Vegetable dishes have high nutritional value and are an essential component of a healthy diet. In terms of the balance of useful components, stewed cabbage with potatoes is a leader in the list of diet foods that help keep the body in good shape and not gain excess weight. In addition, dishes from these vegetables are easy to prepare and are highly valued for their taste. Vitamin U contained in cabbage has a positive effect on the body, helps to cure gastritis, colitis and other digestive system pathologies.
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How to cook stewed cabbage with potatoes?
Cabbage dishes are traditional for Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish and Lithuanian cuisine. They can be prepared in the form of seasoning for the main menu of meat dishes or act as an independent product. All types of this useful vegetable are suitable for stewing - white, cauliflower, Beijing cabbage (Chinese salad).
Heat treatment with a small amount of water is well exposed to both fresh and pickled cabbage.
There are a lot of options for stewed cabbage dishes. For example, Polish fresh cabbage bigus, German stewed sauerkraut, Russian-style young cabbage, cauliflower with meat, rice, mushrooms and others.
Stewing differs from cooking in a delicate way of cooking (in a small amount of water with moderate heating).
Cooking Algorithm
You can prepare such a side dish in the following way.
- Take large heads of onions, peel them and cut them on a grater.
- Chop potato tubers into 1x1 cm pieces.
- Grind carrots on a medium grater.
- Cut white cabbage into thin slices and soften by hand.
- Prepare a frying pan with a good non-stick coating, heat it, put onions and carrots there for passivation.
- Put the cabbage in the resulting mass and cook with the lid closed on low heat for no more than 20 minutes.
- It is necessary to add potatoes when the cabbage is softened, but it will be still crispy. Additionally, in the prepared dish, you can pour 100 g of water, sprinkle with spices (black pepper, basil).
- In conclusion, it is necessary to salt, add ketchup or paste, simmer for 10 minutes with the lid closed.
Ready-made vegetables can be used as a seasoning for fish, meat, or with dark varieties of bakery products as a separate dish.
Braised cabbage with potatoes and meat is easy to prepare, adults and children like it. No special skills are required for its preparation, you only need to know the step-by-step algorithm of the cooking process.
To obtain high-quality food, you need fresh meat without layers (beef, pork, chicken) and a deep frying pan.
Braised cabbage with potatoes with meat
Braised cabbage with potatoes and meat is a wonderful dish that has a delicate taste and aroma. The recipe for vegetable stew is popular in different countries, as it is easy to prepare, like adults and children. To cook stewed cabbage with meat and potatoes does not require special culinary skills, you only need to know the step-by-step recipe and cooking methods.
To obtain high-quality food, you need fresh meat without layers (beef, pork, chicken) and a deep frying pan.
Cooking over low heat
Cooking Algorithm
- Cut the meat into small cubes, put in a pan, preliminarily adding vegetable oil, and simmer for 10 minutes, then add chopped onions and stew for 5 minutes with the lid closed until golden brown.
- Add grated carrots, seasoning and spices (pepper, tomato paste) to the pan with meat, stew with stirring for another 15 minutes.
- Place finely chopped cabbage in a pan to the fried meat, salt to taste and simmer for 30-40 minutes. You can add half a glass of water to speed up the process.
- Place the potatoes in a pan at the ready-made stage of cabbage (preferably in the form of straws or small bars). Stew for another 10 minutes, until the potatoes soften. Potatoes should first be soaked in water for several minutes.
Thus, the sequence of actions when stewing cabbage with potatoes and meat is as follows: first stew the meat, then the cabbage, and finally add the potatoes.
Stewed cabbage with potatoes, meat and mushrooms
Mushrooms give the dish a special aroma that will appeal to the most sophisticated gourmets. Preparing a meal is simple, you just have to follow a certain culinary algorithm.
Cooking step by step:
- Cook mushrooms (any will do): peel, wash, cut them into cubes.
- Peel the potatoes, soak them, cut into small square pieces.
- Cook the carrot mass (grate).
- Divide the meat into small pieces.
- Rinse the cabbage, dry in a towel, chop (chop finely).
- Cook the prepared meat raw materials in a well-heated pan, fry with the addition of olive oil over medium heat.
- Then add mushrooms to the meat and fry for 10 minutes.
- Carrots are added when the mushrooms are crusted.
- Cabbage must be added together with ketchup, tomato paste, seasonings, chopped herbs last. The resulting mixture should be grilled in a pan for another 5 minutes.
- In the final, pour potato cubes, bay leaf, add 2, 5 cups of boiling water and simmer for 30 minutes until cooked.
It will take 50 minutes to cook. Meat can be replaced with chicken.
Sauerkraut stewed with potatoes and meat
An interesting option for cooking sauerkraut with meat and potatoes is obtained if you experiment with spices, add bell pepper, sea salt, leek.
Before cooking, it is necessary to soak sauerkraut in a pan for 1 hour (half a glass of water and a tablespoon of vegetable oil will be required). After that, you can begin the culinary process.
Ingredients
For cooking you will need:
- Fresh meat (pork) 800-1000 g.
- Potatoes - 2 kg.
- Sauerkraut - 800 g.
- Onions - 2 pieces.
- Carrots - 3 pieces.
- Vegetable oil for frying meat - 5 tablespoons.
- Sea salt, black pepper - to taste.
- Sugar - half a tablespoon.
- Garlic - 4 cloves.
- Bell pepper - 3-4 pods.
- Fresh greens - a bunch.
- Sour cream - 1 tablespoon per dish.
Stages of cooking step by step:
- Rinse the meat in tap water, dry with a paper towel, cut into cubes.
- Peel the potatoes thoroughly and cut into pieces.
- Peel and finely chop the onion.
- Cut the carrots into slices or small strips, you can grate on a medium grater.
- Place the meat in a pan with a thick bottom, add vegetable oil there and fry.
- Add onions and carrots, garlic, mix all the ingredients and fry well until the vegetables are soft.
- Pour hot water into the saucepan with meat about one third of its height, put the potatoes and cook for 30 minutes over medium heat (the water must necessarily boil).
- Then put soaked cabbage in a pan.
- In the final, add crushed garlic, a little sugar, salt to the pan, let the mixture get infused. You can add bell peppers, spices, basil and serve.
It turns out a hearty and tasty dish, before serving, you can sprinkle with fresh herbs and add sour cream.
Cooking recipe with sausages or ham
Braised cabbage with potatoes and sausages is perfect for a quick dinner. It takes only 35 minutes to cook stewed cabbage with sausages or ham. A dish is prepared using available products, which is why it is very popular in many families.
Ingredients
- Potatoes - 3-4 pieces.
- Cabbage - half a fork.
- Carrots - 2 pieces.
- Onion - 1 head.
- Dairy sausages 5-6 pieces.
- Vegetable oil (refined) - 2 tablespoons.
- Spices, salt - to taste.
- Ketchup.
First of all, you need to stew the cabbage with sausages or slices of ham (you can take sausage). Then chop the onions, carrots, potatoes, shift with stewed cabbage and sausages. Stew the vegetable mixture with the addition of meat ingredients takes 30 minutes.
For the preparation of cabbage with sausages, it is better to take a deep frying pan with a non-stick coating.
Despite its simplicity, this dish is quite high in calories. Serve it better when hot.
Cooking options: in a pan, in a slow cooker, in the oven
Braised cabbage with vegetables, meat, mushrooms and other ingredients turns out to be tasty, aromatic and hearty. You can stew cabbage in different ways: in a pan, pan, oven, slow cooker (double boiler).
In the pan
This is the most common method that is popular because of its simplicity. During heat treatment, cabbage loses moisture in a significant amount, settles at the bottom of the tank, absorbs vegetable oil and spice juices well.
If you stew vegetables in a pan using refined sunflower oil, then the dish will turn out more aromatic and tasty.
Stew cabbage with added water in a saucepan. In that case, the consumption of vegetable oil is significantly reduced, since the water is well absorbed by the leaves of cabbage. Cooking time is also reduced. Stew cabbage in a saucepan is cut into strips.
In the oven
Using the oven in the culinary process has some features. Vegetables at the initial stage of cooking should be fried in a pan with the addition of oil.
Further cooking steps in the oven include loading the vegetable mixture (cabbage, carrots, onions, garlic) into a special baking dish or pot. If necessary, hot water is added.The container with the vegetable mixture is placed in a preheated oven to 160-180 degrees.
In a slow cooker
The process of cooking in a slow cooker is most consistent with the principles of healthy eating. In addition, cooked foods are softer and tastier. They are quite suitable for any kind of diet food.
The slow cooker operates in several modes. For cooking stewed cabbage with vegetables or meat, two cooking modes are sufficient.
At the first stage of the heat treatment of products, the “Baking” mode is activated (in some models the option “Frying”). After 15 minutes the level of "Quenching" is set. At this stage, cooking should not exceed the standard time mode of 20-40 minutes. Otherwise, the nutritional components of the products will not be saved.
Braised cabbage has several advantages over other methods of cooking vegetables. With this gentle method, the beneficial substances of the products are stored as much as possible. Braised cabbage contains more fiber, good for digestion. Vitamins and minerals in its composition improve the elasticity of blood vessel walls, prevent the formation of excess cholesterol, and improve skin quality. The nutritional qualities of stewed cabbage with vegetables are highly valued in the culinary traditions of many countries of the world.
