Ewa of Vermont is correct, NO Rice, as I was told as a youth by my Bachi: "There are no f'in rice paddies in Poland"

i use rice, pork, ground meat, whole tomatoes smashed, lots sautéed onions, seal with unused cabbage topped off with bacon...like dark blue roster. Oh and cannot forget the kaput a

My babci came from Poland also and we always had rice in her cabbage rolls.

oczywiscie ze golabki maja ryz i mieso!! good recipie im polish and golabki have rice i meat my whole rodzina made them like that!!

Ewa in Vermont: It usually depends on what part of a country you are from. Other times it's personal taste as far as what you put into a recipe. I have 2 Polish grandmothers and both use beef and rice in their stuffed cabbage rolls. My mother-in-law was Polish & German. She used pork, rice, and seasoned them with chili powder.
I use beef, rice and for seasoning - herbes de provence.

My Mom and Busia always used rice but they also added a can of tomatoes cut up in quarters to flavor the sauce they cooked in. Also very delicious.

My bocia and my chutka both put rice in the gerwumky.

My bachie was born in Poland in 1878, had three polish restaurants and always put rice in her golumkies.

I agree. Rice, ground pork, egg, salt and pepper, thyme, onion. You can add some ground veal or beef. I don't.

Polish stuffed cabbages HAVE NO rice or beef. Only ground pork is used!!! No real Polish cook will add rice! That must be a cost cutting invention!

Halupkies?

i found that using basmati rice added to the value of this great dish but only needed twice as much water (I used beef broth for extra flavor) as rice and took @ :20 to cook till tender, also added the onion to the rice to tenderize it.