Name: Cabbage Layered with Minced Meat (Kiymali Lahana Kapamasi)
Yield: To Serve 6
Cuisine: Turkey
Ingredients: 1 large white cabbage (1 kg/2 lb); ½ tsp red pepper; salt to taste; 1 tsp tomato purée; 25 g/1 oz cooking fat or butter; 20 g/¾ oz parsley, chopped; 25 g/1 oz currants; 250 g/8 oz lamb, minced; 200 g/7 oz onions, peeled and finely chopped; 25 g/1 ozpine nuts

Preparation info

To Serve
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Nevin Halici's Turkish Cookbook

By Nevin Halici

Published 1989

About

Kapama means “covered over”; in this case the minced meat is covered with layers of cabbage. The same ingredients can also be prepared by stuffing a whole cabbage with the meat, as in kapama of cabbage in olive oil.

Ingredients

1 large white cabbage (1 kg/2 lb)

Method

To prepare the filling soak the currants in water for 30 minutes.

Melt the fat in a pan, add the pine nuts and fry for 1 minute. Add the onions and fry for 4-5 minutes until golden. Add the mince and fry for 5-10 minutes, stirring occasionally until the meat absorbs its own juices. Add the tomato purée and stir for 1 minute. Sprinkle on the pepper and salt. Add the parsley with the curr