Grand Slam Low Fat Unstuffed Cabbage Recipes

GRANDMA ELAINE'S UNSTUFFED SWEET AND SOUR CABBAGE

Steps:

• Place the vegetable oil into a large pot over medium heat. Stir in the sliced onions, and cook until transparent, about 5 minutes. Add the tomatoes and tomato sauce, using a spoon to slightly chop the whole tomatoes. Season with 1 1/2 teaspoons salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Cover, and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir the cabbage into the tomatoes. Cover, and simmer 1 hour until the cabbage is tender and mixes easily with the tomatoes.
• Place the ground beef, eggs, finely chopped onion, rice, water, additional 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper in a mixing bowl. Mix together with hands until thoroughly blended. Add additional rice if mixture is too moist. Form into golf ball-sized meatballs. Place meatballs on a plate, and refrigerate 20 minutes to firm.
• Place meatballs on the surface of the tomato mixture. Cover and simmer over medium heat until the meatballs are firm and cooked through, about 15 minutes. Gently stir the meatballs into the tomato mixture. Cover the pot and continue to simmer 45 minutes more. Stir in the lemon juice, and taste for seasoning, adding additional lemon juice if required. Stir in the raisins, and honey. Add the brown sugar, a little at a time, tasting after each addition. Cook mixture over medium heat 15 minutes more.

GRAND SLAM LOW FAT UNSTUFFED CABBAGE

Steps:

• Core and slice cabbage 1/2" thick, and add to water in pot, and stir and cook till wilted.
• Meanwhile - chop ground meat fine as you fry till it's no longer red. Place cooked meat in a colander to drain grease. Then wash the ground meat with running hot faucet running water to remove rest of grease.
• Add ground meat, and sauce, and salsa to wilted cabbage, then simmer for 5-10 minutes. Serve over cooked white rice if you desire.
• NOTE: At this point it is done, but you could have used the medium, or hot salsa instead, but that is much too peppered for me.
• I used two 6" heads of cabbage, and the taste was strong and delicious, but I really believe that, with even larger heads of cabbage, and more meat if you choose = the taste wouldn't hardly deminish.
• If you decide to add white rice to the recipe in the pot, consider using converted rice that holds it's texture even after freezing = like Uncle Ben's.
• See my recipe for gumbo to get 13 minute boiled white rice recipe.

UNSTUFFED CABBAGE RECIPE BY TASTY

Steps:

• Place ⅓ of cabbage in the bottom of a Dutch oven or large pot.
• In a bowl combine the meat, rice, onion, and pepper. Form the mixture into small meatballs and place ½ of the meatballs on top of the cabbage.
• Cover with ⅓ of cabbage, then place the rest of the meatballs over the cabbage. Cover with the remaining cabbage.
• Pour the brown sugar, tomato purée, vinegar and stock over the top of the layered cabbage and meatballs and bring the mixture to a boil.
• Reduce heat, cover, and simmer for ½ hour or until the meat is cooked through and the cabbage is tender.
• Serve warm.

UNSTUFFED CABBAGE

Steps:

• Heat a large skillet over a medium heat. Stir in cabbage and let it cook 4 minutes; or until wilted and lightly browned.
• Stir vegetarian burger crumbles, tomatoes, lemon juice, brown sugar, dill, allspice, and pepper into the mixture. Bring the mixture to a boil, cover and reduce the heat to low. Let the mixture simmer 5 minutes before serving.

UNSTUFFED CABBAGE

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, brown beef and onion; drain. Stir in cabbage. Cover and cook for 5 minutes or until cabbage is crisp-tender. Stir in tomatoes, brown sugar, vinegar, salt and pepper. Cook 10 minutes longer, stirring occasionally. Serve over rice.