These are Traditional Romanian meatballs rolled in cabbage, also known as a Sarmale Recipe. They are delicious, full of flavor and you have to try them. Here is the Traditional Romanian recipe.
Pork Sarmale
Cuisine: RomanianDifficulty: Medium10
servings60
minutes180
minutesIngredients
ground pork with fat
ground Lean pork meat
Rice
Onions
Smoked breast
Carrots
Sour Cabbages
Sour Cabbage juice
Tomato Juice
Salt and pepper
Bay leaves
dry thyme branches
Directions
The cabbage is salted in cold water depending on how salty it is. It can be put from evening to morning or just an hour.
Pass the meat and onion through the mincer, then mix with the rice, salt, pepper and half the amount of carrots passed through the grater.
Peel each cabbage leaf and cut it if it is too large. Put the stuffing like a walnut and roll by placing the sarmales in the pan on a layer of chopped cabbage and alternately with the smoked pork breast.
Put in the pan the remaining carrots, also passed through a grater, place the thyme, peppercorns and bay leaves. Pour cabbage juice, broth and enough water to cover them. Boil covered for about 3 hours.
