Something interesting based on cabbage please!

[Hopefully]

Am going food shopping in an hour, I have two cabbages and I want to make something cheap but edible with them.

Any ideas? Could I do some kind of macaroni cheese bake, but with cabbage instead of pasta?

[boak]

1 cabbage, chopped into little bits
1lb mince
1 onion, chopped
1 oxo cube
little bit chopped garlic
good handful rice
tin condensed cream of tomato soup
1 carton passata
1 1/2 soup tins water
Put half the chopped cabbage in a casserole dish. Brown the mince with the onion, stock cube and garlic. Mix the soup, passata and water in a seperate bowl. Stir rice into mince and mix in half the tomato mixture. Pour the mince mix on top of cabbage in casserole dish. Spread the rest of the cabbage on top and pour over the remainder of the tomato liquid. Cover and bake at 140 for about 2 hours, until everything is well cooked and water is more or less absorbed. This is just about the only way that my kids will eat cabbage.

You could also make potato, cabbage and bacon soup, bubble and squeak or corned beef and cabbage.

What kind of cabbage do you have?

If you have a green/white cabbage:

Boil/steam cabbage till it's just tender
Fry a thinly sliced onion
Mix cabbage with onion and put into a casserole dish; season with salt and black pepper
Pour over a tin of chopped tomatoes
Cover the top with a generous amount of grated cheese and bake for about 20 minutes until the cheese is nice and brown on top

If you have a savoy cabbage:

Make some kind of meat stuffing (I use finely chopped boneless pork chops, onion, mushroom and any other interesting veg I happen to have - but use veg that doesn't require much cooking - carrots/potatoes will need to be cooked first)

Take off the leaves of your cabbage gently, so that you don't tear them. Cut out the centre/tough stalks, then blanch them in boiling water for a couple of minutes. Drain.

When they are cool enough to handle, take each leaf, dollop some of the meat filling in them, roll them up and put them seam side down in a casserole dish.

Cover the stuffed cabbage in either a cheese sauce or a tin of chopped tomatoes, then sprinkle a generous handful of grated cheese on top and bake in the oven for about 20 minutes.

Sweet and sour cabbage and cashew stir fry

Made this last week - really delicious.

Make a sweet and sour sauce (erm - garlic, soy, honey, white wine vinegar, lemon juice...)

Very thinly slice cabbage, an onion, maybe a carrot.

Heat sesame (or other) oil, stir fry veg for 2 minutes, add chopped up cashews, stir fry 2 minutes, add sweet n sour sauce, stir fry 2 minutes - hey presto.

Serve with rice or egg noodles.

vg.

I do a pasta dish with savoy cabbage (a Jamie recipe).

Fry off some chopped pancetta until crisp and then add the shredded savoy cabbage with a generous knob of butter. Stir until cabbage coated with the butter and then add a half cup of hot water or stock (you don't want too much water, just enough for the cabbage to steam but not so much for the pasta to be soggy). Cook until the cabbage has softened.

Add the cooked pasta and some cubed mozzarella and plenty of parmasan. Stir until the cheese has melted.

Quick, easy dinner and tasty. Even DH likes it and he's really not keen on his greens.

oooh, billions of ideas, thanks! Who knew cabbages could be so appealing?

Can second that Jamie recipe - it's fab. (Doesn't the original have pine nuts as well, happy?)

What happysmiley said. I do a similar dish, though without the pasta, and serve with crusty bread. It's delicious.

And just to prove what a great recipe the cabbage and pasta concoction is, DH was making it when I got in last night. My DH who never cooks at all! How very random!

BecauseImWorthIt - very possibly has the pine nuts, and they'd certainly be a good addition, but I admit it's been a long time since I actually looked it up.

I only have a vague memory of it, because we watched it on tv!