Shedding Weight Casserole–an easy ground turkey and cabbage lasagna-flavored casserole. This supper is full of flavor and protein and low in calories. Make it in your Instant Pot or slow cooker.
Shedding Weight Casserole
Want to feel like you’re eating a large portion of food without eating a lot of calories? This is the dinner for you. It is really filling! And beyond that it is super yummy! There is so much flavor. Greg, Skyler and Reagan all loved this dinner. The good thing about making this tonight for dinner is that you can have a portion of it for lunch tomorrow too.
This lasagna-flavored casserole is made with high protein-low fat ground turkey, low-cal but bulky cabbage and cauliflower rice, diced tomatoes, onions, seasonings, cottage cheese and mozzarella cheese. It’s a bit loose and runny but I chose to leave it that way instead of thickening with cornstarch since that would add more carbs and calories. It is best served up in a bowl with a spoon. Mmmmmm!
Ingredients/Substitution Ideas
- Ground turkey–or extra lean ground beef or ground chicken
- Onion
- Garlic powder–or granulated garlic
- Kosher salt
- Italian seasoning
- Black pepper
- Crushed red pepper flakes
- Chicken broth–or beef broth or Better than Bouillon and water
- Cabbage–I used a half of a head of green cabbage
- Tomato sauce
- Diced tomatoes–or fire roasted tomatoes
- Cauliflower rice–I buy this in the frozen section at Costco or Sam’s Club
- Cottage cheese–or ricotta cheese
- Mozzarella cheese–for best results shred off the block rather than buying pre-shredded cheese which gets stringy.
Steps
Turn Instant Pot to saute setting. When display says HOT add in the ground turkey and break it up. Add in the onions. Brown for about 5 minutes. Stir in the garlic powder, salt, Italian seasoning, pepper and crushed red pepper.
Pour in the broth and scrape bottom of pot so that nothing is sticking. Turn off Instant Pot.
Add in the cabbage.
Dump the tomato sauce and tomatoes on top of the cabbage.
Cover Instant Pot and secure the lid. Make sure valve is set to sealing. Set the manual/pressure cook button to 5 minutes. When time is up move valve to venting and remove the lid.
Cook the cauliflower rice according to package directions in the microwave. Stir the cauliflower into the Instant Pot.
Stir a cup of the hot contents in the pot with the cottage cheese to temper it. Stir the cottage cheese mixture into the pot.
Stir the mozzarella cheese into the pot.
Serve and enjoy!
Notes/Tips
- Serve as a stand alone meal or if you’d like to add more bulk serve with a scoop or rice or a side of garlic bread.
- To make this dairy free leave out the cottage cheese and the mozzarella cheese.
- This recipe is gluten free.
- I used my 6 quart Instant Pot*. You can also make this in an 8 quart pot.
- Store leftovers in an airtight container* in the refrigerator for up to 5 days or in the freezer for up to 3 months.
- Other recipes you can make with cabbage are Ohio Casserole and Amish Cabbage And Potato Casserole.
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Shedding Weight Casserole
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 6–8 servings 1x
Description
An easy ground turkey and cabbage casserole. This supper is full of flavor and protein and low in calories. Make it in your Instant Pot or slow cooker.
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground turkey
- 1 cup diced onion
- 1 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1 1/2 tsp Italian seasoning
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/4 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 8 cups chopped cabbage
- 1 (16 oz) can tomato sauce
- 1 (14.5 oz) can diced tomatoes
- 1 (12 oz) bag cauliflower rice
- 1 cup cottage cheese
- 3/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
Instructions
Instant Pot Instructions:
- Turn Instant Pot to saute setting. When display says HOT add in the ground turkey and break it up. Add in the onions. Brown for about 5 minutes. Stir in the garlic powder, salt, Italian seasoning, pepper and crushed red pepper.
- Pour in the broth and scrape bottom of pot so that nothing is sticking. Turn off Instant Pot.
- Add in the cabbage. Dump the tomato sauce and tomatoes on top of the cabbage.
- Cover Instant Pot and secure the lid. Make sure valve is set to sealing. Set the manual/pressure cook button to 5 minutes. When time is up move valve to venting and remove the lid.
- Cook the cauliflower rice according to package directions in the microwave. Stir the cauliflower into the Instant Pot. Stir a cup of the hot contents in the pot with the cottage cheese to temper it. Stir the cottage cheese mixture into the pot. Stir the mozzarella cheese into the pot.
- Serve and enjoy!
Slow Cooker Instructions:
- Heat a pan over medium high heat. Add in the ground turkey and break it up. Add in the onions. Brown for about 5 minutes. Stir in the garlic powder, salt, Italian seasoning, pepper and crushed red pepper. Transfer to the slow cooker
- Stir in the broth, cabbage, tomato sauce, tomatoes and cauliflower.
- Cover and cook on high for 2-3 hours.
- Stir a cup of the hot contents in the slow cooker with the cottage cheese to temper it. Stir the cottage cheese mixture into the slow cooker. Stir the mozzarella cheese into the slow cooker.
- Serve and enjoy!
- Category: Ground Turkey
- Method: Instant Pot or Slow Cooker
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My family lives this meal and we are not normally cabbage eaters. one of my kids actually requests it! It reminds me if my mother’s soupy lasagna. 🙂
So glad you all liked it!
Very good and filling. it tastes like a deconstructed cabbage roll.
Thanks Darlene! I am glad you liked it 🙂
I had great hopes for this but it had way too much liquid and the correct portions were used. The flavor was okay.
Funnily enough, I stumbled into making something very similar when I tried to make your unstuffed cabbage roll recipe. Only I realized too late that I didn’t have some of the key ingredients but rolled with it anyway. It just didn’t have the cottage cheese of this one. I said it tasted almost like mixing spaghetti sauce with cabbage. But it’s so good!!!!
Haha! that is funny! I guess we are on the same page 🙂
Will this one fit in the 3 quart pot?
Probably not. There’s just too much cabbage at the start. It will ultimately cook down but it’s a lot when it’s raw.
no because the cabbage takes up so much space. But you could cut it in half for your 3 quart pot.
Can leftovers be frozen
Yes, store leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days or in the freezer for up to 3 months.
Looks great… I hate cottage cheese can I replace with ricotta?
I Don’t Care For Cottage Cheese Either, But If You Take The Cottage Cheese & Put It In A Food Processor With 1 Egg & Some Parmesan Cheese…Buzz It For About 15 Seconds…I Promise You, It Will Be Just Like Ricotta Cheese.
That is a great idea. Is it better to use 16 oz. or 24 oz. of cottage cheese to get the right ratio with the added egg? Thank you.
yes you can!