Stuffed Cabbage in Sweet-and-Sour Tomato Sauce with homemade chicken stock

👨‍🍳 Method

For the homemade chicken stock ✓ Homemade · or skip – back to store-bought

1. 1
   Put the chicken, the onion, carrot, celery, parsley, bay leaves and peppercorns and the water in a pot and bring to a boil. Skim off the foam that rises during the first 15 minutes with a spoon.

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2. 2
   Turn down and simmer gently 2.5–3 hours.

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   💡A gentle simmer, not a boil: a hard boil dries the food out and clouds it, a slow simmer cooks it evenly.
3. 3
   Strain the stock.

   Colander

For the Meatball mix

1. 4
   Mix the ground meat with the onion, rice, olive oil, salt and black pepper until evenly combined.

To assemble

1. 5
   Put the whole cabbage into a pot of boiling water, cook about 5 minutes and peel off the leaves one by one as they soften. Let cool.

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2. 6
   Remove the tough vein from each leaf.

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3. 7
   Place a little of the mixture in the center of each leaf, fold in both sides and roll up.
4. 8
   Arrange the rolls tightly in a wide pot, seam side down.

   Wide, shallow pot
5. 9
   Mix the stock, tomatoes, sugar, vinegar and salt and pour over the rolls.
6. 10
   Bring to a boil. Turn down the heat, cover and simmer 90 minutes, until the rice and meat are done.

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