{"id":28518,"date":"2019-08-13T12:40:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T17:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slimmingeats.com\/blog\/?p=28518"},"modified":"2024-03-15T08:23:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T13:23:54","slug":"creamy-garlic-pork-with-cabbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimmingeats.com\/blog\/creamy-garlic-pork-with-cabbage","title":{"rendered":"Creamy Garlic Pork with Cabbage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

 Creamy Garlic Pork with Cabbage - pork pieces in an irresistible lighter creamy garlic sauce with delicious shredded cabbage for a perfect any night of the week dinner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mean what's not to love right?  This dish is just everything!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and when I shared the pic of my dinner on Instagram<\/a><\/strong> recently, you all went completely crazy. Who would have thought cabbage would get anyone so excited. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then you all obviously have great taste, because pork, cabbage, creamy and garlic go together perfectly - right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Creamy Garlic Pork and Cabbage all in One Pan<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Yes, that's right this dish is cooked all in one pan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay, okay, yes there are various steps to the recipe, but I love the main recipe that uses just one pan and apart from the sides you choose to serve it with, everything, literally everything goes into the one pan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this reason, a deep frying pan is a must and one with a lid too. One like this Tefal 30cm Deep frying pan<\/a><\/strong> is the perfect size and depth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is because before cabbage gets cooked, it is pretty big in volume and quite a lot of it goes into this recipe, so ensuring you have enough space to add all the ingredients, means it will cook perfectly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do I make Creamy Garlic Pork and Cabbage?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One of the stars of this ingredient is obviously the garlic, it's in the title of the recipe after all. I am not talking a measly couple of cloves of garlic either. In this recipe we use 8 - yes you read that right, EIGHT cloves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now before you go thinking, oh no. that's far too much garlic, it really isn't. Yes, garlic is a powerful flavour, but cooked correctly, it adds such an amazing sweetness of flavour to any dish and in this Creamy Garlic Pork and Cabbage - it's heavenly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Normally to cook garlic you need lots of oil or butter or both to prevent it from burning. If you burn the garlic, the result is a horrid bitter taste that is not pleasant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So to create a healthy version, I use just a little bit of spray oil and some chicken stock. Using a little bit of stock and reducing it down in place of the oil, does the same trick that all that butter and oil will do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make sure when you cook the cabbage you let it absorb most of that stock. Otherwise the sauce will be a lot more runny when you add in the cream cheese. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Can I use Quark, Instead of cream cheese?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It's a question I get asked a lot of recipes where I use low-fat cream cheese. But the answer is no. Quark and cream cheese are really not the same. They taste different for a start. Quark is not at all creamy and has more of a sour taste to it. Fine in some recipes, but where you are trying to make something creamy, I tend to avoid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other thing with quark is it really can only be added to a dish at the very end otherwise it splits and your dish will not look at all pleasant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can use any brand of low-fat cream cheese that you like. The popular ones out there are Philadelphia, but store brand versions are just as good. Just make sure you always double-check the value of the one you use, as they can vary and the values given are based on the ingredients I have used. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creamy Garlic Chicken with Cabbage? or Creamy Garlic Pork with Cabbage Pasta<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Don't fancy pork? Then go right ahead and swap out that pork for some skinless boneless chicken thighs. I won't judge, because I may well do that myself next time. This will be as delicious with chicken as it is with pork. Yum!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and now it's time to let you into a secret. This recipe serves 6 people. I know that's a lot of people, but I had a lot of pork and a lot of cabbage to use up. However my family is only 4 people, so do you want to know what I did with the leftovers the next day? I cooked up some Fettucine pasta and sliced the pork into smaller pieces and stirred the whole lot into the pasta with a little reserved pasta water. Oh my gosh - amazing!! You could even sprinkle with a little grated parmesan if you have spare, now there's a thought.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Need some Sides for this Creamy Garlic Pork and Cabbage?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I went for some simple chopped russet potatoes, still in their skins cooked in the Tefal Actifry<\/a><\/strong> with a little Avocado spray oil<\/a><\/strong> and a pinch of sea salt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if you need some other suggestions, check out these:<\/p>\n\n\n\n