Cabbage in pots in the oven

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   To prepare the dish, you will need: white cabbage (preferably young), sunflower oil, carrots, onions, tomato paste, salt, pepper, dried herbs or fresh herbs and bay leaf in an amount corresponding to the number of pots.

2. Step 2:

   

   So, chop the white cabbage into small strips. It will be better to use young cabbage, as it is more tender. I suggest mixing all the vegetables separately in a bowl and then laying them out in a pot. You can do the opposite: immediately lay out the vegetables in pots. But for the uniformity of the distribution of all vegetables in each individual portion, we will mix them in advance.

3. Step 3:

   

   Peel the onion and finely chop it.

4. Step 4:

   

   Wash the carrots under running water (preferably with a brush), peel with a vegetable peeler and grate on a coarse grater. It is better to take sweet and juicy carrots, since there are not too many ingredients in this dish, and this vegetable will play one of the main roles in shaping the taste of the finished dish.

5. Step 5:

   

   Add salt and pepper to taste, as well as dried herbs. I use marjoram, basil and oregano. Fresh greens will also be perfect here. For flavor, you can also add a clove of garlic, grated on a fine grater.

7. Step 6:

   

   Add tomato paste and thoroughly mix all the vegetables together.

8. Step 7:

   

   Smear a drop of sunflower oil on the bottom of the clay pots for baking. And evenly distribute the cabbage between them. Bay leaf should be placed in the middle of each pot in order for its taste and aroma to be transmitted to the entire volume of cabbage. Pots can be filled tightly and up to the top, as cabbage will lose a lot of volume during heat treatment. If you are worried that the cabbage will burn, you can add two tablespoons of water to each pea.

9. Step 8:

   

   Cover the pots with lids and bake in a preheated oven to one hundred and eighty degrees for forty minutes. Put the pots in a cold oven to avoid possible damage to the dishes (so that they do not crack).

10. Step 9:

    

    After this time, I stirred the cabbage and tried a small piece. It seemed to me that it was a little crunchy and I put the cabbage to come to readiness for another twenty minutes at the same temperature. In general, the cooking time will be different for everyone due to the individual characteristics of the ovens.