Cabbage With Minced Meat

Cabbage makes great foods. It is nutritive and tasty, but you have to know how to cook it. What’s so good about cabbage recipes is that they aren’t boring at all, like in the case of other vegetables. Cabbage can be prepared in so many ways: from the famous cabbage soup diet for weight loss, to the delicious cabbage rolls with minced meat and rice, the Chinese cabbage or the Savoy cabbage, all these recipes are among the top foods in the international cuisine. Cabbage juice is known to have healing properties in case of stomach affections, so it is indicated in the alternative medicine as well.

Now, back to our cabbage recipe which is also known as Cabbage a la Cluj (Cluj is a city in Romania and I have no clue why this cabbage dish is called like that).

Ingredients for two

• 1 big cabbage
• 50 g. of savory
• 300 g of pork and cow minced meat
• 1 onion
• 3 big tomatoes
• vegetable oil
• salt, pepper

Cabbage with Minced Meat Preparation

1. Grate the cabbage and salt it. Squeeze the cabbage and leave it to rest for 30 min.
2. Boil the cubed onion in 300 g. of water, at medium temperature, for 5 min.
3. Take it out and put it in a pan with vegetable oil.
4. Add the minced meat. Stir, from time to time, for 15 min.
5. Put the cabbage with the savory in a pan with oil and the remaining water from the onion. Boil it for 30 min., stirring from time to time.
6. Cut the tomatoes in cubes.
7. When the water is ready, add the meat with rice and the tomatoes.
8. Boil the food, at medium temperature, for 5 min.

Stuffed cabbage rolls are usually served with sour cream. This cabbage recipe is also good with sour cream and a hint of mosaic pepper freshly milled.
If you didn’t know it, you should find out that cabbage is part of many easy Chinese recipes, in combination with meat or other veggies and with specific spices that give it that wonderful taste.

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