Holishkes

Holishkes (also holipches or huluptzes or prokes or gefilte kroit) is cabbage roll dish in Eastern European Jewish cuisine.

Holishkes are prepared from blanched cabbage leaves wrapped in a parcel-like manner around minced meat and then simmered in tomato sauce.

While the dish is eaten all year round, it is customarily served on Sukkot to symbolize a bountiful harvest, and on Simchat Torah because two stuffed cabbage rolls placed side by side resemble Torah scrolls.

[1][2] Jews in the Russian Empire and north-eastern Poland adapted holishkes from their Tatar and Turkish neighbors, such as the similar sarma.

Eastern Europeans called it gołąbki (little doves), because the rolled cabbage in sauce resembled a bird in a nest.