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[jadesfire]

Red Cabbage.

How do you cook yours?

*hefts vegetable*

Comments

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Cooked with and dumplings and maybe a nice slice of roast ^^

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, but how do you cook your red cabbage? We tried it plain and were...underwhelmed ;)

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Ah, nonono, never plain. Add onions and apple, I think that does the trick.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Onions and apples. Got it :)

Thanks!

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Where I live it's usually a part of a cabbage slaw or added to a green salad. I don't think I've ever been served cooked red cabbage. However, I found a recipe that sounds wonderful:

Gingered Red Cabbage and Carrots
(serves 2)

1/4 pound carrots -- (about 2 medium)
1/2 pound red cabbage
2 teaspoons unsalted butter
1/2 teaspoon minced peeled fresh gingerroot
1 teaspoon soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon sugar

Preparation: Separately cut carrots and cabbage into julienne strips. In a saucepan of boiling salted water cook carrots 2 minutes, or until just crisp-tender, and transfer with a slotted spoon to a bowl. Cook cabbage in boiling water 1 minute, or until just tender, and drain in a sieve. In a skillet melt butter over moderately high heat until foam subsides and in it saute' gingerroot, stirring, 30 seconds. Add carrots, cabbage, soy sauce, and sugar and saute', stirring, 2 minutes.

Nutritional Information: 92 Calories (kcal); 4g Total Fat; (37% calories from fat); 2g Protein; 13g Carbohydrate; 10mg Cholesterol; 202mg Sodium.

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Look it up, I have no idea about the actual volumes of apple in there, but it gives the cabbage that nice sweetness :)

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

Housemate's delicious recipe from Delia:

2 lb red cabbage
1 lb large cooking apple
1 lb onions
1 clove garlic
cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves
3 tablespoons brown sugar
3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1/2 oz butter

300F/150C
Bung it all into casserole dish and mix. Cook for 1 1/2-2 hours. Prod occasionally.

[smtfhw.livejournal.com]

This is my German grandmother's recipe...

1 red cabbage
40g pork, bacon or lard (or a tablespoon olive oil if you're vegetarian)
1 onion, peeled
4-5 cloves (stick them into the uncut onion)
2 sour apples, peeled and chopped
2 tablespoons vinegar
Water or stock
Salt
Sugar
1 bottle red wine if liked

Chop the cabbage small and add to a bowl with red wine. Let it marinate overnight if possible.

Chop up the pork/bacon/pork fat and render it.

Fry the onion slightly until it starts to shine.

Add cabbage to the pan with the apple, vinegar and stock.

Let it simmer covered for an hour or more until it is soft and the onion starts to disintegrate.

Add sugar, salt, pepper to taste. It should be sweetish but with a bite from the vinegar still.

Add 1 or 2 tablespoons of flour to thicken the liquid.

Remove the onion and discard it.

Serve. Keeps well, freezes even better.

[lyorn.livejournal.com]

Red cabbage wants acids to bring out taste and colour. Cut in thin stripes. Chop some onions or escalottes, yellow them in goose lard, if you have some. Put the cabbage in, some red wine, a chopped apple, cloves and maybe piement or a laurel leaf. When it's done, you can finish it with a spoonful of cowberry, cranberry or red currant jam.

It's also possible to cook it with bases and make it blue instead of red, but I do not have a recipe for that. I suspect some kind of soda is involved.

ETA: Pin the laurel leaf to a whole onion with the cloves, and take the whole thing out before serving. Otherwise, some people on the table are in for a surprise...

[tintop-lizzy.livejournal.com]

When you boil the red cabbage cut in equally thin slithers, dump the lot into already boiling water and haul it out of the heat according to taste. Leaving it firm but biteable like a ripe apple hardness is ideal. Chop onions into minced tiny pieces so they mix themselves amongst the strips as they boil. The freshness of the cabbage makes a difference to the timimg: the first half of the cabbage may take longer to boil!! keeping the second half in water in the fridge improves it, but cover the bowl and change the water EVERY day without fail.

LOVE YOUR VEGGIES!

[hellenebright.livejournal.com]

Quick option - slice cabbage, add to pan with some olive oil, stir for a couple of minutes. Add (for 2 people's worth) a tablespoon of cider or balsamic vinegar and 4-5 tbs water. Lid on and boil till cabbage is done, remove lid and allow liquid to evaporate.

Slow option, cabbage, apples, raisins, butter/olive oil, tbs cider vinegar, tsp molasses sugar. Stir together over heat for a couple of minutes, then put in oven for a couple of hours.

[white_hart]

Cooked slowly with a chopped apple, a splash of vinegar and some brown sugar. It's gorgeous like that.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Actually I usually don't. I slice it thinly and mix it with mayonnaise and a bit of shredded carrot for cole slaw. I like red cole slaw.

Alternately I cut it in chunks, lightly boil it, and add butter and salt.

Other alternates: do the same as the above, but make a sauce.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that sounds yummy. I like red cabbage but it's a little...dull...unless you do something like that to it. Thanks!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. Easy and yummy. *adds to list*

Thanks!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

That sounds awesome. I shall keep it for next time!

Thanks :)

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Wow. *adds to recipe collection*

Sounds yummy, thanks!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Hee. I do love my veggies! Once I figure out how to cook them! ;)

thanks!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Oh good grief, I'm drooling over red cabbage at 10.40 in the morning. That can't be right... ;)

Thanks! Sounds yummy!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. We went for something similar in the end, although it suffered for lack of brown sugar. Will have to do that with the other half...

Thanks!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Coleslaw does seem to be a popular option... I've never made my own, but sounds good :)

Thanks!

[smtfhw.livejournal.com]

It's wonderful. There's a massive container of it in our freezer waiting for Christmas Day lunch.

[potatocubed.livejournal.com]

You're going to need a bigger boat cabbage.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I like my own homemade cole slaw more than most of the commercially prepared kind - and it's so very cheap and easy.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was starting to notice that...