Cabbage stew with pork
Choosing food for lunch in the store, do not miss the opportunity to buy a head of cabbage. From it you can cook anything: soup, filling for pies, or just put out with the addition of vegetables and tomato juice. Today we will prepare not simple stewed cabbage, but with the addition of pork for satiety. Any part of pork is suitable for stewing. Well, when the meat is with a small amount of fat, the fat will be melted and the cabbage will be juicy and fragrant.
Preparing cabbage stew with pork, you will understand that it is not only tasty, but also easy. On another day, you can replace pork with another type of meat, for example, more lean and dietetic. You can use chicken fillet or turkey as an option. In the lenten menu, the meat is generally excluded, and instead take it easy to take mushrooms. A tasty and healthy product like mushrooms will always help you out, when for some reason you don’t eat meat. The easiest way to use champignons, as they are always and everywhere sold. See step-by-step delicious recipe with photos.
Ingredients:
- white cabbage - 400 grams;
- pork (pulp) - 300 grams;
- onions - 80 grams;
- carrot - 80 grams;
- vegetable oil - 40 grams;
- tomato juice - 150 grams;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
How to cook cabbage stew with pork
Pork pulp washed and dried from water with napkins. Then chop the flesh into pieces, but not very finely.
Fry the pork with the addition of vegetable oil (pour half a serving first, and then add if necessary), bring to a brown crust, since the meat will be stewed and will not be able to roast like this. Salt the pieces of pork to taste, pepper if desired.
Chop the cabbage into strips and add to the meat. Start stewing over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Cabbage can be stewed in a skillet with high sides, and in a regular saucepan.
Grind the remaining vegetables: onions and carrots. Onions can be cut into half rings or regular cubes. And the carrot, so that she quickly prepared, it is better to rub on a grater.
When the cabbage is slightly limp, add the onion and carrot to it. Simmer under the lid closed for 15-20 minutes. If necessary, pour in some oil and water.
Braised cabbage with vegetables became soft, now it is necessary to salt and add spices to taste, for example, black ground pepper.
Add tomato juice and simmer again for about 10-15 minutes. Taste to have enough.
The finished dish is best served hot. Cabbage and meat should be soft and tasty.
Serve cabbage to the table as an independent dish, because the meat in it is already there. Good appetite!