Lazy Man’s Cabbage Rolls

Ingredients:

• 2 lbs ground beef (or 1 lb beef + 1lb pork)
• 1 cup chopped onion
• ½ – 1 cup chopped celery
• 1 ½ lbs chopped cabbage
• 1 can tomato sauce (29 ounce or 850ml)
  • I used 2 cups stewed tomatoes and 2 cups freshly chopped, very ripe tomatoes
• 1 cup uncooked white rice
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 cups beef broth

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a large skillet, brown beef in oil over medium high heat until redness is gone. Drain fat.
3. In a large mixing bowl combine the onion, celery, cabbage, tomato sauce/tomatoes, rice and salt.
4. Add meat and mix all together.
5. Pour mixture into a 9×13 inch baking dish.
6. Pour broth over meat mixture and bake in the preheated oven, covered, for 1 hour.
7. Stir, replace cover and bake for another 30 minutes.