Velkommen!
My take on traditional Norwegian kålruletter. My girlfriend likes the way I make them. I use a little less potato starch and throw some caraway seeds and rice in the filling, leaving a more meaty texture and a bit more flavor, in my opinion. Serve with brunsaus (brown gravy), rice, and boiled potatoes. Agurksalat (cucumber salad) is a great accompaniment to this dish.
Ingredients
- unsalted butter: 2 Tbsp
- yellow onion: 1 piece (chopped)
- 80% lean ground beef: 1 pound
- rice: 1 cup (cooked)
- heavy whipping cream: 0.5 cup
- egg: 1 piece
- fresh Italian parsley: 1 Tbsp (finely chopped)
- potato starch: 2 tsp
- salt: 2 tsp
- coarsely ground black pepper: 1 tsp
- whole caraway seeds: 1 tsp
- ground ginger: 0.25 tsp
- ground nutmeg: 0.25 tsp
- ground cloves: 0.125 tsp
- heads cabbage, cored: 2 piece
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a baking pan.
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Heat butter in a skillet over medium heat; stir in onion. Cook and stir until the onion has softened and turned translucent, about 5 minutes.
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Transfer onion to a large mixing bowl and add beef, cooked rice, cream, egg, parsley, potato starch, 2 teaspoons salt, pepper, caraway seeds, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves. Mix to combine in an even consistency and refrigerate filling until needed.
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Bring a large pot of generously salted water to a boil. Place 1 head of cabbage in the boiling water and parboil until bright green and leaves are softened, about 2 minutes. Carefully remove cabbage with tongs or a large fork. Repeat with remaining head of cabbage. Allow to cool, about 10 minutes.
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Remove outer leaves from the cooled cabbage. Lay 1 leaf flat on a work surface and cut out the stem. Spoon a generous 2 tablespoons of filling into the center of the leaf. Fold the corners at the stem end diagonally over the filling, fold the sides over, and roll up like a tiny burrito. Place in the prepared baking pan. Repeat to make remaining cabbage rolls until filling is used up.
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Add water to the baking pan until it is halfway up the sides of the cabbage rolls.
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Bake in the preheated oven until beef is cooked through and no longer pink, about 40 minutes.
