Today's recipe: Cabbage, carrots and celery with white beans. Low carb. No added fat. Weight Watchers 1 point.
Oops. All December, the 'five-a-day' admonition has applied to Christmas cookies, not vegetables. For awhile, I even wondered if my vegetable moxie were lost, if chocolate and pecans would forever supplant cabbage and pumpkin. I was happy to eat vegetables, if someone put them in front of me. But cook them? No way.Thankfully: NOT.
So man-oh-man, am I ever ready to get back to healthy recipes again. (Who can relate?) With this stew (or soup?) recipe, I'm dipping a baby toe back into vegetables, just in case. It's a great basic recipe, with easy pantry ingredients, a favorite from my vegetarian days.
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CABBAGE & WHITE BEAN STEW
Hands-on time: 25 minutes
Time to table: 45 minutes but better after resting 24 hours
Makes 8 cups
Time to table: 45 minutes but better after resting 24 hours
Makes 8 cups
1 large onion, chopped
Splash of water
2 carrots, peeled and cut into pieces on the diagonal
1 rib celery, cut into pieces on the diagonal
1 teaspoon caraway seed
2 cups chopped green cabbage (from about 1/4 medium-size cabbage)
2 cups water
1 tablespoon brown sugar
15 ounce can diced tomatoes
15 ounce can white kidney beans (cannellini), rinsed and drained
1 tablespoon cider vinegar
1/4 cup chopped parsley
In a large soup pot, cook the onion in the water for about 3 minutes. Add the carrots and celery and cook another 3 minutes. Add the caraway and cook another minute. Add cabbage, water and brown sugar and cook for 5 minutes. Stir in tomatoes, cover and simmer for 20 minutes. Add beans and vinegar, simmer 5 minutes or until beans are heated through. Stir in the parsley. Serve immediately or let rest for a day to allow flavors to meld. Reheats beautifully.
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Your Comments:
Your recipe for slow-cooked beans has spoiled me. Canned beans just don't work anymore -- except in an emergency. So far I've done black, kidney, pinto, Great Northern, cannellini, and chickpeas using that method, all with great results.
I'll probably slow-cook some cannellini (or other white) beans, then add the rest of the stew/soup ingredients. It will take longer, but the results will be worth it -- and the house will smell great!
Sally
I'm making this soup today! It's gloomy and wet here in Maine, with the droopy dregs of last week's snowstorm clinging to life so it will be the perfect warmer-upper. I'm glad to hear your subscriptions are booming, BTW.
best, S
Kalyn ~ Ooo, you're brave, throwing stuff away. I can't manage it but hide them in the basement freezer.
Stephen ~ Stay warm, my friend.
I actually have all of the ingredients for this stew on hand except celery - I'm thinking this will be on our table this week!!
Many, many thanks!!
Cabbage, the food of the Polish people and the elfin people that supply it to us!!!!
At the Hinckley and Mille Lacs casinos they serve a braised (?) or slightly cooked cabbage in a sauce that is my undoing. I Love the Stuff!
Went to Old Country Buffet today and guess what they had on the table? Steamed/braised cabbage! (we go there so I can have my fill of veggies instead of a restaurant's version of a serving) Hey, if I can't have the romaine lettuce, bean sprouts, blue cheese with balsamic vinegar and oil for a salad, this is my choice for food Nirvana!
Thanks for this recipe. Will send it to my dear friend in Manistique, Michigan, that is a soup nut.
Bless you, we had a wonderful Christmas, and I too am sick of sweet things. Want salty and savory, thank you very much.
I love the vegetarian recipes you do as I'm one. So thank you and to have it be WW friendly is even better as I'm starting on WW Jan 1st.
Hugs,
Joanne
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