Name: Unconstructed Cabbage Rolls
Ingredients: ½ head green cabbage, cored and cut into 1½-inch (4-cm) chunks; 2 cups (370 g) long-grain white rice; ½ onion, diced; 8 ginger snap cookies; 1 tablespoon olive oil; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; ½ teaspoon citric acid; 1 (28-ounce/794-g) can crushed tomatoes; 2½ pounds (1.2 kg) ground beef

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Slow Cook Modern

By Liana Krissoff

Published 2017

About

This stew has all the flavors of cabbage rolls—right down to the citric acid and ginger snap cookies used by my western-Pennsylvania grandmother—but none of the fuss associated with steaming a head of cabbage, removing the leaves, and forming the actual rolls.

Ingredients

2½ pounds (1.2 kg) ground beef
1 (28-ounce/

Method

Morning

In a large skillet or sauté pan, cook the beef over medium-high heat, stirring to break it up, until most of the pink is gone, 5 to 8 minutes. Pour off any liquid and transfer the beef to the slow cooker; stir in the tomatoes, citric acid, 1½ teaspoons sa