Braised Red Cabbage with Apple
Delia Smith
A traditional side dish to have with your Christmas dinner.
Prep Time 20 minutes mins
Cook Time 2 hours hrs 30 minutes mins
Total Time 2 hours hrs 50 minutes mins
Course Side Dish
Cuisine 🇬🇧 British
Servings 10
Calories 99 kcal
Suitable for Vegetarian Diet
- 1 kg red cabbage
- 450 g onion chopped small
- 450 g cooking apple peeled, cored and chopped small
- 1 clove garlic chopped very small
- ¼ whole nutmeg freshly grated
- ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp ground cloves
- 3 tbsp brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons wine vinegar
- 15 g butter
Preheat the oven to 150°C/300°F/Gas 2
First discard the tough outer leaves of the cabbage, cut it into quarters and remove the hard stalk.
Then shred the rest of the cabbage finely, using your sharpest knife (although you can shred it in a food processor, I prefer to do it by hand: it doesn't come out so uniform). Next, in a fairly large casserole, arrange a layer of shredded cabbage seasoned with salt and pepper, then a layer of chopped onions and apples with a sprinkling of garlic, spices and sugar. Continue with these alternate layers until everything is in. Now pour in the wine vinegar, lastly add dots of butter on the top.
Put a tight lid on the casserole and let it cook very slowly in the oven for 2-2½ hours, stirring everything around once or twice during the cooking.
Keyword apple, cabbage, Christmas, sides