Cabbage is one of the most affordable vegetables. It is well kept, and dishes from it can be prepared all year round. This vegetable is both tasty and healthy at the same time, it makes nourishing and juicy foods. It can be fried. Often, the main ingredient is supplemented with potatoes, meat, sausages, rice, mushrooms, and legumes. Cabbage stewed with beans, served on a side dish or separately, suitable for use in the post and for a vegetarian table. Costing this dish is inexpensive, but like many.
Cooking Features
Cabbage and beans - a harmonious union not only in terms of organoleptic characteristics, but also in the sense of a combination of properties useful for the human body. If, while preparing this dish, do not use high-calorie foods, it will turn out to be dietary, but it will satisfy you well and for a long time.
There are many recipes for this dish. Some housewives supplement cabbage and beans with onions, carrots, others put potatoes or rice in the dish, others prefer to refine the taste of the dish, adding mushrooms or meat to it, they fit well into its composition and sausages. Cooking techniques for cabbage stewed with beans can also be different. To prevent mistakes, you need to follow the instructions accompanying the selected recipe. However, there are several common points, the knowledge of which will allow to get the best result, regardless of the specific recipe.
- For stewing with beans, cabbage of later varieties is most often chosen, as it is more juicy. The top leaves from the head are always removed: their function is to protect the cabbage fork, for eating they are too sluggish and often have mechanical damage, significant contamination.
- Beans are cooked longer than cabbage, so it is cooked separately, and then added to the main course. To cook the beans faster, it should be soaked in cool water for several hours. Experienced housewives soak it for the night. Soaking not only makes the beans softer and speeds up the process of its preparation, but also reduces the risk of flatulence after it is consumed.
- If you do not have time to boil the beans or you forgot to soak it in advance, you can use a canned product. Then the finished dish will cost a little more, but it will be just as tasty.
- Beans are added to the main course about 10 minutes before being cooked. During this time, the grains will have time to warm up, but they will not have time to boil soft after losing their shape.
- Cabbage can be braised without prior roasting. So do if they want to get a dietary meal. However, most often carrots, onions and cabbage are first fried, and then stewed with the addition of tomato paste. Due to this, the dish becomes more nourishing, gets a more appetizing look and savory notes.
There are several options for cooking cabbage with beans. Any housewife can add something to her familiar recipes. Knowing the basic principles of cooking, she will not make mistakes and get the expected result.
A classic recipe for cabbage stewed with beans
Composition:
- white cabbage - 0, 4 kg;
- beans (grain) - 100 g;
- onions - 75 g;
- carrots - 80 g;
- tomato paste - 25 g;
- refined vegetable oil - 20-30 ml;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Pour the beans in water, leave overnight or at least 2 hours. Rinse out. Put in pan. Fill with clean water. Bring to a boil. Add salt and cook until grains are soft.
- Free the onions from the husk. Cut into small cubes.
- Scrape carrots, wash. Grind grated with large holes.
- From the head off, remove the top leaves, wash it. Cut the stalk. Finely chop the cabbage.
- Heat oil in a cauldron or a thick-bottomed saucepan, put onions and carrots in it, fry them until golden brown. Add to them cabbage, mix. Continue cooking for 5 minutes.
- Dissolve tomato paste with half a glass of warm boiled water, add salt and pepper.
- Pour the resulting sauce into a saucepan with cabbage. Cover with a lid, reduce the intensity of the flame. Stew the cabbage until soft.
- Add beans, stir. Continue cooking for another 10 minutes.
If you strive for a healthy diet and avoid eating fried foods, you can not fry the onions and carrots, but mix with the cabbage right away, add sauce and stew. Next, the dish is prepared in the same way as indicated in the recipe.
Cabbage stewed with beans and potatoes
Composition:
- fresh cabbage - 0, 5 kg;
- potatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- boiled or canned beans - 150 g;
- onions - 100 g;
- carrots - 100 g;
- refined vegetable oil - 50 ml;
- tomato paste - 40 ml;
- salt, spices - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Peel potatoes, cut into bars.
- Chop cabbage or cut into small squares.
- Carrots, peeling, chop on a coarse grater or cut into thin strips.
- Free the onion from the husk, cut into thin half-rings or quarters of rings.
- Heat oil in a saucepan or cauldron, put onions and carrots in it, and fry them until soft.
- Add potatoes. Fry it with onions and carrots for 5-7 minutes.
- Add the cabbage, stir. Turn down the heat, cover the dishes with a lid. Simmer the cabbage for 10-15 minutes. If necessary, add some water.
- Put beans, tomato paste, diluted with a small amount of water, salt and spices in a container with cabbage and potatoes. Continue cooking until cabbage is soft.
With this recipe you can make a dish not only from fresh cabbage, but also from sauerkraut. It is desirable to take a little less sauerkraut than fresh, and the number of potatoes, on the contrary, it is advisable to increase.
Cabbage stewed with beans and mushrooms
Composition:
- sliced frozen mushrooms (white or champignons) - 0, 2-0, 3 kg;
- fresh cabbage - 0, 5 kg;
- beans in tomato sauce - 150 g;
- celery root - 50 g;
- carrots - 150 g;
- onions - 150 g;
- salt, spices - to taste;
- vegetable or butter - as required.
Method of preparation:
- Onion, freeing from the husk, cut into thin half-rings.
- Peel and grate the carrots.
- Peel the celery, cut it into thin strips or chop it in the same way as the carrot.
- Chop the cabbage.
- Heat oil in a saucepan, fry the roots in it. Add the mushrooms, without defrosting. Cook them for 5 minutes.
- Enter the cabbage, mix the products.
- Simmer the cabbage on a low fire under the lid until it is soft.
- Add beans with the sauce, stew the dish for another 10 minutes.
When serving cabbage stewed with mushrooms and beans, do not interfere with sprinkle with chopped greens.
Cabbage stewed with beans - a hearty and tasty dish. According to many recipes, it is prepared without the addition of meat products, which makes it popular during fasting. Like this dish and vegetarians.
