How to give stewed cabbage an unusual taste: 9 secrets after which ordinary cabbage becomes a culinary masterpiece
If you are tired of the taste of ordinary stewed cabbage, it's time to start experimenting with food.
Using the secrets of experienced chefs, you can get a dish with an unusual taste and aroma.
9 Secrets That Will Help You Turn Cabbage Into a Culinary Masterpiece
1. Fry the onion. You don't need to stew it with the other vegetables right away. It is the frying that gives it that unique aroma and sweetish taste. However, you shouldn't fry it until it's golden brown.
You just need to keep it in the pan until the pieces become slightly soft. After that, you can add cabbage and other ingredients according to the recipe.
2. Use soy sauce instead of salt. It gives the dish those oriental notes for which many people love Chinese cuisine so much.
3. To give the cabbage a richer taste and a beautiful color, you can pour tomato juice into it instead of water.
4. Be sure to add a few spoons of tomato paste. Even if the dish already contains tomatoes or tomato juice. Paste is a special product, it cannot be replaced with tomatoes. It gives cabbage (and other dishes) a special sweetness and spiciness. Important: you need to choose a sweet and spicy paste.
5. Garlic is usually not added to stewed cabbage. But it gives the dish a completely different flavor. Try adding some garlic 5 minutes before it's ready.
6. Instead of regular stewed cabbage, you can make a thick pancake in a frying pan or a casserole in the oven. To do this, place the half-fried ingredients (cabbage, onion, carrot) in a bowl. Pour in the eggs, flour, and spices beaten in a blender. For 200 g of cabbage, take 1 egg and 1 heaping teaspoon of flour. The resulting dough can be fried in a frying pan under a lid. Or put it in a baking dish and put it in the oven for 20-30 minutes at 200 degrees.
7. Do you like the taste of smoked meats? Fry smoked lard in a frying pan. You can fry smoked meat, ribs or any other product. There should be a lot of fat so that it absorbs the smoked aroma and taste, and then gives it to the cabbage. Animal fat or vegetable oil is used for frying. You need to take the smoked meats out and fry the vegetables in the fat.
8. Pickled stewed cabbage has a special taste. You can stew it yourself or add it to fresh cabbage to give it a special sourness and smell.
9. If you add grated processed cheese at the end of cooking, it will quickly melt and give the dish a cheesy taste. It is important to remember: the cheese already contains flavor additives and salt, so you need to salt and season the dish with caution.
Stewed cabbage goes well with potatoes, rice, and pearl barley.
