Cabbage Rolls

Ingredients

• 1 lb Ground beef 
• 1 lb Ground pork
• 1 cup Cooked rice
• 1 Egg
• 1 onion diced
• 4 cloves garlic minced
• 1 stalk celery diced 
• 1/2 red pepper diced
• 1 teaspoon dried Italian herbs
• 1/2 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves minced
• 1 table spoon Lea and Perrins sauce
• 2 tablespoons ketchup
• Black pepper
• Salt
• 1 large savoy or Taiwan cabbage Cabbage
• 1 jar Tomato pasta sauce - Classico Sweet Basil marinara mixed with one tablespoon sugar

Instructions

1. Cook rice, fluff and let cool
2. Mix the meat seasonings and rice. Do not over mix .
3. Cut out centre core of cabbage. Blanch whole cabbage. Remove outside leaves, cut out hard centre stem and split in half if needed.
4. If needed re-blanch cabbage to remove inner layers.
5. Roll meat in cabbage leaves and place in baking dish.
6. Cover in pasta sauce and bake at 375 for about 1 hour 
7. Serve with pasta, mashed potatoes or rice.