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Braised cabbage with meat and mushrooms is a favorite dish of many people. The meat is very tasty, juicy, mushrooms give the dish a special flavor and make it very appetizing. This dish goes well with different types of side dishes, but it is best served with mashed potatoes, buckwheat and barley porridge. On average, a serving of 150-180 g of such a delicacy has 375 calories, therefore, despite the exceptional taste and aroma, it is not recommended to eat it daily.
Stewed white cabbage with mushrooms and meat
There are many recipes for stewed cabbage with meat and mushrooms, but the main set of ingredients remains the same:
- meat – loin, most often pork, but you can use chicken or turkey meat – 400-500 g;
- fresh mushrooms – champignons – 250-300 g;
- white cabbage – 500-700 g;
- onions (white or yellow) – 2-4 pcs.;
- tomato paste 2-3 tbsp. spoons (or ketchup 3-5 tablespoons, or 2 tomatoes);
- salt, pepper, spices and herbs.
In addition, you will also need vegetable oil about 0,5 cups for frying, it can be sunflower or olive. Depending on the recipe, ingredients such as carrots and bell peppers may also be included.
The process of preparing stewed cabbage with mushrooms and meat, the photo of the stages of which can be found below, also differs little from recipe to recipe. The sequence of actions can only be supplemented by some stages when additional products are introduced into the dish.
The dish is prepared as follows:
1. Vegetables are washed, peeled and chopped: onions are cut into cubes or half rings, carrots are rubbed on a coarse grater, cabbage is finely chopped, mushrooms are cut into slices;
2. The meat is washed under running water, dried with a towel, cut into cubes 3×3 cm or long strips 3×1 cm and sent to a heated pan with sunflower oil. Fried over high heat with occasional stirring;
3. As soon as the oil has become transparent in a pan with meat, onions are added there, after 5 minutes carrots are sent, after another 5 – mushrooms. Stewed for 20 minutes and seasoned with spices and tomato paste;
4. Finely chopped cabbage is added to the pan with vegetables and meat, everything is thoroughly mixed and stewed over low heat under a lid for 35-40 minutes.
5-7 minutes before the end of cooking, the pan or cauldron must be slightly opened so that excess moisture evaporates and the dish does not turn out to be “wet” and slippery.
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Recipe for stewed cabbage with meat, potatoes and mushrooms
Among the variety of recipes for preparing this dish, any gourmet will be able to find exactly the one that he will like. Among the most popular variations of this dish is a recipe for cabbage with mushrooms, meat and potatoes, a recipe in which it is used both fresh and pickled, as well as a recipe for this dish with the addition of beans.
All these dishes are prepared according to the same scheme, which is described above, so even a novice in cooking will not have any difficulties, but the composition and proportions of the products are different.
So for cooking stewed cabbage with meat, potatoes and mushrooms you will need:
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- 0,5 kg of cabbage;
- 200 g champignons;
- 0,3 kg of potatoes;
- 0,5 kg of pork;
- 2 medium-sized carrots;
- 5 tbsp. spoons of ketchup;
- greens, spices, salt and herbs to taste.
In addition, you will need 3,5 cups of boiling water.
Potatoes are peeled, cut into small cubes and a ready-made mixture of vegetables and meat is added to the floor 25 minutes before the end of cooking, along with 3,5 tbsp. boiling water. It is recommended to simmer the dish under an ajar lid over medium heat for a total of 35-40 minutes.
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Cooking stewed sauerkraut with mushrooms and meat
To prepare stewed sauerkraut with mushrooms and meat, you will need the following ingredients:
- 500 g fresh and 300 g sauerkraut;
- 250 g champignons;
- 0,5 kg carrots;
- 1 sweet pepper;
- 4 bulbs;
- 5 st. spoons of concentrated tomato paste;
- Salt, spices as always to taste.
The dish prepared according to this recipe turns out to be incredibly fragrant, beautiful and just melts in your mouth. Sauerkraut is added to the pan 20 minutes later fresh, along with chopped sweet peppers, after which the stewing process lasts another 20-25 minutes.
To prepare a very satisfying stew of cabbage with meat, beans and mushrooms, you will need the following ingredients:
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- 0,4 kg of white cabbage;
- 200 g of fresh champignons;
- Xnumx g white beans;
- 1 carrots;
- 3 the tomato;
- 2 bulbs;
- vegetable oil (sunflower);
- salt, pepper, laurel to taste.
The cooking process is similar to that described above, with the only exception that the beans, which are present in the recipe, require preliminary preparation. It needs to be sorted out, washed and soaked for 2-3 hours, then boiled until cooked, put into the dish 10 minutes before the end of cooking.