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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Middle Eastern >> Rest Middle Eastern

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. To make the filling: Cook the onions in 2 Tablespoons of the butter until golden. | 2. Add the ground beef and cook until brown. | 3. Reduce heat and add the lemon juice,sugar,pepper and salt. | 4. Mix the tomato paste with the warm water then add to the meat mixture. | 5. Add half of the beef broth. | 6. Cover and simmer 20 minutes. | 7. Saute parsley,scallions,dill,tarragon and mint in 2 T of butter and add to the meat. | 8. Stir and simmer 10 minutes. | 9. Stir in the cooked rice. | 10. Boil the yellow split peas in 1 cup salted water for 15 minutes,drain then add to the mixture. | 11. To prepare cabbage leaves: Separate cabbage leaves from the main stem and drop into boiling salted water. | 12. Boil for 3 minutes. | 13. Drain but be careful not to break or tear them. | 14. Spread the leaves flat,one at a time and fill the center of each leaf with 2 or 3 Tablespoons of filling. | 15. Fold over the edges of the leaves and roll from the stem end toward the top of the leaf. | 16. If you need to you may remove the tough stems with a knife. | 17. When you use the smaller leaves 2 or 3 can be overlapped,filled and rolled up. | 18. Put the stuffed leaves in a baking dish. | 19. Warm the remaining 1T. | 20. of butter and the remaining half can of beef broth,stir in the tomato sauce and pour over the stuffed cabbage. | 21. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. | 22. Warm the cream or sour cream and spoon it over the cabbage before serving. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
onion	2		chopped	120.0	28.02	3.3	0.3
butter	5	tablespoons		427.5	19.6425	13.3575	36.0
beef	1		ground lean	530.4012	0.0	104.5842	12.1947
salt	2	teaspoons		-	-	-	-
pepper	1/4	teaspoon		1.4432	0.3677	0.0597	0.0187
sugar	1	tablespoon		55.062	13.7724	0.0	0.0
lemon juice	2 -3	tablespoons		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
tomato paste	1	tablespoon		13.12	3.0256	0.6912	0.0752
water	1/2	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
beef broth	1	can		30.45	0.174	4.959	0.9570000000000001
parsley	1	bunch	chopped	-	-	-	-
scallion	1	bunch	chopped	-	-	-	-
dill	4	tablespoons	dried	0.9568	0.1562	0.077	0.0249
tarragon	2	teaspoons	dried	3.54	0.6026	0.2732	0.0869
mint	2 -3			0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
rice	1	cup	cooked	675.25	147.9075	13.1905	1.2209999999999999
yellow pea	1/4	cup	split	-	-	-	-
cabbage	1			22.25	5.162000000000001	1.1392	0.08900000000000001
tomato sauce	1/4	cup		-	-	-	-
cream	1/4	cup	sour	113.85	2.6622	1.403	11.1262

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.