Cauliflower stewed with sour cream. Cooking features

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Until quite recently, cauliflower seemed a curiosity, but today Russian housewives cook this he althy vegetable much more often. There are many ways to cook cauliflower, but most often a slow cooker is used for cooking. It significantly reduces the cooking time, freeing the hostess from constantly being in the kitchen and watching the workpiece at the table.

In summer, cauliflower is sold fresh, and in winter it is most often bought frozen. The recipe for stewed cauliflower with sour cream, which we will consider in more detail today, allows you to use both fresh and frozen vegetables. By the way, this dish is perfect for those who are on a diet and trying to eat right. Cauliflower is a godsend for losing weight. In a slow cooker, it can be steamed, boiled in water or stewed (as in our recipe) in cream with vegetables or mushrooms.

List of required ingredients

• 320g cauliflower;
• 4 large mushrooms;
• 20 g sour cream orheavy cream;
• 1 onion;
• s alt;
• 1 carrot;
• butter spoon;
• ground pepper.

Description of the cooking process

To make stewed cabbage with sour cream faster and more beautiful when served, it is recommended to disassemble the vegetables into inflorescences (clusters) before cooking. Peel the onion, wash and cut into thin half rings. Mushrooms are also washed under cold water, get rid of the hat. The leg is cut into fairly large pieces. Carrots for this dish are recommended to be cut into very thin strips (you can use a special grater for cooking Korean carrots).

Mix vegetables together, add s alt and pepper. Pour oil into the bottom of the bowl, spread the vegetables. It remains only to close the lid and set the "extinguishing" mode. Cooking time - 12 minutes. After that, the lid opens, and sour cream is added to the vegetables. Close the lid, turn on the same program for the same time. If you want to cook stewed cabbage with sour cream, but there is no slow cooker, then an ordinary thick-bottomed saucepan is also suitable for cooking.

Cauliflower with dried tomatoes

Very tasty stewed cabbage with sour cream and sun-dried tomatoes in a slow cooker. It is prepared thanks to the use of a "kitchen assistant" very quickly. This dish can be used both on its own and as a side dish for meat, crumbly cereals or fish.

Product List

• 420g cabbage;
• one carrot;
• bulb;
• 120g sour cream;
• a couple of spoonfuls of butter;
• a spoonful of good quality tomato paste;
• 70g sun-dried tomatoes;
• s alt;
• greens (any);
• ground pepper;
• 220 ml stock;
• a couple of teaspoons of ground paprika.

Cooking steps

As in the first recipe for stewed cabbage with sour cream, at the beginning of cooking, we disassemble the vegetable into inflorescences. Without adding any seasonings and spices, send the cabbage for 10 minutes in a slow cooker. The program is for a couple. During this time, you can peel the onions and carrots. Open the lid, pour in the oil, spread the vegetables and gently mix with the cabbage. We start the "hot" mode. Cook for 10 minutes, stirring constantly.

In a separate bowl, mix oil, ground red pepper, paprika, sugar, tomato paste, sour cream and sun-dried tomatoes. Add the resulting sauce to the cabbage, pour hot broth or water. We turn on the "extinguishing" program for 20 minutes. Served with stewed cabbage with sour cream and a large amount of fresh herbs. If the dish is used as a full meal, it is recommended to serve it with broth.

Calories

Very often, before starting to cook a dish, the hostess is interested in its energy value. Raw cauliflower "weighs" about 25 kilocalories per 100 g. A boiled vegetable will contain about 30 kcal, but fried in oilcabbage will "pull" 120 kilocalories. As for our dish, stewed cabbage with sour cream contains about 67 kilocalories.