Braised cabbage is the most useful everyday dishes

Hearty, delicious and inexpensive - it's all about braised cabbage, one of the most simple to prepare and popular side dishes in Russian cuisine. However, this seemingly simple dishes have their secrets and subtleties of cooking that make it very tasty.

Cabbage can be served as a side dish to meat or fish, but would do well this dish and the role of the principal, if you add chicken, meat, mushrooms or other products to taste, or leave as is for vegetarians. And also cabbage can be used as a filling for dumplings and pies. Depending on the spices and ingredients used, and their purpose, the technique of cooking may vary.

Simmer fresh as possible, and sauerkraut. In any case, the resulting dish will fill your body with vitamins and nutrients that are so essential to us in the winter-spring period, and all this with minimal calorie - cabbage contains only about 100 calories now. Cabbage perfectly manifests itself in the fighting just on the water with addition of a small amount of oil and blends perfectly with so many products - beans, prunes, raisins, mushrooms, chicken, meat, tomato paste, etc.

How to prepare the cabbage extinguishing

If you want to put fresh cabbage, first remove from the head of the upper rigid leaves, then wash it, cut it first in half, then each half in half and still cut the stump. Further, the cabbage just cinqueda strips or cubes of the desired size.

If for suppression will be used sauerkraut, it first need to go through, finely chop large pieces. Too sauerkraut should be rinsed with water (however, you will lose a lot of vitamin C), but it is better to use sauerkraut appropriate acidity - then wash it or soak it does not have to. By the way, perfectly balances the level of acid sugar - when fighting just add it to the cabbage (about 1 tsp. depending on the number of cabbage).

Recipes braised cabbage very much, we will present the most popular and beloved in our country.

Recipe cabbage braised classic

You will need: cabbage, carrot, onion, tomato paste, spices to taste (Bay leaf, cloves, allspice).

How to cook cabbage. The ingredients should be taken based on taste, on average, 1 small head of cabbage you need to take 1 medium carrot 1 onion 1 tbsp tomato paste. Cut into medium-sized onion, RUB on a grater carrots, put the onions in a pan with heated oil, fry until light Browning, add the carrots, passionate. Cabbage cut, put in a separate pan with oil, add the spices, zazharku onion, carrots, tomato paste, salt and pepper to taste, mix well and simmer the cabbage, covered for about 15 minutes until tender.

To the specified basic recipe you can add any products to your taste, also some ingredients can be removed, for example, carrot or tomato paste. Combine well with cabbage and seasonings such as dried dill, parsley.

One of the main secrets of cabbage is that when fighting it decreases in volume, so if the cabbage in a pan formed a hill, do not worry - it will provide juice and will settle in the cooking process, just at first it will be very gently to mix.

When extinguishing the cabbage, you can add hot water to cope with less oil - this vegetable is very much it absorbs. By the way, it is believed that delicious braised cabbage turns out, if you fry it on crude oil.

If cabbage braised with meat, she may make a full lunch or dinner, which can be satisfied, even the men. To make braised cabbage with meat, you need to basic recipe, add about 400 g meat 1 large forks cabbage) or other amount to taste. In this case, first in the pan to brown the meat, then add onion, carrot, tomato paste, all fried, poured hot water, stew meat until almost cooked, and cabbage separately in another pan almost to full readiness. When the meat is almost ready, add the cabbage, water if necessary and simmer the cabbage with meat for 15 minutes, covered.

Recipe for pickled cabbage

You will need: 1 kg sauerkraut, 600 g carrots, 3 onions, vegetable oil 1-2 tsp. of cumin.

Preparation of braised cabbage with pickled. Finely chop the onion, carrot RUB on a small grater, put the onions in a heated pan with oil, saut, add the carrots, then add the cabbage, pour water to almost completely cover the vegetables, simmer until soft, adding the cumin after 30 minutes

To prepare cabbage is possible not only in a frying pan or saucepan, but in the oven.

Braised cabbage with mushrooms in the oven

You will need: 1.5 fresh cabbage, 500 g carrots, 4 onions, 500 g fresh mushrooms, 100 g of tomato paste, spices, salt.

How to cook braised cabbage with mushrooms. Cabbage cut, portions fry to decrease in volume and softness in oil (too much oil do not add) and put in the cauldron. Finely chopped onion fry until Browning, put the carrots until soft and all to put out, made water, put zazharku in the cauldron. Chop the mushrooms, put them in a pan with a little oil when you are juice, pour it into the cauldron, to the mushrooms, add oil, fry them and put them into the cauldron. The vegetables in the pot to salt, stir, add diluted with water tomato paste, boiling water, put the pot in a preheated 180 to 200 degree oven. Stew so the cabbage until cooked without a lid, if necessary prodlivaetsa water, 15 minutes before the end of the fire is put a Bay leaf.

Secrets of cooking cabbage

To make braised cabbage sweet and sour taste, for 5-10 minutes prior to the end of the fire need to add 1 tsp. of vinegar and sugar, but vinegar is not added to sauerkraut braised cabbage.

To give a peculiar taste the cabbage, add 5 minutes before the end of the fire, flour, dried in a dry frying pan until creamy tint (1 tbsp).