Cabbage Rolls with Mushroom Soup

Ingredients

 * 1 onion, chopped
 * 2 tbsp butter
 * 1 ea garlic clove, crushed (optional)
 * ¾ cup uncooked raw rice
 * 200 g ground beef or veal
 * 200 g ground pork
 * 1 tsp salt
 * ¼ tsp pepper
 * 1 whole head cabbage
 * boiling water
 * 2 cups beef broth or stock
 * 1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup

Directions

 * 1) Stew chopped onion and garlic in butter in a large skillet for 3-5 mins.
 * 2) Add rice, meat, salt, and pepper.
 * 3) Stir just to mix well.
 * 4) Remove from heat and remove core from cabbage.
 * 5) Place whole head in a large kettle filled with boiling water.
 * 6) Cover and cook for 3 minutes and remove softened outer leaves.
 * 7) Take out all large leaves cut thick center stem from each leaf.
 * 8) Take one large cabbage leaf at a time,put 1 rounded tablespoonful of meat mixture in center of a leaf.
 * 9) Roll leaves and put stuffed cabbage leaves with seam down close to each other on a frying pan.
 * 10) Do not make more than 2 layers.
 * 11) Combine beef broth and mushroom soup; * pour over cabbage rolls.
 * 12) Bake in a well heated oven for 1½ hours.