Preview: Sautéed Cabbage

by Dawn T in Rouxbe Recipes

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Sautéed cabbage is an inexpensive, yet delicious, side that goes well with almost any dish.

  • Total Time: 15 mins
  • Active Time: 10 mins

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Step 1: Sautéing the Cabbage

Sautéing the Cabbage

To prepare the cabbage, cut it in half, remove the core and dice.

Next, melt the butter over medium to medium-high heat until it starts to brown. *Note: For a vegan option, you can use coconut oil instead of butter. Add the cabbage to the pan and toss to coat. Sauté the cabbage for approximately 5 minutes or until it is cooked to your liking.

To finish the cabbage, season it with a bit of salt and pepper to taste.

  • 1/2 cabbage head
  • 3 tbsp unsalted butter*
  • 1/2 tsp kosher salt
  • 1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper

Notes

When you are buying cabbage, try and buy heads that are compact, heavy for their size and bright in color. Cabbage is a great and inexpensive vegetable that is available all year. It also keeps for quite a while in the refrigerator, which is an added bonus.

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Javier T

Cabbage with Bacon

We often have sauteed cabbage as a side dish, but instead of using butter we use olive oil and a bit of chopped bacon. The bacon gives it a different taste all together.

Often we have the cabbage as a side for chicken or meat. If there are leftovers, I sometimes take it as a late night snack. I'm not too crazy about sweet snacks, so I prefer things like this cabbage or a light salad.

Regarding the large chunks of cabbage, I like them, but my family often cuts it into smaller, thiner pieces. Not as small as a typical cabbage salad, but not as large as those in this video either.

Denise P

cabbage lover

i enjoy cabbage, i add an apple to mine as it is wonderful to me.

Brian F

Superb as a side dish with fish

I served this tonight on top of an orange rosemary berre blanc sauce topped with a nice pan seared Arctic Char which is fast becoming our favorite fish!

Very nice!

Barry D

Cabbage and Onions

Mt mom, being southern, would first dice 4 or 5 slices of bacon and fry that to a crisp then and cabbage and onions and a ton of black pepper.

Martin L

Cabbage and Onions

Barry D's got it going on--right up my alley. Love the onions with the cabbage. Used to use bacon grease, but that is taboo now, so a couple slices of bacon mixed in is great.

Colleen S

Re: Bacon Grease

Pshaw, who cares if bacon grease is taboo? I wouldn't use it every day, but why not once in a while?

Eileen T

Kosher Salt?

What exactly is kosher salt? I only have sea salt (from Costco) at home. Adding 1/2 teaspoon to 1/2 head cabbage turned out to be too salty for my taste. Is it just my own taste? Or do sea salt and kosher salt have different level of saltiness?

Dawn T
Rouxbe Staff

Re: What is Kosher Salt?

You are in luck Eileen, as there is an entire lesson called "How to Season with Salt", in the cooking school, which goes into plenty of detail about this. Cheers!

Sherry M

Mixed Cabbage

Hi,

I was wondering... do green & red cabbage go well together, prepared in this way?

Kimberley S
Rouxbe Staff

RE: Mixed Cabbage

You sure can give it a try. Just note that the red cabbage will likely bleed color into the green cabbage. Cheers!

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