I cooked cabbage in boiling water. What do I do to make it taste good?!
I cooked cabbage in boiling water. What do I do to make it taste good?
Answers: Salt and pepper to your taste, add some butter ( a couple of teaspoons) and ham bits or bacon grease, cook it a little longer....YYYUUUUMMM.
Or, make cabbage rolls or a cabbage casserole. make cabbage rolls next time fry it in butter Cook it with salt meat. add bacon and hot sauce Nothing if you don't like cabbage. I like boiled cabbage with lots of melted butter, salt, and pepper. This is your best bet if you didn't boil it with meat. If you did boil it with meat, a little butter and some vinegar also goes very nicely. sprinkle in some crushed red pepper flakes, sugar, seasoned salt, and black pepper....along with some crumbled bacon. Just add some salt, pepper and some butter, also some kind of Ham or Sausage or something, UmmmUmmm Roll it with seasoned ground beef, red and green chillis, and something else..... think big field growth. Carrots, cabbage, cows, potatoes, etc.... Well, I like butter on mine. Also, nutmeg tastes really good on cabbage (sounds weird but it tastes good). If you have bacon, fry some bacon and add some of the bacon grease and pieces of bacon to the cabbage. I usually cook cabbage with some high cholesterol pork. If I cook it plain I will usually add some cayenne pepper. Served plain I will put some spicy mustard on it. as cabbage is simmering after initial boil add fresh mint Make a chinese stir fry, add 1 clove of garlic, chop up your cooked cabbage then add all typed of veggies you like to a greased frypan, cook till the veggies go a bit soft add soy sauce, and oyster sauce then stir for a few min, then add cooked drained noodles (any noodle you like will do)to the veggies toss through till well coated, add a bit of tabasco and you are ready to eat. lots of salt Well you can fill the pan up with more water and add salt and pepper and a ham hock. You could add a bit of butter, salt & pepper for basic flavouring, or use a tomato sauce (cabbage rolls use tomato sauce and the flavours go together well). Boiling it isn't a terrific way to cook it. Next time, chop it in fine strips, and stir fry it in some butter, add a few raisins, salt & pepper, then add some orange juice, cover it and cook it on reduced heat for about 15 minutes. I know it sounds odd with the fruity flavour addition, but it really works. I sometimes add a few caraway seeds or celery seeds. season it... I would cook up a ring of Eckrich Kielbasa sausage to slice up and throw in. Add one or two cans of Swanson roast garlic seasoned chicken broth.(you can use regular, but the other is more flavorful) I also put in 4-6 cubes of wylers chicken flavor broth cubes. Then in another pan, saute an onion in butter and put into the mixture. Add salt and pepper to taste.
It's awsome! Next time just chop up the cabbage in butter with the onion. No water necessary as it will make it's own as it cooks. Depending on how much liquid you add, it will either be a soup or a hearty dish! Hmmm... you might be asking this question a little late.
I'm not a cook, but my friend who cooks cabbage often puts onions and green peppers in it. Salt and pepper as well. She also cooks it with a meat that has been pan fried. I love the stuff.
So if you have already cooked the cabbage, I don't know what to tell you. However next time -
Slice up 1 carrot into thin 1 1/2 inch strips. (Cut the carrot into 3 pieces then slice into strips)
Slice up 1/2 a large onion or 1 whole med/sm onion into strips
Slice up 1/2 a bell pepper - strips again!
Slice up 1/2 a head of cabbage
Coat the bottom of a large pot with oil and put strips of chicken or fish chunks in the oil - Once the meat is just about done throw in the onion, bell pepper, carrots put a 1/2 a cup of water in the pot and cover (the heat should be med/low).
Let all of this cook for about 5 min.
Next add the cabbage, add 2 cups of water and cover.
Once the cabbage has cooked down some, dust the top with black pepper and stir.
Leave it alone until the cabbage gets soft - Voila you are all done! choop it with mashed potatoes and onion......... I add lots of butter and bacon. And a little pepper In a big frying pan, cook 5 or 4 slices of bacon in a little oil.
Drain some boiled cabbage . Remove the bacon , add some flour and butter,stir it all good. After 5 or 4 minutes, add some scalding hot milk slowly into that pan and stir some more. Add that cabbage into the pan add a few dashes of good old Louisiana Hot sauce and season well, sprinkle crumbled bacon on there and serve immediately as a side dish to beer braised corned beef with smokey grilled onions. I put bacon grease and an onion with salt and pepper. I make cornbread with it and eat it like it's going out of style. Southern girl....nuf said......LRMM