Dirty Cabbage Recipe
Cabbage cooked down with bacon and sausage — Southern Fried Cabbage, Cajun Smothered Cabbage, Fried Cabbage and Potatoes with Kielbasa — for easy weeknights.
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This southern recipe include bacon, garlic and onion. A perfect side dish for literally any meal, and the BEST late night snack!
Autumn SingletonIngredients
- 1 head Cabbage
- 1 Onion
- 6 cloves Garlic
- 1 lb Bacon
- 2 tsp Salt
- 2 tsp Pepper
- 1 cube Chicken bouillon
Instructions
- 1Chop up your bacon into bite size pieces and get it into a pan over medium heat.
- 2While that’s cooking go ahead and chop up your onion, garlic and cabbage into bite size pieces as well.
- 3When the bacon is halfway done add in your onion and continue cooking.
- 4Add in your garlic, chicken bouillon salt and pepper. When the onion is almost translucent start adding in your cabbage. (You may have to do this in batches but it cooks down).
- 5Continue cooking for another 10-15 minutes with a lid on it until the cabbage is tender. (Sometimes I have to add a little water if it gets dry at the bottom). Y’all enjoy!
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One head of cabbage costs next to nothing and feeds a whole table once you cook it slow in bacon drippings until the edges go brown and sweet.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these when the fridge is thin, payday is Friday, and supper still has to be on the table by six.
Every recipe here is cabbage and pork in some form — Southern Fried Cabbage, Easy Delicious Cajun Smothered Cabbage, Smothered Cabbage and Sausage, Dirty Cabbage with Beef, Bacon & Smoked Sausage, and Fried Cabbage with Shrimp & Sausage when you want something a little different.
Quick Tips
- 1
Start the bacon cold
Lay 6 to 8 slices in a cold skillet and bring the heat up slow so the fat renders out instead of burning. Cook the cabbage in that grease.
- 2
Cut the cabbage big
Chop into 2-inch pieces, not shreds. Big pieces hold up to 25 minutes of cooking without turning to mush.
- 3
Brown the sausage first
Give smoked sausage or kielbasa 4 to 5 minutes cut-side down before the cabbage goes in, then stir those browned bits into the pot.
- 4
Add a splash of broth
Pour in about 1/2 cup of chicken broth, cover, and let the cabbage steam 10 minutes before you uncover it to cook off the liquid.
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