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Local/traditional dish - Cabbage rolls

5/93 The notes:

1. The ingredients:
500 grams of pork meat
50 grams of rice
1 big onion
2 sour cabbage
1 tablespoon of oil
500 ml of tomato juice
Dried thyme, paprika, salt and pepper
2. Originally, the dish comes from Turkey but now it is a Romanian
traditional dish.
3. In Romania, this dish is appreciated by almost everyone: young people,
old people, children, men and women.
4. Cabbage rolls are appetizing, delicious, especially eaten for Christmas,
during winter time.
5. Usually cabbage rolls are home cooked.
6. The cooking is not difficult, but is has several steps and takes some time
for preparation. You have to roll teh meat into the cabbage leaves and
boil them for around 2 hours.
7. Cabbage rolls are eaten mostly in winter time and it represents a
traditional Christmas dish.

6/93 - Description of the traditional food:

In Romania, we have a traditional dish which is appreciated by almost
everyone: young people, old people, children, men and women. This is
cabbage rolls with pork meat.
If we talk abut the history of this dish, it originally comes from Turkey but
now it is a Romanian traditional dish that you cand find in all regions.
Cabbage rolls are appetizing, delicious, especially eaten for Christmas,
during winter time. The taste combines vegetables and meat and it is
considered a local dish in our country.
 Usually cabbage rolls are home cooked, but you can find this dish in
Romanian traditional restaurants and sometimes you can buy cabbage rolls
already prepared from supermarket.
Anyway, I leave here the ingredients and recipe for home cooking
cabbage rolls:

The ingredients you need are:

 500 grams of pork meat
 50 grams of rice
 big onion
 sour cabbages
 1 tablespoon of oil
 500 ml of tomato juice
 dried thyme, paprika, salt and pepper for own taste

Preparation:
 Peel the cabbage from the outer leaves and choose the sheets in which
to pack the meat.
 Peel an onion and wash it, then cut it into small pieces. Put in a saucepan
to harden with oil and a little water and leave until golden.
 Mix the fried and cooled onions in a bowl with the meat, pepper, salt
and rice, which has also been cooled.
 Take a small sized composition and place it on a cabbage leaf, which is
rolled with the edges inside.
 In a tall saucepan, place the chopped cabbage and the cabbage rolls
arranged in layers. Pour the water and the tomato sauce over them, put
the bay leaves and a few peppercorns. Leave to boil on low heat for 2
hours. From time to time, add water, not to stick.
 When the cabbage rolls are ready, you can eat them hot with cream or
yoghurt and a hot pepper.