Cabbage with Mushrooms and Sour Cream

This dish offers great combination of tastes: cabbage, onions, mushrooms and sour cream braised together and seasoned with fresh dill.

Cabbage braised with mushrooms and sour cream can be served as a side or as no meat course on its own.

Time needed for cooking will vary depending on how soft you like cabbage to be, just check its readiness from time to time.

Ingredients:

  • 2-2.5lb of cabbage
  • 8oz of baby bella mushrooms
  • 1 onion
  • Small bunch of fresh dill
  • 3 tablespoon of sour cream
  • Ground black pepper to taste
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil

How to prepare, step-by-step:

  1. Prepare ingredients:
    Cabbage with Mushrooms and Sour Cream Recipe: Step 1
  2. Rinse mushrooms of any dirt, slice each in half or in quarters if they are big:
    Cabbage with Mushrooms and Sour Cream Recipe: Step 2
  3. Peel onion, slice it in quarter circles:
    Cabbage with Mushrooms and Sour Cream Recipe: Step 3
  4. Warm a deep skillet with a bit oil up over moderate heat; add sliced onions and fry them until softened and lightly colored, stir from time to time:
    Cabbage with Mushrooms and Sour Cream Recipe: Step 4
  5. Add mushrooms:
    Cabbage with Mushrooms and Sour Cream Recipe: Step 5
  6. Fry onions and mushrooms together until juices produced by mushrooms evaporate; stir from time to time:
    Cabbage with Mushrooms and Sour Cream Recipe: Step 6
  7. Shred cabbage (discard stem part), add cabbage portion by portion to the pan (cabbage volume will reduce while cooking, so if amount of shredded cabbage doesn’t fit, just put as much cabbage to the pan as it can fit and cook it stirring until volume reduces and you can fit more); cook for 10 mins or so, don’t forget to stir:
    Cabbage with Mushrooms and Sour Cream Recipe: Step 7
  8. Season with salt and ground black pepper to taste:
    Cabbage with Mushrooms and Sour Cream Recipe: Step 8
  9. Add sour cream:
    Cabbage with Mushrooms and Sour Cream Recipe: Step 9
  10. Bring to light simmer (reduce heat if needed) and cook until cabbage gets to desired softness:
    Cabbage with Mushrooms and Sour Cream Recipe: Step 10
  11. Then add chopped fresh dill:
    Cabbage with Mushrooms and Sour Cream Recipe: Step 11
  12. Mix everything, cook for a minute then turn heat off:
    Cabbage with Mushrooms and Sour Cream Recipe: Step 12
  13. Serve as a dish on its own or as a side:
    Cabbage with Mushrooms and Sour Cream Recipe
Enjoy!