Ukrainian Stuffed Cabbage

Ingredients

 * 1 cabbage head

Filling

 * 250 g pork minced meat
 * 250 g beef minced meat
 * 3 onions
 * 200 g smoked lard
 * 2 tbsp finely chopped parsley
 * 3 tbsp bread crumbs
 * 3 tbsp butter
 * salt
 * ground nutmeg
 * 100 g sour cream

Directions

 * 1) Cook the head of a cabbage in lightly salted boiling water for 10 minutes, take out, dry a little.
 * 2) Turn back the first large leaves and cut out the small ones from the middle.

Filling

 * 1) Cube a half lard and fry with chopped onion.
 * 2) Combine mincemeat with rice, breadcrumbs, spices, finely chopped cabbage leaves from the middle, onion and lard.
 * 3) Sprinkle the inside of cabbage with salt, put lard pieces on the bottom and stuff with the filling.
 * 4) Unbend the leaves and press tightly.
 * 5) Put the cabbage head on a baking sheet, add water so that the surface of the head will not burn
 * 6) Fry in the oven, pouring over the juices from the sheet regularly.