What to serve with stuffed cabbage?

[Diegosmom]

we always do rye bread...although if we have a lot of cabbage (my uncle is a farmer so sometimes there is a lot left) then mom has made cole slaw...but I would never think of having potatoes with it...hmmm that is interesting...although I would have pidogis (i know not even close to being spelled right)...and when we got to the polish festival they will do those 3 and also kielbasa and call it a polish plate.

 

[jeepgirl30]

My MIL calls it halupkies. She makes it often and serves potato salad and bean stew with it.

Bean stew
1 can of each: green beans, lima bean, wax beans, kidney beans, pork&beans, chili beans
1 1/2 lbs sausage - browned
1 1/2 c chop celery
2 med onions chopped
1 cup brown sugar
1 can tomato soup
1 can tomato paste

brown the sausage, saute the onions and throw it all in a crock pot!

someone mentioned gas with the salad, probably want to stay away from this too if you are concerned about that!

 

[dbogen]

i have been searching for something to do with 1/2 a head of cabbage today. Stuffed cabbage...i love it and I agree with the potato side...mashed, boiled or whatever, but i have served it with cornbread in the past.
anyway i don't think that I can salvage good large leaves off the head that i have cut into (but i will inspect it to see) , so either a stir fry or coleslaw is what i will do...maybe spring rolls? I also have an eggplant to deal with before it goes bad along with 2 bananas and a bag of apples plus 4.
I have my work cut out for me.

I have a friend who admits she doesn't have the patients to sit and roll the cabbage. She makes it like lasagna, layer of cabbage, layer of stuffing....ect.
Easy Peasy and simple to portion out.

Now I want stuffed cabbage.

 

[denisenh]

I have a friend who admits she doesn't have the patients to sit and roll the cabbage. She makes it like lasagna, layer of cabbage, layer of stuffing....ect.
Easy Peasy and simple to portion out.

Now I want stuffed cabbage.

I am going to give this a try. I just got a big pan of apple crisp in the oven too. This house will smell heavenly by the time DH gets home. lol thanks for the idea! (and I will make potatoes to go with it. )

 

[mousefanmichelle]

In my family we call them golumpki (ga-womp-ki) We bake ours with tomatoe soup over the top and tomatoe juice (or v-8 for a little more flavor). We serve them with mashed white potatoes - yum-o! My favorite polish meal aside from pierogi and potatoe pancakes

 

[Tinker Bell Fan]

My mom used to make stuff cabbage (which we called holuptsi) with ground pork & beef and rice with tomato sauce. She'd serve that with rye bread & butter and pirohy (otherwise known as pierogies). Mom was Ukrainian. Oh and of course kielbasa too.

I miss my mom's home cooking!

sometimes though we'd have holuptsi with baked potato (and not the kind you microwave - the kind you actually put into the oven with aluminum foil!).

thanks for the recipes - I think I see stuffed cabbage/holuptsi in my weekend future!

 

[luvavacation]

What do you serve with stuffed cabbage, you ask? Well, if you are my nationality, you serve sour cream!

Hungarian Stuffed Cabbage (no real measurements, because a true cook knows everything by sight and measures nothing )

Cut out inner part of cabbage, shred the inner.

Ground Pork - couple pounds

mix with chopped onions (your preference on amount), garlic (your preference), some cooked rice (maybe 3/4 cup or so), paprika (flavour as you like), black pepper if you like it, then parcel out and roll up in pre-cooked cabbage leaves that you have taken off the boiled cabbage head (cut out the hard part where it seperated from the head). You can cook the chopped onions and garlic in butter if you prefer them that way before you add to pork.

Smoked Butt - cut in half, add to a pot with the rolled cabbage, cover it all with water.

Add the shredded cabbage center to the pot also.

Boil until you think it is done (maybe an hour or more, but not until the cabbage rolls fall apart).

Very carefully remove cabbage rolls and smoked butt to plate.

Make a roux with 4 Tbsp butter and 4 Tbsp flour. Add small spoonfuls of liquid from cabbage pot slowly, so as to thin out the roux.

Add some sour cream to the roux.

Add it all into the pot, make sure the liquid is boiling as you add the roux.

Stir it up good.

Add more sour cream, I usually end up using a big container. Sour cream is a major food group the way my mom and grandmother cooked!

Return the cabbage and smoked butt to pot.

Pray it all turned out fine. Hard to cook when no one tells you the exact amount of ingredients!



Invite me over.

 

[disfan07]

We usually have ours with potato knishes and rye bread. But we are very particular about our rye bread. Has to be from one of the kosher delis or bakeries in LA.

 

[Mickey'sMainMami]

In my family we call them golumpki (ga-womp-ki) We bake ours with tomatoe soup over the top and tomatoe juice (or v-8 for a little more flavor). We serve them with mashed white potatoes - yum-o! My favorite polish meal aside from pierogi and potatoe pancakes

In our family we call it Halupgee, lol. My grandmom made it and she would always serve it with potatoe salad. Love it and miss you grandmom!!

 

[mykidslovesdisney]

I can soo go for some stuffed cabbage right now. I was telling DH the other day he needs to make some. I tried many years ago to roll it into the cabbage leaf and could never get it right. DH makes it but we call it Lazy man stuff cabbage. He chops it all up and puts it into a huge soup pot and cooks it that way. His take on it is that your gonna cup it up any ways!!
It is to die for-- soo good. I do make a killer stuffed pepper though.

I hear you on the power outage. I am also in CT. Our school is already cancelled for monday. we were in the 5 % that had power all week. The town is finally up to 25% with power. The town also cancelled halloween too. The amount of down trees and wires is unreal. 4 of the 16 schools in town have power. We will hear more tomorrow about the rest of the school week. I can imagine they will need a day or two to dump all the school kitchens and then restock them too. I feel bad for those with out power. We offered our home to many but nobody took us up. I did watch a friends 2 children so she could go to the laundry mat. I am hoping they went to the shelter instead. Soo sad.


good luck with your dinner with family.

 

[minniebeth]

My mom used to make stuff cabbage (which we called holuptsi) with ground pork & beef and rice with tomato sauce. She'd serve that with rye bread & butter and pirohy (otherwise known as pierogies). Mom was Ukrainian. Oh and of course kielbasa too.

I miss my mom's home cooking!

sometimes though we'd have holuptsi with baked potato (and not the kind you microwave - the kind you actually put into the oven with aluminum foil!).

thanks for the recipes - I think I see stuffed cabbage/holuptsi in my weekend future!

I could have written this post exactly word for word, although we also had homemade potato salad with fresh parsley sometimes.

I'm really missing my mom and our traditional special occasion dinners (She passed away a year ago this week.) I have her recipes, but nothing tastes as good as when she made it!

 

[scrapquitler]

Here in CT, many of us are still without power. Fortunately, we never lost it but the school district at which I work has been closed all week.

Anywho...I'm having my family over tomorrow night for dinner as they are still without power and are craving a home cooked meal. There will be 10 of us altogether and I am planning on making stuffed cabbage. Besides bread, what else can I serve with it? I suppose I can always make a salad, but with the cabbage, it just seemed wierd. Any suggestions?

I''m way past your dinner time, and haven't read the responses yet, but my Mom always serves Mashed Potatoes with stuffed cabbage (and my MIL serves it with Rice).

 

[Kellydelly]

Late to this thread, but I always serve it/eat it with mashed potatoes, I thought everyone ate it that way! I make the lazy man's version where you brown the ground beef with diced onion, then add about half a cup of uncooked rice and whatever tomato sauce you like (I use a can of tomato juice but tomato soup works too). Simmer for 10 minutes and then pour over chopped cabbage that you layer in the bottom of a greased casserole dish. Cover and bake for at least an hour. I add lots of tomato juice so there is liquid to put over the mashed potatoes.

 

[goofyintoronto]

Sorry i didnt read the other posts, but we ALWAYS make mashed potatoes with our cabbage rolls/stuffed cabbage. Maybe its a croatian thing? but they go so well together.

 

[RabFlmom]

I was wondering the same thing! I make my cabbage rolls with a ground beef/rice mixture. So yummy!

Maybe us Canadians call them 'cabbage rolls' and the Americans call it 'stuffed cabbage'. From reading the previous posts, they sure sound the same!

We call them cabbage rolls here in the states, too( Illinois and Florida anyway) or maybe even Swedish cabbage rolls. I make mine with a hamburger,onion, rice stuffing and top with a sweet tomato sauce mixture I make. I bake mine but roommate from college used to do hers on the stove with lots of cabbage cut up on the bottom of the pan....Personally, my baked ones are better. LOL Usually I just serve a baked potato with them and have a good dinner roll or bread and butter on the side.

 

[lovesmurfs]

My mom used to make stuff cabbage (which we called holuptsi) with ground pork & beef and rice with tomato sauce. She'd serve that with rye bread & butter and pirohy (otherwise known as pierogies). Mom was Ukrainian. Oh and of course kielbasa too.

I miss my mom's home cooking!

sometimes though we'd have holuptsi with baked potato (and not the kind you microwave - the kind you actually put into the oven with aluminum foil!).

thanks for the recipes - I think I see stuffed cabbage/holuptsi in my weekend future!

THIS!

My grandmother is Ukranian, and I've started to make Ukrainian "soul food" (as my grandfather would call it) for Christmas to keep up the traditions.

Ham
Kielbasa (with horseradish!)
Stuffed Cabbage
Pierogies
Christmas bread (it's like babka)
Kutia (a wheat berry/poppy seed dessert)

Yum!!!!

 

[minniebeth]

THIS!

My grandmother is Ukranian, and I've started to make Ukrainian "soul food" (as my grandfather would call it) for Christmas to keep up the traditions.

Ham
Kielbasa (with horseradish!)
Stuffed Cabbage
Pierogies
Christmas bread (it's like babka)
Kutia (a wheat berry/poppy seed dessert)

Yum!!!!

What time is dinner?

 

[Bob NC]

stuffed cabbage. Besides bread, what else can I serve with it?

In order for me to eat it, you'd have to serve it with a gun.