Cabbage roll

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A cabbage roll (or stuffed cabbage) is a savory food item made with a variety of fillings wrapped in cabbage. The filling usually includes meat, often beef, lamb or pork, seasoned with onion, tomato paste, salt, black pepper, and spices. Other fillings vary and may include mushrooms, vegetables, sauerkraut, rice, or barley and as only the largest leaves can be used as covering, the rest of the cabbage is usually mixed into the stuffing. Other ingredients may also be used. The filling is stuffed in cabbage leaves, which are tucked around it like an egg roll. It is simmered or steamed in a covered pot until cooked, and is usually eaten hot. In Finland they are normally baked in oven and are brushed with dark syrup and traditionally served with bitter lingonberry jam or fresh lingonberries. In northern Brazil people who are of Arabic descent make their cabbage rolls with a mixture of beef, pork and lamb with rice and wrapped like cigars and boiled with cloves of garlic. They are served warm and seasoned with salt, pepper and lime juice.

Cabbage rolls are part of the traditional cuisine of many Central European, Eastern European, and Balkan countries. They are known as lahana dolması in Turkish, holubki in both Czech and Slovak, halubcy in Belarusian, sarmale in Romanian, golubtsy in Russian, holubtsi in Ukrainian, and gołąbki in Polish (the word literally means "little pigeons"). A common variation in Slovak, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian is halupki. In German respectively Austrian they are known as Kohlroulade or Krautwickel, in Serbian as Sarma and in Finland as kaalikääryle.

In order to get the cabbage soft enough to form into a roll, it may be pickled (to make "sour" cabbage rolls) or blanched (to make "sweet" cabbage rolls). A similar recipe, beet rolls, replaces the cabbage wrapping with beet leaves.

The recipe has even been adopted in Japan, where "rolled cabbage" (rouru kyabetsu or ロールキャベツ) held together with a toothpick can be found stewing with slices of daikon radish, tofu, and fish cakes in Japanese oden.

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Variants

Kåldolmar, Swedish cabbage rolls filled with minced pork and rice.
Sarma (food) - is the name of a grape leaf or cabbage leaf roll common to Southeastern Europe
Gołąbki - is a hearty traditional Polish dish consisting of boiled cabbage leaves stuffed with ground beef, chopped onions, and rice, baked in a spicy tomato sauce.

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