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Does anyone have any favourite recipes for cabbage? I like it, I know it's good for me, but I get bored with it very quickly. Not that it makes much difference, but it's mostly savoys that I grow.

The obvious one is to add pancetta / streaky bacon but Savoy also goes well with smoked salmon - I use trimmings which are a lot cheaper than the slices.

Just gently sweat the cabbage in a little water and a bit of oil in a saucepan with a close fitting lid and add the smoked salmon after 4-5 minutes. You can add a bit of cream at the end.

I chuck in half a roughly chopped onion with the cabbage and steam - expect you could use leek too.   Also, quite nice if you add half a sliced green pepper and steam.   
twinkletoes

I use mostly savoy too. I steam it then add to a pan of fried onion and mashed potato to make a colcannon/bubble and squeak type thing - deelishus!

Thinly sliced and add a glug of orange juice, lid on and steam in the juice. Season well with black pepper & Nutmeg........YUM!

Very plebeian- boiled, buttered, peppered and pile on cold tomato ketchup. Yummy.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D Cabbage, bacon and a good dollop of mashed potato..... lovely!! Oh yes and a bit of that lovely brown sauce.... perfect!!!

                           Oriental Cabbage

4 cups Coarsley shredded cabbage  with 1 cup chopped onion.1 cup chopped celery, 1  wholw red pepper, salt, pepper to taste, 1 tablespoon soya sauce and a good sprinkle of paprika

Saute all in butter for 2/3  minutes, lid on and let it steam for a further 7/8 minutes   

                                     German Cabbage

4 cups cabbage, red is good, 3/4 cups chopped onions, 2 whole apples peeled and grated, salt, boiling water 1/2 cup. cider vinegar 1/4 cup.1/3rd brown sugar/ 1 tablespoon butter/1/4 teaspoon allspicw

cook first 5 ingredients,cover and cook till tender 10 minutes,drain well,

add remaining ingredients , stir well to dissolve sugar and allspice

                         Cabbage au gratin

  Treat just like cauliflowe, cook cabbage in salted water, make roux with flour butter and 1 3/4 cups milk and let it thicken, add 1 1/2 cups grated cheddar. mix cabbage with sauce, por intoa casserole dish sprinkle with another cup of cheese. bake uncovered 350f for 20/30.minutes

Cabbage rolls,

Leaves stuffed with rice and meat, seaon as you wish and folded into parcels and baked with tomato sauce like spaghetti sauce

Cabbage soup  or coleslaw

XX Jeannine

Then there's Hungarian cabbage, the leaves wrapped around a pillow of a mixture of rice and browned ground beef well seasoned, put the pillows in a  pile in a kettle with some sort of stock just enough to steam gently or do it in the oven I guess.

Or Chinese Seaweed?

Thanks for all these great suggestions. I'll start at the top and work my way down.

Very Irish - lovely. I could live on this kind of food!

Quote from: norfolklass on March 27, 2008, 10:51:51
I use mostly savoy too. I steam it then add to a pan of fried onion and mashed potato to make a colcannon/bubble and squeak type thing - deelishus!

Love chinese seaweed 8)

Butter, caraway seeds & splash of balsamic vinegar at the end of the cooking time, anyone?

I like it cooked with crushed juniper berries and some smokey bacon.

Tonight it's going to be shredded cabbage lightly poached in 2005 vintage rhubarb wine and then added to finely chopped garlic, onion, chilli  and streaky bacon flash fried in a smidgeon of olive oil. Add black pepper and a few cardamom pods, maybe an inch of cinnamon stick or ginger root. I'm getting quite hungry in anticipation!

This may be of interest.

Use a wok

chop an onion and gently fry it in a little oil until soft.

add finely shredded cabbage. Any variety any colour. Even a mix.

AND

to your choice add any thing from the chilli or pepper family cut into strips

Keep on stir frying until it becomes the texture you like (soft or crunchy).

It does not matter even if the onion or cabbage gets a bit over browned, adds to the flavour.

Totally different from that boiled/steamed rubbish the English eat

Another one is to do the same as above but use chopped up bacon with the onion.

Any left overs can be mixed with mashed potato and reheated to make a bubble and squeek

Mmm! Sounds lovely ph. Whereabouts are you that you  dare so lightly to rubbish English boiled cabbage? ;D ;D

Where's the Garlic, then?

You're so right Tim! As you know my preference is for garlic with everything! ;)

My hubbies favorite is lightly fried onions with steam/fried chopped cabbage, chopped desert apples, cooked new potatoes. Sometime I add  strippeds of cooked chicken or turkey and maybe abit of garlic.
A quick one pot meal.