Pork Stuffed Cabbage Rolls For Any Occasion

My favorite aunt, Mma P, loves to cook “fancy foods”. Her love language is an easy guess as  she loves to feed those she loves.

Growing up, we used to look forward to her visits as cabbage rolls and diphaphatha were a guaranteed treat. My sister  loves her cabbage rolls. Every now and then I still receive the consignment to deliver.

Traditionally stuffed with beef mince, I switched the technique and made my very own pork cabbage rolls. I think my Aunt would be proud of the end result. 

Here’s the recipe for you to try out.

Ingredients           Yield: 8 – 10 Rolls 

250g pork mince 
1 clove garlic 
1/3 of your pinkie finger ginger  
1 onion 
A medium-sized cabbage 
1 egg 
Tomato soup 
Soy sauce  

Method  

Pork Mince

Pre heat oven at 190 degrees celsius.

Grate the ginger and garlic.
Finely chop the onion and blitz them together in a food processor. 
In a large bowl, mix blitzed ingredients to pork mince. Add the egg, soy sauce, salt and pepper, and sugar.  
Allow to rest in the fridge for 30 minutes while you prepare the cabbage. 

Cabbage

Bring a large bowl of salted water to a boil.
Cut the cork of the cabbage so you have big, loose leaves.
Drop the cabbage into the boiling water and the leaves will peel off.
Remove after a few minutes and cool under running cold water.
Leave to dry.
You can either reduce the spine of the leaves or cut them out completely  

Place a tablespoon of the pork mince mixture in the middle of a cabbage leaf and roll. As if you’re rolling a wrap or burrito.

Place all your pork-stuffed rolls in a baking dish. Followed by a spoon of water to the bottom of the dish. Do this for each cabbage roll.

Bake for 25 minutes or until just cooked through.  

Notes

You can serve these pork-stuffed rolls with tomato soup, chili, or soy sauce.  Great with a bowl of rice, warm bread, or as a starter.

Hope you’ve enjoyed these tasty family meals. Follow @ChellzKitchen for more recipes.

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Chellzkitchen was started over 8yrs ago as a hashtag and blog by an artistic Michelle Phetlhe. FFW 2020 Covid has the ESTeRES Boutique Agency MD having to evolve her business to stay relevant. This has given Chellzkitchen a new lease of life. Follow the Facebook page Chellzkitchen for exciting times in the kitchen! Good Food equals Good Memories. I am a home cook who believes we all have untapped potential in the kitchen! By cooking with Love and Confidence the kitchen easily becomes one of the most exciting rooms in the house where one gets to experiment, create, forget to switch on the stove and up cooking nothing for 20min or burn the toast. Ultimately we are what we eat, so let's invest in this time.

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