I wanted to participate in the weekly Build-It contest, so I made this stuffed cabbage bowl.
If you don’t have any whey from your last batch of yogurt or ricotta cheese, you can just use lemon juice or yogurt itself. Soaking the rice helps to remove the phytates which cause havoc on our teeth and bodies. There was more to this recipe, like bake cabbage. Um… no, not gonna’ happen’. And unless you LOVE cabbage, I’m not going to encourage the torture. So, what do we do with the bowl if we don’t plan on baking it?
What We'll Need:
½ cup brown rice soaked
2 tbsp whey (for soaking rice)
1 medium cabbage head
1 yellow onion minced
1 red pepper finely chopped
1 green pepper finely chopped
1 tbsp fresh ginger grated
2 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
3 tbsp raw butter
optional: salt & pepper
How To Make:
Soak rice, 1 cup of water and whey for 24 hours in a sealed glass container at room temperature.
Drain rice water into another container and keep stored in refrigerator.
Rinse rice thoroughly in fresh water.
Put rice and 1½ cups of water in small pot, cover with lid, bring to a boil and then simmer for 50-55 minutes or until water is almost all absorbed.
Drain remaining water from rice.
While rice is cooking, cut the core out of the cabbage and discard.
With a spoon, scoop out 2 cups of cabbage being careful to leave about a one-inch outer layer.
Finely chop the scooped out cabbage.
Place onions and 1 tbsp of butter in sauce pan, cook on medium heat until golden brown. (about 10 minutes)
Mix in cabbage, peppers, garlic, ginger, lemon juice and remaining butter to onions, cover with lid and cook for ten more minutes. (stir occasionally)
Combine vegetables with rice and fill cabbage bowl.
Well that’s a delicious looking meal right there! Are those your pictures you took or did you get them off the internet with the recipe? Just saying you should include the picture sources, some people here get very defensive about no sources. Don’t want you to fall victim to that!
The recipe here sounds short and easy for sure. I wasn’t aware of the reasoning behind soaking the rice that’s great. I would soak it to get rid of the starches but didn’t know about damage to our teeth! Thanks for that tip!
Best of luck for the contest!
Thank you cmplxty! All photos are mine. Soaking rice helps to remove some of the phytic acid. And by continuing to use the leftover water/whey, it helps to remove more phytic acid each time. As for the arsenic, it’s best to include food which neutralizes the effects in the same meal as the rice. For example, in this recipe the cabbage and onion neutralize the arsenic. But always remember to rinse the rice thoroughly after the soak.
Oh great you take some wonderful pictures then lol.
Good points with doing things to neutralize the different tough ingredients in foods as important as rice. I’ll keep that in mind to try and add pairings but thankfully I already at least soak and drain the rice.