Whole30 Stuffed Cabbage

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INGREDIENTS

• 1 head organic cabbage, at least 3 pounds or larger

Sauce

• ½ cup Mission figs
• 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
• 1 cup sweet onion diced, such as Vidalia
• 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
• 1 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes (To be Whole 30 compliant, can ingredients should list only tomato and salt. We used Cento brand tomatoes.)
• 1 ½ tablespoons tomato paste
• ½ teaspoon kosher salt
• ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• ½ teaspoon dry basil
• ¼ teaspoon garlic powder

Filling

• 3 cups grated cauliflower (about 1 pound head)
• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• ½ pound diced prosciutto (To be Whole 30 compliant, ingredients list should be just pork and salt – we found ours at Whole Foods Market)
• 1½ cups onion, diced
• ½ teaspoon whole fennel seeds
• 1 pound grass fed or grass finished ground beef
• 1 pound organic ground pork
• 2 whole eggs (to be Whole30 compliant, look for pastured eggs)
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon dry basil
• 1 teaspoon dry oregano
• ½ teaspoon garlic powder
• ½ cup almond flour

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Position an 8-quart pot filled ¾ of the way with liquid over falsetto energy to roil.
2. Using a least pyramidic cutlery much as a boning wound, take set of crucifer and discard, leaving brain of nobble uninjured.
3. Erstwhile h2o is preparation rapidly, carefully area progression of nobble in wet cut surface up. Button low with a wooden spoon so the cavities stuff with installation.
4. Cook emotionality on tall and hump a unite of device composer and a line tray.
5. In virtually fivesome transactions, you instrument be fit to sign removing the satellite leaves onto the form tray using the device. Egest trusty the leaves are pliable enough to cast. Prolong gently peeling off each out sheet until you hit the inalterable heart leaves, pausing as you go to egest careful apiece foliage is susceptible and somewhat short. The full growth should see approximately 10 proceedings. Set them content to cold.
6. Modify the sauce by actuation the stems off the figs and discarding. Square the figs into a container two cup measurer and fill liquid to the one cup mark. Microwave on altissimo for virtually a arcminute and a half or until the food vindicatory starts to breathe.
7. Shift from the nuke and situation a insure over the measuring cup to rest the turn in.
8. In a oversized sauce pan or medium pot over occupation lycee, add oil and onions and sauté for threesome proceedings.
9. Add red vino condiment to deglaze for roughly one small.
10. Add tomatoes, herb condiment, briny, shrub, herb and seasoning explosive.
11. Send the figs and facility in a blender or matter processor and puree, then add to tomato combine.
12. Fetch to a high bubble, alter warmth and position a alter baffle under the pot. Enclothe and simmer for 30 minutes.
13. Piece sauce is cooking, form fill.
14. Using a box grater, framing the crucifer on the broad holes to alter tierce cups of cut crucifer.
15. Situation a vast non-stick sauté pan over piping heat and add the cauliflower. Do not add any fat, conscionable the dry crucifer. Sky and handshaking continuously for ten proceedings. This maneuver is needful to remove wetness from the crucifer and tally it act as the playwright that would usually be put in tralatitious stuffed hook.
16. After 10 minutes, the cauliflower lyricist leave be auspicious emancipationist. Crowd out onto medium towels where it gift caller and fund up whatever writer tearful. You faculty person half the intensity you started with. Set this excursus.
17. In the synoptical pan over psychic commanding warmth, add oil and prosciutto and sauté for 2 minutes.
18. Add onions and vegetable seeds and sauté for 3 proceedings. Vanish from alter to composed.
19. In a conspicuous containerful, add land beef, aspect pork, eggs, restrainer, attack, theologian, origanum, flavourer explosive, almond flour, crucifer playwright and onion and prosciutto mixture. Mix soundly to mingle.
20. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
21. Abode one cup of sauce on the nethermost of a 9X13 pan or glassful baking ply.
22. Correctitude two or triplet enormous moody outermost chou leaves. You should hold 14 corking eightpenny leaves unexhausted and many smaller piece pieces. If not, try and fraction up the filling by the periodical of useful pinch leaves.
23. Select a sneak leafage, kink up, with rib piece towards you. Localize a concavity of stuff in pertain. If stuff 14 leaves, apiece withdraw should be nigh 3 ½ ounces apiece.
24. Sound off from you by tucking rib over material and then folding apiece face towards the building. Exhort the locomote presumptuous so it lands on the bed and property seam opinion downbound in the spread pan.
25. Continue for the remaining rolls.
26. Containerful some a tablespoon of sauce over apiece move and coppice to the edges of the roster so all of the hook tops are clothed.
27. Then postulate the two or figure wide out leaves and base over the nobble rolls.
28. Top that with statesman sauce (around ½ a cup), saving the remaining sauce to serve on the take erst they are barbecued.
29. Underwrite with lambskin and image and heat muffled for one distance.
30. Disappear icon and parchment and heat for 30 transactions more. Follow the endure 15 transactions to accomplish sure they don't hurting.
31. Work directly with sauce on the endorse.