Cabbage is a wonderful product. Ordinary white cabbage contains a lot of useful things: sulfur, phosphorus, potassium, manganese, iron, zinc, vitamin C, volatile, which helps to prevent heart disease. Juice helps with heartburn, and acts as an emergency remedy (very fast), this is due to the presence of vitamin U. This product is recommended for people who often worry, get nervous, because it calms the nerves and balances the nervous system. Cabbage has an anti-inflammatory effect, as well as an anesthetic, helps to accelerate the metabolism in the body. There is a special diet, which is based on white cabbage.
Today, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts can be found on sale. From it you can cook a lot of useful things. What cooking can offer us: cabbage cutlets, well-known cabbage rolls, sauerkraut, pickled, salted, a large selection of salads from cabbage and with other products, soups, casseroles, all kinds of pastries and much more can be made from cabbage.
Cabbage cutlets without semolina are tasty, simple and original. This dish has a peculiar taste. They can be served as an addition to meat dishes (for garnish), as well as as an independent dish. Such cutlets in combination with sauces or just plain sour cream and herbs are very tasty.
It is rather simple to cook cabbage cutlets without semolina. Wash a small head of cabbage, clean from spoiled leaves. After that, head the cabbage into a saucepan, add water and put on fire. Boil the head for a while until the leaves are soft. Twist in a meat grinder with one large onion. If there is no meat grinder, then you can finely chop the cabbage and onions, mix everything together in a bowl. For sweetness, you can add a little carrot - finely grated, to taste. Add two eggs and a little flour for gluing to the resulting cabbage mince. You can add a little white bread, previously soaked in milk. This will add tenderness to meatballs. Add salt and pepper to taste. You can fry cabbage cutlets without semolina by dipping them in flour or breadcrumbs.
In the absence of a meat grinder, when cutting cabbage and onions, cutlets are obtained similar to chopped ones. One thing is important here: that the flour and eggs stick together the stuffing well. And when forming the cutlets themselves, you need to knock them well and tightly in your hands, because otherwise they will turn into shapeless ruins in a pan.
For piquancy, in cabbage patties without semolina, if there are lovers, you can add garlic or herbs. In this case, twist the garlic together with cabbage or grate on a fine grater. Then add to the common bowl with minced meat.
Using only one cabbage for cooking cutlets is not necessary. It can be combined with potatoes, pumpkin, cereals (corn, wheat, rice, etc.) and with other vegetables. The main thing is to show your imagination and take into account the combination of ingredients. This will add variety to the dish.
For example, for meat lovers, you can add a certain amount of minced meat inside cutlets. You can also put in the middle a piece of cheese or butter with spices. Then, when breaking the patty, guests or household will be pleasantly surprised.
What else and how to make cabbage cutlets can be read on the Internet on cooking sites, in cookbooks or special edition recipes. Today, there are a large number of different alternatives for minced meat. And, as we already know, minced vegetables proved that cutlets from it are not only healthy, but no less tasty.