How do I cook cabbage?

[mrsseashell]

Sausage and mash for tea, with peas and cabbage on the side. How do I make cabbage taste nice?

Look for burnt butter cabbage

Oh that looks good but I've already hacked mine to bits

If you have steamer, use that and then add a bit of butter before serving. We like our cabbage quite crunchy.

Microwave with a bit water in bowl and fresh ginger. ( or add a bit ginger powder)

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1771635/cabbage-with-bacon-and-onions
Fry lardons in butter, put uncooked shredded cabbage in the pan with lardons and add boiling water cook until cabbage is wilted.

Just don't overcook it, although to be honest I love cabbage any old way, except braised with sultanas in.

Lots of pepper and salt in the water, don’t cook for too long!

i love this one. Often just eat it as a meal. www.justapinch.com/recipes/side/side-vegetable/cashew-cabbage.html

fry it don't boil it

/www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/christmas/8187061/Savoy-cabbage-with-juniper-recipe.html
This is my favourite...works with any type of cabbage.

I fry it. Sometimes slow cook onions or leeks and then add cabbage. Often chuck in a splash of water to keep cooking it longer. I also add either caraway seed or black mustard seeds other times.

When i steam it i try not to overcook and add butter and black pepper when cooked

Agree with don't overcook and add butter and maybe black pepper. My mother cooks hers in a pressure cooker with bacon for an hour. It's just salty mush (shudder).

What sort of cabbage do you have?

Savoy and sweetheart just need cooking for a few minutes, then tossing in butter, with plenty of pepper. Savoy also stir fries beautifully.

White cabbage is best raw. That's the one that is often boiled to death - MIL would out hers on then go out and pick FIL up from the club. Revolting?

Punctuation fail.

Parboil then pan fry with olive oil and butter and lots of black pepper and a pinch of salt a bit of streaky bacon fried with it is delicious too.

Chop it up, put in a pan and boil for around an hour.. or until it screams for mercy. At least that what my mum used to do.

Parboil and then pan fry is delicious.

I must be weird cos I loved overboiled cabbage, just like my nan used to make!

As the others say, nice & simple, steamed or par-boiled, drain, back in pan, add butter and masses of black pepper. Add some shaved Parmesan on top if feeling fancy.......

Definitely don't over cook and definitely back in the pan with butter (I usually add a dollop if whole grain mustard to mine too)

I booked for a few mins, added lots of butter, then added to a pan of fried bacon lardons- was delicious and I'd eaten most of it before I put it on the plates

Sounds good! I sometimes just have that with some nice crusty bread.