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 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.
Delicious vegetable casserole
per 100 grams - 63.67 kcalB/F/U - 4.49/3.48/3.97
Ingredients:
- 300 g cauliflower,
- 2-3 pcs tomatoes,
- 50 g low-fat cheese,
- 100 g sour cream 10%,
- 1 boiled egg,
- Salt, pepper to taste
Preparation:
- Boil cabbage in salted water. Peel the tomatoes, chop finely, grate the cheese on a fine grater, mix, add chopped egg and sour cream, salt and pepper.
- Place cauliflower in a baking dish, pour sour cream, cheese and tomatoes. Bake in the oven at 150 degrees. 10-15 min.
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.
Diet puree soup
per 100 grams - 26.94 kcal - USED - 1.85/0.23/5.14
Ingredients:
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Bell pepper - 2 pcs
- Tomato - 4 pcs (it is better to take large and juicy tomatoes.)
- Celery – 100 gr
- Cauliflower—1 pc.
- Greens - to taste
- Salt, pepper - to taste
Preparation:
- Wash the cauliflower and separate into florets.
- Peel the onion and cut into cubes.
- Wash the bell pepper, remove seeds, and cut into strips.
- Wash the tomatoes and cut into cubes.
- Wash the celery and chop it.
- Wash the greens, dry them, chop finely.
- Place all the chopped vegetables in a saucepan, add boiling water, and boil. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Add greens to the finished soup and puree in a blender. The soup is ready!
Sample menu for the day
Stewed cabbage for weight loss can be consumed as follows:
- breakfast - coffee without sugar and milk;
- lunch - stewed cabbage with chicken;
- dinner - same as lunch plus tomato juice.
To satisfy a strong feeling of hunger in the break between main meals, you can eat a small handful of nuts or unsweetened fruit.
You can eat only stewed cabbage during a weight loss diet for no more than three days, after which you need to diversify your diet with other foods.
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Benefits and harms
There is an opinion that during heat treatment all nutritional elements evaporate from foods. Fortunately, this is not true for cabbage.
Is stewed cabbage good for weight loss? Without a doubt. Just one serving of a low-calorie and tasty product contains a large amount of vitamin C, which can satisfy a person’s daily requirement. B vitamins are also not destroyed during stewing, which is extremely beneficial for mucous membranes and the condition of the skin.
Many people with gastrointestinal pathologies do not tolerate fresh vegetables well. However, the stew can be consumed without restrictions. In addition, this stew helps relieve constipation.
However, despite all the benefits of eating stewed cabbage during a diet, some categories of people should significantly limit it in their daily menu. It refers to:
- those suffering from increased gas formation;
- patients with diabetes mellitus;
- people with high stomach acidity;
- suffering from kidney diseases.
Making sauerkraut correctly is not difficult
It’s easier, of course, to buy someone else’s pickled cabbage—you can find it at the market and in supermarkets. But you don’t know for sure whether it’s natural, how much salt there is and what it’s added. It's better to cook it yourself. Believe me, there is nothing complicated!
The recipe itself is a classic, without any adaptation to the principles of pp, this is how grandmothers and great-grandmothers fermented cabbage. This, by the way, once again proves that our ancestors intuitively ate correctly.
The best recipe for traditional sauerkraut
For harvesting for the winter by fermentation, only late and mid-late varieties of cabbage are suitable , which contain a sufficient amount of natural sugars necessary for lactic fermentation. Choose only well-ripened, white, dense forks, with juicy and fresh leaves, without rough veins.
Ingredients for 2 liter jars:
- white cabbage – 2 kg;
- rock salt – 40-50 g;
- carrots – 1 large or 2 small (optional).
How to ferment:
Pour boiling water over a head of cabbage, remove the top layer of leaves with damage and dirt. Cut the forks into 4 parts, finely chop each quarter using a knife or shredder, discard the stalk pieces. It is very convenient to chop in a blender with special attachments. In general, then you can do it in 5 minutes.
Peel the carrots and grate coarsely.
Place the chopped vegetables in a deep container in which the cabbage will ferment. An enamel bucket, pan, bowl, and even a multicooker bowl with a ceramic coating are suitable for these purposes.
Add salt. When fermenting cabbage in the classic way, it is important to use regular (rock) salt without iodine, spices or anti-caking additives (such substances are usually added to the extra-finely ground product).
Mix the cabbage, carrots and salt thoroughly with your hands, being careful not to grind or mash.
Press the cabbage until it releases juice. To do this, it is recommended to use a wooden rolling pin or masher; it is better not to work with metal devices.
Cover the tightly compacted cabbage with a flat plate or round wooden cutting board that will fit into the main container in diameter.
Place a weight weighing at least 2 kg on top. The simplest version of oppression is a 2-3 liter jar filled with water. If you plan to ferment cabbage on a regular basis, you can use a specially selected heavy stone.
Leave the cabbage under pressure for 48 hours at room temperature. It is important that it is not located in close proximity to heat sources or open windows, or exposed to direct sunlight.
The next day after the start of cooking, the fermentation process will begin. After 2 days, gas will accumulate in the cabbage, which must be released so that the appetizer does not turn sour. To do this, you need to remove the weight and pierce the cabbage in 5-7 places with a thick wooden skewer.
This procedure must be repeated every day until the cabbage is ready. Typically, the fermentation process takes from 3 to 5 days, depending on the volume of the vegetable and the conditions in which it is fermented.
Without rinsing the brine, place the finished cabbage in clean and dry jars of suitable volume, cover with nylon lids and store in a cool, dark place (cellar, refrigerator).
When serving, sauerkraut can be poured with aromatic unrefined oil, seasoned with caraway seeds or other spices, and sprinkled with fresh herbs.
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!
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Weight loss and sauerkraut
Any cabbage is a product that is associated with various “weight loss”, diets, and fat burning. There are even mono-diets based on sauerkraut. But we don’t need extreme sports that are dangerous to our health; we’ll lose weight healthy and tasty. Cabbage from a barrel or jar will not be superfluous in any pp menu!
The KBJU of this weight loss product can be called ideal! Calories - only 20, protein - 2, fat - 0.1, carbohydrates - 4.5!
Moreover, such cabbage is also a product with a negative calorie content , since the body spends more calories on its absorption than it “weighs”! Just be careful - we are talking about cabbage, not seasoned with anything. With any vegetable oil, the calorie content increases. It’s not difficult to calculate the numbers - every teaspoon of any oil increases the calorie content of a serving by 36 kcal!
Sauerkraut also promotes
tartanic acid,
which is found in abundance in the crispy snack, helps with this
Fiber, of which there is a lot in cabbage, does not disappear anywhere after fermentation, so the feeling of fullness after dinner with such cabbage is guaranteed throughout the night.
By the way, even experienced nutritionists often doubt whether they can eat vitamin-rich cabbage in the evening. This is due to the possibility of swelling, because the recipe contains salt. If there are no problems with the kidneys, then any sauerkraut will not harm. And if you prepare it yourself according to the “correct” recipe, where there is a minimum of salt, then swelling is completely eliminated!
