Cabbage for Health

Cabbage isn't exactly the most glamorous or romantic of vegetables, but it is one of the healthier, and you should be eating the stuff on a regular basis.

If you want a healthy crockpot recipe with cabbage, try this one...

Pritiken's Potato Stuffed Cabbage

1 head cabbage
5 lb potatoes -- peeled
2 onions
1/2 cup rice, raw
1 tsp dill, dried
1/4 tsp black pepper -- ground
2 egg whites
1 can tomatoes (28 oz)
1 apple -- peeled and sliced
1/4 tsp ginger, dried -- ground

Parboil cabbage and separate the leaves. Slice off part of the heavy stalk of each leaf by slicing parallel to the leaf (do not cut into the leaf).

Grate potatoes, small inner leaves of cabbage, and one of the onions. Mix together. Add rice, dill, and black pepper. Beat egg whites until frothy and add to potato mixture.

Set aside two or three of the largest leaves. Fill each remaining cabbage leaf with approximately 2 Tbs. of the potato mixture. Fold up bottom of leaf, then fold in the sides, and roll up. Secure with toothpick if necessary.

Slice the reserved leaves and line the bottom of crockpot with them. Slice second onion and layer on top of cabbage. Add tomatoes, apple, and ginger. Place rolled stuffed cabbages into pot.

Cook at low heat for 4 to 5 hours.

The Cabbage Soup Diet

One more quick suggestion that's cabbage related...

The 7-day Cabbage Soup Diet works -- in the short term, anyway.

And there's a purity to it, especially in summer when it's wonderfully refreshing served ice cold. Ingredient proportions can be varied according to your likes and dislikes.

If you're interested in the popular The Cabbage Soup fad diet, yes, we have it on our website. Just click here to read all about it.

Chet "Cabbage Eater" Day
Editor, The Natural Health Circus
http://chetday.com/blog