Stewed cabbage with pumpkin and carrots

A simple, light, vegetarian dish or a delicious vegetable side dish! Stewed cabbage with pumpkin and carrots is an excellent universal dish. Firstly, it can be served as a light vegetable side dish to meat, chicken or fish. Secondly, this dish is sure to appeal to vegetarians or those who have temporarily given up animal food, fasting, those who adhere to diets or just watch their figure. Stewed vegetables are prepared simply and quickly, the ingredients are available, and in the summer it is a real storehouse of vitamins and useful trace elements.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 8 % 1 g
Fats 33 % 4 g
Carbohydrates 58 % 7 g
68 kcal
GI: 71 / 0 / 29

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 10 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make stewed cabbage with pumpkin and carrots? Prepare the ingredients. A standard set of vegetables can be supplemented with your favorite spices and herbs. Of course, the dish will be tastier from fresh and young vegetables. But if the season of fresh vegetables has not yet come, then, for example, pumpkin can be used frozen, already cut into cubes.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Peel the white cabbage from the upper leaves and cut into small pieces, you can chop into strips, as you like. For a large family, it may take a whole head of cabbage, so the stalk must be removed, otherwise it will add bitterness to the dish.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Onions will improve the taste of the dish, so add it. Peel and finely chop the onion. If there is a blue onion, you can use it, it is sweeter.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Wash, peel and grate the carrots on a medium grater.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Put chopped white cabbage and carrots in a saucepan or deep frying pan, fill it with clean filtered water so that it covers the contents of the saucepan for a couple of centimeters. Cover the pan with a lid and put it on the fire, when the water boils, reduce the heat to medium and simmer for about 25 minutes.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Then add the pumpkin and onion to the vegetables in a saucepan, mix. Add spices to taste, you can limit yourself to salt and ground black pepper to enjoy the taste of vegetables exclusively in the finished dish, or add any spices to your liking. Cover the pan again with a lid and simmer for about 15 minutes. Then remove the lid from the pan, if there is still a lot of liquid, stir and simmer the vegetables without covering the lid.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    When the broth is almost all evaporated, remove the pan from the heat, do not drain the rest of the broth, leave in a saucepan. Arrange the stewed cabbage with pumpkin and carrots on plates, pouring a little broth from the pan. Sprinkle the dish with chopped fresh parsley and dill, the greens will give a pleasant taste and aroma. Also, if desired, sour cream, mayonnaise or any sauce can be served with vegetables, or served as a side dish to meat. Enjoy your meal!

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Keep in mind that the final result in this dish also depends on how you chop the carrots: grated carrots will turn into mush during heat treatment and mix evenly with the rest of the ingredients, cut into strips or cubes will retain their shape.

The calorie content of the products possible in the dish

  • Pumpkin - 29   kcal/100g
  • Carrots - 33   kcal/100g
  • Dried carrots - 275   kcal/100g
  • Boiled carrots - 25   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • White cabbage - 28   kcal/100g
  • Boiled white cabbage - 21   kcal/100g
  • Olive oil - 913   kcal/100g
  • Fresh frozen soup greens in a package - 41   kcal/100g
  • Greenery - 41   kcal/100g

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