Instant Pot Basic Cabbage Rolls

We have made this recipe three times without the veal. The first was great. Next time we added 4 oz of mild Hatch Green Chile and the result was better with a little spice. The third time, we had a little confusion and a home made rhubarb sauce was used for 1/2 of the total tomato sauce. The rhubarb sauce was used with the meat mixture as well as the general tomato sauce in the instant pot.. The result of this small error resulted in a wonderful enhancement to the flavor. This one was a do again on an already great do again.

This is a great base starting point on how to make them using an instapot, but this recipe calls for absolutely no spices?? Add garlic, italian seasoning. brown sugar, salt and lots of freshly ground pepper. *sage or thyme is nice too. worcestershire. And now we’re talking. I cook mine with sour cabbage so you can skip the cooking the cabbage part.

It was a little bland, but I’m not sure how to fix that. The process itself was great.

Came out delicious! Accidentally used tomato soup instead and just as good!

Excellent!! Notes to self for next time: use half pork/half beef. Get biggest head of cabbage you can find, double everything except the sauce. Add perhaps a can of tomato soup or a small can of sauce.

This recipe was delicious! My family loved it and it turned out perfectly. Instead of creating the meat mixture myself, I purchased a “meatloaf” mixture at our supermarket that contained the beef, veal, & pork. I also have a crockpot express instead of an instant pot, but the directions were spot on and it turned out great! The only change I may make is using less sauce…perhaps 1 can that is 28 oz and one of the smaller 15 oz cans instead of 2 (28 oz) cans. This dish will be one I add to my regular rotation.

I loved it, so did the neighbors! I did use all beef and crushed tomatoes. I added 2t brown sugar with the salt to the tomatoes. I love white rice so used a whole cup. This recipe was really quick and very handy to use the IP. This will be a keeper.

A good and quick process to soften the cabbage! At 9 minutes, the other layers of my cabbage were overcooked. However, the innermost ones were slightly undercooked. When I do this in the future, I’ll unwrap all layers and use more of the inner ones. The recipe is titled “basic”. If you want some suggestions, here are a couple: 1. For the sauce and meat combo, my grandma would throw in a handful of shredded carrots and raisins. 2. And, my personal preference is a slightly more robust sauce. So, I substituted one can of sauce for a small can of paste, crushed tomatoes, and whole tomatoes. Overall, great, simple process for Cabbage Rolls. Thank you!

I would blanch off tge cabbage in a traditional manner as it was very well cooked and extremely delicate when I tried to separate it.

Super easy to make & very delicious. I tripled the recipe and froze half of the uncooked meat mixture to use next time.

I typically love the recipes from All Recipes I have never had anything burned in my instant pot in the 3+ years that I’ve had it. Unfortunately if you follow the instructions exactly on this recipe in my instant pot it burned as soon as it hit pressure it never even got to cook for the 22 minutes. I had to quickly release the pressure scoop everything out into a saucepan and then similar along the stove to be able to eat anything we lossed all of the spaghetti sauce because it was burned on the bottom and left a burned taste. This recipe to me epic fail.

This turned out delicious! Easy to make. I did not have the second cans of Tomato Sauce. I used petite diced tomatoes and mashed them. It was a great substitute.

My Mom use to make cabbage rolls in an old stove top pressure cooker. I know she would have loved this. I did use 1 pound each of ground beef and veal. and made the sauce a little larger by adding a can of diced tomatoes. I would not recommend putting the cabbage in the cooker to soften the cabbage, it didn’t work out for me. I had to run to the store and buy another head.. well to be honest my wife did, but it was great and reminded me of my moms!!

I made it but substituted beef for turkey (93%-7%) and ground pork. I also substituted long grain rice for basmati rice. I also used bread crumbs to help bind the meat and rice.

The first thing I remember my mom teaching me how to cook was cabbage rolls. I’ve always done them in the oven but I love doing them in the instant pot especially when it’s hot out I can still make them without heating up the house with a hot oven. They were a big hit with my roommate as well

so easy! I did not core the cabbage the whole way but it was still pre-cooked enough the remove the leaves. I sprinkled brown sugar on top before cooking because we always add it when baking Golabki. The 2 cans of sauce seemed like it would be a lot but it was not, as it soaked into the leaves.

This has moved to the favorites for sure. We’ve made this many times and love it each time. My only modification is I use a pound of chicken sausage or Turkey sausage instead of the meat mixture. Lower calories from beef.

I opted for a hair healthier options, and it worked really well, although took more dishes. I fried 1/2 lb. hamburger, 1/2 lb. mild pork sausage (didn’t have veal), and rinsed well to drain fat, then chopped fine with food processor. I subbed brown rice for white rice, but since it takes twice as long to cook normally, I simmered it for 20 minutes, and it came out done nicely in the Instant Pot. I also used dried onions, and a bit more pepper, and it was wonderful. Chopped and added remaining cabbage on top, per previous reviewer.

Although the recipe is quite nice, the prep and cook times need to be updated.

Would probably add more seasonings next time and go back to using a pot of boiling water to separate my cabbage leaves, but the rolls were really good and loved by all of us.

So easy and so good. I chopped up the extra cabbage and threw it in on top