Using a slow cooker, many people often cook cabbage for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. More precisely, they put out it. This is a pretty healthy dish that goes well with various popular side dishes like potatoes or rice.
This article will be considered and described in detail not one recipe for stewed cabbage in a slow cooker, as well as recommendations for serving it on the table.
General recommendations
In fact, putting out cabbage is not so difficult, it does not take much time. The main thing in a step-by-step recipe for stewed cabbage in a slow cooker is to take into account some recommendations that will definitely not spoil the dish, but will make it much tastier.
Firstly, in order for the cabbage to turn out to be tender and retain its natural color, you need to add a cube of refined sugar to it when cooking. By the way, this does not affect the taste in any way. This is a very small addition to the multicooked stewed cabbage recipe.
Secondly, it is strongly not recommended to cook cabbage at high temperature. For stewed cabbage, it is better to use the "Stew" or "Steamed" mode so that it does not lose its taste and useful properties.
Thirdly, you need to add the main spices (including salt) at the very end of the stew. If this is done earlier, then in the end the cabbage will become stiff.
Step-by-step recipe for stewed cabbage in a slow cooker
There are several ways to stew cabbage. The standard recipe for stewed cabbage in a slow cooker requires the following ingredients: white cabbage itself, which will require about a kilogram; a couple of carrots; one onion; two tablespoons of tomato paste; one teaspoon of sugar; sunflower oil, spices that need to be added to taste.
First you need to take a special knife for shredding and chop them cabbage. You need to make the pieces thin enough. Then you need to grate the carrots, and cut the onion into small pieces.
In a slow cooker, it is first necessary to heat up sunflower oil in the “Baking” mode, fry the onion in it until it becomes translucent. Carrots are then added to the onion. In this state, they cook for about five minutes. The main thing is not to forget to stir them periodically.
The next step is to add chopped cabbage to the resulting frying. After that, you need to activate the "Extinguishing" program. In this form, cabbage is cooked for about 40 minutes, but you need to remember to interfere with it.
About 20 minutes before the end of the program, you need to add paste, sugar to the cabbage, then mix it all, and 5 minutes before the end, salt and pepper are added.
As can be seen from the above, the standard recipe for stewed cabbage in a slow cooker is quite simple.
Braised Cabbage with Meat
If you carefully follow the recipe for stewed cabbage with meat in a slow cooker, which will be described later, you can cook another very tasty dish.
It is worth noting that in this case, you can use any meat, but to reduce the calorie content of the dish, it is better to take chicken fillet or, for example, turkey.
The recipe for stewed cabbage with meat in a slow cooker includes the following ingredients: approximately 700 grams of cabbage, 400 grams of meat (without bone), a pair of onions, carrots, a pinch of sugar, as well as sunflower oil, salt and pepper.
First of all, you need to thoroughly rinse the meat and clean it of veins, films, and then cut into small pieces.
Then in the slow cooker a little oil is heated in the "Frying" mode, and pieces of meat are already fried in it.
Changing the program to "Baking", finely chopped onions are placed in the pan of the multicooker. Once it becomes translucent, grated carrots are added to the onion. All this is cooked in a slow cooker with this program for about six more minutes.
At this time, you can chop the cabbage (as in the standard recipe), sprinkle it with sugar, and then mash it hard to release juice from it. Next, such cabbage is placed in the bowl of the multicooker, the program "Extinguishing" is configured.
Approximately 10 minutes before the end, you need to add spices to the cabbage, and if you want to make the dish more juicy or with gravy, then about 30 milliliters of water should be added to the multicooker 30 minutes before the end of the program.
As noted above, stewed cabbage recipes in a slow cooker with chicken are no different from recipes with other types of meat.
What do manufacturers offer?
Many multicooker manufacturers take care of their customers and compose their own recipe books that you can use when cooking. Surely there is in collections from, for example, the firms Panasonic, Polaris, Scarlet, Redmond, the recipe for stewed cabbage in a slow cooker.
It is very important to follow all the recommendations that are described in these books and collections, because they were composed by specialists who know exactly how to make the dish really tasty and healthy.
By the way, the non-stick coating also contributes to the healthy composition of the dish in the multicooker, which allows you to maintain most of the useful properties of the products even when they are frying or other heat treatment.
It is possible that the recipe for stewed cabbage in the multicooker "Redmond", "Panasonic" or any other is no different from what was already described earlier in this article.
Potato stew
Braised cabbage can be cooked not only paired with meat. It is allowed to stew with other fillers. Next will be considered a recipe for stewed cabbage with potatoes in a slow cooker.
For cooking, you will need a kilogram of white cabbage, five or six medium-sized potato tubers, carrots, onions, three medium tablespoons of vegetable oil, two or three glasses of water, an average spoon of tomato paste, as well as salt and other spices to taste.
The first step is to finely chop the onion and grate the carrots. Then pour oil into the multicooker bowl, mix chopped onion and carrots with it, and then activate the “Baking” mode for about 13 minutes, and 5 minutes before the end of the program, add tomato paste.
Then the potatoes are washed and cut thoroughly, and the cabbage is finely chopped. All this is added to the frying in the bowl. Then you need to add water and mix the resulting dish.
This is followed by the installation of the Baking program for approximately 40 minutes. If you hold the cabbage for longer, it will turn out more tender.
By the way, this dish can be perfectly served on the table in the post.
Braised Cabbage with Prunes and Mushrooms
Another recipe for stewed cabbage (this dish can also be served during fasting) is cabbage with prunes and mushrooms.
For cooking, you need to use white cabbage, about 100 grams of seedless prunes, mushrooms / champignons in the amount of 300 grams, as well as sunflower oil, a can of beans in a tomato, a couple of onions, sugar, salt and pepper.
By the way, to give a richer flavor to the dish, you can add a couple of real porcini mushrooms to it (dried or soaked in boiling water is also possible).
First you need to soak the prunes in warm water, and the mushrooms need to be cut into small pieces.
Then you need to heat the oil in a slow cooker and fry the mushrooms in it until the liquid evaporates in them. You need to do this in the "Baking" mode. After you need to put beans from a jar in a bowl for mushrooms and oil, sprinkle all this with a small amount of sugar, cook until it boils.
Prunes, which managed to swell in water, need to be cut into slices and added to the bowl to other ingredients. The same thing needs to be done with finely chopped cabbage. If necessary, you can add about 400 milliliters of water (always boiled) or tomato juice.
The last thing to do is set the “Extinguishing” mode to 40 minutes and wait until the dish is ready.
Stewed sauerkraut
To cook a dish according to the recipe for stewed sauerkraut in a slow cooker, you need to prepare the following ingredients: a kilogram of sauerkraut, onion, carrots, tomato, vegetable oil, as well as salt and spices to taste.
Sauerkraut is washed with water, and finely chopped onions and fry it with grated carrots in oil in the "Baking" mode.
To the resulting frying is added cabbage, cut into pieces a tomato and a glass of hot water.
The slow cooker is put into "Extinguishing" mode for about an hour. At this time, do not forget to periodically stir the cabbage.
Once the dish is ready, it can be seasoned with herbs.
Braised Cabbage with Sausages
To cook cabbage according to a simple recipe for stewed cabbage with sausages in a slow cooker, you will need a pound of young cabbage, onions, carrots, five to six pieces of calf sausages (preferably without additives in the form of cheese), four tomatoes, a couple of cloves of garlic, bay leaf, sunflower oil and spices to taste.
In the “Baking” mode, you need to fry finely chopped onions in sunflower oil, and then add grated carrots to it. After 6 minutes, tomatoes and sausages, cut into small pieces, are added to the frying.
Then finely chopped cabbage is put in the bowl, the slow cooker is put into the “Braising” mode for an hour. At this time, the dish is cooked. Twenty minutes before the end of the program, squeezed garlic is added, as well as spices to taste.
Instead of a conclusion
As it turned out, cooking stewed cabbage in a slow cooker in various ways is really quite simple. There are several options, you can choose for every taste. This dish is sure to please your family and friends.