Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Step 2

Clean the head of a cabbage. Gently pull off about 12 to 15 of the largest leaves of cabbage.

Step 3

Drop the cabbage leaves into a large pot of boiling salted water.

Step 4

Cook the cabbage for 3 minutes to blanch it. Blanching it will make it tender and pliable.

Step 5

Combine tomato sauce with water in a small bowl.

Step 6

In a mixing bowl, combine ground beef, onion, green pepper, rice, crackers, salt, pepper, egg, and 1/4 of the tomato sauce.

Step 7

Spoon the filling mixture into the blanched cabbage leaves, roll the leaves up, and place them in a deep baking pan.

Step 8

Pour the remaining sauce over the rolls.

Step 9

Sprinkle sugar on top.

Step 10

Bake for 1 hour at 350 degrees.