Galumpkis: Stuffed Cabbage Rolls

This has been one of my favorite meals since I was tiny. So I decided to make it for my boyfriend who had never had it. The recipe I followed was good, but I made a near fatal mistake: I forgot to season the filling. This is a SUPER bummer, because the meat-rice mixture this gets filled with requires a pretty large amount of salt and pepper otherwise the natural flavors just don't come out.

There are three things I'm going to do with this recipe in the future:
1. Add 1.5 tsps of paprika to the filling
2. Double the garlic in both the tomato sauce and the filling.
3. Increase by half the amount of the sweet and sour tomato sauce that is added to the filling

The only change I made to the recipe this time (aside from my spectacular blunder) is that I made a full 1 cup (uncooked) batch of rice and added that to the filling, which I thought was balanced pretty well aside from needing a little more of the tomato flavor.

EDIT: I just remade this and like an idiot a forgot ANOTHER ingredient, this time the egg, so I'm not going to adjust my rating. Still the filling was soooo much better with the changes I made. the only thing I would for sure say is salt and pepper the hell out of that filling I probably added around 2 tsps of salt to the filling and I would say another wouldn't go amiss.

Bottom line: 4.6 (with the above changes this would be a 5)