Volume Eaters Thread

I made one of my go-to high-volume, high-fiber veggies with some steamed pork dish today and thought I share. I even pulled out the fancy plate for the pictures and made a "before" pic with the ingredients.

The entire meal comes in at 348 calories and it's really easy to cook with only one pot and after you cut all the veggies it mostly cooks itself - you only need to stir it a few times.



Imo it always looks smaller on the pics than it does in person but let me assure you it's a huge plate (those are deep 12" plates and as you can see it covers most of my stove top).





Ingredients:



98.5g Kassler Minutenlachs (lean, smoked pork)
347g Kohlrabi
127g Carrots
150g Leek
6g Veggie Bouillon*
7.5g Potato fiber**

It's super simple to cook: Heat up some water (so around 1-1.5cm of the bottom of the pot is covered) and add the bouillon. Then add the veggies in the order they need time to cook (in this case, I do the kohlrabi first and then add carrots and leek a bit later) and put the lid on. Just stir it in between a few times and make sure it has enough water; add a bit more during the cooking time if needed. At the very end of the cooking time, just add the potato fiber to season and thicken the liquid. Also add some salt & pepper as well as herbs; it doesn't need much salt imo because you already get that from the bouillon but I've added some parsley. You can cook the pork differently but I'm lazy, so I just throw it into the microwave for the last 2 minutes of the veggie cooking time and heat it up. And you're done.

As for substitutes, I often use celery instead (or on top) of the leek and sometimes I add cabbage. It depends what I have at home and how big the other ingredients are - eg today the kohlrabi was rather big so I wouldn't add anything else but if I have a smaller kohlrabi (like 200-250g) then I might either increase the other ingredients or add something else. It's just important that the veggies you use go well with potato taste-wise, so I wouldn't use eg zucchini or peppers. But cauliflower, celeriac, various cabbages etc all work well. I've also often done this dish with sliced chicken breast instead, which I just season with salt & pepper and add after half the cooking time and cook in the same pot. You can obviously substitute the pork for anything - different meat or a vegetarian protein source.

* Idk your standard terminology but I use this. Anything to just give it more taste than simply water will do. You can use real broth obviously too but I'm too lazy for that.

** Potato fiber is awesome. I initially bought them as fiber supplement as I had trouble meeting my goals for a while but couldn't really find any use for it until I "discovered" using it like this and I just LOVE it. As someone who loves potatoes I find it makes certain veggies taste awesome and it has great macros and is easy to use. A lot of low-carb people use it for baking bread but I don't do that so I needed to find other uses. Potato fiber is what remains when you extract most of the starch and water from potatoes and then grind it. They contain nothing but potatoes; no additives. Macros for 100g are: Calories: 193 kcal (809 KJ), Fat: < 0.1g, Carbs: 8g (Sugar: < 0.1g, Fiber 65g), Protein: 9g