Is this a cabbage??

[HiGunny]

So picked this up over the weekend while doing food shopping... I was getting cauliflower and it was in the cauliflower section but it's definitely not cauliflower. Is it some type of cabbage???

Looks like a cabbage to me!

Looks like spring greens which are young cabbages. Cook just like cabbage, (I tend to boil), very nice!

It's a young or sweetheart cabbage!

Thanks all. I'd never seen cabbage like it before so wasn't sure! I can't stand boiled cabbage so will have to think of some way to jazz it up now...

Spring greens are lovely cut into strips and pan fried with leeks.

As above - beautiful pan fried. I don't add Leeks, just butter, splash of hot water, pinch of salt & pepper - beautiful! Or even steamed

I might try frying it so...I have a real hatred of cabbage (probably due to being given over boiled mush as a child) so it'll be quite an experiment for me!

OP, slice it as thinly as possible, put it in a bowl, and add some red wine vinegar and a drizzle of oil. Delicious cabbage salad.

It could be spring greens as pps have said, but I think it may be a sweetheart cabbage (a sweeter and nicer variety of cabbage).

Will work well stir-fried. I have seen it roasted (never tried it that way though). You can steam it too - it is what we would usually do but as long as you do not cook it to death you will not end up with that school dinner boiled cabbage taste.

That looks like a sweetheart cabbage.

Completely different taste and texture to other types.

Take some outer leaves, chiffonade them and just drop into boiling water for a few mins only.

Delicious, I promise.

Winter greens

Another idea for cabbage is to use the whole leaves instead of pasta in a ‘lasagne’, I steam them for a few minutes then layer the cabbage lasagne as normal.

Looks like a sweetheart cabbage to me. Treat it rather like spinach, don"t boil it like school cabbage.
Wash and chop the leaves, then cook quickly in a large pan, with a very little water and a knob of butter. Put the lid on the pan, so the cabbage steams in the butter mixture, and the leaves wilt. Don't overcook.

Serve with lamb Navarin or any fish.

So I ended up sauteing it in butter with some lemon juice and toasted almonds thrown in the end. Pretty tasty!! A far cry from the cabbage of my youth 😀

Assuming you have not cooked it yet and you are not veggie:

Slice finely and blanch in boiling water.
Layer with sausage meat in an oven prod dish with lid (squeezed out sausage meat out from your favourite kind) seasoning in between each layer and adding dots of butter.

Cover with grease proof paper and pop in the oven 150C or 130c fan for 1.5 hours.

Serve with buttered jacket potatoes.

It's Jane Grigson's recipe 'Cabbage in the Troo Style'.

It creates an alchemy of amazing flavour.