Cabbage Something Different Please

[Cookie]

Cabbage is either steamed or boiled in our house but I would love some different tried and tested recipes for cabbage. Has anyone got any please?

[malcolmx]

interleave with chesse(hard) and mince cover with thinly sliced par boiled pots and bake

wrap joints of rabbit or venison in butter and cabbage and wrap all round with foil and steam or bake

[Cookie]

That sounds nice Malcolm it's a bit like lasagne. I'll give this recipe a try as both cabbage and lasagne go down well here thanks.

Do you leave the cabbage leaves whole or cut them up a bit?

I've never tried rabbit.................!

[froinsias]

I blanch the leaves for about 5 mins,allow to cool and pat dry. I then fill them with all sorts of left overs from curry and rice, pasta and sauce, vegetable cous cous etc. I then tie them with cotton in parcels place in a greased/oiled lasagne dish, drizzle with oil/melted butter then bake at 180c for 15-20 mins. serve with crusty bread and pickle......but remember to remove the cotton before serving!

[runnerbean]

1 Cabbage, sliced and washed, 1 large onion peeled and sliced, (3 or 4 rashers of bacon cut into pieces, optional ) 3 Tbs of marg or butter, freshly ground black pepper. In a heavy based saucepan melt marg or butter, add cabbage, onion, bacon, black pepper and mix well. Place lid on saucepan, and turn down heat to lowest setting, steam until soft, stirring occasionally so it doesn't stick. Enjoy!

[Cookie]

Thanks both of you. These will be delicious!

Froinsias do you cut the cabbage rib from the leaves?

Runnerbean I do something very similar with broad beans so I know your cabbage recipe will go down well. Still haven't plucked the courage up to make dumplings!

[runnerbean]

C'mon Cookie, get those dumplings done, you won't know til you try, it doesn't matter if you make a mistake, just try again. When making home made Minestrone soup, add finely sliced cabbage, delicious.!

[judimac]

Fry onion and garlic in butter add chopped cabbage and 2 tblsn of water cook covered until the cabbage is just done. The breath on all your enemies next day:

[Canucksintheuk]

I know this thread is a ways down and I'm bumping it - but have you tried cabbage rolls? They are delicious - can make trays of them at a time and freeze them for busy nights. I just make them now - don't really have a recipe for them as far as measurements go - but will find one and post back. Basic ingredients are cabbage leaves - stuffed with a tomatoe/mince/rice mixture and all place together in a baking dish and topped with a tomatoe base sauce. Fantastic served with sour cream and perogies.

[beamerboy36]

I do a Thai cabbage soup. Have got some thai seasoning from Julian Graves, but I'm sure you could make your own, add this to about a pint of veg stock and add a sliced cabage tot he pot and let it simmer away for about an hour.

You may have to do a few batches to get the seasoning right but it gives the boring old cabbage a nice new twist

[tony Sirett]

still boiling it i know but try adding a teaspoon full of carroway seeds to it (no salt) while you are boiling it, drain well and toss it in a pan with a knob of salted butter

[ginger]

koldolmas are classic here in Sweden - they're the dumplings described up there *points* with a simple minced meat stuffing.

One of my favourites (best with a white cabbage, or similar) is okonomiyaki - which I first had in Kyoto. It's a Japanese cabbage-based pancake, easy to make, and very tasty.

Mix finely sliced cabbage with a grated potato, an egg, maybe some grated onion and a bit of flour, then add in a mix of chicken and prawns (or whatever you like). Chuck in some stock to the mix to liven it up a bit, and I add finaly chopped pickled ginger too, for a wee suprise. Oh, and sometimes some sesame seeds. Should be a bit sticky, not runny at this point.
Plop a big spoonful into a frying pan, then slowly cook it - flatten the top after a while so it cooks evenly.

The final toppings are my favourite bit, but not easy to come by:
If you have it, drizzle on mayonaisse, okonomiyaki sauce (or teryaki sauce) lots of powdered seaweed and bonito fish flakes - they end up waving about on top of the hot pancake which amuses me no end

If you don't have all that stuff, mayonaisse and brown sauce (used sparingly) would be a fair substitute.

Here's what wiki says about okonomiyaki

That said, lightly boiled cabbage with some butter, salt and pepper is very hard to beat

[lisa4star]

Try jst boiling as normal or steaming (whatever you prefer) then simply add salt, pepper, butter and some oatmeal.

This way is particularly nice with White cabbage.

Simple but effective.