Cabbage Rolls in Sour Cream Sauce
December 23rd, 2011 in Beef, Main Dishes by Julia Volhina
Total cooking time: 2h 30min

Another variation for ukrainian cabbage rolls: meat staffed cabbage rolls with gentle sour cream and onion sauce.
Making these from scratch will take some time as any recipe for cabbage rolls even if you use ground beef and don’t need to prepare it yourself, you still need to separate cabbage, assemble rolls and then cook them.
But don’t let this to stop you – even though it is time consuming to cook cabbage rolls you will get enough rolls for later – just store left overs in fridge or freezer.
Ingredients:
For rolls:
1.5lb of ground beef- 2 onions
- 1/2 cup of rice
- 1 big cabbage (5-6lbs)
- Ground black pepper to taste
- Salt to taste
- 1-2 table spoons of oil
For sour cream sauce:
14 oz sour cream- 2 onions
- 1 cup of water
- Dill
- Salt to taste
- 1-2 table spoons of oil
How to prepare, step-by-step:
-
Prepare ingredients: select cabbage with big wide leaves, you will not use all of it but big leaves are easier to roll:
Cabbage Rolls in Sour Cream Sauce Recipe: Step 1 -
Boil rice till it is half ready (still hard) in a pot of salted water, drain the water, let rice to cool down till room temperature (read here how to do it):
Cabbage Rolls in Sour Cream Sauce Recipe: Step 2 -
Peel and chop 2 onions, warm up a skillet with 1-2 table spoons of oil and fry onions until soft and brownish in color, then set aside to cool down till room temperature:
Cabbage Rolls in Sour Cream Sauce Recipe: Step 3 -
Now it is time to prepare cabbage leaves: take cooking pot big enough to fit whole cabbage, add a bit of water (1/5 of the pot), put on burner and bring to boil; then remove top layer of leaves from cabbage, slice stem off and put cabbage into pot stem part to the bottom and let it it boil for 5-10 mins:
Cabbage Rolls in Sour Cream Sauce Recipe: Step 4 -
While cabbage is getting ready, prepare stuffing:
Combine meat and rice Add onions Season with salt and black pepper, mix
-
Now it is time to assemble cabbage rolls: carefully get cabbage from the boiling water (turn it stem part top, get hold of cabbage stem with fork and get it out from the water):
Separate a leaf from cabbage using knife Slice center hard part of the leaf off Arrange a table spoon of stuffing at the steam side
Roll it forward Fold left side And right one
Roll once more And more A cabbage roll is ready! -
Now just repeat this procedure for all the stuffing you have (try to make all cabbage rolls of equal size); if leaves become hard to roll bring cabbage back to the boiling water that will make “undressing” procedure easier and leaves more flexible; arrange prepared cabbage rolls in the cast iron cooking pot:
Cabbage Rolls in Sour Cream Sauce Recipe: Step 7 -
Now it is time to cook sour cream and onions sauce: warm up skillet with a bit of oil over moderate heat; peel remaining 2 onions, slice in half-circles and fry them over until yellowed in color, stir from time to time:
Cabbage Rolls in Sour Cream Sauce Recipe: Step 8 -
Add all sour cream and bring to slow boiling:
Cabbage Rolls in Sour Cream Sauce Recipe: Step 9 -
Add chopped dill:
Cabbage Rolls in Sour Cream Sauce Recipe: Step 10 -
Salt to taste, stir in a cup of water, bring to boil and cook for 5 mins:
Cabbage Rolls in Sour Cream Sauce Recipe: Step 11 -
Then pour sauce over prepared cabbage rolls, cover cooking pot with a lid and put to oven warmed up till 350F for about 1.5h (or until cabbage is soft):
Cabbage Rolls in Sour Cream Sauce Recipe: Step 12 -
Serve cabbage rolls hot, pour sour cream sauce over:
Cabbage Rolls in Sour Cream Sauce
Just made these for supper!! Delish! Hubby said they on repeat list!
Glad you both liked the recipe. Feel free to rate the recipe at the top of the page (see where stars next to the title are)
Made this yesterday for dinner with our granddaughter. We loved it!!!
Served it with lazy dumplings (Varenyky) from your recipe. We loved those also and thought it was a great combination. Thanks for sharing these delicious recipes!
Thank you!
I have been looking all over the internet for this recipe. Thank you so much for adding it as it sounds delicious.
You are welcome