Healthy and Easy

This week I decided to go to friends for a recipe. My best friend’s mom had introduced me to an easy to cook meal that is healthy too. I decided to try it on my own. The dish is cabbage and ground beef casserole, but I decided to no make it a casserole and just add rolls as a side.

The first thing you need is an electric frying pan, my new favorite invention. The frying pan is really easy to use and even easier to clean, my least favorite part of cooking. You turn the frying pan on to 300º F and allow it to heat up. You than slice up the head of cabbage into skinny strands about a half-inch wide and seven inches long. You put the cabbage in a bowl and add olive oil, ground pepper, and salt, to your desired taste. That was hard for me to do, being an analytical thinker I like things to be precise but I have come to learn cooking is far from precise. You than mix it all together and place it in the pan and allow it cook. While that is cooking you cut up a red onion into tiny pieces and add it to the pan too. Once the cabbage is soft you take it out and put it in a bowl. You than put ground beef into the skillet to let it cook, I use 93% lean beef but you can also use lean ground turkey which also happens to work with the South Beach Diet. After the meat is brown you put the cabbage and onions back in the pan and allow everything to cook together for about five minutes. It is then ready to eat!

The first time I cooked the beef first, but I learned cabbage takes a lot longer to cook and results in the meat being over cooked and dry. However, if you cook the cabbage first it turns out wonderfully. I was proud of myself this week because I figured it out on my own after only seeing someone cook it once. The recipe is quick, easy, and delicious!