Stuffed Cabbage Leaves with Dill Seeds

Name: Stuffed Cabbage Leaves with Dill Seeds
Ingredients: ½ wine glass of sherry or stock; salt, black pepper; 1 fairly large cabbage (not the hard white variety); about 1 oz butter (25 g); 1½ lb minced pork or beef (700 g); 1 large egg – lightly beaten; ½ lb tomatoes – chopped up small (225 g); dill seeds; juice of ½ small lemon; 1 tablespoon of oregano or marjoram leaves; 2 tablespoons tomato purée

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A Taste of Dreams

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1976

About

This is a particularly easy and good tasting way of making stuffed cabbage, without rice.

Ingredients

1½ lb minced pork or beef (700 g)
½ lb tomatoes

Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Take the leaves off the cabbage and submerge them in boiling salted water for 2 minutes. Drain. In a mixing bowl put the meat tomatoes, tomato purée, oregano, beaten egg, salt and plenty of black pepper. Mix well together with a wooden spoon. Butter a large but not too deep casserole dish. Form the mince mixture into medium sized balls and wrap each one in a cabbage leaf. Arrange them in a cass