)

These Polish gołąbki or stuffed cabbage rolls are filled with ground beef, rice, and onion and cooked in a sauce of canned golden mushroom soup.

• Preparation Time: 30 mins
• Cooking Time: 2 hr 15 mins
• Total Time: 2 hr 45 mins
• Calories: 311 Calories

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 2 tablespoons margarine
• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 2 onions, diced
• 2 cups rice
• 2 heads cabbage, cored
• 4 pounds ground beef
• 2 (10.5 ounce) cans chicken with rice soup
• 1 teaspoon dried marjoram, or to taste
• 1 (10.75 ounce) can golden mushroom soup

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

Step 2

Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Cook cabbage in boiling water until leaves are falling off. Remove leaves from water as they peel off and set aside.

Step 3

Melt margarine in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook onions in hot margarine until translucent, 5 to 7 minutes.

Step 4

Mix together cooked onions, ground beef, chicken with rice soup, rice, eggs, marjoram, salt, and pepper in a large bowl.

Step 5

Take a cabbage leaf, lay it flat, and trim the thickest part toward the bottom of leaf to make it easier to roll; repeat with all leaves. Take darker outside leaves and line the bottom of a roasting pan with them.

Step 6

Scoop a portion of beef meat mixture into a leaf and wrap leaf around mixture, enveloping meat completely. Repeat until all of the beef mixture is used. Arrange stuffed cabbage leaves into the roasting pan. Top with any remaining cabbage leaves. Cover the roasting pan with aluminum foil.

Step 7

Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour and 45 minutes. Remove aluminum foil, peel back top layer of extra cabbage leaves, and pour golden mushroom soup over stuffed cabbage leaves. Replace top cabbage leaves, return the roasting pan to the oven, and continue baking until soup is hot, about 15 minutes.