Cabbage Leaf or Grape Leaves Cigar

Cabbage Leaf or Grape Leaves Cigar

Ingredients:
1 fresh, very large, very heavy white cabbage, or
15 leaves of grapes.
1 cup (tea) ground duck, or the meat of your choice, tighten well.
½ cup of well-washed dry rice, without any water.
2 tablespoons beef broth, or ½ liter homemade broth (defatted)
1/2 liter of homemade tomato sauce or 1 can of tomato sauce diluted with 3 cans of cold water.
Spices:
1 large onion, grated or finely chopped
2 garlic cloves (if it is old) without crumbly crumb
1 pinch of nutmeg (optional)
1 pinch of ground bay
1 teaspoon grated ginger (optional)
½ fingered seedless finger pepper
2 tablespoons chopped fresh mint (optional).
1/2 tablespoon of salt.
1 cup of chopped parsley.
Way of preparing:
Wash the cabbage, remove the leaves carefully, cutting with a knife. Cut off some of the thick stalk.
Place the cabbage leaves in a large cauldron to cook with plenty of water, ie only to wither. To reserve.
Season the meat with the salt, let stand for 30 minutes.
Then mix the washed and very dry rice without any water.
If you need to dry it on a clean cloth napkin.
Add onion, garlic, mint, ginger, pepper, ground bay leaf, pinch of nutmeg and chopped parsley
Stuff the cabbage leaves not too tight.
Do not forget that the rice grows twice as much.
Fold the sides and then roll up like a small package.
Put the rolls in a large pan, side by side, on top in the cold tomato sauce or the broth.
Approximately 1 or ½ liter of sauce, or even cover the rolls.

Let it simmer until boiling. Cover the pan, lower the heat, let cook for 30 'to 40' minutes, or even double in size.
If necessary complete with hot water to finish cooking.
Single dish - serve only with salad. Cress, cherry tomatoes,
Or finely chopped endive with cherry tomatoes, and raw grated carrot.
It can accompany curd cheese or curd and fresh fruit balls, pineapple, mango, apple, papaya, and others.