Irresistible like black cabbage : nutritious, meaty, inevitable for many on winter tables.
We often find it in vegetable or cereal soups, as in the typical Tuscan ribollita or in spelled soup.
But do you know that there are so many tasty recipes to prepare it?
Here are 5 vegetarian recipes based on black cabbage to give you some original veriation on the subject!
1. Black cabbage pesto
Ingredients for a medium-sized jar:
> 2 beautiful bunches of cabbage leaves,
> 50 grams of walnut kernels,
> a handful of pine nuts,
> half a clove of garlic,
> extra virgin olive oil,
> whole sea salt
Preparation : clean the black cabbage well, eliminating the hardest parts, such as the central coast. Blend with all the rest of the ingredients, adding a couple of tablespoons or three of oil.
Use to season pasta or risotto, making it jump together during the last minutes of cooking. Store the jar in the fridge covered with oil for about a week.
2. Tofu and black cabbage meatballs
Ingredients :
> a pack of 100 grams of natural tofu,
> a bunch of black cabbage leaves,
> salt,
> dried chilli,
> a garlic clove,
> a boiled potato,
> powdered almonds
Preparation : blend two beautiful handfuls of almonds without peel until they become powdered. Sauté in a pan the cleaned and finely chopped cabbage, the crushed garlic clove and the chopped or sliced chilli.
Once the cabbage has withered, remove the garlic and put it in a bowl, add the crushed potato and the crumbled tofu (you can previously boil it for a couple of minutes, so as to make it softer. Add salt and form small balls .
Before placing them on the baking sheet covered with non-stick paper, pass them in the almond powder. A little oil over it, a little salt and cook for about 15 minutes at 180 ° / 200 ° C. Serve hot.
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3. Pumpkin and black cabbage cream
Ingredients :
> a nice slice of pumpkin,
> a bunch of black cabbage,
> a red onion,
> a couple of potatoes,
> a clove of garlic,
> pumpkin seeds,
> oil,
> fresh ginger,
> soy sauce,
> vegetable nut.
Preparation : in a pressure cooker cook the cleaned cabbage, the potatoes and the peeled pumpkin together, with water and vegetable stock cube, passing then the whole with the mini pimer.
Separately sauté the onion slices with fresh ginger, pumpkin seeds and a sprinkle of soy sauce in a teaspoon of oil.
Serve the cream, decorating each plate with the mix of onion, ginger and seeds, and, if desired, seasoning with a drizzle of vegetable cream or extravegine oil.
4. Black cabbage chips
Ingredients :
> a bunch of black cabbage,
> a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil,
> an organic lemon,
> salt and pepper
Preparation : preheat the oven to 180 ° C, spread the cabbage leaves on the plate lined with parchment paper, clean and private on the central coast. Sprinkle with oil, salt, pepper and grated lemon rind.
Cook for about 10 minutes or until they start to ripple: be careful not to let them burn!
5. Black cabbage dumplings
Ingredients :
> a bunch of black cabbage,
> a package of ricotta,
> an egg,
> 50 grams of grated Parmesan,
> nutmeg,
> salt, pepper,
> 00 flour,
> sage leaves,
> extra virgin olive oil
Preparation : boil the cabbage and squeeze it well, chop it. Put it in a bowl with all the ingredients indicated, except the flour, adding a little breadcrumbs if the dough is too soft. Meanwhile, bring plenty of salted water to the boil.
With wet hands or with the help of two spoons form little balls, pass them in the flour one by one and throw the gnocchetti in the boiling water. When they come to the surface, collect them with a slotted spoon and season to taste with oil, parmesan and fresh sage leaves.
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