Even a novice hostess can stew cabbage. 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 you can serve it as an independent main course or with mashed potatoes.
To prepare the dish, you can cut up a whole chicken or buy several 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 carrots each, vegetable oil for frying, ground black pepper, 2 juicy tomatoes (in winter, you can replace it with tomato paste or sauce), salt.
First, the meat is fried in a pan until golden brown. The onion is cut into cubes, and the carrots are chopped on a coarse grater. Vegetables are poured over the meat and fried. By the way, you can also add bell pepper, cut into thin strips, to them. When the vegetables turn golden, shredded cabbage is added to them, everything is mixed and covered with a lid for 2-3 minutes. Then the dish is salted and pepper is added. If desired, you can add ground paprika and bay leaves. Mix well again and leave under the lid for 5 minutes. At this time, you can prepare tomato dressing: pour boiling water over the tomatoes, remove the skin and cut into small cubes. If these vegetables are not there, you can replace them with 3 tablespoons. tomato sauce or paste. Then the cabbage is cooked under the lid until the desired softness. If necessary, you can add a little water to the pan during braising.
By the way, you can prepare a sauce for stewed cabbage with chicken: for this it is enough to mix sour cream with chopped herbs (basil, dill or parsley).
