Braised Red Cabbage

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4–6

    as a side dish
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Cooks Country: Modern British Rural Cooking

By Matt Tebbutt

Published 2008

  • About

This is a great seasonal staple. I often serve it with venison or some rare roast beef. I’d avoid anything fishy, though...

Ingredients

  • 3 large white onions, peeled and thinly sliced
  • 50 g butter
  • 50 ml

Method

In a large saucepan sweat the onion down in the butter and olive oil. At this point season with salt and pepper but don’t allow to colour. Throw in the sliced Bramley apples and rosemary, and stir around to break the apple down. Now add the sliced red cabbage. This will almost certainly fill the whole pan but don’t panic. After a few minutes of vigorously stirring, the quantity will start to re