Healthy Style Haluptsee

[little koshka 0]

Nothing says Thanksgiving like "Haluptsee"..

 

This is a variation of a recipe from the green cover Molokan favorites cookbook. I changed up the meat and eggs to be a little healthier and added some extra green vegetables. The original recipe does not list an oven temp - so I did a little guess work.

 

2 lbs ground turkey (go with the regular lean - super lean might be too dry)

3/4 cup of "Egg Beaters" (or 3 eggs)

1/4 - 1/3 cup of rice (long grain or regular - not instant)

1 tsp salt (or less if you prefer) (kosher salt or fine sea salt is nice)

1 tsp pepper (fresh ground is the best)

1/2 onion (diced)

2 tbsp bell pepper (diced) (you may add a little more if you prefer)

1 carrot (grated)

4 carrots (cut up)

4 red or pearl potatoes (cubed)

4 green zucchini (cut up) (add the last hour of baking or they will end up mushy)

1 onion (cubed)

1 cabbage (scalded)

Canned tomatoes (crushed) or tomato sauce (amount? - to your taste)

 

Preheat the oven to 325. Boil water, then set cabbage in a large pot and pour boiling water over it to cover. Let stand for 10 minutes. Loosen leaves. Mix the first 8 ingredients in a large mixing bowl until well blended. Form into little rolls and then wrap in cabbage leaves. Layer cabbage rolls with the cut vegetables in a large baking dish. Add 1 qt of boiling water to the contents of the baking dish, cover, and cook for 2 hours. Check every now and again to make sure the stuff isn't drying out.

 

Enjoy!

[ligonier 0]

My mother used to not have the patience to roll up the hloopsee in cabbage leaves individually, so she just hunked up the cabbage (cut it into large chunks) and cooked it in the bottom of the pot underneath the burger-rice balls with the other veggies. So instead of roll shaped (cylindrical or tubular) like most are when they're rolled in the leaves, these were round (spherical) like a ball. She also boiled/simmered the hloopsee in a pot on the stove and there would be a good amount of soupy broth. I never made them with her or saw her making them so I don't know all the ingredients she put in.

 

But for Thanksgiving ? We always had the traditional American Thanksgiving dinner - Turkey, etc....

Edited November 17, 2006 by ligonier

[little koshka 0]

Haluptsee for Thanksgiving?

Naw, that was just a play on words..

Turkey + kapusta = ...

 

[ligonier 0]

Doh ! I didn't get the connection, ha ha !