Now, Bob must have been trying to impress me, because I think stuffing individual rolls are way too much trouble. I have a good crockpot Lebanese dinner in the e-book. This is a meatier, flavorful version. The cabbage leaves are replaced with a super easy cole slaw mix. The meatloaf is rolled up jelly roll style. Delish and easy. I would say fast, but it does take some serious oven time.If you don't have sun dried tomatoes or chia seeds, this should still work, so don't let that deter you.
Cabbage Roll Meatloaf
2 lbs lean
ground beef
1 egg
2 tbsp chia
seeds
2 tbsp sun
dried tomatoes, diced
2 tbsp dried
parsley flakes
1 tsp garlic
powder
1 tsp sea
salt
¾ tsp
cinnamon
¾ tsp
allspice
½ tsp onion
powder
1 ½ cups
cole slaw mix
Sauce:
8 oz tomato
sauce
½ tsp apple
cider vinegar
2 tsp
sweetener
Mince and
steam cauliflower. In a large bowl, combine ground beef and cauliflower with
egg. Add chia seeds, tomatoes. Parsley flakes, lemon pepper, garlic powder, salt,
cinnamon, allspice and onion powder. Use your hands to mix the ingredients
together well. Place a sheet of foil on a baking sheet. Press the beef mixture
over the foil into a rectangle. The meat should be about ¾ inch thick. Sprinkle
the cole slaw mix over the meat, leaving a 2 inch border around the edges.
Press the cabbage into the meat gently. Using
the edge of the foil, roll the meat mixture up jelly roll style. Seal the ends
and the edge and move the foil to place the roll in the center of the sheet.
To
prepare the sauce, add the vinegar and sweetener to the tomato sauce. Spoon
half of the sauce over the meatloaf. Bake in a preheated 400 degree oven for 40
minutes. At that time, spoon the remaining sauce over the meatloaf and cook an
additional 15 minutes or until a meat thermometer registers 160. Remove the
loaf from the oven and let cool five minutes before cutting.
8 servings 351 calories 6 g net carbs 22 g protein 27 g fat
It is funny how the minced cauliflower, which I was using to substitute for the rice, got completely lost in the meatloaf. If you want to see it better, don't mince it too finely. Though if you have a cauliflower hater, mince it quite fine and they will never know! My hubby John just ate some and really, really liked this recipe. I told him that I was telling this story. Even though the recipe reminds me of Bob, John knows he was the guy who won my heart. Way back in 1986 and still today.
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I will be trying this for sure!!! Looks and sounds awesome. I love cabbage rolls and have numerous recipes for them but somehow never get around to making them. Thank you, Lisa!!!
ReplyDeleteAlice B.
Oooh! This sounds really good. Grew up in a Greek family, lots of stuffed grape leaves and sometimes cabbage subbed for the grape leaves. I also love meat loaf and look forward to trying this soon!
ReplyDeleteMy husband won't eat cauliflower or cabbage...but maybe if I mince my own cabbage really fine also I can fool him. Sounds so good...
ReplyDeleteI'm going to make this tonight. I wonder if the cauliflower would be more like rice if it wasn't steamed before mixing it in? If it's baked for an hour it would still be cooked, but maybe not so mushy that it will just blend in with everything else. I'll give it a try tonight and see what happens. This looks fantastic!
ReplyDeleteI seldom leave comments on recipes, but had to let you know that my husband proclaimed this among the top meatloaves EVER. Not just low carb. Yes, better than Mom's
ReplyDeleteWe had leftover sauteed cabbage that we used instead of the cole slaw mix but other than that, followed the recipe to the letter.
This was a flop. In order to cook the cabbage through your lean ground beef will be rubber. I cooked it for family, We ordered pizza. The poster above who recommended cooked cabbage was on point. Still, this recipe will never come close to remotely resembling stuffed cabbage. A better name is crunchy meatloaf or coleslaw meatloaf.
ReplyDeleteAddendum: actually using regular ground beef instead of LEAN ground beef would have allowed the cabbage to cook without turning the meat rubbery. Again,.I should know better LOW CARB IS NOT LOW FAT. Ive lost 190lbs without worrying about "lean" anything. I weigh 160lbs and have for 6 years...nothing in my fridge is lean, low fat, lite etc.
ReplyDeleteSorry it didn't work out for you Warren. Mine is not crunchy, but if you have a problem, I am sure steaming it with the cauliflower would work to make it softer. Perhaps the cabbage mix I use is cut finer. I always use a lean ground beef in meatloaves because it is less messy and keeps its shape. That is rather important in a rolled meatloaf like this one.
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