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Originally Posted by grniys  Do you have a good cabbage roll recipe you'd be willing to share?
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My favorites are in a Polish cookbook by Robert Strybel, but IME you can't go wrong with any traditional Eastern European recipe. They go by various names, such as "holupchi" or "golubtsi" or "golabki" or "golumpki" (and no, I don't know how those are pronounced
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To make the mushroom version, you can substitute this filling. It's very traditional in Poland at Christmas time -- more specifically, on Christmas Eve, when meatless dishes are eaten.
3 1/2 cups slightly undercooked grains, such as buckwheat, barley, or rice, preferably cooked in a flavorful vegetable stock
12 oz. trimmed and diced fresh mushrooms (white or Portobello) and 2 diced onions, simmered together in 3 tbsp butter until soft
1 raw egg
1 tbsp finely chopped fresh dill or parsley
salt & pepper
Mix everything together, then assemble and cook as for regular cabbage rolls. It's traditional to use stock, rather than tomato juice, when cooking the rolls. Any leftover cooking liquid is mixed with sour cream (and an optional crumbled bouillon cube) to make a sauce.
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As another possibility, Lebanese cabbage rolls are also very good. They use delicious seasonings, and they differ from the Polish style in that they're put together using uncooked rice, rather than cooked. They're really pretty much the same as dolmades, only with cabbage leaves instead of vine leaves.
