Recipe forUn-StuffedCabbage

This is an alternative recipe for stuffed cabbage and the laborious process of prepping and stuffing the cabbage.

Un-Stuffed Cabbage

1 head green cabbage
1 pound ground beef
1 egg (optional)
½ cup white rice (optional)
1 15 ounce jar tomato sauce
1 15 ounce chili sauce (I use Heinz)
1 onion chopped
Salt and pepper to taste

Put crock pot on high and add tomato sauce and chili sauce. Clean and shred or thinly slice whole head of cabbage and add to sauce, along with chopped onion.


Mix ground beef with the egg and rice (if you are using it) as well as the salt and pepper. (Amount of salt and pepper is dependent on the amount in the sauce).
Shape the ground meat into walnut sized balls and drop onto the sauces and cabbage. Using the back of a spoon, make sure the meatballs are covered by the sauce. Add a small amount of water if necessary to cover the meatballs. Cover the pot and leave on high for at least one hour before turning to low for 3 to 4 hours.

Serve with rice or broad noodles

Serves at least 6 to 8


Used by Rebetzin Ruth Gottlieb of Ohel Torah as her go-to dish for Shabbat Kiddush.

Cooking for a Crowd

I am working on a new plan. Find a commercial kitchen and few families that want dinners on a budget. This is based on the share-a chef concept that some of my personal chef friends have used.

I would do the cooking at the commercial kitchen (I think in terms of a synagogue), shop on that morning for the ingredients for the dishes the clients had already agreed upon. I could make 3 to 4 dishes including a crock pot dish that the diners/clients could bring home that night and 2 other favorites that could be taken home and heated in either the oven or microwave. Now I just have to put it together, price it etc and market it. I have a few ideas of where to do the cooking and who to approach on this. If they have a day care at the shul or classes, I could cook and at the end of the adult classes or parent pick up the food is ready and will be paid for with a donation made to the synagogue.

Yoiur thoughts on this?

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