Vegetarian Stuffed Cabbage Leaves with Tomato Sauce

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Normally I like to share quick and easy recipes with you each week since we all seem to be busier than ever these days. But this week I decided to take a step back from the rat race of life and actually spend some quality time in the kitchen. Cooking and baking have kind of taken a back seat in my life the last few years, but I've been trying to get back to my roots, doing more of the things that I used to love in a quest to get my life balanced back out. I've had this Vegetarian Stuffed Cabbage Leaves with Tomato Sauce recipe saved from Golden Blossom Honey for ages now and kept pushing it back because the lengthy ingredient list just made me feel like it was one that was going to require more effort on my part than I've been willing to give. But my local grocers had a veggie sale of buy 2 get 3 free and with the abundance of cheap produce on hand, it was finally time to put this recipe to the test. 

As suspected, this is a meal that is going to take some time to pull together. There's a lot of chopping, grating, sauteing and baking time to consider, so this is a recipe best saved for those days that you can set aside a little extra time for meal prep. But the payoff if so worth it in the end. There are so many tasty and nutritious elements to this this dish, I was a bit disappointed in my self for not taking a crack at it much sooner. I was able to get 8 good sized cabbage leaves stuffed before my cabbage head got too small to pluck from, and I still had a good amount of filling leftover once those leaves were stuffed. I could have used another head of cabbage, but since I am the only one in the house who really eats it, 8 stuffed leaves was more than enough for me. Don't let the time commitment of this recipe put you off. You can easily prep the filling and sauce a day ahead of time, stuff the leaves, then bake the next day. This would be a good recipe to save for St. Patrick's Day or Easter this year, especially for those who don't eat corned beef but still want to keep the cabbage part of the traditional Irish holiday dinner on hand for the celebrations. 

Ingredients

Tomato Sauce:

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

1 onion, chopped

2 cloves garlic, minced

1 stalk celery, chopped

1 (15 ounce) can tomato sauce

1/2 cup red wine

1/2 tablespoon GOLDEN BLOSSOM HONEY

4 tablespoons red wine vinegar

salt and pepper to taste

Stuffed Cabbage:</b

1 large cabbage

2 medium onions, finely chopped

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

4 carrots, grated

2 stalks celery, chopped

1 zucchini, grated

1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped

2 tablespoons raisins

4 mushrooms, shopped

1/4 cup pecans, finely chopped

1 cup cooked rice

1/4 cup red wine vinegar

1 tablespoon GOLDEN BLOSSOM HONEY

salt and pepper to taste

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