Keto unstuffed cabbage roll casserole
Everything you love about cabbage rolls without any of the rolling: garlicky beef, tender cabbage and cauliflower rice baked in a tomato sauce with Italian herbs and a golden mozzarella top. It is a big, comforting dish that keeps for days and freezes well.
- Time
- 80 min (15 prep + 65 cook)
- Servings
- 6
- Per serving
- 332 kcal
- Protein
- 35 g
Ingredients
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1/2 small onion, diced
- 4 cloves garlic, grated
- 1 3/4 lb ground beef (93% lean)
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 medium head (about 6 cups chopped) cabbage, chopped
- 2 cups riced cauliflower
- 2 tsp dried oregano
- 2 tsp dried basil
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 1 1/4 cups tomato sauce, no-sugar-added marinara, or plain canned tomato sauce
- 1 1/4 cups grated (4 oz) mozzarella cheese
Steps
- Heat the oven to 350°F. Warm the oil in a large skillet over medium heat and soften the onion for 4–5 minutes, then add the garlic for 30 seconds. Raise the heat, add the beef, salt and pepper, and cook for about 10 minutes, breaking it up, until browned and cooked through (160°F). Pour off any fat.
- In a 23 × 33 cm (9 × 13-inch) baking dish, toss the cabbage and cauliflower rice with the herbs. Stir in the beef and tomato sauce until everything is coated. Cover tightly with foil and bake 35 minutes, until the cabbage is tender.
- Stir it well, scatter over the mozzarella and bake uncovered for 12–15 minutes, until golden. Rest 5 minutes. It keeps 4 days in the fridge and freezes 3 months; reheat covered in the microwave or at 350°F for 20 minutes.
Good to know
It looks like too much cabbage. Is it?
No. It cooks down by about half, and it should be packed into the dish before it goes in the oven.
Can I make it without the cheese?
Yes, for a dairy-free dish, at about 71 instead of 66. The carbohydrate share rises without the cheese, so it no longer counts as keto.
Alternative
Per
- Calories
- 115
- Protein
- (44%)
- 12 g
- Fat
- (44%)
- 5 g
- Carbohydrates
- (12%)
- 4 g
- of which sugar
- 2 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 296 mg
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Computed from the ingredients with our published formula, not yet kitchen-tested. How
As written, 1990 kcal goes into the pot and 2014 g of ingredients comes out as about 1737 g of food: 115 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.