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today I am going to show you how to make
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cabbage rolls in the crock pot the
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flavors are all going to be there if you
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don't know what a cabbage roll is you
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take cabbage leaves we're going to
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soften them down we're going to stuff
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them with a ground beef rice tomato
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mixture we're going to let them steam in
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the crock pot for hours with a delicious
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tomato kind of a gravy inside of there
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if y'all are ready I'm on the back
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burner back here because we got a lot
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going on first off we need to steam our
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cabbage and then of course we've got to
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there you're going to take your cabbage
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head it's going to have a core on the
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bottom and we've got to get that core
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out because we want the steam from the
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water to get up in there and loosen
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these leaves up so what I'm going to do
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is take a very sharp knife i'm going to
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now I've already taken off two leaves
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off the top here got to clean it up a
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little bit give it a nice wash all right
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there's the core so I'm just going to
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take my sharp knife and be careful with
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it okay we're just going to go
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in and then I'm just going to keep doing
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that till I get all the way around then
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we're going to pop it out so as you're
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cutting the core kind of go inward okay
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there i'm going to get a spoon heavy
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spoon i'm just going to go
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go okay we're going to put our cabbage
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in a large pot now I've only got it
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filled about a quarter of the way up
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with water because we want to be able to
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steam the leaves off of it we don't want
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it floating in there i'm going to put
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this on a high heat and we're going to
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get this boiling now you can do this
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step while you're working with your
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cabbage in the meantime while we're
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bringing that to a boil we're going to
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bring another pot of water to a boil now
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I'm just using a medium saucepan back
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here i'm going to place two cups of
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water in it because we're going to cook
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rice alongside the cabbage and those two
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we're going to cook that on a high heat
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and bring it to a boil okay the water is
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boiling for our cabbage so I'm going to
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place it in make sure you put it core
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side down and be very careful when you
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do this step you don't want to splash
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yourself just like that now if you have
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room at the top to put a lid that'll
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help really steam that cabbage if your
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lid doesn't fit well on there you can
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get some foil and put it around it and
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then just kind of lay the lid on that we
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really want that to steam now as you can
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see over here I'm going to be ready with
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a sheet pan that I've lined with some
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paper towels so that when the leaves
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start coming off we can lay them on our
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sheet pan right here okay the medium pot
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with the two cups of water is coming to
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a boil so we're going to go ahead and
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get ready one cup of long grain white
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off we're going to add it to the
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pot we're going to add in one tablespoon
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of butter we're going to give it some
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now this butter already has salt in it
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so that's going to be plenty plus we're
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going to be mixing the rice with other
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things going to give that a
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stir we're going to lower the heat to a
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setting we're going to place the lid
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on we're going to cook for 20
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minutes let's check out our cabbage
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leaves all right and use a fork and some
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tongs see that's peeling off really good
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soft there we go that's a whole piece
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i'm going to lay it on my sheet pan
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here we're going to keep doing this
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until we get all of the leaves off of
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the cabbage as much as we can but I'm
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going to keep steaming it until the rice
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done make sure you use your fork to help
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so you don't burn your hands
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good okay this is the 14th leave that I
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here i'm going to keep
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going we've got all of our leaves i'm
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just cooling them down a little bit
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we're going to make the mixture for the
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inside now for the last little piece
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right there what I'm going to do is just
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chop it up and put it into the crock pot
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with the cabbage rolls that way we don't
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waste we're going to measure out one cup
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of the cooked rice it's nice and
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fluffy just going to spoon it into my
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one cup measuring tool
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i'm just going to put it in a bowl cool
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slightly got one pound of ground beef in
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a mixing bowl large size here we're
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going to crack in one
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egg there we go put it on
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in we're going to dice up one onion
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we're going to give it lots of flavor to
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these cabbage rolls now this is the same
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recipe that I use when I cook these in a
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oven i grew up with this flavor profile
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my mom made these all the time pass that
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me we're going to cut the onion in half
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i'm going to follow the lines of the
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onion and then we'll just dice
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them i'm going to place half of the
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mixture we're going to save the
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salt some black pepper
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we're going to add in some parsley one
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right we're going to add in the rice
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now I added a little extra rice to that
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cuz I had a lot of cabbage leaves going
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on so another half a cup went in going
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let's mix this all together want it well
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combined okay look at that mixture that
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is what we're looking for right
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start filling up our cabbage leaves
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we're going to lay it on our clean work
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surface just pull it out now I'm using a
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scoop looks like an ice cream scoop i'm
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Fill it up about 3/4 of the way on the
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small leaves and then we'll fill it up
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on the bigger leaves we're going to put
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it right in the center nice
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sides we're going to bring in the bottom
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we're going to tuck it to the center and
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roll while we keep those leaves pushed
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there just like that we're going to lay
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it off to the side same side down take a
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scoop it's going to be about three
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tablespoons right in the center there
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we're going to bring one side of the
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over we're going to bring this side of
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over bring the bottom edge up and
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over and we're just going to roll
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tuck it in tuck everything in just like
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go make sure it's nice and
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tight okay this is how many we have 1 2
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3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
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19 20 of them off that one head of
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cabbage in the same mixing bowl where I
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had some little bit of the meat mixture
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left over but there's flavor in here
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also we're going to add two cans of
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tomato soup these are 10 oz
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each we're going to ahead and add those
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i'm going to fill one can up with water
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and we're going to get all that out and
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also we're just going to go back and
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we're going to season with some
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pepper we're going to mix this
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together we're going to get all that
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stuff on the sides into it it's all
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flavor got my sixQ crock pot ready to go
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right here i'm going to move this off to
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i'm bring it on over we're going to be
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layering we're going to take one ladle
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of the tomato sauce and place it into
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pot then just kind of loo it
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around just kind of cover the
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bottom we're going to take some of the
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cabbage rolls we're going to place them
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let's see we got 20 so I'm probably
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seven here we go now what we're going to
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do is ladle some more sauce across these
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now we're going to have three layers so
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keep that in mind with your
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sauce putting the sauce between the
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layers will help it not stick to the
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other cabbage rolls going on top of
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these another layer of the cabbage
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rolls and I'll save the rest for the top
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sauce sure to get them nice and
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coated now I'm going to take the rest of
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that cabbage that I couldn't get any
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more leaves off and I'm just going to
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poke I just chopped it up and I'm just
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going to poke it around the sides
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here we don't want to waste that at
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all plus I know y'all realized I forgot
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my onion to put into the sauce so we'll
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put it on top here before we put the
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onion we'll just put them on top like
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that they will melt down into this dish
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all right I'm going to lay the rest of
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the cabbage rolls on
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top we're going to add the rest of the
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sauce we just want to make sure that we
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pour them on top of the cabbage rolls
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sides it'll all melt in
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there we're going to place the lid
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on we're going to cook this on
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hours and then we are going to we're
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going to give these a check you can also
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cook these on low for about 7 to eight
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hours also if you have an all day thing
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I have errands to go run which will give
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me plenty of time before these are done
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i'm going to come back we are going to
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try these i cannot wait this is one of
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my favorite childhood recipes that I
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used to love that my mom
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made these are done took four hours on
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that i'm going to plate some up you know
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I'm going to give one a try for
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those plate them up make sure you put
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some of that tomato gravy on top let's
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one while they're nice and
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tender look at that cooked through
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that's a big bite i'm going to give it a
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try that is so delicious that takes me
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back that cabbage is nice and
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tender the beef the rice and the tomato
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all goes together it's so delicious all
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right you guys make sure you give me a
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thumbs up on this one are you making
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some cabbage rolls in the crock pot now
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like I said I have a cabbage rolls that
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I've baked in the oven and I've also
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made a cabbage roll casserole a one
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skillet and also cabbage roll soup go
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check out all of those on my recipe blog
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katherine'splates.com where you'll find
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this recipe here making them in the
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crock pot all right you guys i'll see
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y'all on the next episode bye