White cabbage is the most popular and affordable type of cabbage on our menu. Everyone can afford it, and the variety of cabbage recipes will pleasantly surprise even a real gourmet.
Cabbage is often used in proper nutrition for its beneficial properties. Low calorie content allows you to quickly lose excess weight and gain a slim figure and a healthy body.
The benefits of the stewed cabbage diet
Product advantages:
- Low calorie content.
- High content of vitamins. Heat treatment does not destroy beneficial substances.
- Long-term saturation.
- Colon cleansing (due to the large amount of fiber).
Why is cabbage beneficial for losing weight?
Cabbage contains vital substances:
- Vitamin C in large quantities.
- Iodine (promotes normal functioning of the thyroid gland).
- Potassium (ensures the removal of excess fluid).
- Fiber (removes intestinal slagging).
- Folic acid (necessary for growth and development of the circulatory and immune systems).
- Tartronic acid (inhibits the processing of carbohydrates into fats).
Features of the cabbage diet
To achieve a positive result, you should follow the cabbage diet for at least 7 days.
During the week, you need to eat the main dish 2 times a day, for example for breakfast and dinner or lunch and dinner. Additional snacks can include various porridges, boiled lean meats, lean fish, and dairy products.
It is important to follow the water consumption regime. Allowed drinks include green tea without added granulated sugar, dried fruit or rosehip compote.
One of the main rules of the vegetable diet is fractional nutrition. The bottom line is that the minimum number of meals is 5 times. Equal periods of time are counted between snacks. In this mode, the stomach secretes juice, which is necessary for the rapid absorption of food.
The vegetable can be prepared for 2–3 days; the product can be stored in the refrigerator for a long time.
The best vegetable for weight loss
It is the white cabbage beauty that is the indispensable vegetable from which you can prepare many hearty and low-calorie dishes. Cabbage can be stewed, fermented, you can make a delicious salad from it and cook a dietary soup.
You can use kohlrabi and broccoli, cauliflower and white cabbage for weight loss. Why is it so popular for weight loss? The fact is that cabbage has many advantages over other neighbors in the garden beds:
- Very low calorie content - no more than 30 Kcal per 100 grams of weight.
- An abundance of vitamins that are not destroyed during cooking.
- Low glycemic index, which promotes a long feeling of fullness.
- Contains a colossal amount of insoluble fiber, which helps gently cleanse the intestines and promotes rapid weight loss.
The so-called stewed cabbage diet is gaining great popularity. I would like to say right away that this diet is not balanced, so it is possible to keep it strictly limited - nutritionists say that you can lose weight using only this product in your diet for no more than three days.
Harm and contraindications to eating stewed cabbage
Stewed cabbage for weight loss is not suitable for everyone.
Contraindications for using the product:
- increased gas formation;
- kidney pathologies;
- increased stomach acidity;
- peptic ulcer: the product leads to deterioration of the condition and severe pain;
- cholecystitis (acute course of the disease);
- disturbances in the functioning of the genitourinary system;
- delayed ejaculation.
Contraindications must be taken into account before going on a cabbage diet.
Recipe
Many women wonder whether it is possible to eat stewed cabbage while losing weight. Of course you can! However, one should immediately make a reservation: not every recipe according to which it is prepared can be considered dietary.
For example, cabbage fried in a large amount of oil and seasoned with various flour-based sauces cannot be called a low-calorie and healthy dish. Feel free to add 200 calories to your dish!
Note. To prepare dietary stewed cabbage for weight loss, you should discard the oil and replace it with plain water.
For preparation, an ordinary white head is used in an amount of approximately 0.5 kilograms, an onion and carrots. The vegetable is finely chopped and scalded with boiling water. Onions and carrots are stewed in a frying pan until soft, and then the main ingredient is added to the frying pan. The dish needs to be salted, add a little water and cook until soft for an hour. You can add a little fresh tomato juice to the pan as a sauce.
Advice. This dish is quite filling and contains a small amount of calories. But to make it more satisfying, you can add a little meat to it. It is preferable to use chicken breast or white turkey meat.
Variety of preparations
Housewives who are losing weight stew all the different types of cabbage: fresh white cabbage, salted cabbage, pickled cabbage. You will get a very tasty dish if you cook Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, even broccoli. Stewing vegetables is inferior in terms of benefits to the diet, but the taste is incomparable to blanching or boiling.
Traditional recipe
Ingredients for stewed vegetables with minimal calorie content: half a head of white cabbage, a couple of onions, a couple of medium carrots. Additionally you will need 5 tsp. vegetable oil, half a cup of water, spices, salt to the hostess's taste.
Cooking algorithm:
- dice the onion, grate the carrots;
- fry in a frying pan;
- cut half a head of cabbage into strips and add to the rest of the ingredients;
- simmer for 15 minutes, if the dish is dry add water.
This cabbage is stored in the refrigerator, retaining vitamins and the same taste, for about 3 days.
If you want to make the food tastier, you can add herbs, tomato/milk, and a teaspoon of sugar.
The calorie content of a simple recipe is 100 kcal per 100 g. If desired, add zucchini, garlic, cheese, mushrooms, any types of meat, and less often fish. With the addition of mushrooms, the calorie content increases to 121, chicken meat - 171, pork - 450 calories. The figures are approximate, because they depend on the amount of additive. For those wishing to lose weight, it is better to avoid adding cheese, pork/beef - the ingredients are high in calories and difficult to digest.
The most useful way to gain harmony is to cook stewed cabbage without oil. This can be done on a non-stick frying pan.
But it is advisable to lay eggs. The fiber contained in the stew will cleanse the body well of rotting, fermenting residues, and the egg white will replenish muscle mass. This combination is especially necessary for people performing physical activity. Fat tissue will gradually be replaced by muscle tissue.
PP stewed cabbage
For those wishing to effectively lose excess weight, nutritionists advise using the following cooking method:
- Pour water into a saucepan with thick walls, add a teaspoon of olive oil;
- when the liquid boils, add the shredded cabbage;
- After a few minutes, add chopped onions, tomatoes, and carrots. Everything is a couple of pieces;
- simmer under a closed lid;
- add 1 tsp. soy sauce, open the pan to completely evaporate the liquid.
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The dish can be used as a main dish for a diet based on stewed cabbage. A small amount (150-200 g) of the product as the main diet per week will help reduce weight by 1-1.5 kilograms. The main thing is to reduce to zero the consumption of sweets, flour (with the exception of black rye bread), and fatty foods.
My experience
I learned the recipe for this weight loss from one article. During the diet, in addition to cabbage, I ate chicken, dairy products, the fat content of which was limited to 2-3%, eggs, and apples. I drank green tea, coffee without sugar, sparkling water with lemon. I ate 4 times a day (every 4 hours), the most nutritious were breakfast and lunch. Additionally, I did morning exercises every other day, my last meal was 3 hours before the night’s rest. So, the cabbage regime helped me lose 1 kg in 8 days.
The first recipe is with regular cabbage
Ingredients:
- Cabbage
- Onion
- Carrot
- Tomato paste (by the way, it can be replaced with tomatoes, which will add an absolutely natural taste to the dish)
First, you need the cabbage to be really healthy, wash it and free it from spoiled leaves. Next, carefully and thinly slice and mash well with your hands. We also wash the carrots, remove the peel, and grate them on a medium or coarse grater. Peel the onion from a large layer of husk and cut into a semicircle. Place all the prepared vegetables in a container, fill with water and let simmer for about 15-20 minutes over low heat. After a period of time, add tomato and spices to taste, and let it simmer for the same amount of time. This dish is perfect for any side dish.
Stewed cabbage as one of the components of proper nutrition
It would be more correct for weight loss to use stewed cabbage as one of the components of a healthy diet. In this case, it is consumed several times a week, combined with lean meat or cereals. You can also stew it in a slow cooker with vegetables and serve it for dinner as a side dish for fish.
Basic rules for including delicious stew in your weight loss menu:
- Do not get carried away with sauces based on flour or mayonnaise.
- Do not combine fried sausages or fatty meats with stewed cabbage.
- The best additions to a dietary dish are mushrooms or chicken.
- A mixture of sugar and vinegar will help give the finished side dish a sour and spicy taste. To do this, mix a teaspoon of table vinegar with the same amount of granulated sugar and add it to the pan a few minutes before the end of cooking.
- Stewed sauerkraut can also be used in meals. This dish is very juicy and satisfying. You can serve this side dish with homemade turkey sausages.
- Prunes or raisins will help add an unusual taste to the stew; you can make the dish more filling by adding beans or other legumes. However, this threatens increased flatulence.
By consuming stewed cabbage, you can achieve excellent results in building your body in a short period of time. However, you should not overdo it and eat only it all day long - this can cause serious harm to the digestive system.
As a rule, all mono-diets end with those losing weight, after finishing them, quickly starting to overeat on previously prohibited foods. Therefore, be more careful when planning your menu and stay not only slim, but also healthy!
Including stewed cabbage in your diet
We'll talk about stewed cabbage diets later. In order to get rid of 3-4 kg of excess weight, it is enough to correctly create a menu for the day and stick to this diet for 7-10 days. Since the vegetable does not contain carbohydrates and proteins, the menu should be supplemented with meat products or fish and cereals. It is worth giving preference to low-fat varieties of fish and lean meat. For porridges, it is advisable to opt for unpolished rice and buckwheat.
Stewed cabbage does not go well with potatoes. For many, it causes bloating. In addition, potatoes themselves are a high-calorie vegetable and are not recommended to be eaten during a diet. You should also avoid combinations such as cabbage and legumes.
You can arrange fasting days on stewed cabbage or 3-day mono-diets. You cannot eat cabbage alone for a longer period of time.
Recipe "Provencal": pp method
Pickled cabbage “Provencal” is the most delicious among all the variants of this dish. A proven recipe that can be prepared in a regular jar in a day just flies apart in my house.
KBJU per 100 g: 48/1/3/6.8
To do this you need:
- 1 kg cabbage
- 1 carrot
- 1 bell pepper
- 2 tbsp. honey
- 1 tbsp. l. salt
- 0.5 tbsp. apple cider vinegar
- 250 ml water
- 0.5 tbsp. vegetable oil
- bay leaf and allspice
Step-by-step recipe for pickled cabbage:
- Pour vegetable oil into the water, add salt, stir and bring to a boil. Pour the boiling oil mixture over the pre-shredded cabbage.
- Add honey, thinly sliced carrots, vinegar, pepper, garlic, and spices. Stir the vegetables and let them sit at room temperature for 12 hours, then move them to a cooler place.
Spicy cabbage with bell pepper
For quick-cooking marinated cabbage with bell peppers, choose red or orange peppers - it will be brighter and more appetizing.
KBJU per 100 g: 25/0.9/0/5.1
Ingredients:
- medium fork of white cabbage
- 1 sweet bell pepper
- big carrot
- salt - 2 tbsp. l.
- 1 liter of water
- dill seeds - 1 tbsp. l.
- honey - 1 tbsp. l.
Cooking method:
- Cut the vegetables into strips, mix and mash - the juice should come out. Add salt and mix again.
- Boil water, add salt, cool the liquid a little and add honey. Remember that honey cannot be added to a boiling liquid - this destroys its structure, and the honey becomes tasteless and useless.
- Sprinkle dill seeds on the bottoms of the jars, place the vegetables, and fill them with warm brine.
- This cabbage with vegetables takes from 3 to 6 hours to cook, and then it can be served to guests.
When serving, you can pour some unrefined vegetable oil and sprinkle with herbs. Just don’t forget that every teaspoon of oil adds 45 kcal to your serving!
Description of preparation:
Stewed cabbage can be prepared with or without meat, with the addition of various vegetables and even fruits, such as prunes, apples, pears, raisins or dried apricots.
Many people prepare it with the addition of sausages or other sausages, but the dietary version involves only vegetables. In addition to cabbage, which is presented in abundance on store shelves, we also add carrots and onions to the dish. To get a rich color, we also add tomato paste or sauce, but you can cook without it. Purpose: For lunch / For dinner Main ingredient: Vegetables / Cabbage / Onions Dish: Hot dishes / Side dishes Geography of cuisine: Russian cuisine Diet: Diet food / Vegetarian food
Diet stewed cabbage with chicken
Ingredients:
- Cabbage
- Chicken
- Onion
- Carrot
- Tomato paste (or tomatoes pureed through a sieve)
- Spices
- A few tablespoons of vegetable oil
Everything here is almost the same as in the first recipe. Peel onions and carrots. Next, wash them. Afterwards, you need to cut the onion into half rings and grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Shred the cabbage into small pieces. Wash the chicken meat, let it dry, and cut it into separate small slices.
Now that everything is ready, add vegetable oil to a heated frying pan, put onions, carrots and meat there. Let simmer over low heat for several minutes (3-5). Then we put the shredded cabbage leaves in a container, add everything that was stewed in the frying pan, and continue to simmer together with the cabbage for about 20 minutes. You also need to add a little water. Then add tomato paste, spices, wait 5-6 minutes, and the dish is ready can be served. It can be used with a side dish or as a separate dish.
Cabbage salad for weight loss with radishes and apples
For a small head of cabbage weighing about 400–500 grams, you will need a large green radish or two small ones. Also: a couple of green sour apples, a bunch of greens, a leek. To prepare the dressing: any vegetable oil (olive, flaxseed, corn, rapeseed, sunflower). Alternatively: natural sugar-free yogurt, kefir or low-fat sour cream.
Chop the cabbage as finely as possible, crush it with your hands, a masher or a large spoon to release the juice. Wash the apples and grate them without removing the peel. Peel the radish, pour hot water over it and chop using a medium shredder. Combine all vegetables in one bowl. Finely chop the greens, add to the salad and mix. Let the dish stand for 5-10 minutes, covering with film or a lid. Finally, add a little salt, add sour cream, butter or yogurt, and mix again.
The salad is good as an independent dish for lunch or dinner, a healthy vitamin snack. You can eat it half an hour or an hour before training, and the results of your workouts will pleasantly surprise you after a while. Radish is an excellent antiseptic, so the dish can be stored in a sealed container in the refrigerator for 24 hours, making several servings at once.
In both cases, white cabbage can be replaced with red cabbage.
Korean marinating recipe
Neither oil nor vinegar will be noticeable in the prepared dish. On the contrary, it will acquire a slightly sour taste and apple aroma. Spicy, appetizing and at the same time completely dietary, Korean-style pickled cabbage is an ideal appetizer for chopped chicken cutlets or simply baked chicken.
KBJU per 100 g: 62/0.8/4.7/4.2
We will need:
- 2 kg cabbage
- 2 large carrots
- a little coriander and cumin
- 1/2 l water
- 1 tbsp. l. salt
- 1/2 tbsp. vegetable oil
- 3 tsp. apple cider vinegar
Cooking step by step:
- Chop the carrots and cabbage, mix them in a bowl or pan and add salt. Carefully remember and even grate the vegetables, as you want the juice to come out. Place the mixture in jars along with the aromatic seeds and tamp down.
- Mix salt and oil in cool water, then bring to a boil, add vinegar to the marinade and remove from heat.
- Pour the marinade hot into jars with vegetables. After cooling completely, let stand for 3-4 hours and you can serve.
