Pan braised red cabbage
Fri 29 Jul 2022 11:38:28 PDT
(Sun 03 Dec 2017 13:51:56 PST)
Red cabbage has great flavor and a beautiful appearance. However as it's cooked the deep red color overwhelms everything including itself! Isolating the cabbage during cooking and combining with other ingredients just before serving is a useful work-around. In this recipe, arugula and sweet peppers are cooked separately and added to the cabbage later. This makes the recipe seem long and complicated but really it's quite simple!
Prepare peppers
- garlic, chopped 2 cloves
- red, yellow, orange peppers 3-4 small
- sans-soy sauce 1/2 tbsp
- olive oil 1 tbsp
- butter, unsalted 1 tbsp
- Slice peppers into 1/4 in shreds
- In a wok or saucepan heat oil and melt butter over medium heat.
- Saute garlic until soft, then saute pepper briefly, add Sans-soy sauce and stir until liquid mostly evaporated.
- Immediately remove from heat. Save peppers in small bowl. Set aside for now.
Prepare arugula
- arugula about 7 oz
- olive oil 1 tbsp
- sans-soy sauce 1 tbsp
- In a wok or saucepan saute arugula in oil over medium heat. Stir constantly for a minute, then add Sans-soy sauce. Stir vigorously.
- The liquid will evaporate quickly. By that point the arugula will look wilted but still retain its color and good texture.
- Remove from heat and keep in a dish or bowl until needed.
Cabbage
- red cabbage, cut into 1/4in strips about 1½ lb
- fennel bulb, cut into 1/4in strips 1/2 bulb
- garlic, chopped 2 cloves
- molasses 1 tbsp
- Chinese rice wine 1 tbsp
- olive oil 2 tbsp
- butter, unsalted 2 tbsp
- cardamom, ground 1/2 tsp
- five-spice powder 1/2 tsp
- salt 1/2 tsp
- black pepper, ground 1/4 tsp
- mushroom stock, as needed 3/4 cup
- In a small bowl, mix molasses and wine.
- In a wok or saucepan over medium heat add half of the olive oil and butter. Saute garlic for a minute or so, then add fennel to pan, saute until fennel starts to soften.
- Add cabbage shreds and stir constantly for a few minutes, until all the cabbage is coated with oil.
- Reduce heat slightly and continue stirring frequently. After 3 or 4 minutes the cabbage will begin to "wilt". If pan appears too "dry", add some oil/butter.
- Add molasses/wine mixture. Stir for a minute or so until the molasses is well mixed with the cabbage.
- Put 1/4 cup stock in pan. Cover the pan and cook over low-medium heat for 4-5 minutes or until cabbage is cooked through. Add mushroom stock as necessary to keep ingredients from sticking.
- Be careful not to overcook, when done the cabbage should still have some crispness and texture.
- Either proceed to "finishing and serving" or remove the cabbage to a bowl finish later. The components will keep for an hour or so at room temperature.
Finishing and serving
- If cabbage had been set aside, warm cabbage/fennel over medium heat, stirring frequently.
- Add arugula and peppers to pan. Stir, mix ingredients well.
- Cover, let contents warm up and serve promptly to retain crispness/color of arugula and peppers.
Categories: vegetables
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