It’s almost winter now and the vegetables market reflects that feeling. The piles of cabbage felt appealing to me and I decided on a cabbage winter dish recipe (also in romanian).
Winter cabbage
Ingredients
- 1 kg of cabbage. It’s still very soft at this time. Don’t forget that the cabbage will shrink greatly.
- a bit of smoked meat
- thyme, salt, pepper
- corn flour for the polenta
Method
- cut the cabbage in thin slices, put it in a large bowl and rub with 2-3 tbs of salt
- let it rest for 30 mins then drain the water which remains in the bowl. The cabbage already is reduced to 2/3
- you can use this time to prepare the polenta, I sometime add cheese in the polenta which melts nicely and gives extra flavor.
- brown the smoked meat and set aside, will mix with the cabbage later when it’s almost soft.
- heat some sunflower oil (2-3 tbs) then add the drained cabbage, cover
- stir from time to time on a low flame until the cabbage is soft. It will be reduced again to about 1/4 of the original. Add the smoked meat.
- when ready add dried thyme (also found in the market at this time). I like adding a lot of thyme, about 2-3 tbs.
- a nice food to enjoy when outside is 6C.