It is worth noting that there are few individuals who do not like stewed cabbage. The dish is quite simple to prepare, but very tasty. You can safely take it even in the dining room - you will definitely not be mistaken. And since stewed cabbage can also be prepared with additional ingredients like meat or sausages, the result is a very satisfying meal. In general, you’ll get enough of it, and taste buds at the same time.
Therefore, further we will tell you how to cook stewed cabbage. Just. With sausages, meat, with potatoes. And even about how to cook stewed cabbage in a slow cooker. So, let's get started.
Preparation
In principle, everything is extremely simple here. Take a cabbage cabbage, remove all the bad leaves, rinse under running water, then cut into quarters and finely chop. The stump needs to be removed. But you can eat.
Since stewed cabbage can be cooked not only from a fresh product, but also from sauerkraut, the latter must be checked for taste for acid. And if the cabbage is very "vigorous", then it is advisable to soak it in boiled water before cooking, or at least rinse it. Although all these procedures are not recommended, due to the fact that together with the acid, substances useful to our body, in particular, vitamin C, will also leave.
Therefore, there are two options. Either try to take a not very acidic product, or try adding a spoonful of sugar in the cooking process. However, all this will come with experience. For our part, we will further tell you about how to cook stewed cabbage in the simplest way.
Recipe for Beginners
We take a kilogram of a kilogram and a half and carry out with it all the manipulations mentioned above (wash, cut, eat or throw out the stump). We cut a couple of large onions into rings. Fry the latter in hot oil in a deep dish (this condition is mandatory!), After which we add tomato paste (a hundred grams will be enough) and cabbage. Mix thoroughly. And then we pour in a half cup of boiled water. Everything. Stew for forty minutes, no more. Closer to the end of the process, pepper-salt.
This recipe can be considered basic. Other ingredients can also be added to cabbage. Which, however, is not only possible, but also needs to be done. So that the initial dish (because the grass is understandable, you can’t deceive the stomach) turned out to be more satisfying.
Cabbage with sausages
How to cook stewed cabbage with sausage? By and large, exactly the same as in the simplest version. The only thing, as the chefs advise, is that the difference is that along with the onion, it is advisable to fry one grated carrot. Sausages are cut into circles, fried in a separate pan, and then - about ten minutes before the end of the process - are added to the cabbage. As you can see, everything is extremely simple.
By the way, sausages can be easily replaced with sausages. Or even sausage. The algorithm of actions is the same.
How to cook stewed cabbage with meat?
What could be better than this excellent protein product in combination with a perfectly cooked stewed cabbage? And the process itself is extremely simple. So any housewife who has already mastered the above recipes can safely take on the preparation of this dish. Why does she need to take a head of cabbage (six hundred grams, not more) and prepare it accordingly. And then cut four hundred pork into small cubes of grams. In this case, it is better to take the cervical part.
So, first we fry the meat, then add two onions to it, cut into rings, and then cabbage. After about twenty minutes, add a glass of tomato paste, mix, taste, and then salt and pepper. After that, simmer for some time, but not more than 10 minutes. Important! The whole process should take place under the cover! This is a prerequisite.
Simple, satisfying, in addition (which is considered a prerequisite for many), also with meat, such a dish will certainly appeal to homemade ones. And in principle, in case of lack of time, it can be done for the future. Stewed cabbage is quite able to survive a day, or even two, in the refrigerator, and it will not get worse from this.
Cabbage with potatoes
But not all people eat meat. Health does not allow someone, but someone does not have principles. Well. And for such, we have a recipe. Especially for them we will talk about how to cook stewed cabbage with potatoes.
A small head of cabbage (grams per six hundred) is chopped on a coarse grater. We do exactly the same with one carrot. Fry two, chopped onions arbitrarily, add prepared vegetables to them. If desired, you can also take a few spoons of ketchup (or tomato paste). After about ten minutes, add six diced potatoes to the bowl. Mix, pepper and salt. And then we send everything to the oven for thirty minutes. The optimum temperature is one hundred eighty degrees, no more.
What is wonderful about this dish is that in one hundred grams it contains only 56 kilocalories. So it is perfect for those who are struggling with excess weight. Especially if you don’t fry vegetables beforehand, but simply put them out in a little water.
Cooking stewed cabbage in a slow cooker
Today, many housewives can hardly imagine their kitchen without this miracle stove. Indeed, it helps in the preparation of many, even those that significantly reduce the time of the presence of the cook in the process itself. And indeed, you do not need to stand at the stove, constantly wielding a spoon, because in a slow cooker the cabbage will not burn.
In addition, you can cook in it with a minimum amount of oil, which is ideal for those who always keep floor scales within sight.
So, we take a small piece, grams per three hundred, meat (by the way, it is not at all necessary that it was pork, chicken is also perfect). We cut it arbitrarily and fry in a bowl of a miracle device. Then we add to it finely chopped two onions, one carrot chopped into strips, and also thinly chopped red Bulgarian pepper. Fry again with the lid open for about ten minutes.
Then add the cabbage (how to prepare it, mentioned above), salt, pepper, mix, close the lid, set the appropriate mode - "Stew". Your slow cooker knows the cooking time, so it will warn you with a signal about the end of the process.
Conclusion
We talked about how to properly cook stewed cabbage. They brought some, albeit simple, but very good, especially for busy housewives recipes. We hope they come in handy and become the basic basis for developing your own options for preparing this dish. Well, in order to contribute a little to your imagination, in conclusion, we would like to remind you that cabbage is not only white cabbage. For stewing, color, Brussels, and broccoli are perfect. So create, fantasize and delight your home with new tastes of simple but healthy dishes.