Slow cooked shredded green cabbage and beef meatballs recipe, green cabbage and beef meatballs are stewed in a crock pot with red bell peppers and a flavorful sauce, delicious and comforting!
Over the years, I have become a great fan of cabbage, it’s quickly prepared and cooked, mixes well with other vegetables, I very much like to mix it with carrots or peppers, it makes awesome broths, plus it is good for the health.
Here I gently simmered my cabbage and peppers into a broth with a bit of tomato sauce, then I gathered the broth to make a delicious sauce and added the beef meatballs I had cooked in the meantime.
This is a delicious, flavorful and healthy main dish for weekday dinners, it can be ready in about an hour, you can also replace the meatballs by sausage or bacon, you could put all the ingredients in the crockpot at the same time and simmer away whilst you do whatever it is you have to do…
Vegetables:
1 head green cabbage, cored, large stems removed, shredded,
2 red bell peppers, sliced
32 oz. (1 liter) of vegetable or chicken stock/broth, hot
2 tbsp. tomato sauce
Salt and pepper to taste
Beef meatballs:
18 oz. (500 g) ground beef
3 shallots, minced
1 tbsp. white wine
2 tbsp. corn flour
1 tbsp. dry herbs
1/2 tsp salt
Pepper and paprika to taste
For the sauce:
1 tbsp. corn flour
1 cup heavy cream
Salt and pepper to taste
1 tbsp. parsley or basil to decorate (optional)
Some olive oil for cooking
Into a crockpot, on medium high heat, heat about 3 tbsp. olive oil, add the hot broth and tomato sauce, stir, add the shredded cabbage and sliced bell peppers, simmer until the cabbage starts to wilt, stir from time to time
Check that there is always about two inches of liquid at the bottom of crockpot, add water if needed
Once the cabbage has wilted, add salt and pepper to taste and stir, continue simmering until the cabbage is cooked to your liking and set aside
Whilst the cabbage is cooking, into a medium bowl, add the ground beef, white wine, shallots, spices and corn flour, mix well, if you want you can cook about a tsp of mix into microwave to taste and adjust seasoning
Into a large saucepan, heat up some olive oil on medium high heat, form the meatballs of the size that you like, here I made small ones of a heaping teaspoon each, and add them to the saucepan
Sear on all sides until cooked through and set aside
Into a small saucepan, heat some olive oil, collect all the broth from the cabbage and pour it into saucepan
Make a slurry with about 3 tbsp. of cabbage broth and 1 tbsp. corn flour and add it to the saucepan, bring to boil and stir
Add the cream, season to taste, cook for one more minute
Arrange meatballs onto the cabbage, pour the sauce evenly, re-heat if needed
If desired, sprinkle some parsley to decorate
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