Recipe: Delicious Niños envueltos (stuffed cabbage rolls)

Niños envueltos (stuffed cabbage rolls). In the Dominican Republic, Niño Envuelto is a rice and beef mixture, wrapped in cabbage, and cooked in plenty of tomato sauce. Loosely translated from Spanish the name means "swaddled baby". So where did cabbage rolls come from?

Stuffed Cabbage Rolls in Tomato Sauce. The filling and tomato sauce can be made one day ahead to save time. Tomato sauce recipe precedes the filling recipe. You can have Niños envueltos (stuffed cabbage rolls) using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Niños envueltos (stuffed cabbage rolls)

1. It's 1 of Large cabbage.
2. You need 2 cups of Rice.
3. It's 1/2 pound of Ground meat.
4. Prepare 1 can of Crushed tomatoes.
5. You need 3 of Basil leaves.
6. Prepare 2 tsp of sugar.
7. It's To taste of Sazon Dominicano.
8. Prepare 1 tbsp of ground dried garlic.
9. Prepare 1 can of 🍅 sauce.

Niños Envueltos - Stuffed Cabbage Rolls. These cabbage rolls are a mixture of rice and beef mince wrapped in cabbage leaves and slowly cooked in a tomato sauce. Cabbage rolls (niños envueltos) Previous Next Show Grid. Remove the core of the cabbage, place in a sink of cold water and separate the leaves one at a time.

Niños envueltos (stuffed cabbage rolls) step by step

1. Core the bottom of cabbage being careful not to cut the leaves. You want to just take out the large stem holding the leaves together so when you cook the cabbage in water the leaves will soften but not break..
2. While the cabbage cooks in boiling water, cook the rice 🍚 in the rice cooker. This will make easier for you to get take care of other dishes while rice cooks in the cooker..
3. In a bowl mix the ground meat with the sazon (I'll publish my sazon again) set aside..
4. When the leaves from the cabbage start to fall off from the head, take them out gently as to not break them. Place the leaves in a bowl to cool. Once all of the leaves you need from the cabbage have fallen off and have cooled, cut ✂️ part of the rib (long stem) from each of them. This will make easy to roll the cabbage..
5. In a sauce pan add the crushed tomatoes and tomato sauce with the basil leaves, garlic and sugar. Let it simmer and adjust seasoning to your taste..
6. Once your rice has cooked, in a large bowl add the rice and uncooked meat mixture. After mixing it well, you can start adding this to the cabbage leaves and roll like a burrito tucking in the sides of the cabbage as you roll..
7. In a large pan add some of the sauce to the bottom to keep cabbage rolls from burning. Gently add the rolls around the pot adding sauce as you layer them up. Once you have added all of your rolls in the pan, add some water 💧 to help cook them. Turn heat to medium and let it slowly cook. Remember to taste your sauce in case you need to adjust the flavor..
8. The cooking of these will take about 20 to 25 minutes because you are really just cooking the meat at this point and making the sauce richer. Once you are happy with your cabbage rolls they are good to eat..

We grew up eating Chilean Steak Rolls or "Niños Envueltos". If you search on Google, you will see that there is another recipe for rice and meat wrapped in cabbage leaves that have the same name "niños envueltos." This happens a lot that the same name describes different dishes in Latin America. My Stuffed Cabbage Rolls are hearty and tasty, filled with rice, seasoned ground meat and baked in a delicious tomato based sauce. ancore. For us Dominicans we call them niños envueltos which translates to wrapped. My Stuffed Cabbage Rolls are hearty and tasty, filled with rice, seasoned ground meat and baked in a delicious tomato based sauce. ancore.