Cabbage rolls with potatoes, drizzled with onion and bacon / Gołąbki z ziemniakami
Very tasty cabbage rolls stuffed with grated potatoes, drizzled with fried onions and bacon. Very simple recipe. All you need are only a few ingredients. It's an inexpensive dinner winner.
Prep Time30 minutes mins
Cook Time1 hour hr 30 minutes mins
Total Time2 hours hrs
Course: Main Course, Side Dish
Cuisine: Polish
Ingredients
Ingredients for filling:
- 1.5 kg baking potatoes
- 2 medium yellow onions (about 100 g)
- 2 eggs
- 1-2 tablespoons all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons vegetable seasoning
- 1 pinch black ground pepper to taste
- 1 pinch salt to taste
Additionally:
- 1 medium head of white cabbage (approx. 2 kg)
- 500 ml vegetable broth
- 2 teaspoons butter for the bottom of the pan
- 400 grams smoked bacon
- 2-3 medium yellow onions
- 1 pinch salt for the water
Tip:
- 3-4 tablespoons white vinegar For a more flexible cabbage leaves you may add a few tablespoons of vinegar to the boiling water.
Instructions
- Boil water with salt and vinegar in a large pot. Blanch the cabbage and place the leaves in a colander.
- After scalding, gently cut off the thick veins with a knife from each leaf.
- Peel the potatoes, grate them on a very fine grater as for potato pancakes. Place them in a thick sieve to drain excess water.
- Grate the yellow onion and add to the potato mixture it will prevent the potatoes from turning brown.
- Add eggs, all purpose flour and spices to the potato mixture and mix all well.
- Fry bacon until golden brown and set aside.
- In another pan fry chopped onion until golden and set aside.
- Place a portion of the potato filling on a cabbage leaf, fold the sides of the leaf and roll the cabbage rolls tightly, starting from the base of the leaf.
- Place unused cabbage leaves on the bottom of a large baking pan, and arrange the cabbage rolls tightly on them.
- Place the fried bacon and the fried onion on the top of stuffed cabbage rolls.
- Add the vegetable broth. Cover and bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees C for about an hour and a half or until tender.
- They taste best the same day as cooked.