Vegetables in the Brassica family, including kale, collard greens and cabbage, are often described as humble. The hearty greens are popular in dishes from all over the world because they’re easy to grow and, therefore, less expensive than crops like bell peppers and tomatoes.
Although the concept of melting cabbage—cooking wedges in sauce to render them tender—is ancient, it’s also trendy (think melting potatoes only with cabbage!). The taste of this melted cabbage is amazing enough that this may become one of your favorite cabbage recipes.
Melting Cabbage Ingredients
- Cabbage: This melted cabbage recipe is perfect for crisp, firm heads of green cabbage (the kind you’d expect to see as part of creamy coleslaw). More delicate cabbages, such as napa or savoy, don’t hold up as well here.
- Olive oil: Regular olive oil or extra virgin olive oil will work in this recipe, so use whatever you’ve got on hand. Grapeseed or sunflower would be fine cooking oils to use too.
- Aromatic vegetables: Onion and garlic are closely related, but since they have different and complementary flavors, we use both of them in the sauce for the cabbage. Yellows are a great type of onion for this dish.
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