Golumpki & Latkes for Dinner

We went up to New Hampshire today to spend the day with my husband's grandmother. We went out for lunch and a lovely walk and then headed to the grocery store. I've heard both of them talk about a Polish stuffed cabbage dish that I had never heard of. I decided today was the day to try it out, so I looked up a recipe, picked up the groceries and Gram and I cooked golumpki. And some latkes for good measure. Not the best summer dish but I look forward to trying it out again in the fall.

Golumpki
Ingredients:
head cabbage - I used savoy
2T butter
onion
clove of garlic
2 cups cooked rice
1/2 lb ground beef
1/2 lb ground pork
1 T dried parsley flakes
salt & pepper
1 green pepper - chopped small
2 celery stalks- chopped small
4 cups tomato puree
green apple - chopped




Prepare the cabbage: core the cabbage, bring water to boil in a pot, add the cabbage and every 2 minutes pull off the outer leaves and set aside, don't discard the cooking water, reserve the outer leaves to line the bottom of the cooking pot

Prepare the stuffing: in a frying pan, melt the butter, cook the onion and garlic until soft
mix together onion, garlic, meat, parsley, salt, pepper, green pepper and celery

Line the bottom of a large pot with the biggest cabbage leaves
Stuff the remaining cabbage leaves by putting  spoonful of filling in the center, folding up the stem, folding in the sides and then rolling the leaf so the stuffing is enclosed
Add stuffed leaves to the pot
Once all leaves are stuffed and in the pot add tomato puree and 2 cups of reserved cabbage cooking liquid so that liquid covers the cabbage and the apple
Turn the heat on high and bring to a boil then cover and reduce heat, let simmer for an hour




Latkes
2 large russet potatoes
1 shallot - finely chopped
1 egg - beaten
1T flour
salt and pepper

grate the potato, squeeze all the moisture out of it, mix shallot, flour, salt, pepper and egg
form into patties and fry in vegetable oil

Serve Golumpki & Latkes with sour cream
Also on my plate pictured was broccoli rabe to get some good greens in too