How to cook a tasty and healthy dish for dinner so that it will appeal to households?
Try to make stewed cabbage with potatoes in a slow cooker, this simple budget dish will be a great choice for an evening meal.
General principles for cooking stewed cabbage with potatoes in a slow cooker
Stewed cabbage with potatoes in a slow cooker is a simple, cheap and healthy dish. By using this kitchen assistant, you can cook it quickly and effortlessly.
Braised cabbage with potatoes in a slow cooker can serve as a main course during fasting or with vegetarian meals, a good side dish for meat, poultry or fish, you can use stewed cabbage with potatoes in a slow cooker and just as a light dinner to help diversify the menu, especially in winter, when a little fresh vegetables.
In addition, there are many recipes for stewed cabbage with potatoes in a slow cooker, which include other ingredients, including meat, fish, chicken, minced meat, dairy products and, of course, a variety of vegetables. All this not only gives the stewed cabbage with potatoes in a slow cooker an original pleasant taste, but also makes the dish more rich and healthy.
To cook stewed cabbage with potatoes in a slow cooker, it most often uses the "Bake" or "Stew" mode. In the first case, the dishes are prepared much faster, but the liquid boils off a lot and it needs to be added to the bowl from time to time, making sure that the dish does not burn. If you selected the "Stew" mode, then follow the preparation of stewed cabbage with potatoes in a slow cooker is optional; it will be cooked a little longer, but there will be almost no water boiling and the dish will not burn.
Traditionally, onions and carrots are also added to stewed cabbage with potatoes in a slow cooker. By the way, there will be tomato paste or chopped tomatoes. However, if you want to make the dish more unusual and piquant, you can add other ingredients. Very tasty stewed cabbage with potatoes in a slow cooker is obtained with the addition of sweet bell pepper, eggplant, zucchini; many will like the addition of spicy seasonings, such as a little spicy chili, various herbs, ketchup or mayonnaise. Fans of fatter dishes can season stewed cabbage with potatoes in a multicooker with sour cream, butter, healthy food fans will prefer soy sauce, and those who can’t imagine a meal without meat or at least chicken can cook stewed cabbage with potatoes in a multicooker with the addition of meat minced meat, pieces of poultry or sausages.
When cooking stewed cabbage with potatoes in a slow cooker, one must remember that different vegetables (and especially meat products) have different cooking times. In some cases, it is necessary to put part of the ingredients in the multicooker bowl in advance and cook the extra 15-30 minutes.
Recipe 1. Braised cabbage with potatoes in a slow cooker with carrots and onions
Ingredients
White cabbage - 1 kg
Carrots - 1-2 medium root vegetables
Potato - 6 tubers
Large onion - 1
Flavourless vegetable oil - to taste, but not less than 3 tablespoons
Tomato - one large meaty fruit
Water - 2 cups
Spicy herbs and bay leaves - at will and to taste
Cooking method
Rub carrots, chop onions. Remove the peel from the tomato, first scalding it with boiling water.
Grind the tomato with a knife or blender. Pour vegetable oil into the multicooker bowl, put onions and carrots there and cook using the Baking mode for 5 minutes. Add chopped tomatoes and keep the vegetables in the same mode in the slow cooker for about 5 minutes.
Cut cabbage into small squares, and potatoes into large cubes; put both ingredients in a bowl with prepared carrots and onions, pour water, mix, stick a bay leaf in the center. Cook the dish using the "Stew" mode for about 40 minutes. When serving, it is advisable to sprinkle the dishes with chopped fresh herbs.
Recipe 2. Braised cabbage with potatoes in the Ostrenkaya multicooker
Ingredients
Potato - 5 large tubers
Fresh cabbage - about a kilogram
Garlic - 3-4 cloves
Tomato sauce type "Krasnodar" - a tablespoon
Onion - half a large head
Carrot - 1 piece
Hot pepper - a slice about a centimeter long
Spicy greens - a large bunch
Caraway seeds - half a teaspoon
Cooking method
Cut onions and carrots into very small cubes. Peel the potatoes and immediately
cut into strips.
Put in the bowl of the crock-pot, in which oil, onions, carrots and potatoes are already poured; fry them with the lid open for 10 minutes.
Finely chop the cabbage, put it on the previously fried vegetables. In two glasses of water, spread tomato sauce, squeeze garlic through a press and put chopped hot pepper. Close the lid of the multicooker for half an hour using the "Extinguishing" mode.
Rinse the spiced herbs well, finely chop and add to the stewed vegetables, salt, pepper, mix and cook under the same regime for about half an hour.
Recipe 3. Stewed cabbage with potatoes in a crock-pot "Puff"
Ingredients
Carrots - one thing is not very large
Bulb - One Big
Garlic - 2 cloves
Sweet pepper - two large pods
Eggplant - one small fruit or half large (peel)
Tomatoes - Three medium-dense vegetables
Vegetable oil - 3 full large spoons
Salt, pepper, herbs - to taste
Cooking method
Cut the cabbage into squares, cut the potatoes into thin circles, the onion into rings, and the pepper into narrow strips; for eggplants, carrots and tomatoes, peel and cut them into circles.
Pour vegetable oil into the multicooker bowl. Carefully stack the vegetables alternately in layers: onions, eggplant, carrots, potatoes, then pepper, cabbage, tomato. In this case, each layer is slightly salted and sprinkled with dried herbs. Peel the garlic cloves, cut into long thin slices and stick them vertically into the dish. Pour in water and simmer for about an hour with the appropriate mode.
Recipe 4. Stewed cabbage with potatoes in a multivark "Rich"
Ingredients
Cabbage - a piece about a kilogram
Onion - One Large Onion
Champignons - a pound
Potato - 6 medium sized tubers
Canned beans - contents of 1 can
Tomato paste - 2 tablespoons (or fresh fairly large tomato)
Vegetable oil
Garlic - 2 cloves
Cooking method
Finely chop the cabbage; peel and cut the potatoes into cubes; wash and peel the mushrooms, and then cut them into quarters or smaller if they are large.
Chop onion and garlic finely. Mix in the bowl of the multicooker, in which vegetable oil, cabbage, potatoes, onions, garlic, mushrooms and beans have already been poured in sufficient quantities (do not use the liquid from the beans!). Stir the tomato paste in the water, add vegetables to the resulting liquid and simmer for 45 minutes.
Recipe 5. Braised cabbage with potatoes in a slow cooker with sausages
Ingredients
Sausages, sausages or semi-smoked sausages - 300 g
Cabbage - 700 g
Carrots - one small thing
Small onion - 1
Sweet pepper - 1
Potato - 5 medium sized pieces
Vegetable oil or margarine
Tomato paste or tomato sauce (you can fresh tomato, peeled and ground with a blender
Cooking method
Grind onions and carrots in any way, you can even blender.
Cooking method
Pour oil into the bowl of the multicooker or put margarine.
Cut the sausages or sausage into small cubes, put onions, carrots and sausages in the multicooker bowl and cook for 10 minutes in the "Frying" or "Baking" mode. Cut the cabbage into thin strips, pepper in narrow strips, potatoes in small cubes. Put the vegetables to the sausage in the multicooker bowl.
In two glasses of water, stir the tomato sauce or pasta, add salt, pepper, dried herbs and pour the vegetables. Close the lid and cook the stewed cabbage with potatoes in a slow cooker for 40 minutes.
Recipe 6. Stewed cabbage with potatoes in a slow cooker with sour cream
Ingredients
Potato - 5 medium tubers
Onion - half a large onion
Champignons or oyster mushrooms - 200 g
Cabbage - a kilogram cabbage
Sour cream with a fat content of 20% - 200 g
Cheese type "Adygea" - about 200 g
Vegetable oil - one spoon
Salt, pepper, dry and fresh herbs
Cooking method
Cut cabbage into small squares, potatoes into small cubes, chop the onion with a knife.
Pour a little oil into the multicooker bowl, put onion in the same place and cook for about 5 minutes with the “Bake” mode. Meanwhile, cut the mushrooms into small pieces. Add them to the fried onion and cook for another 5 minutes. Put potatoes and cabbage there, add a glass of water and sour cream, salt, pepper, sprinkle with dry spicy herbs, mix all the ingredients and cook the dish in the "Stew" mode for about 40 minutes.
Cut the cheese into very small cubes, and chop the fresh spicy greens. When serving, sprinkle vegetables with herbs and cheese.
Stewed cabbage with potatoes in a slow cooker: tricks and tips
When cooking stewed cabbage with potatoes in a slow cooker, pay attention to the power of your kitchen equipment. Cooking times are approximate. Perhaps your slow cooker will cook this dish much faster than the recipe says.
If you decide to use the Baking mode, be sure to check every 10 minutes to add water. She will boil away quickly.
If you want to make the dish more saturated, add meat, mushroom or chicken broth instead of water.
Instead of mushrooms or oyster mushrooms in the stewed cabbage with potatoes, you can put forest mushrooms, previously brought to half-preparedness.
In addition to carrots, you can add parsley or celery root to the dish, as well as sprinkle the prepared cabbage with sesame seeds or cilantro.
