Recipe: Tasty Vegan Sarmale (stuffed cabbage leaves)

Vegan Sarmale (stuffed cabbage leaves). Sarmale - one of Romania's national dishes: amazingly comforting, stuffed cabbage rolls with ground pork and rice and slowly cooked for hours. And because making sarmale takes so much time, not only preparing the leaves and rolling the sarmale, but also cooking them, it is always well worth it to. With the help of my grandmothers, I managed to veganize this traditional Romanian recipe.

Sarmale is enjoyed year-round in Romania, but especially for holidays like Christmas and Easter. Stuffed cabbage is a traditional dish not only in. Bursting with flavour, my veganized Romanian sarmale (stuffed cabbage rolls) are easy to make, and packed with goodness. You can cook Vegan Sarmale (stuffed cabbage leaves) using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Vegan Sarmale (stuffed cabbage leaves)

1. Prepare 500 ml of tomato sauce.
2. You need 300 g of short grained rice.
3. It's 1 of whole pickled cabbage.
4. You need 1 of large onion.
5. Prepare 1 of large carrot.
6. You need 500 g of mushrooms.
7. Prepare 100 g of dried soy mince.
8. You need 2 tbsp of salt.
9. Prepare 1 tbsp of coriander.
10. It's 1/2 tbsp of black pepper.
11. It's 1 tbsp of thyme.
12. Prepare of Freshly chopped dill.
13. You need 2-3 of bay leaves.
14. It's 1 tbsp of sweet paprika.
15. It's 1 tbsp of sunflower oil.

What do you do when you have a garden full of cabbages? "SARMALE" - "STUFFED CABBAGE ROLLS" Romanian traditional recipe. From Romania, with Love - Sarmale (Stuffed Cabbage Rolls). To prepare cabbage leaves for filling, rinse the head of the cabbage, and with a knife. Sarmale (Stuffed Cabbage) We've adapted this recipe by using fresh cabbage leaves rather than the more traditional pickled cabbage.

Vegan Sarmale (stuffed cabbage leaves) instructions

1. Rinse the rice and let it soak for 15 minutes..
2. Cut up the mushrooms, onion, carrot using a food processor..
3. Add the oil to a pan and sauté the the vegetables for about 10 minutes. Also add thyme, dill, salt, pepper and coriander..
4. Add the rice and minced soy with about 400ml of water and cook for about 5 minutes. Let it cool while you prepare the cabbage..
5. Cut out the core of the cabbage and carefully separate the leaves. Rinse the leaves using cold water..
6. Place some cabbage at the bottom of a pot..
7. Add 1-2 tbsp of stuffing to each leaf and roll them up making sure to tuck in the sides at the end..
8. Place the rolls on the bed of cabbage bits in the pot. Add the bay leaf and the paprika on top of the roles and pour the tomato sauce in as well. Make sure to add enough water to cover all the rolls..
9. Cover the pot and bring to a boil on low heat for 2-3 hours. Make sure you check every so often in case you need to add more water. Here it is important to mention to only add enough water to not burn the rolls through the cooking process..

Repeat with remaining leaves and filling, arranging stuffed cabbage in a circular pattern in pot as you go. Keyword French stuffed cabbage, stuffed cabbage recipe. I would not,however,dismiss the outer leaves of the cabbage. Yes they are tougher, but using them to line the This stuffed cabbage sure looks very beautiful. Use of barley and lentils are certainly my taste.