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Mediterranean warm cabbage salad

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Tasty-Mediterraneo-cabbage-chickpeas-stir-fry“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” – Hippocrates.
Who has not heard this famous quote from Hippocrates? It is amazing that back in 430 B.C. people were aware of the importance of healthy eating for living a healthy life, and that today in the 21st century the majority seem to have forgotten about it…

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With the hectic lives that we lead in today’s society, many people are far from having healthy eating and lifestyle habits. I strongly believe that many of the health conditions that people suffer from can be improved through a healthy diet. And most importantly, many conditions can be avoided by following a healthy diet.

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When you think about the many unnecessary ingredients and chemicals that you find on a prepared food label, you realise the importance of preparing a healthy meal at home from scratch.

I believe that a balanced diet such as the Mediterranean diet is the key to live healthy longer and to put you at a lower risk for cancer and other chronic diseases.

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With the hope of encouraging many of you to preparing healthy recipes at home, I leave you with the vegan and gluten free recipe I have prepared for you today: a healthy, nutritious and delicious Mediterranean warm cabbage salad. This delicious Mediterranean dish has cabbage as its main ingredient. Cabbage is rich in antioxidants, fibre, folates, vitamins C and K, calcium, magnesium, … yes that is why it is considered a super food!

If you try this tasty and healthy vegan Mediterranean diet recipe, please let me know, leave a comment and rate it. I would love to know what you come up with. Enjoy!

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Mediterranean warm cabbage salad
 
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Cuisine: Mediterranean Diet
Serves: 2 people
Ingredients
  • 3 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 Small potato, peeled and thinly diced
  • 2 Garlic cloves, peeled and thinly sliced
  • 1 White cabbage head, thinly sliced
  • 250g (1 cup) cooked organic chickpeas
  • 1 Teaspoon Pimentón de la Vera (Spanish Paprika)
  • Salt
Instructions
  1. Have all the vegetables well washed and prepared as indicated in the ingredients description. Rinse the chickpeas well and drain.
  2. In a large frying pan heat the olive oil over moderate heat, add the potatoes and a pinch of salt and sauté for about 10 minutes until lightly golden. Add then, in the middle of the frying pan, the garlic and sauté for 1 minute. After that add the drained chickpeas and stir all together for 2 more minutes.
  3. Remove the frying pan from the heat and put its content aside on a dish.
  4. Using the same frying pan, add a drop of olive oil and the thinly sliced cabbage, sauté over medium heat for about 5 minutes and remove from the heat.
  5. Finally add to the cabbage the potatoes, chickpeas and garlic mix that you had left aside, a teaspoon of Pimentón de la Vera (Spanish Paprika) and salt to taste, mix it all together. And serve warm.
Notes
If you were using dried chickpeas, to cook them: soak the dried chickpeas in warm water for 12 hours with ⅓ teaspoon of baking soda (ideally leave them soaked overnight). Rinse them well and drain. Bring water to a boil in a cooking pot and when the water is boiling add the chickpeas and leave them cooking over low heat for 2 hours until tender.

You can drizzle some extra virgin olive oil over the salad right before serving.

 

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  1. Hi
    Was a bit confused… Do you add the potatoes first or the cabbage first? Step 2 says add the potatoes but step 5 says “add to the cabbage (implying the cabbage is already cooked) the potatoes (implying they had not been added yet)…”. So which comes first?
    Thank you, it looks wonderful!

    • Hi Bella, you add the potatoes and the other ingredients as it is indicated on step 2. On step 3 you remove the frying pan from the heat and put its content aside on a dish. On step 4 you add the cabbage to the same frying pan and follow the instructions. And finally on step 5 you add to the cabbage the ingredients that you had put aside on step 3 and mix 😉 Enjoy and happy healthy cooking!

  3. Tried your recipe tonight, we absolutely loved it. We are looking for healthy recipes, thanks so much for sharing.

    • Hi Betty & Jim, I’m very happy to know you like my recipe 🙂 You have plenty of healthy and tasty recipes on the blog, enjoy!