Cabbage solyanka can act as a side dish or as a main course. Mostly inexpensive ingredients are used for cooking, so housewives often cook it for a family dinner or lunch.
If you add original products to the dish, then the cabbage hodgepodge will fit perfectly into the holiday menu.
Classical
For cooking, you need to buy a head of cabbage (it will take half) and 400 g of pork pulp. The rest of the ingredients for every housewife are always in the house. This recipe for cabbage hodgepodge in a slow cooker is also easy to prepare. All steps are carried out according to one principle, only done in the bowl of the equipment.
First you need to rinse the meat and cut it into medium slices. Then one large onion is peeled and cut into a small cube. Carrots without a peel rubs on a medium nozzle.
Pork goes to fry in a pan with vegetable oil. When it becomes rosy, you can add onions to it, and after 5-7 minutes, carrots. At this time, the cabbage is not chopped very large with a knife or with the help of a special nozzle.
Fried meat is sent to the pan. Now you need to fry the cabbage a little. Then it also goes to the general mass. 1-2 tbsp. l tomato paste is diluted in 600 ml of water and poured into a hodgepodge. The dish is put on fire and stewed on a small fire for 25 minutes.
During cooking, it must be salt and pepper. At the end, a bay leaf is added. Cabbage can be served both in cold and in hot form.
With mushrooms
This option is perfect for vegetarians and people who follow a diet for any reason. To prepare a cabbage hodgepodge with mushrooms, 500 cabbage must be chopped. She goes to the pan and 0.5 liters of water is added.
Cabbage is put out to stew on a small fire for 45 minutes. To this is added 20 g of butter and 10 ml of vinegar. One onion is cut into a medium dice. 300 g of champignons and 2 pickles are chopped in any shape.
Onions and mushrooms are sent to the pan with vegetable oil and fried there until half-cooked. In the process, the mass must be salt and add spices to taste.
15 minutes before the cabbage hodgepodge is ready, add 2 large tablespoons of tomato paste and onion with mushrooms. The dish mixes well, after 5 minutes cucumbers and 1 tsp are sent to the hodgepodge. Sahara.
If the cabbage seems too sweet, you can squeeze the juice out of a quarter of a lemon. All components mix well, and the pan is covered with a lid. Stew the mass for another 15 minutes.
Sauerkraut Solyanka
Usually housewives are used to cooking this dish with fresh vegetables. But sauerkraut showed itself perfectly during stewing, so the hodgepodge has a piquant and at the same time gentle taste.
- 600 g of any meat is cut into cubes. The pan goes to the stove, and vegetable oil is poured into it. The meat is sent to be fried on all sides until golden brown. It is transferred to another container.
- A little oil is poured into the pan, and diced onions are sent here to fry. After 5 minutes, add 500 g of sauerkraut. It is necessary to squeeze it out of juice in advance. 2 cloves of garlic finely chopped and sent there. For piquancy, you can add 1 tsp. caraway seeds.
- When the cabbage began to brown, cooked meat is added to it. Then one green apple is peeled and diced. It also goes into the total mass.
- The ingredients mix well, while salting and peppercorns. The frying pan is covered with a lid, and the cabbage and meat solyanka is stewed for another 25 minutes.
The duration of the cooking will also depend on the type of meat. If chicken is used, the stew time is reduced by almost 2 times.
Bigos
This dish belongs to the Polish cuisine. But it is as close as possible to the taste of our hodgepodge. For cooking, you need to use sauerkraut. It is desirable that it is not very acidic.
- 2 kg of cabbage is poured with water, and then squeezed. This removes excess acid. Cabbage is chopped a little to be smaller.
- 1 handful of dried mushrooms is soaked in water for 15 minutes. Then they are boiled for 15 minutes.
- Vegetable oil is added to the stewpan and put on fire. 300 g of pork is cut into small pieces and fried in this bowl. At this time, two onions are diced and added to the meat.
- 300 g of ham and sausage are cut into cubes. These ingredients are also fried in a saucepan along with other ingredients.
- Cabbage is laid in a pan with a thick bottom. Bay leaf and juniper berries (5 pcs.) Are added to it. After 10 minutes, the contents of the pan are poured here.
- Then 1 tsp is sent to bigos. caraway seeds and 2 tbsp. l tomato paste. Mushrooms and the decoction in which they were prepared are also added to this. Cabbage is salted, and black pepper is added to taste.
- The pan is covered and the dish is cooked for 60 minutes.
It can be served as a main course. It tastes good both hot and cold.
Fish hodgepodge
This is an unusual dish and most likely acts as the first. For its preparation, any fish (500 g) must be cleaned and gutted well. Then the abdomen is washed well.
The fish is cut into portions and sent to a pot of cold water. Salt and bay leaf are added here. The pan is set on fire, and the fish is cooked for 1.5 hours.
At this time, two medium onions are peeled. They are chopped into a cube and sent to fry in a pan. The fish is removed, and the broth is filtered. In a pan, 200 g of flour is gradually added to the onion.
Then a liter of broth is poured into it, and the mass is stewed in a pan for 20 minutes. 200 g of porcini mushrooms are carefully sorted and cut quite finely. 300 g of fresh cabbage needs to be chopped, like on borsch.
These ingredients are sent to the broth. Solyanka stewed for about half an hour. 10 minutes before turning off, 3 tbsp is added. l tomato paste. The dish is salted and peppered to taste.
Serve the hodgepodge in portioned plates. A slice of fish is placed in each, poured with a ladle of hodgepodge.
With sausages
This dish is familiar to everyone since childhood. It is very easy to make, and very affordable for money. To add a little piquancy to the cabbage with sausages, you can use garlic and bitter pepper.
- 2 kg of fresh cabbage is cut into squares. Their approximate size is 1.5 X 1.5.
- 0.5 kg of onion is peeled and cut into a small cube. 300 g of carrots rubs on an average nozzle.
- 700 g of sausages is cut into circles. All of these ingredients are fried separately in vegetable oil. Then they are mixed in a pan.
- Water is poured here (up to half), a bay leaf is laid. The mass is put out stewed. At this time, sausages are also slightly fried with the addition of 2 tbsp. tablespoons of tomato paste. They are then laid in the total mass.
- Solyanka stewed for 25 minutes. She pickles to taste. You can add 2 cloves of crushed garlic and a quarter finely chopped seedless chili.
This recipe for sausage cabbage with sausages is quite economical. For a minimal cost you can cook a delicious and wholesome dinner.
Solyanka with cabbage and potatoes
This dish is often called stew. It can be cooked with or without meat. For cooking, chop 500 g of fresh cabbage. 1 kg of potatoes is peeled and cut into medium slices.
One large onion is chopped with medium cubes, and carrots are rubbed on the middle nozzle. A deep frying pan is set on fire. Vegetable oil is poured into it. All ingredients are fried separately.
They are mixed in one pan and poured with water so that vegetables are left a little in sight. Solyanka is salted and peppered. 2 tbsp. l tomato paste is diluted in 100 ml of water and added to stew.
Solyanka is stewed until the potatoes are ready. It should boil well. If meat is used in the dish, then it is cut into cubes and fried until half-cooked. Then stewed with other ingredients.
Before serving, you can sprinkle a little chopped greens on top of each plate.
Simple hodgepodge
To cook this recipe will require a minimum of time and money. 1 kg of fresh cabbage is chopped, like borsch. Onion and carrots are cut into thin half rings. All ingredients are sent to be fried in a pan.
Vegetables are salted and pepper to taste. 15 minutes before readiness 1 tbsp. l tomato paste is mixed with 200 ml of water and added to the dish. Cabbage is stewed for another 15-20 minutes until cooked.
This recipe can be used to cook cabbage in a multicooker. All ingredients are poured into the bowl and stewed in a special mode for 40 minutes.
According to reviews of many housewives, such recipes do not require special culinary skills. It takes a little time to cook them, and the ingredients are pretty affordable.
Many are satisfied that the calorie content of dishes is low. They are suitable for use during diets. And if you cook without meat, then you can eat hodgepodge from cabbage in the post.