Photo: Bonus Recipe: Ginormous Cabbage-Wrapped Burger Stack Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 head green cabbage (you won't use it all!), carefully cored with a knife
- 1 frozen meatless hamburger-style patty with about 100 calories
- 1 slice onion
- 2 slices tomato
- Ketchup, optional, as a topping
- Mustard, optional, as a topping
Directions
Serving suggestion: dill pickle spears
Place the head of cabbage in a large microwave-safe bowl, and microwave for about 4 minutes, until the outer leaves begin to loosen.
Once cool enough to handle, remove the cabbage from the bowl. Gently remove 2 whole outer leaves from the cabbage, and place them back in the bowl. (Reserve the rest of the cabbage for another use.)
Add 2 tablespoons of water to the bowl with the cabbage leaves. Cover and microwave for about 2 minutes, until leaves are very soft.
Meanwhile, spray a skillet with nonstick spray and bring to medium heat on the stove. Add the burger patty and onion slice and cook for about 4 minutes per side, until cooked through.
Top one cabbage leaf with the burger patty, followed by a tomato slice, the onion, and the remaining tomato slice. If you like, top with ketchup and mustard. Gently top with the other leaf. Serve with pickles, if you want, and chew!
PER SERVING (entire recipe): 128 calories, 3g fat, 335mg sodium, 13g carbs, 5.5g fiber, 4g sugars, 12g protein
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By krafty-kate
Haines, Alaska
on September 19, 2011
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I have had this before and it's GREAT! I used a head of lettuce instead of cabbage. I have also used green and red lettuce for tacos and hotdogs.
By I LUV PASTA
New Jersey
on September 16, 2011
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Eating the burger without the bun knocked off about 130 calories!! I have made burgers with bacon, super fatty ground beef, swiss cheese and lots of mayo...They are delicious but you can literally taste the calories beginning to clog your arteries.
This burger is delicious in an entirely different way. The guilt free feeling makes so much more scrumptious. I wasn't bothered at all by no burger bun. With all the fixings added - lettuce, tomatoe, onion, mustard and ketchup...it tasted just like a regular burger. That was a surprise.
I didn't have cabbage, so I used lettuce - which worked fine. But I'll get some cabbage tomorrow. The recipe's extra good because I am using food exchanges. I usually count a burger as 1 protein, 1 carb for the hamburger meat and the bun.
But with a bunless burger, I count this as only 1 protein and I can save my carb serving for something else. Yay! Another hungry girl recipe, perhaps!
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