5
(1)

Rosh Hashana is around the corner and I’m looking to branch out from what I usually make to something a bit more challenging. This year we will be having stuffed cabbage.

My Ashkenazi grandmother use to make stuffed cabbage for special occasions, including Rosh Hashana. When I watched her make it, it always seemed like so much work, and I was sure that I was going to need hours in the kitchen. That may have been the case with the way that I used to make it, but my friend taught me a trick to make them with no fuss.

My Savta used to boil the cabbage for rolling. It was hard to get cabbage that didn’t wind up full of holes. Holey cabbage is very hard to wrap up. I am not nearly as skilled as my Savta was, and when I would try to make it in the past, I usually just gave up.

My friend Ziza told me, instead of boiling, just freeze the cabbage. After it’s defrosted, the leaves just simply fall off. Wow. This is the kind of thing in my world that I would call life changing. It turned a crazy hard dish into something that just looks hard. Nice!

I have decided to always keep a cabbage in my freezer just in case I have the urge to make stuffed cabbage. That just means that I don’t have to plan a few days in advance when I want to set my menu for Shabbat or Chag.

I want to wish you all a very happy and healthy new year.

How useful was this post?

Click on a star to rate it!

Average rating 5 / 5. Vote count: 1

No votes so far! Be the first to rate this post.

As you found this post useful...

Follow us on social media!

Add to Favourites