- 1 head cabbage
- 8 oz wide noodles
- 1/4 lb margarine
- Salt, pepper and paprika to taste
Cut cabbage fine. Add salt, pepper and paprika. You may add other spices as well (garlic, onion, etc) depending upon your family’s tastes. I don’t, as we like the simplicity of this dish as is. Cook until limp in margarine. Boil noodles according to package directions while cabbage is cooking. Mix cabbage and noodles together and cook 5 minutes more. Adjust seasonings and serve.
This is a Czechoslovakian dish – thus the interesting name. Submitted by HBHW Reader Starr H.
I made this for a friend of mine last winter, and it was wonderful. She grew up eating it at a Ukrainian Catholic church and calls it Holuska. The recipe that I found for it said it was Polish and gave it a slightly different name. Interesting that it has variations in name depending on the country, but the recipe is basically the same.
My sister makes this too (there’s a huge Polish community in South Bend, IN). I’ve adapted the recipe a little and add about 1/4 c. of poppy seeds to it. Yummo! Gives it a nutty flavor and really adds alot…I think!
Oh, PS: I cook my noodles in chicken broth too!
we tried this last week it went over well with my brood. I added bacon when cooking down the onions etc my husband doesnt not believe in meatless meals (sigh) but it added something nice. We will definitely do this again.
I saw The Frugal Gourmet make a similar recipe. His was Polish and I forget the name. That version goes like this:
Cook a big, chopped onion in butter until translucent. Meanwhile, boil egg noodles. When onions are ready, add some caraway or poppy seeds (for us, I just sprinkle a light dusting – sometimes more, others less), salt and pepper and continue to saute a minute or so. Add cabbage that has been cut into pieces roughly the same size as the noodles you are using, add to onion mixture and continue to saute until the cabbage is crisp/tender. Adjust seasonings. Add drained noodles and enough sour cream to just coat everything lightly. Mix and heat slightly. Serve.
I never really measure this anymore but I usually use about 4 cups dry noodles, 1/4 cup butter, 1/2 a big cabbage, a very big onion, tablespoon caraway seeds, 1 to 1 1/2 cups sour cream.
All my eating machines devour this regularly.
Believe it or not, you can actually have this with sugar too. My mother in law does halusky with cabbage and bacon, or cabbage and sugar. She also does it with ground poppy seeds and sugar/butter. What goes into it really depends on the region that the cook is from… Smoked sausage would work well too.
I tried this dish with my large brood, and they loved it. With plenty left over, we enjoyed it again the next day, but this time I added a few spoonfuls of sour cream to moisten the dish when reheating, and wow, it was even better. We will definitely be having this again!
My Grandma use to make this BUT she made what us kids called dough ball’s and put in it.. she would take potatoe and grate it on the small grate side. then add some salt.egg. bakein power, mix all together then add flour till it was like a blog.. then cut it off from under side of sauser. in to boiling water.when they floated to top would put them in cold water to cool..then drain well. and add then to fried cabbage.. it is so good..I make it myself and eat the whole thing in 2 day’s..LOL….
My mother makes this but adds smoked sausage. It tastes wonderful.
Yes…have had this since I was a small child. My grandma was Slovak. We call it Haluski. As Sarah said…we made it with dumplings…so much better than noodles if that is possible!! We only use a big onion sauted in butter seasoned to taste with salt and pepper. Then add the dumplings like Sarah stated or noodles. Heat through and enjoy!! In our area, this is a staple at weddings, picnics, fundraising events. Great 1 dish meal.
I make this with a pound of bacon fried really crispy and drained. You can you use the bacon grease instead of the margarine to cook the cabbage. It is really yummy. If you are watching the fat you can use turkey bacon and cut down on the amount of margarine.
I make this all of the time! I saute the cabbage with garlic before adding the noodles to give it a little crunch.