How to cook real cabbage soup?
The most important ingredient in cabbage soup is cabbage, an ideal dietary vegetable. This explains the popularity of low-calorie cabbage soup during dietary nutrition. 100 grams of cabbage contains only 26 calories. Another advantage of cabbage is its high fiber content, which cleanses the body and removes excess toxins and waste.
- Low-calorie cabbage soup can be prepared from either fresh white cabbage or sauerkraut. They have the same calorie content, so you can choose any one. However, you should take into account the fact that sauerkraut contains more salt, which can retain excess fluid in the body.
- It is also important to avoid fatty and rich broth. You can cook cabbage soup using plain water or vegetable broth. Mushroom broth is perfect for preparing this dish. If you still want to cook cabbage soup with meat, then give preference to lean varieties of meat - chicken, turkey, veal. When eating on a diet, it is good to cook cabbage soup with chicken fillet; it contains very few calories, but at the same time a lot of proteins.
- Avoid frying vegetables in large amounts of vegetable oil. The basis of any soup is a high-calorie and satisfying roast. It is often prepared from onions, carrots, and sometimes celery is added to them. Vegetables are fried in copious amounts of vegetable oil, which adds a significant amount of calories. With proper nutrition, you need to fry vegetables in a non-stick frying pan with minimal addition of vegetable oil. One tablespoon will be enough. You can also skip frying altogether and add oil to the finished product! If you cook cabbage soup with chicken fillet or lean meat, then you can skip the oil altogether.
- Another important aspect of preparing this dish is the use of potatoes. Some pp recipes suggest completely abandoning potatoes, whose calorie content is 77 calories per 100 grams, and leaving exclusively low-calorie vegetables. You can find potatoes in other recipes, so it's up to you whether you can do without this ingredient. Instead of potatoes, you can always add beans or mushrooms. These two ingredients are rich in protein and are ideal for a healthy diet. In addition, cabbage soup without potatoes can be safely eaten not only for lunch, but even for dinner!
Recipe for cabbage soup with fresh pork cabbage
Fans of sour cabbage soup with fresh vegetables will love this cooking method! The recipe is classic, but diversifying it with pickled tomatoes creates a unique spicy aroma. Cook with pleasure!
Have to take:
- Pork – 800 gr
- Fresh white cabbage - approximately 300 g
- Potatoes - 2 large tubers
- Carrots - 1 medium
- Onions - 2 pcs.
- Pickled tomatoes - 4-5 pcs.
- Sweet bell pepper - 1 large
- Bay leaf - 1-2 leaves
- Salt to taste
- Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. spoons
- Greens, sour cream and bread - for serving.
Progress:
The first step is to thoroughly rinse the meat with cold water. The meat for cooking had to be either fresh or previously defrosted. Otherwise it will be harsh.
Boil the pork over high heat for at least an hour in salted water. Be sure to remove any foam that has formed. 5 minutes after boiling, reduce the heat. Remove the boiled meat and set aside to cool.
Peel the potatoes, wash them, chop them into cubes and add them to the broth
Bring the broth with potatoes to a boil, add finely shredded cabbage to the pan. Reduce heat to minimum and simmer for 10 minutes
Let's prepare the frying. We wash the vegetables, peel the tomatoes, remove the stem and seeds from the bell pepper, peel the carrots and onions. Finely chop the onion, chop the carrots on a medium grater, cut the tomatoes and peppers into cubes
Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil over moderate heat, add the onion first. Sauté the onion until golden brown, add the grated carrots to the frying pan. Stirring and frying the carrots until soft. Place the bell pepper, let stand for 5 minutes, stirring constantly, add the tomatoes. Simmer for 10-15 minutes until thickened and turn off
We send the finished frying to the pan
Boil over high heat for 7 minutes, add bay leaf. Reduce heat to low and simmer for another 15 minutes. At this time, cut the cooled meat into pieces and also add it to the pan with cabbage soup. Remove from the stove. Leave for 15-20 minutes, serve with sour cream and herbs! Bon appetit!
How to cook delicious cabbage soup from fresh cabbage in a slow cooker with potatoes?
A multicooker is an assistant to any housewife. You can cook first courses and soups in it. Cabbage soup in a slow cooker turns out rich, tasty and satisfying.
Ingredients:
- 300 g pork meat
- 250 potatoes
- 1 salad pepper
- 1 onion
- 1 carrot
- 3 tomatoes
- Salt pepper
- 400 g cabbage
Recipe:
- Finely chop the pork and place it in the slow cooker. Add carrots, onions and lettuce peppers. Pour oil and fry a little on the “frying” or “deep-frying” mode.
- Simmer in this mode for 15 minutes. Add diced potatoes, cabbage and add water up to the mark. Add crushed tomatoes.
- Close the lid and cook in the “Soup” mode for 40-50 minutes. Add greens before serving.
How to cook delicious cabbage soup from fresh cabbage in a slow cooker with potatoes?
Simple and tasty cabbage soup with pork
The best part of pork for soup is the fatty pulp on the bone, which makes the cabbage soup especially rich and satisfying. Immediately after boiling, it is necessary to remove the resulting foam, otherwise the broth will turn out cloudy. But, if you missed this point, then using filtration you can easily clarify the soup base. To do this, cool the broth and pass it through gauze folded in three layers.
Required:
- Meat on the bone – 600 g.
- Bay leaf – 2 leaves.
- Potatoes – 4 pcs.
- Tomato – 1 pc.
- Onion – 160 g.
- Dill – 30 g.
- Cabbage – 400 g.
- Carrots – 130 g.
- Vegetable oil.
- Frozen bell pepper – 150 g.
- Salt.
Preparation:
1. Pour water over the piece of meat. Salt and add bay leaf. Cook for one and a half hours.
2. Cut the cabbage into checkers and chop the potatoes into strips. Send into broth.
3. When it boils, add bell pepper. Cook until the vegetables are ready.
4. Chop the onion. Chop the tomato into cubes. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and add onion cubes. When the vegetable turns a beautiful golden color, add tomatoes. Fry for 3 minutes.
5. Get the meat. Cool and cut into portions. Grind the carrots on a medium grater and fry separately in hot oil.
6. Place two roasted vegetables and meat into the broth. Add some salt. Add finely chopped dill and cook for a couple of minutes.
Remove the pan from the heat, add fresh herbs to the cabbage soup and cover with a lid. Let the soup brew for 10-15 minutes and you can serve.
PP cabbage soup from fresh cabbage
The easiest way to prepare low-calorie cabbage soup is to use fresh cabbage.
- 400 grams of cabbage. Take regular white cabbage and chop it.
- 2 carrots. Clean and grate on a medium or fine grater.
- 1 tablespoon of tomato paste or 2-3 medium tomatoes. If you use tomatoes, you need to pour boiling water over them, peel them and finely chop them.
- 4 medium potatoes. Peel and cut into cubes.
- 2 liters of vegetable broth. To prepare the broth, use onions, carrots and celery.
- 1 tablespoon of any vegetable oil. We will add it at the very end, when the cabbage soup is ready.
- Spices and seasonings to suit your taste.
Dietary cabbage soup made from fresh cabbage without meat is very simple to prepare. Add cabbage and carrots to the prepared vegetable broth. Cook for 20 minutes and only then add the potatoes. Then add tomato paste, salt, pepper and any seasonings to your taste. Simmer over low heat until the potatoes are completely cooked. Add 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil to the ready-made cabbage soup.
100 grams of such cabbage soup contains only 25 calories! So this is an ideal lunch for those who want to lose those extra pounds.
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Sour cabbage soup
- Time: 90 minutes.
- Number of servings: 7 persons.
- Calorie content of the dish: 18 kcal per 100 ml.
- Purpose: everyday, lunch, first course.
- Cuisine: Russian.
- Difficulty: medium.
A hot soup with sauerkraut will warm you up on a frosty evening, replenish the lack of vitamin C, restore the acid-base balance, and help remove toxins from the body. It cooks quickly, does not require additional use of sour dressing, the cabbage brine adds a pleasant sourness to the dish, and the roots add a deep tart taste. The legs can be replaced with wings.
Ingredients:
- water – 2.5 liters;
- chicken legs – 2 pieces;
- onions – 2 pieces;
- carrots – 2 pieces;
- sauerkraut – 700 grams;
- potatoes - 3 pieces;
- parsley or celery root - several pieces;
- salt - to taste;
- spices, ground pepper - optional.
Cooking method:
- After washing and cutting the chicken into pieces, fill it with water and cook over medium heat for half an hour, descaling as necessary.
- After waiting 15 minutes after the start of boiling, add 1 carrot, onion, washed, peeled celery or parsley roots into the broth.
- Peeled potato tubers cut into cubes are added to the broth with cooked chicken. After 10 minutes, add washed, chopped sauerkraut.
- 1 onion and 1 carrot, chopped into small cubes, fried until softened.
- When the vegetables are cooked in the broth, add the frying agent, spices, and salt to taste into the pan and cook for 3 minutes. After removing the pan from the heat, wrap the cabbage soup in a towel and let it sit for ten minutes.
- To serve, season the soup with sour cream, dill, green onions, and basil.
Compound
A 6-7 liter pan will yield 6-8 servings, and if you need to feed 2-3 people, you can take a 3 liter pan and 50% less food.
- 600 g white cabbage;
- 2 medium onions;
- 1 glass of millet cereal;
- 800 g medium size potatoes;
- 2 medium sized carrots;
- 2 bunches of dill or parsley (you can have 1 dill and parsley);
- 6 liters of water;
- salt, pepper, bay leaf and other spices - to taste.
Lenten cabbage soup made from fresh cabbage with mushrooms
According to the great Russian culinary specialist V. Pokhlebkin, cooking a delicious soup is a real art. Incorrect and untimely addition of food leads to the fact that by the time the vegetables in the soup are ready they turn into a boiled, tasteless slurry. Try to cook cabbage soup according to the rules, strictly following the recommendations. You will be surprised how delicious simple Russian cabbage soup made with fresh cabbage and mushrooms can be.
What you need for cabbage soup with mushrooms:
- porcini mushrooms 100 g.
- white cabbage 500 g.
- potatoes 2 pcs.
- onion 1 pc.
- carrots 1 pc.
- ground black pepper on the tip of a knife
- allspice 3-4 peas
- bay leaf 2-3 pcs.
- salt to taste
- vegetable oil 50 g.
- small bunch of greens (dill, parsley)
Step-by-step cooking method:
- In the evening, cover the dried mushrooms with water. In the morning, transfer the mushrooms to the pan in which you will cook the cabbage soup. It is advisable to use an enamel pan. Add water to 3 liters and boil the mushrooms for 20 minutes.
- Chop the cabbage thinly, grate the carrots, chop the onion finely, and chop the potatoes into small cubes.
- Remove the mushrooms from the broth with a slotted spoon and cut into small pieces. Strain the broth through a colander lined with a linen napkin. Mushrooms may contain sand, which is useless in cabbage soup.
- Sauté onions and carrots in vegetable oil until soft and transparent. The onion should not brown. Finally, add the mushrooms and fry lightly.
- Place the broth on the fire and let it boil. Place potatoes into boiling broth. After 5 minutes, add cabbage. Cook everything together for 15 minutes over low heat with the lid open. Place the roast. Boil for 5 minutes.
- Salt and pepper the soup to taste, add bay leaf and allspice, chopped herbs. After 2-3 minutes, remove from heat, cover the pan with a lid and let the cabbage soup brew for 15-20 minutes.
Serving method : If cabbage soup with mushrooms and fresh cabbage is not prepared during Lent or for strict vegetarians, serve the soup with thick homemade sour cream. You can put young cabbage and sorrel in summer cabbage soup. The cooking time for cabbage should be reduced to 10 minutes. Place the sorrel along with the herbs at the very end.
Cabbage soup with beef is a great lunch dish. Nourishing and rich, aromatic and healthy. Everyone will like such cabbage soup, the main thing is to choose beef that is not old, so that the meat cooks quickly and the broth has the highest taste.
In this recipe I use fresh young white cabbage, it makes the cabbage soup so wonderful. You can also use 50% sauerkraut and 50% fresh cabbage to make the cabbage soup with sourness, that is, as they say, “sour”. So let's get started!
To prepare cabbage soup with beef and fresh cabbage, prepare beef (I used ribs), potatoes, water, salt, onions, carrots, tomato paste, vegetable oil, white cabbage, garlic, ground pepper, bay leaf.
Cut the beef into pieces, one or two per serving, rinse the meat, place in a saucepan, add water and place on the stove. After the water boils, skim off the foam and cook the meat over low heat until tender. The younger the meat, the less time it will take to boil it.
Then add the potatoes (peeled, diced or whatever you like) and cook the broth until the potatoes are ready. Salt the broth to taste.
While the potatoes and beef are boiling, chop the cabbage and fry the onion (small cubes), carrots (finely grated) and tomato paste in vegetable oil.
Add cabbage to the pan with the cooked beef and potatoes, let the broth boil and boil the cabbage for about 3 minutes for young cabbage and about 5 minutes for old cabbage.
Then transfer the roast into the pan, boil the cabbage soup for another 3 minutes, add the garlic through a press, bay leaf and ground black pepper. Stir the cabbage soup and turn off the stove.
After 10-15 minutes, cabbage soup with beef and fresh cabbage can be served. Delicious!
Dietary cabbage soup with cereals
We are all accustomed to cooking traditional cabbage soup in a thick meat broth with vegetables fried in a large amount of oil, and also adding a good portion of sour cream or mayonnaise to a bowl of soup. But there are situations when you need to prepare very light cabbage soup that is dietary and healthy; how can you make it tasty? It's not that difficult to do. There are several secrets that will help you achieve the desired result. First, replace the strong broth with a fatty piece of meat with weak chicken broth. Chicken meat is recognized as a dietary food all over the world, and chicken broth is an excellent way to cope with many diseases and strengthen the immune system. Secondly, we will not use potatoes in dietary cabbage soup - one of the most high-calorie and hard-to-digest vegetables; instead, we will take cereals. Thirdly, we will add as little salt and other spices as possible, which will take away the real taste of the dishes. Well, fourthly, let’s give up frying vegetables, this will definitely make our cabbage soup light and dietary! Dietary cabbage soup from fresh cabbage is prepared for about an hour. The ingredients indicated are for two liters of broth.
Ingredients: - 300 g chicken; - 200 g cabbage; - 2 onions; - 2 carrots; - 3 tablespoons of barley; - greens, salt, pepper to taste.
How to cook at home
First you need to cook broth from chicken, 1 peeled carrot and 1 onion. Add salt to taste, cook for about half an hour.
When the broth is ready, remove the meat, carrots and onions. Add shredded cabbage and cook for 10 minutes.
Then add carrots, grated on a coarse grater, to the soup.
Next add the finely diced onion. Cook everything together for another 5-7 minutes.
Lastly, add the cereal and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Instead of barley, you can take wheat, millet or any other cereal of your choice.
Serve dietary cabbage soup made from fresh cabbage with herbs. You can also add one tablespoon of low-fat sour cream to the plate. We also advise you to learn how to prepare cabbage soup with sauerkraut, which is cooked in meat broth.
PP cabbage soup recipe without potatoes
Another ideal option for proper nutrition is to cook cabbage soup with beans!
- 400 grams of boiled beans. You can use ready-made beans (one can contains about 400 grams), or you can boil them in advance so that they swell. You can use any type of bean, we recommend white beans, they are more tender.
- 400 grams of cabbage. In this recipe you can use either fresh cabbage or sauerkraut. You decide.
- 1 medium onion and 1 medium carrot. Fry over low heat in 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil.
- 2 liters of water.
- 1 tablespoon of tomato paste.
- Salt and spices to taste.
Take a saucepan, put cabbage in it and fill it with water. Salt. If you use sauerkraut, then cook for about one hour, if fresh, then 30 minutes will be enough. Fry onions and carrots in a non-stick frying pan. Add to the already prepared cabbage and cook for 10 minutes. At the very end, add boiled beans and tomato paste. Add spices to taste and simmer over low heat for about 10 minutes.
Dietary cabbage soup is an excellent dish that will help you quickly and for a long time satisfy your hunger while on a diet. Be sure to include cabbage soup in your diet and you will certainly see results!
Features of the diet
When choosing a diet based on lean cabbage soup, you must follow the following rules:
- add low-fat meat, vegetables, dairy products with a minimum percentage of fat, and unsweetened fruits to the menu;
- You can use cabbage soup with potatoes for weight loss if the stew is as light as possible;
- do not forget to drink 2 liters of fluid to improve the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract and metabolism;
- The body should not be overloaded with physical training, since during this period it is greatly weakened. Only quiet walks are allowed;
- You need to completely eliminate alcohol while losing weight;
- Drinking carbonated drinks and sweet water is also not recommended.
Cabbage soup in a pot
Dishes cooked in pots are somewhat reminiscent of those made in an old Russian oven. They are delicious, rich and so “cozy”!
Required Ingredients
- one carrot and the same amount of onions;
- 300 grams of any meat;
- 400 grams of cabbage;
- three potatoes;
- spices at your discretion;
- one tomato.
Cooking process:
- To begin with, grind all the ingredients in any convenient way.
- Place pieces of meat into the pot, and then lightly fried cabbage.
- The next layer is fried carrots with onions and tomatoes.
- Fill the bowl with potato cubes on top and add seasonings to your taste. Fill all this with broth or plain water and put it in a hot oven for 60 minutes at a temperature of 190 degrees.
After this time is over, it would be good to let the soup sit for another half hour and only then serve.
Raw food borscht
Ingredients:
- Beets – 1 pc.
- Carrots – 1 pc.
- Cabbage – 100 g
- Orange – 1 pc.
- Mandarin – 1 pc.
- Lemon juice – 2 tbsp. l.
- Water – 300 ml
- Sunflower seeds – 2 tbsp. l.
- Salt to taste
Even if you are not a raw foodist, this recipe will surely interest you with its exoticism. Lovers of okroshka and other cold first courses will especially like it. Beets and carrots should be grated on a fine grater, cabbage should be chopped as finely as possible or even chopped in a food processor. Lightly salt the vegetables and mash them with your hands to soften them and release the juice. Peel the orange and tangerine and puree it in a blender, add lemon juice. Add the resulting mixture to the grated vegetables.
Grind sunflower seeds in a blender or coffee grinder, add a little water, salt and pepper. The mass should be thick, like semolina porridge. You should season the borscht with this pseudo-sour cream and quickly eat it before the sauce drowns and loses its seductive appearance.
KBJU per 100 g:
- Proteins – 1.7 g
- Fat – 2.5 g
- Carbohydrates – 4.4 g
- Calorie content – 47.1 kcal
How to cook cabbage soup without meat from sorrel with egg?
Try using sorrel leaves to prepare cabbage soup - you will be guaranteed an original, fresh taste with sourness. This soup turns out to be satisfying, and its calorie content is 100 kcal per 100 g. Prepare and evaluate.
Ingredients:
- 3 potatoes;
- 3 eggs;
- 100 g sorrel;
- 1.5 liters of water;
- sour cream;
- green onions;
- salt.
Cooking steps:
1. Put the water on fire. Cut the potatoes into strips and place them in boiling water. Add salt, stir and cook until done.
2. Break the eggs into a bowl, add a little salt and beat with a fork.
3. Chop the sorrel and add to the potatoes. While stirring quickly, pour in the egg mixture. Bring to a boil and turn off. Serve the finished soup with sour cream and chopped green onions.
Delicious and unusual sorrel cabbage soup is ready! Serve hot.
A little history
Shchi is a traditional Russian soup whose main ingredient is cabbage. They appeared a very long time ago. It is believed that such a dish was first prepared back in the 9th century, when cabbage was brought from Byzantium, and peasants began to grow it en masse.
But quite quickly, cabbage soup became popular not only among the poor, but also among other segments of the population, so for a long time they occupied a leading position in the lunch meal, and even now they still remain a favorite.
It is believed that the name of the soup came from the Old Russian word “s’to”, which was then transformed into “s’ti”, and then into the shorter “shchi”. And it meant “food”.