Best Easy Cabbage Recipes

Do you REALLY have time to browse through hundreds of cabbage recipes provided by major recipes websites? How about a short list of the best easy and healthy cabbage recipes, both traditional and modified, carefully tested by someone with 20 years of experience in cooking cabbage?

I grew up enjoying Russian and Ukrainian cousine, a staple food of which is cabbage. I consider myself just as experienced in cooking it as the Japanese in making their sushi.

Here you will find traditional Russian and Ukrainian healthy recipes using cabbage, such as pickled white and red cabbage, Russian style cabbage soup, and Ukrainian borscht. When I say "traditional", I mean it... I still own those old culinary books with my grandma's comments and old style bookmarks...

The problem with cabbage recipes is that most recipes add too much fat to them, completely negating all the health benefits that cabbage has to offer. In some traditional Ukrainian recipes, for example, I had to cut oil by 1/2 cup - and still was able to cook a great meal!

I post only the most healthy and easy vegetarian and vegan cabbage recipes. I have "veganized" some of them from the original ones. Enjoy, and please share them with your friends using social buttons for Google +1, Facebook and StumbleUpon.

Cabbage Recipes index (vegetarian or vegan)

Pickled cabbage (sour kraut, sour cabbage, fermented cabbage):

Looking for sour cabbage recipes only? Try these:

• Basic pickled cabbage recipe (sour cabbage recipe)
  Nothing but salt and cabbage is required to produce basic pickled cabbage by my grandma's recipe. Add carrots for the color and sweeter taste. What can be easier?
• Pickled cabbage with cranberries
  Easy, quick and tasty recipe of cabbage marinated with cranberries and honey. Ready in 2 days.
• Ultimate Ukrainian pickled cabbage
  The jewel of my collection, this amazing cabbage recipe for sweet and sour Ukrainian pickled cabbage is a must try.
• Delicious East European pickled red cabbage
  Colorful and not overpowering, ready to eat right away, this pickled red cabbage recipe makes every vitamin in cabbage taste delicious.
• Pickled fried cabbage recipe with indonesian tempeh
  Super-healthy and fulfilling vegan meal that combines probiotic foods from two cultures.
• Not-so-spicy Korean Kimchi Recipe
  Korean Kimchi recipe adjusted to my Russian taste buds. This pickled Chinese cabbage is not as spicy as Korean Kimchi, but certainly not less tasty!

Cabbage salad recipes:

• Cabbage hemp salad
  Heart and brain friendly salad with a complete source of protein.
• Multivitamin red cabbage salad recipe
  Delicious way to eat red cabbage is provided by this  super-healthy, great Russian red cabbage salad recipe.
• Healthy coleslaw
  How to triple Vitamin A and C in your coleslaw and make it even healthier? Read my detailed explanation and try this healthy coleslaw recipe.

  Easy Cabbage Rolls recipes:

• Traditional Ukrainian Cabbage Rolls recipe
  Ukrainian cabbage rolls (aka Holubtsi) recipe that is adjusted to the needs of healthy cooking crowd. It describes the quickest way to make stuffed cabbage rolls recipe that I know of. This recipe is not vegetarian.
• Traditional Ukrainian Vegetarian Cabbage Rolls
  Traditional vegetarian cabbage rolls filling recipes that go back in centuries. Enjoy rice and buckwheat fillings and their variations.

  Cooked cabbage recipes:

• Hash brown potato and cabbage casserole recipe
  Russian pickled cabbage casserole, very simple and impressively delicious. Could be done with fresh cabbage.
• Pickled fried cabbage recipe with indonesian tempeh
  Traditional probiotic foods of two cultures are mixed to deliver a delicious meal that provides digestive help, anti-cancer protection, and weight-loss benefits.
• Russian steamed cabbage
  Nothing but goodness can be found in this quick and easy old Russian recipe, one of the most popular cabbage and caraway seeds recipes.
• Russian baked cabbage recipe Zapekanka
  Easy, healthy, and delicious, this vegetarian baked cabbage recipe is called "cabbage zapekanka" in Russia, its country of origin.
• Russian red cabbage stew
  Healing and comforting  red cabbage recipe for stew will boost your immune system when it needs it the most.

  Cabbage soup and borscht recipes :

  These are cabbage recipes for healthy heart, because they contain no cholesterol, and just enough fat to help absorbtion of the vitamins from veggies.

• Russian cabbage soup with frozen veggies
  Try this soup if you are tired of your cabbage soup diet. Frankly, try it even if you never heard of such diet.
• Classical cabbage borscht
  Yes, there are recipes of borscht without meat or pork fat. Vegetarian versions of almost all traditional meals were created in Russia and Ukraine for the Easter fast when people abstained from eating meat for 40 days.

  Red cabbage recipes

• Delicious East European pickled red cabbage
• Red cabbage salad recipe
• Russian red cabbage stew
• Russian baked red cabbage recipe (Zapekanka)
  

Chinese cabbage recipes:

• Not-so-spicy Korean Kimchi Recipe
  Korean Kimchi recipe adjusted to my Russian taste buds. This pickled Chinese cabbage is not as spicy as Korean Kimchi, but certainly not less tasty!

Cabbage recipes tips and tricks

• How to Make Cabbage Rolls Healthy
  Secret tips from my grandma: how to make any cabbage rolls recipe healthier.

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Why use recipes for cabbage?

Cabbage is a cheap healthy food that made it to the top healthy food list. Cabbage protects from cancer, assists with losing weight and provides diverse nutrition that no animal protein-based food can provide. Too bad there no special board in the North America to promote cabbage. I have to take this issue into my own hands.

Cabbage is wildly popular in Germany (kraut), Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. In these countries, it is called "kapusta". Kapusta, or cabbage, recipes are treasured in every family, exchanged with friends, and remembered by heart. Using a lot of cabbage plays an important role in disease prevention. For example, studies conclude that Polish women, raised on the traditional Polish diet, have significantly lower breast cancer rates than Polish women eating the North American diet; and Polish men have lower mortality rates of lung cancer than their North American counterparts, despite their heavy smoking habits.

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I hope you will try these easy cabbage recipes, and get converted into using cabbage in your cooking more often. Cabbage is cheaper than goji berries and other antioxidants, and it's effectiveness for cancer prevention and weight loss is proven in studies.

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