‘Unstuffed’ Cabbage with a Kick

  4.1 – 19 reviews  • Stuffed Cabbage

With Granny Smith apples and vanilla yogurt, this apple coffee cake is incredibly simple to make and delicious. More yogurt is my preferred topping!

Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 40 mins
Total Time: 50 mins
Servings: 4
Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

  1. 1 pound ground turkey
  2. 1 tablespoon olive oil
  3. ½ tablespoon onion, diced
  4. 2 cloves garlic, minced
  5. 1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes
  6. 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
  7. 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
  8. 1 teaspoon dried basil
  9. 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
  10. ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
  11. salt and ground black pepper to taste
  12. 1 head cabbage, cut into 1-inch squares

Instructions

  1. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir ground turkey in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes; drain and discard grease. Transfer cooked turkey to a bowl.
  2. Heat olive oil in the skillet over medium heat; saute onion in hot oil until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add garlic to onion; saute until fragrant, about 1 minute.
  3. Pour diced tomatoes and tomato sauce over the onion mixture; season with Italian seasoning, basil, red pepper flakes, cayenne pepper, salt, and black pepper. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer tomato mixture until the tomatoes are softened, about 10 minutes.
  4. Stir cabbage into the tomato mixture; continue cooking until cabbage is tender, 20 to 25 minutes.
  5. Stir ground turkey into the mixture; cook to reheat the turkey, 1 to 2 minutes.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 315 kcal
Carbohydrate 26 g
Cholesterol 84 mg
Dietary Fiber 10 g
Protein 28 g
Saturated Fat 3 g
Sodium 571 mg
Sugars 14 g
Fat 13 g
Unsaturated Fat 0 g

Reviews

Michele Dennis
I am a big spice lover so I added a fairly ample amount of red pepper flakes. It’s important to salt & pepper each layer as you add ingredients. I added just a little touch of cinnamon (a tiny pinch) and a few caraway seeds. Served over brown rice. A BIG hit with lots of flavor!
Richard Collins
Followed recipe but cut back a teaspoon on the Cajun spice and added an extra tablespoon of green onions. The extra sliced green onion butter baste gave the cod an attractive presentation as well as flavor. I cooked it on a propane grill in aa enameled perforated veggie pan (easy clean up) 4 minutes per side medium heat. Came out perfectly. I’ll make this again.
John Newman
This was very tasty! I cooked everything in a cast iron Dutch oven which was perfect. Makes a lot for 2 people, so we’ll enjoy leftovers for awhile.
Katherine Perez
Added Chili pepper instead of cayenne
Joseph Rodriguez
Very good and easy to make! I didn’t bother removing the turkey and just added the onions, garlic and everything else to it once it was browned. I didn’t have tomato sauce so I blended another can of diced tomatoes and added that instead. Other commenters mentioned they served it over rice, so I added rice to the pan and cooked it with everything else. If you do that, just make sure to add more water or broth for the rice. Will make again!
Kendra Harris
I’m trying to cook light, and this dish does the trick! I followed the recipe and used a teaspoon of salt as well as lots of black pepper for our taste. The dish turned out delicious! It absolutely has a kick!
John Johnson
I did not make changes. My husband is supposed to be on a heart healthy/medditerean diet so I am experienting. He likes hot sauce so we added extra cayenne and he really liked it. Goes in my cookbook!
Rita Hernandez
Love this soup!!! I used rotelle tomatoes which have pepper in them – mild has just the right amount of kick for those that don’t like spicy.
Elizabeth Robles
Loved this! Filling, tasty, healthy and inexpensive, easy & not too many ingredients. I do think the onion quantity is off – I used 1/2 onion, diced. Also, the crushed red pepper quantity is pretty extreme, I would recommend cutting that to 1/4 to 1/2 tsp. Leftovers are great too.
Tiffany Davis
Delicious! Will definitely make again. Followed recipe except didn’t use all the cabbage…not enough liquid.
Jennifer Johnson
It was Good and healthy! I’ll make it again. I didn’t measure the spices exactly, so mine was a little hot. That’s easy to adjust though.
Sarah Heath
I didn’t like it. I increased the onion to 1/2 a medium onion sliced and reduced the hot peppers to 3/4 tsp. red pepper flakes. I served it with rice.It wasn’t too hot, it had no flavor. Heat does not equal flavor for me.
John Davis
This was good! Yes it was spicy but not too spicy. I too had over rice (white), which I think helped cut the spice. We love onion and garlic so I increased those and I think I’ll add onion and garlic powder to the turkey next time and I’ll add more salt. I was nervous also about there not being enough liquid to cook the cabbage so used 2/3 head of cabbage and covered it while it simmered. I’ll definitely make it again.
Sharon Watts
Working on making this right now. I can barely fit it in the skillet. I hope it turns out. There doesnt seem to be enough liquid to cook the cabbage.
Jo Garcia
Too spicy, not one of our favorites.
Bradley Hall
This was a really easy and great tasting dish. My new hubby likes spicy foods, so I added a tad more pepper flakes and cayenne pepper. I chose to use ground chuck, but it turned out great! Definitely will make it again.
Ernest Smith
I really liked the flavors in this recipe. I followed the recipe exactly and made brown rice on the side which cuts the spice down quite a bit. It was not too spicy once you added the rice and in fact, I might make it a little spicier next time.
Johnny Bradley
This is so good and using quinoa really makes a big pot. I used the slow cooker
David Brown
I made it as the recipe called for (without the heat for my toddler), but it was a little bland. So, I doubled the spices and added more salt and pepper, and it turned out pretty good. My husband and I added some red pepper paste on the side since we left out the cayenne and red pepper. It was just like a spring roll but without the roll…which my husband doesn’t like and they take a lot of extra time, so this worked out perfectly! I couldn’t fit it all in my skillet, so I did boil some of the cabbage in a different pot, then added it as it cooked down, but I ended up leaving some of the cabbage out. We’ll make this recipe again with doubled spices. Thanks for a good cabbage recipe!

 

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