Keto Cabbage Roll Skillet

One of the best and most popular dishes of the “old country” may be cabbage rolls, a.k.a. stuffed cabbage. This Keto cabbage roll skillet makes the delicious original recipe easier to make in considerably less time. Instead of stuffing delicate cabbage leaves that can tear or overcook, you’ll shred green cabbage and cook it down in a skillet until it’s super tender. The rest of the cabbage roll filling is made with ground beef, Low Carb tomato spice, plenty of spices, and a finishing touch of melted butter. This is an excellent Keto skillet recipe to feed a table of people family-style. You could also make meal prepping a breeze by utilizing this recipe.

Make sure you have extra salt on hand

In this Keto skillet recipe, you’ll need extra salt that isn’t listed in the ingredients. Have up to 1 tablespoon or more of extra salt to use in step 1. This extra salt gets rinsed away later and won’t be consumed, so it’s not listed in the recipe ingredients. Have even more salt on hand if you’d like to add more salt to the skillet to your taste.

Why do I add so much salt to the cabbage?

Salt is considered hydrophilic. This means it can draw moisture out of the air; or, in this case, food. Adding lots of salt to green cabbage and then massaging it into the fibers will help withdraw excess water from the cabbage that you don’t want in the recipe. You don’t necessarily have to massage the salt with your bare hands, but doing this speeds up the process significantly and ensures you get all the cabbage coated in salt.

Is tomato sauce Keto?

Plain canned tomato sauce (not jarred sauce used for pasta sauce) has few ingredients. That makes canned tomato sauce a simple ingredient you can include in your Keto diet. Tomatoes do naturally have some carbs, which carry over to the sauce. When portioned and used in moderation, tomato sauce is a friendly Keto ingredient. Feel free to use homemade tomato sauce as well if you know the macros.