These Cabbage Rolls Are Good, Healthy Too!

What do you do with cabbage that you didn't have a plan for?
There was some cabbage in my fridge it needed to be used up and after looking up recipes for kimchi (a fermented cabbage dish with veggies) I wasn’t sure I was ready for that amount of patience in food yet. It was then that thoughts of cabbage rolls entered my mind. The memory of how my great aunts house smelled when she was making them brought me to Google in search of a recipe since I could not reach her for our family recipe. Of course I couldn’t find any that sounded any good or that were really healthy. It was then that a light turned on (I am positive my husband saw the light bulb above my head). Instead of using ground beef why not use ground turkey, and instead of white rice why not a wild & brown rice mix? Ooooo my mind was cooking up a storm all ready! I should have taken pictures of these glorious pockets of deliciousness but by they time I thought of it they were gone. My husband didn’t leave any left overs for me he took them all to work!


Melissa’s Healthy Cabbage Rolls

1 can whole pealed tomatos
1 can tomato paste
1 good sized head of cabbage or 2 small heads (I used a small green and a small purple)
     *reserve the best 12 leaves from the outside of the cabbage trying not to tear or damage them they will be wrapped around the rolls
1lbs ground turkey
1 egg (beaten)
1 small white onion chopped
2 cloves of garlic chopped
1 ½ tsp ground white pepper
1-2 Tbsp ground chilli powder
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1 ½ C cooked rice (I prefer Lundberg Mahogany Blend, it adds a great nutty flavor and is a raw food)
Salt & Pepper to taste


Preheat Oven to 375

Cook the rice as directed on package. While the rice is cooking boil the reserved leaves of cabbage until soft, remove from water and let drain. Place the tomatos, tomato paste, chilli powder, and nutmeg in blender and blend till smooth. Chop the remaining cabbage and blend with the chopped onion, chopped garlic, white pepper and salt to taste. Mix together by hand the beaten egg and ground turkey and add the seasoned veggie mix and rice to the meat and egg. Form the meat mixture into balls that are a bit smaller than a baseball. Wrap the meat balls with the 2 cabbage leaves place in greased pan. Once all of the meat is used pour over the tomato sauce from the blender.

Bake 45mins @ 375


I hope that everyone enjoys this as much as my family did. This recipe works great if you need to prep it the day before you want to bake it.