Golubtsy (Fresh cabbage leaves eaten with tomato sauce and eaten with sour cream)

Ingredients

• •1 big head white cabbage
• •500 grams minced meat
• •300 grams rice
• •2 carrots
• •3 tomatoes
• •salt and pepper to taste

Directions

1. 1Boil the whole head of cabbage in a salt water during 20 minutes. Then peel off the leaves.
2. 2Boil rice in a salt water until it is almost ready.
3. 3Grate carrots and chop tomatoes.
4. 4Mix rice with minced meat and carrots and tomatoes. Don't forget to salt and pepper according to taste.
5. 5Put the inner side of each leaf up. Place one tablespoon of prepared meat stuffing in the center of each leaf. Roll leaves, covering stuffing from sides like an envelope. Put stuffed cabbage leaves with seam down close to each other on a frying pan.
6. 6Add two tablespoons of tomato sauce or ketchup to .5 liters of water or broth. Add it, covering the bottom of the pan. Spread butter on the top of each piece. Heat oven to 250 degrees Fahrenheit.. Bake golubtsy for an hour
7. 7Serve it with the seam down, in a deep plate, and garnish it with sour cream or the sauce in which the golubtsy was cooked.