- Yield: 13 to 15 each
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 2 hours oven baked, 5 to 7 hours slow cooked minutes
- Serving: Family
Turkey Cabbage Rolls - Slow Cooked
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If you are looking for a tasty meal for tonight supper, you are in the right place.
So sit back with a cup of tea and watch our short video tutorial for our SLOW COOKED Turkey Cabbage Rolls!
Whats so wonderful about these you can also cook them in the oven in a roaster with a lid, see recipe below to both methods.
You can use store both cabbage and carrots, we were so blessed to have bought these fresh veggies from the local farmers market in season for storing for the winter months.
Fill your boiler half full of water, start to boil water then add 1/2 tsp of sea salt and the full cabbage leaf side down with the stump upwards. Let them boil until leaves starts to soften and cut from the stump removing the leaves one at a time. Place in a place for stuffing with the ground turkey mixture.
Mix all ingredients together but don't over mix just to incorporate them together. Then back to your cabbage leaves, you need to remove one leaf at a time by cutting with a knife at the stump to remove the leaf. Continue on doing that and place them in a plate to start rolling the cabbage rolls.
Please continue on to our recipe and I hope you are still interested in our method for TURKEY CABBAGE ROLLS - slow cooked or oven roasted......I will also share with you a link to our cookbooks https://www.bonitaskitchen.com/cookbook
Ingredients
- Head of Cooking Cabbage - 1 medium, about 13 to 15 leaves
- Ground turkey - 1 pound or more
- Rice - 2 cups
- Onion - 1 medium, peeled and chopped
- Carrot - 1 medium, peeled and grated
- Pasta or Tomato Sauce - 1 bottle or 3 cups
- Broth - Full pasta bottle to rinse about 2 cups
- Grated cabbage - 1 cup
- Sea salt - 1 tsp
- Pepper - ½ to 1 tsp
- Garlic - 1 tsp, fresh or ground
- Onion powder - ½ tsp
Instructions
First peel and chop onion in small pieces, then peel, clean and grate carrot. Then rinse cold water over cabbage to clean any dirt off leaves.
In a large boiler half full with water, start to boil on a medium heat, then add ½ tsp sea salt and full cabbage and part cook to remove leaves one at a time.
After they are partially cooked, cut the leaves off one at a time and place them on a plate, you will need about 13 to 15 leaves for this recipe. Then remove cabbage from water and let it come to room temperature.
In a medium bowl add ground turkey, rice, grated carrot, chopped onion, pepper, ½ tsp sea salt, onion powder and garlic powder or fresh pressed.
Then in another bowl toss in pasta sauce and one bottle of broth or water to rinse the bottle and put in a bowl with sauce and mix together. Add one and half cups of the mixture to the bowl with all the ingredients.
Then back over to the cabbage, grate one cup of cabbage from the part cooked cabbage and put in with the other ingredients.
Then mix together until all is combined and ready to add to cabbage leaves and to roll. You will need a SLOW COOKER or roaster with a lid or a sheet of foil wrap.
Add two cabbage leaves to the bottom of the SLOW COOKER or roaster. Then scoop up about a 1/3 cup of the turkey mixture or less and add to the leaf. Then starting from yourself roll outwards and pull in the sides of the cabbage and continue rolling, do this until all mixture and cabbage is used.
Place into the SLOW COOKER or roasted making two layers crossing the bottom layer one way and top layer the other way.
Then pour the remainder of the pasta sauce and water over the rolled cabbage. Turn SLOW COOKER on Low if you are cooking it for the day, or High if home…. or; if cooking in your roaster …
Preheat the oven to 350ºF and set the timer for 60 minutes covered and then check and base with the pasta sauce in the roaster and add more water if needed. Then set the timer for 60 minutes still covered after cooking, let it rest in the oven for 10 minutes after cooking, then serve on its own or with porgies.
Bonita’s Tips:
Adding the extra shredded cabbage to the mixture builds those amazing flavours and no waste.
If using slow cooker always put on a safe surface if unattended, prep at night and keeping the uncooked cabbage rolls in the fridge overnight.
We hope you are still interested in our recipe for TURKEY CABBAGE ROLLS- Slow Cooked.…. if so please continue on to more info and photos to make yours today….
Lay one leaf of cabbage at the bottom of the slow cooker bowl or roaster, then layer the cabbage rolls one way in the bowl and then across the other way. Pouring a layer of pasta or tomato sauce over each layer….
So tasty and easy to make any day of the week, no worries about what to make for supper after work. Just get out that old slow cooker and layer your cabbage rolls the night before in the bowl, keep in the fridge then the next day, start up the slow cooker the morning before work……its that easy……
We hope you get to make our recipe soon and to have a hot meal after work or any day of the week. Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by and reading our blog and recipe. Please take the time to check out our other recipe on our website or Youtube channel, we also have a Traditional Newfoundland Cabbage Rolls recipe available for the oven.
From our kitchen to yours, enjoy! Bonita, RMHussey Productions and Team!
This recipe is really well rounded. Next Thanksgiving this may be my ‘turkey’ dinner. All in one. No fuss. No muss.
Absolutely love these cabbage rolls. So delicious! and really easy to make. Thanks for sharing the video as well. Very helpful! Thanks, Glen
Hi Glen, Thank you for your message and for stopping by, I’m glad you enjoyed our cabbage roll recipe and video. These can be made in the slow cooker, on the stove top or in the oven. Whatever is the easiest way for you, enjoy to the fullest and thank you…
Bonita