Many different delicious dishes are prepared from white cabbage. For example, one of the original options is a dish of Russian cuisine - a casserole. It will be discussed in this review.
Recipe content:
- Cabbage casserole - subtleties and recipe secrets
- Oven baked cabbage casserole - recipe, like in kindergarten
- Cabbage casserole: minced meat recipe
- Cabbage casserole: recipe with cheese and cottage cheese
- Video recipes
White cabbage can be purchased at any store today. It does not lose its useful and nutritional properties for a long time, its cost is inexpensive, it is simple and versatile to prepare. All these qualities made her a favorite vegetable, so many housewives use the product in cooking and prepare many different dishes. Today's post is about casserole recipes from this wonderful vegetable.
Cabbage casserole - subtleties and recipe secrets
Cabbage casserole is not only tasty, but also a healthy dish. Since cabbage is endowed with many different minerals, trace elements and vitamins that have a positive effect on the body. But to make the dish tasty and replenish the body with valuable substances, you need to cook delicious casserole. To do this, you need to take into account the following nuances.
- For casserole, you can use any kind of cabbage: white cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, Beijing, etc.
- When buying white cabbage, you should pay attention to the leaves. They should not be lethargic and green, and the inflorescences should be snow-white, without a creamy color.
- Fresh cauliflower is not suitable for storage, so it quickly loses its valuable properties.
- Cauliflower inflorescences are a favorite spot for insects. Place the cabbage in salted and cool water for an hour before cooking. Then wash under running water and start cooking.
- If the inflorescences of white cabbage are dense in texture, this means that there is a lot of vegetable protein in it.
- Cauliflower for use in casseroles is usually pre-cooked, such as blanched or boiled. There are also recipes where cauliflower is baked pickled.
- In order to simultaneously cook all products that have different duration of heat treatment, the ingredients are first cooked separately, and then combined, covered with sauce, sprinkled with cheese and baked in the oven, in an almost finished form.
- You can combine cabbage in a casserole with different products: mushrooms, meat, poultry, rabbit, pork, sausages and other meat products.
- The brown crust comes from eggs and cheese.
- You can pour a variety of sauces on the casserole. But especially cabbage goes well with tomato fillings. Also sauces based on sour cream with garlic and nuts are not bad.
- Spicy herbs and spices will add shades of taste to the product.
Oven baked cabbage casserole - recipe, like in kindergarten
Cabbage belongs to unleavened products, therefore, to give the casserole a piquant taste and aroma, you need to add natural herbs and spices. This is especially important if you are preparing a dish for a child, because these are the brightest choices in food.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 169 kcal.
- Servings - 2
- Cooking time - 50 minutes
Ingredients:
- White cabbage - 400 g
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Butter - 100 g
- Semolina - 1/2 cup
- Milk - 1/2 cup
- Salt to taste
- Pepper to taste
Step by step cooking:
- Combine semolina with milk, stir and leave to swell for 15 minutes to increase the volume of the cereal. Otherwise, it will be unpleasant to fasten it on the teeth in the finished casserole.
- Then pour in the melted butter and stir.
- Wash the cabbage, remove the upper inflorescences, because they are most often dirty, and chop finely by hand or using a combine.
- Salt it and shake your hands a little so that it lets out the juice, this will make the dish juicier.
- Pour the egg into a bowl, salt, pepper and stir.
- Combine cabbage with milk-manna mass and stir.
- Grease the mold with butter and lay out the dough.
- Heat the oven to 200 ° C and bake the product for half an hour. Although, depending on the thickness of the casserole, it may take longer.
- Serve the finished product to the table with cold sour cream. It is delicious to use it both hot and cold.
Cabbage casserole: minced meat recipe
If you don't have time to stay at the stove for a long time, then a simple casserole of cabbage and minced meat will help out. This juicy and tender dish will impress any eater.
Ingredients:
- Cauliflower - 800 g
- Minced meat - 600 g
- Sour cream - 200 g
- Egg - 3 pcs.
- Milk - 100 ml
- Onions - 150 g
Step by step cooking:
- Wash the pollen. Soak it in water first to get rid of insects. Then place in boiling water, where soak for 3-5 minutes. Dry the inflorescences and cut them into medium pieces.
- Peel the onion, wash and chop finely. Fry it in vegetable oil in a skillet until golden brown.
- Put the minced meat in a bowl and combine with the onion. Season with salt, pepper and stir.
- Pour the eggs into a bowl, add the sour cream and beat with a fork to mix the products and take on a uniform texture.
- Grease a baking dish with a thin layer of oil and add half of the cabbage.
- Fill it with half sour cream and egg mass.
- Spread all the minced meat on top.
- Spread the rest of the cabbage on top and pour over the rest of the sour cream.
- Preheat the oven to 180 ° C and bake the product for 40 minutes.
- After this time, pour the milk over the food and cook the casserole for another 10 minutes.
Cabbage casserole: recipe with cheese and cottage cheese
Any casserole is a space for creativity. And the cabbage casserole is doubly so. You just need to know the proportions of the sauce for pouring, and you can safely experiment with the rest.
Ingredients:
- Cabbage - 1 kg
- Cottage cheese - 400 g
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Sour cream - 4 tablespoons
- Cheese - 100 g
- Vegetable oil - for mold lubrication
- Breadcrumbs - 1 tablespoon
- Salt to taste
Step by step cooking:
- Wash the cabbage, remove the top leaves and chop into strips. Salt it, sprinkle with salt, press down with your hands so that it lets out the juice.
- Combine cottage cheese with eggs and mix or beat with a blender to obtain a homogeneous texture.
- Combine the cabbage with the curd mass and stir.
- Grease a baking dish with a thin layer of butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
- Put the curd-cabbage mass in it and smooth it with an even layer.
- Pour sour cream over the products and sprinkle with cheese shavings.
- Heat the oven to 180 ° C and send the product to bake for 40 minutes until it is tight and golden.
Note: If you want the taste of the casserole to be more curd with a light taste of cabbage, then take the ingredients as indicated in the recipe. If you prefer to get a more pronounced taste of cabbage, then halve the cottage cheese.
