My mother in laws' cabbage rolls with a twist
Cabbage rolls in the instant pot that are packed full of flavor and done in less than 20 minutes!
Servings 5 people
Equipment
- Instant Pot
Ingredients
- 1 head green cabbage try for a medium to large head
- water enough to par boil cabbage
- 1 lb ground hamburger meat
- 1/2 lb ground pork
- 1 c instant rice if you use any other rice besides instant the cook time will be more
- 1 tbsp Lawry's seasoned salt this is the secret ingredient
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tbsp garlic powder
- 1 large egg
- 4 c tomato juice
- 1 medium red or green bell pepper chopped/diced
- 1 small white or yellow onion chopped/diced
- 1 pack mushrooms (these are optional) chopped/diced
- sour cream Optional
Instructions
- First you want to take the core out of the cabbage (this is the hardest step you will have to do) Cut at an angle on all sides of core and grab it and pull
- Then place your whole de-cored cabbage into a big pot and fill it with water about 3/4 of the way and put it on the stove to boil for about 7-8 mins. (you can also do this in your instant pot by pouring about 1.5C of water in the pot place your cabbage on the steamer rack. Close the lid press manuel (or pressure cook) and set time to 0. It will take about 8 mins to come to pressure.
- Meanwhile in a large mixing bowl, mix your two meats, all spices, egg, rice, and all veggies together well.
- When your cabbage is ready (if you did it in the instant pot manually release pressure until the pin drops) If you did it on the stove just take it and strain. Pull it out and let it cool. The leaves will come off easily now. You can trim the harder stem part off if you want...we keep ours on
- When the leaves have cooled a bit go ahead and place 1 scoop (I use an ice cream scooper) onto the leaf and roll like a burrito!
- Place cabbage rolls in instant pot on bottom and then you can place them on top of each other.
- Once your instant pot is full of cabbage rolls pour about 4 cups of tomato juice into your instant pot and you can also sprinkle some more Lawry's seasoned salt in there. We always put more seasoning!
- Place your lid on and make sure your vent is closed. Push Manuel or pressure cook and set your timer to 8 minutes.
- When the time is up wait 5 minutes so it can naturally release, then manually release until pin drops.
- Enjoy with a dollop of sour cream on top!