Cabbage with minced meat in a slow cooker

Simple, delicious, from ordinary products, for the whole family! Cabbage with minced meat cooked in a slow cooker is a full—fledged dish that includes both meat and a side dish. Due to the long stewing, the cabbage turns out soft, fragrant, languid, as if it was cooked in an oven.
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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 19 % 4 g
Fats 52 % 11 g
Carbohydrates 29 % 6 g
135 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 2 h 20 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to put out cabbage with minced meat in a slow cooker? Prepare the products. You can take the minced meat ready-made or make it yourself at home. It can be from any meat or poultry, I have mixed beef and pork. With him, the dish turned out to be more fatty and juicy. If you want lunch to be less caloric, then take the minced chicken. Choose a set of spices according to your taste, I use pepper, black and fragrant, and bay leaf.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Finely chop the white cabbage. I advise you to mash it a little with your hands, so the cabbage will become softer and give its juice faster.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Peel and finely chop the onion. Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan, put the onion in it. Fry the onion on low heat for a couple of minutes, then add the minced meat to it and mix it well with the onion. Fry everything together for a few minutes so that the minced meat changes color. Stir it periodically. You can also do the roasting process in the slow cooker itself, if you have such a function in it.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Put the minced meat and onions in the bowl of the slow cooker. Send the chopped cabbage there as well. Add spices to taste: salt, ground black pepper, you can throw a couple of peas of allspice and bay leaf, they will not spoil the dish, but will give a pleasant taste. It is better to do this if minced beef-pork is used, if minced chicken, then spices such as sweet peas and bay leaf should not be added. Stir the cabbage and meat.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Fill the products with water so that it barely reaches the top of the cabbage with minced meat. Close the slow cooker with a lid and turn on the "quenching" program for 2 hours. During this time, look into the slow cooker a couple of times and mix the cabbage mass. After the beep, turn off the slow cooker. The dish is ready, you can serve it immediately to the table. Enjoy your meal!

Cabbage is one of the available vegetables. In addition, white cabbage is very useful, it retains a lot of useful substances even after heat treatment. Cabbage is respected by losing weight and dieters, and for good reason, it really helps to lose weight with the right cooking method and a minimum of fat. But cabbage also easily turns into a quite satisfying and delicious, high-calorie dinner, if it is supplemented, for example, with minced meat. This dish will be appreciated by men engaged in physical labor, fiber and carbohydrates give the body strength and energy.

Keep in mind that the cooking time and mode are indicated approximately in the recipe. All slow cookers work differently and even the same models of the same manufacturer may have their own characteristics. Before you start cooking a new dish for you in a slow cooker, carefully study the instructions for it, and then in practice try to cook dishes that are familiar to you first, and then new ones, choosing the mode and time individually for your own technique. 

Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it. How to determine the roasting temperature and choose the best oil for frying, and which is better not to use at all, read here .

If you use ready-made spice mixes, be sure to read the composition on the package. Often, salt is already present in such mixtures, take this into account, otherwise you risk over-salting the dish.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Bay leaf - 313   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Mixed minced meat - 351   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • White cabbage - 28   kcal/100g
  • Boiled white cabbage - 21   kcal/100g
  • Allspice - 263   kcal/100g

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