Stuffed Cabbage Leaves

Ingredients

• •10-15 pickled cabbage leaves
• •4 onions
• •salt
• •1 coffee-cupful of rice
• •2 red tomatoes - fresh or preserved
• •1 teaspoonful of ground savoury
• •1 teaspoonful of ground pepper
• •1 spoonful of cut up parsley
• •2 dried red peppers
• •2 fresh peppers (better red)
• •1 carrot
• •1 1/2 coffee-cupfuls of vegetable oil

Directions

1. 1Chop up the onions, the fresh peppers and the carrot.
2. 2Salt to suit your taste and brown the mixture in vegetable oil.
3. 3When onion grows soft, add the rice, cleaned, washed and dried.
4. 4Add the tomatoes, peeled and grated, the pepper, the savoury and the minced parsley .
5. 5Mix these products well.
6. 6Fill the cabbage leaves with it and wrap them tightly.
7. 7Cover the bottom of the cooking pot with sauerkraut, arrange the stuffed leaves.
8. 8In between insert the dried red peppers, previously steeped for 6 hours in cold water.
9. 9Pour water and sauerkraut juice in equal proportions or warm water alone.
10. 10The liquid has to cover the stuffed leaves.
11. 11Stew on slow fire till stuffed leaves soften.