What to eat with cabbage?

I've included cooked cabbage in lentil soup (nummy!) but that's about it. Can any of you help expand my horizons? What do you eat it with and how?

I don't really eat sandwiches, so please don't suggest replacing lettuce with it. :P

Well, a lean turkey sausage with steamed cabbage and onions is a favorite in my house. Just season with a little paprika.

Cabbage salad! It's actually the salad I eat for most of the winter because it's cheap and in season when other produce is blah.

There are lots of recipes, but I basically just shred cabbage and some carrots, add a pinch of salt, a pinch of sugar, some lemon juice (or vinegar) and a splash of olive oil. Yum.

Mark Bittman (NY Times food columnist) did a piece on cabbage last week. I'm sure it's up online. He has a method of salting it and then rinsing it, and apparently it makes the texture amazing.  

Braised Cabbage.  I hope I'm allowed to post a link to a recipe.  But, I've tried this one and it's always come out delicious.

http://www.recipezaar.com/51231

Good luck!

Robbyn

Stuffed cabbage.

Thanks for the suggestions!

What do you 'stuff' it with, David? I've never heard of stuffed cabbage.

Original Post by muttlover:

Thanks for the suggestions!

What do you 'stuff' it with, David? I've never heard of stuffed cabbage.

A lot of people use a combo of chop meat, rice, and raisins, then smother the wrapped cabbages with tomato sauce and let it simmer for 2 hours.

Since you're vegetarian, you could easily use TVP instead of meat.

 

Slice it thinly.  Fry up some onions/garlic/salsa, then add the sliced cabbage and stir fry until it softens just a little. Season to taste, and top with any protein you like - black beans, whatever.

Cedric's casserole!! So good, and really easy to make.

1 medium onion -- chopped
2 tablespoons oil
1 package Yves Veggie Ground Round
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1 large cabbage -- coarsely sliced
1 can tomato soup, condensed

Preheat oven to 350

Saute onion in the oil, then add ground round, salt and pepper.

In 2 quart baking dish put half the cabbage, cover with
onion mixture. Top with other half of cabbage. Pour over the top
the tomato soup. Cover with foil, bake 1 hour and serve.

Sometimes I add a cup of rice, a cup of water and another half can of soup in between cabbage layers, if I want it to be more filling.

I usually slice it into strips and cook it in a pot with a bit of chicken broth over medium heat and the lid on to let it steam and soften and then in another pot I mix a can of diced tomatoes (with whatever seasoning looks good in them), cooked ground turkey, garlic, onions, green pepper, and mushrooms.  Then I toss the red sauce onto the cabbage and mix it all up!

I think cabbage is one of the BEST bargain foods that exists.  In the winter it is a buck a head at most for something that makes a huge pot of food once it is cut up. 

I didn't catch that you are veggie.  Fake ground beef would be good in this too or no meat at all.

Cabbage cooked in veggie broth and white cannelloni (sp?) beans with a side of whole grain garlic bread to dip in the broth.  Yummerful.

If you like tomato sauce add it, with italian spices to give it a different taste. 

i make a  cabbage salad too, with cabbage, carrots, green beans, and pickles, all chopped up with a touch of dressing.

also, i make a stir fry with spinach, cabbage, carrots, green beans, garlic, and whatever other veggies i can find (eg snow peas or something) and stir fry it with a bit of soy sauce over top. vvvvvvvery yummy! im obsessed!

That is so funny, I do the exact same thing, i'm hooked on it ive had it just about every night for dinner, thats awesome that im not the only one that really likes that!

The only way i can eat cabbage is in cabbage-soup (usually with miso and tofu) or cooked to death in soup. I can eat it cole slaw only if there's red cabbage minced in there too with a vinegarette.

i'm not a huge cabbage fan, so i haven't tried this but...try sautee-ing it like kale?  

I stir-fry a whole head of it with five or six chili peppers, a packet of stevia, soy sauce, schezuan peppercorns, and rice vineger. It's hot and sour cabbage! If you like spicy Chinese food, you might like it. It takes all of three minutes, as well, so it's good if you don't feel like a big cooking project.

Shredded cabbage makes a great base for any sort of stir fry. Just add some Asian seasonings and a package of frozen Asian veggies -- you'll be set.