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Greek stuffed cabbage rolls

Greek Stuffed Cabbage With Avgolemono

Kenton & Jane
Famous greek stuffed cabbage
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Cuisine Greek
Servings 4 -8

Ingredients
  

  • 2 heads of cabbage
  • -filling-
  • 1 lb ground beef
  • 1 onion chopped
  • 1 garlic clove pressed
  • 1/4 cup pine nuts
  • 1/2 tablespoon dill
  • 1/2 cup white rice
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup of chicken broth
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • -Liquid-
  • 10 cups of chicken broth
  • -Avgolemono-
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 lemons juiced

Instructions
 

  • Fill a soup pot 2/3 of the way full with water, add some salt, and bring to boil.
  • Core both heads of cabbage using a sharp knife (be careful).
  • Add cabbage heads to pot (use more than one pot if needed).
  • Stick a fork in the hole created by coring, this helps keep them down and is easy to pull out.
  • After about 5 minutes, begin shaking the fork (with a glove) to start having the outside cabbage layers come off.
  • As the cabbage leaves fall off, remove them and add them to a strainer. Continue doing this until all leaves are removed.
  • Once finished, empty water from pot, and set aside.
  • Run some cold water under the leaves to cool down and stop cooking.
  • Combine ingredients listed under the filling section in a bowl and mix well.
  • Take a spoon size amount of the meat mixture and place it at the base of a cabbage leaf. Fold in sides, and roll up. Place in soup pot.
  • Repeat until all meat or cabbage is used.
  • Fill pot with remaining 10 cups of chicken broth.
  • Bring to a boil, cover and reduce heat to simmer.
  • Simmer for 45 minutes.
  • -Avgolemono-
  • With 5 minutes left, crack 3 eggs into a bowl.
  • Beat until froth, by hand about 10 minutes.
  • Add lemon juice.
  • While stirring, slowly temper the eggs by adding 1 cups worth of hot broth to the bowl. Mix, and empty everything back into the soup pot with the cabbage.
  • Cook for another minute or so.
  • Remove from heat and serve!