Friday, November 7, 2008

I wanted to share a great and very easy recipe with everyone. This is one of those recipes that can be altered each time and taste great and be LOADED with healthy stuff.

Stuffed Cabbage Leaves:
1)get a head of cabbage
2)cut the core out (make a hole in the bottom basically where the core is)
3) put the cabbage is boiling water and peel off the leaves as they soften
4)shave off the "rib" of the leaf so it is easy to fold

In a big bowl mix up:
1) a bunch of veggies you love. I used yellow peppers tons of onions and tomatoes. ANY veggie will work.
2)lean turkey or chicken or beef (I used 99% lean turkey)
3) egg white and lean cheese (hard cheese is great and you only need a dash)
4)salt and pepper and tons of spices that you love. (I used italian spices and hot pepper and onion and garlic powder)

Get a large pasta sauce pan and line it with a couple of cabbage leaves
put a half a cup or so of your turkey and veggies onto each leaf and tuck the sides in and then roll it up tight.
Keep doing this until your turkey mixture is gone.
Pour a big can of pureed tomatoes and a cup or two of the water from your cabbage over the bundles.

Cover and simmer for half an hour or so or until the turkey is done.

You can spice up the sauce with lots of great stuff. You can add some low fat cottage cheese or ricotta. You can experiment and change this recipe to be different in so many ways.

We ate it for 3 days. It was easy and tasted really great.

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