Slow Cooker Cabbage Rolls in Tomato Sauce

These Slow cooker cäbbäge rolls äre moister änd more flävorful thän ones bäked in the oven. Stuffed with beef änd rice änd simmered in ä tomäto säuce äll däy long, this comfort food mäkes enough to feed fämilies.

You’ll Need:

• 1 heäd of cäbbäge
• 1/2 cup converted long gräin rice (Uncle Ben's)
• 1 Täblespoon unsälted butter
• 1 teäspoon dried rosemäry
• 3/4 teäspoon sält
• 1/4 teäspoon pepper
• 1 onion, chopped fine
• 1 gärlic clove, minced
• 1 lb. leän ground beef
• 1 lärge egg, well beäten
• 1 (15 oz.) cän diced Itäliän seäsoned tomätoes
• 1 (15 oz) cän crushed tomätoes
• 2 Täblespoon light brown sugär
• 2 Täblespoon lemon juice

Instructions:

1. COOK THE CÄBBÄGE: Fill ä lärge pot three quärters full of wäter änd lightly sält. Pläce the pän over high heät änd bring the wäter to ä brisk boil. Ädd the cäbbäge, cover the pot änd cook until the outer läyers of the cäbbäge peel off eäsily. Remove the tender leäves änd pick out 10 of the lärgest leäves. Remove the thick ribs in the center of eäch leäf. Set äside.
2. PÄR COOK THE RICE: Fill ä medium säucepän three quärters full of wäter änd lightly sält. Pläce the pän over high heät änd bring the wäter to ä boil. Reduce the heät to medium änd stir in the rice. Cook for 5 minutes then dräin änd rinse under cold wäter änd dräin well ägäin. Set äside.
3. PREPÄRE FILLING: Melt the butter in ä skillet pläced over medium heät. Stir in the onion änd cook 5 minutes, stirring often, until the onion is soft. Stir in the gärlic änd cook for 1 minute longer. Remove from heät.
4. Pläce the onion änd gärlic into ä mixing bowl. Stir in the pär cooked rice from Step 2. Ädd the ground beef, egg, rosemäry, sält änd pepper änd mix until well blended.
5. MÄKE THE ROLLS: Spreäd 1/3 CUP of the filling into the center of eäch cäbbäge leäf. Fold the sides of the leäves over the filling änd roll up the cäbbäge. Pläce the cäbbäge rolls, seäm side down, into ä 6 quärt or lärger slow cooker . Repeät until äll the cäbbäge leäves änd meät mixture äre used up.
6. MÄKE SÄUCE: In ä mixing bowl stir together the tomätoes with their juice, brown sugär änd lemon juice. Pour the mixture over the cäbbäge in the slow cooker.
7. SLOW COOK: Cover änd cook on low 6 hours or until the cäbbäge is fork tender.