Niños envueltos (stuffed cabbage rolls)
Niños envueltos (stuffed cabbage rolls)

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, niños envueltos (stuffed cabbage rolls). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Niños envueltos (stuffed cabbage rolls) is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Niños envueltos (stuffed cabbage rolls) is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

In the Dominican Republic, Niño Envuelto is a rice and beef mixture, wrapped in cabbage, and cooked in plenty of tomato sauce. Loosely translated from Spanish the name means "swaddled baby". So where did cabbage rolls come from?

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have niños envueltos (stuffed cabbage rolls) using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Niños envueltos (stuffed cabbage rolls):
  1. Get 1 Large cabbage
  2. Take 2 cups Rice
  3. Prepare 1/2 pound Ground meat
  4. Get 1 can Crushed tomatoes
  5. Get 3 Basil leaves
  6. Take 2 tsp sugar
  7. Take To taste Sazon Dominicano
  8. Prepare 1 tbsp ground dried garlic
  9. Get 1 can 🍅 sauce

An Ecuadorian spring roll, if you will. Stuffed Cabbage Rolls in Tomato Sauce. The filling and tomato sauce can be made one day ahead to save time. Tomato sauce recipe precedes the filling recipe.

Steps to make Niños envueltos (stuffed cabbage rolls):
  1. Core the bottom of cabbage being careful not to cut the leaves. You want to just take out the large stem holding the leaves together so when you cook the cabbage in water the leaves will soften but not break.
  2. While the cabbage cooks in boiling water, cook the rice 🍚 in the rice cooker. This will make easier for you to get take care of other dishes while rice cooks in the cooker.
  3. In a bowl mix the ground meat with the sazon (I'll publish my sazon again) set aside.
  4. When the leaves from the cabbage start to fall off from the head, take them out gently as to not break them. Place the leaves in a bowl to cool. Once all of the leaves you need from the cabbage have fallen off and have cooled, cut ✂️ part of the rib (long stem) from each of them. This will make easy to roll the cabbage.
  5. In a sauce pan add the crushed tomatoes and tomato sauce with the basil leaves, garlic and sugar. Let it simmer and adjust seasoning to your taste.
  6. Once your rice has cooked, in a large bowl add the rice and uncooked meat mixture. After mixing it well, you can start adding this to the cabbage leaves and roll like a burrito tucking in the sides of the cabbage as you roll.
  7. In a large pan add some of the sauce to the bottom to keep cabbage rolls from burning. Gently add the rolls around the pot adding sauce as you layer them up. Once you have added all of your rolls in the pan, add some water 💧 to help cook them. Turn heat to medium and let it slowly cook. Remember to taste your sauce in case you need to adjust the flavor.
  8. The cooking of these will take about 20 to 25 minutes because you are really just cooking the meat at this point and making the sauce richer. Once you are happy with your cabbage rolls they are good to eat.

Niños Envueltos are cabbage rolls stuffed with rice and ground meat. An Ecuadorian spring roll, if you will. Even better when paired with your favorite brand of hot sauce. I like to dip my cabbage rolls in Sriracha for a good, spicy kick. This tasty appetizer is easy to make.

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