Name: Holishkes
Yield: Serves Six to Eight
Cuisine: Russian
Ingredients: 1 kg/2¼ lb lean minced (ground) beef; 75 g/3 oz/scant ½ cup long grain rice; lemon wedges, to serve; pinch of ground cinnamon; salt and ground black pepper; 15–30 ml/1–2 tbsp white wine vinegar, cider vinegar or lemon juice; 5–8 garlic cloves, chopped; 45 ml/3 tbsp demerara (raw) sugar; 2 ´ 400 g/14 oz cans chopped tomatoes; pinch of citric acid; 1 large head of white or green cabbage; 2 eggs; 4 onions, 2 chopped and 2 sliced; 45 ml/3 tbsp water

Preparation info

Serves
Six to Eight

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Complete Guide to Traditional Jewish Cooking

By Marlena Spieler

Published 2016

About

Stuffed cabbage – a Quintessential Jewish dish – is enjoyed in a wide variety of guises among the a Shkenazim and some Sephardim. This main course version is sweet and sour, quite Russian, and served with a thick tomato sauce.

Ingredients

1 kg/2¼ lb lean minced (ground) beef
75 g/3

Method

Put the beef, rice, 5 ml/1 tsp salt, pepper, chopped onions and garlic in a bowl. Beat the eggs with the water, and combine with the meat mixture. Chill.
Cut the core fr

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