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Main Dish · Bosnia and Herzegovina Recipe

Sarma (Stuffed Cabbage Leaves)

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Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1 kilogram cabbage
  • 300 grams minced veal
  • 60 grams rice
  • 100 grams onions
  • Pepper
  • Salt
  • Paprika
  • Beef stock

Directions

  1. Boil cabbage leaves until they’re softer and then drain them.
  2. Mix together minced meet, onions, rice and seasonings.
  3. Fill the cabbage leaves with the mixture and create little cylindrical parcels. Pack them tightly in layers into the dish and submerge in beef stock.
  4. Cook for a few hours.
  5. When cooked melt a lump of butter into the frying pan and add paprika. Fry for a few minutes and than pour carefully over the cooked sarmas.
  6. Serve with cream and boiled potatoes.
Yield
4