Grandmas’ favorite polish dish: Gumpkies! Or as many know, stuffed cabbage.
What you’ll need:
2lbs ground round beef
2 cups cooked brown rice
1 head of cabbage
½ cup chopped yellow/white onion
1 extra large can of Prego (any flavor you wish)
Salt, pepper or additional seasoning.
4 or 5 quart crock pot
Lets start cookin!
1- Let your head of cabbage soak in warm water for about 30mins before you start. The water loosens up the leaves making them easy to separate.
2- Prepare 2 servings of brown rice in a medium saucepan and remove from heat.
3- Peal off about 8 or so full leaves of cabbage. Try to keep them intact; it makes them easier to roll up.
4- In a large bowl, mix together the raw beef, cooked rice and chopped onions. Add salt, pepper and other seasonings to taste (using your hands to mush it all together works best)
5- Take a handful or so of the beef/rice mixture and place it at the base of a cabbage leaf. Roll up leaf so the beef mixture is tucked in nice.
6- Repeat step 5 until all your beef/rice mixture is gone.
7- Layer the rolled up leaves on the bottom of the crock-pot. Add toothpicks to keep the rolls together if you notice them falling apart.
8- Once all the gumpkies have been rolled, pour the whole can Prego sauce over the leaves.
9- Set the crock-pot to low and let them cook for about 5 hours.
Serve the gumpkies with a veggie side and a biscuit and our set with a delicious meal, straight from Grandmas’ kitchen!
BON APPETIT!