In a wide variety of dishes around the world, cabbage is a versatile leafy green or red vegetable.You can cook it, eat it or ferment it to make a delicious sauce.It pairs well with pork dishes.cabbage can be used to make a healthy side dish.If you want to eat cabbage in a different way, you can either try out classic recipes or invent your own.
Step 1: cabbage can be steamed for a healthy side dish.
If you shred a cabbage, rinse it, and put it into a skillet without drying it out, it will make the cabbage steam.When the skillet starts to steam, lower the heat to medium and steam the cabbage for 5 minutes.Put the skillet on the stove and cook the cabbage for 2 more minutes.If you want, you could serve this with roasted chicken or roast beef.
Step 2: Cook cabbage to keep it crisp.
Cut a head of cabbage into strips and stir-fry it with other vegetables and meat to turn it into a main course.If you want to make a simple side dish, saute it on its own with olive oil, salt, and pepper.You could stir fry cabbage with chicken, carrots, broccoli, and any other vegetables you want in a Chinese-style stir- fried cabbage dish.
Step 3: You can grill cabbage to give it a smokey flavor.
Cut a head of cabbage into 4 wedges and spread one side with butter or olive oil.After seasoning it with salt and pepper, cook it on a hot grill for about 5 minutes per side or until it's tender.It is possible to serve grilled cabbage with bacon, blue cheese, or ranch dressing.
Step 4: To make cabbage tender, raise it.
Cut a head of cabbage and an onion into slices and cook them in a skillet over medium-high heat for 5 minutes or until they are translucent.You can put in water, white or apple cider vinegar, sugar, salt, and caraway seeds.Reduce the heat to low and cook the cabbage.Braised cabbage can be served with a pat of butter on top.
Step 5: Before washing a head of cabbage, you should remove the outer leaves.
The head of cabbage's leaves are softer than normal.If you want to get rid of dirt on the cabbage, rinse the whole head thoroughly.You don't need to wash the leaves because they are stuck together tightly.The dirtiest layer of the leaves can be removed by removing the loose leaves.
Step 6: For a summery side, shred cabbage and make it into a salad.
Take a head of cabbage and slice it into 4 quarters.You can shred carrots with a grater and mix them with shredded cabbage and a salad dressing of your choice.For a traditional side dish, you could make a creamy buttermilk coleslaw and serve it with BBQ'd ribs or brisket.
Step 7: Add cabbage to salads for more nutrition.
Throw cabbage leaves with your other favorite vegetables, fruits, and salad dressings.There are lots of healthy vitamins in cabbage.In summery salads, cabbage goes nicely with apples or oranges.
Step 8: Put shredded cabbage on top of the taco.
Use raw shredded cabbage along with diced onions and tomatoes to top your taco.Add hot sauce and cheese to finish it off.It's possible to make a Southern California-style cabbage coleslaw with lime and cilantro to top a fish taco.
Step 9: Add cabbage to your soup.
You can shred a head of cabbage and make a soup out of it.Add cabbage to soups like minestrone, bean soup, ramen, or hot and sour soup.You could also make a soup based on cabbage, such as a creamy bacon and cabbage soup.
Step 10: Place cabbage leaves around ground meat to make stuffed cabbage rolls.
Wrap cabbage leaves around ground pork, beef, or lamb after boiling them for a minute.Place the rolls in a baking dish and bake them at 350 F for 1 1/2 hours or until the filling is cooked.Season ground lamb with cinnamon, garlic, and lemon for stuffed cabbage rolls.It is possible to mix cooked rice in.You can serve the stuffed cabbage rolls with a tomato sauce or sour cream.For every 8 cabbage leaves you want to stuff, use 1 lbs of ground meat.
Step 11: Corned beef and cabbage can be made into a traditional Irish meal.
For about 50 minutes per pound of meat, cover a roast with water in a pot or dutch oven and cook it in the oven.Put 10 small red potatoes, 5 sliced carrots, and 1 head of cabbage cut into wedges into the pot around the corned beef and keep simmering until the vegetables are tender.Remove the meat, slice it, and eat it next to the cabbage and vegetables with some of the soup on top.This is a great recipe for a party.If you drink a beer with your beef and cabbage, you will get extra points.You can use the leftovers from this recipe to make a breakfast casserole.Just chop everything up and fry it in a pan with some oil, then top it with a fried egg.
Step 12: You can cook cabbage with pork or bacon.
It works well with all kinds of pork dishes.Pork shoulder or pork belly can be cut into chunks in a slow cooker for up to eight hours.Sauteed cabbage can be used as a side or topping for all kinds of pork sausages.
Step 13: It's a good idea to make cabbage into spicy kimchi.
A paste made out of hot red peppers, garlic, ginger, and fish sauce can be mixed with cut cabbage.When the vegetables are all submerged, put the kimchi in a jar and press it down.It should ferment for at least 5 days.It's a great topping for rice and meat dishes.You can make a quick version of traditional kimchi at home.