Put out the cabbage under the force of even a novice housewife. There are many recipes for cooking vegetables, it is easy to find meat and lean options that are prepared from inexpensive products. Cabbage with chicken is stewed very quickly, and it can be served as an independent main dish or with mashed potatoes.
Pick your recipe
For cooking, you can chop a whole chicken or buy a few breasts. The meat is cut into small pieces.
To stew 500 g of cabbage you will need the same amount of chicken meat, 1 onion and carrot, vegetable oil for frying, black ground pepper, 2 juicy tomatoes (in winter you can replace tomato paste or sauce), salt.
First, fry the meat in a pan until golden brown. Dice the onions and chop the carrots on a coarse grater. Pour the vegetables to the meat and fry. By the way, you can add to them and bell pepper, cut into thin strips. When the vegetables turn golden, put chopped cabbage on them, mix everything and cover for 2-3 minutes. Then the dish is salted and pepper is added. If desired, you can put ground paprika and bay leaf. Once again, mix well and leave for 5 minutes under the lid. At this time, you can prepare tomato dressing: pour tomatoes with boiling water, peel and cut into small cubes. If these vegetables are not, they can be replaced with 3 tbsp. tomato sauce or pasta. Next, the cabbage is cooked under the lid to the desired softness. If necessary, you can pour a little water into the pan during stewing.
By the way, you can make sauce for stewed cabbage with chicken: for this, just mix sour cream with chopped herbs (basil, dill or parsley).