Braised Red Cabbage with Spiced Apples

Name: Braised Red Cabbage with Spiced Apples
Cuisine: Scottish
Ingredients: salt and freshly ground black pepper; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 tsp ground cumin; 2 tbsp ground coriander; 1 cinnamon stick; 4 whole cloves; 100 g butter, cubed; 200 g fresh cranberries; 2 tbsp sugar; 3 tbsp white wine vinegar; 4 apples, peeled, cored and grated; 1 medium red cabbage

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Gloagburn

By Alison Niven

Published 2025

About

It’s not Christmas dinner if braised red cabbage isn’t on the table! We also always serve it with our Turkey Meatballs. This reheats very well so can be made in advance and kept in the fridge.

Ingredients

1 medium red cabbage
4 apples, peeled, cored and grated
200 g fresh cranberries</

United Kingdom
Dinner
Gluten-free
Vegetarian
Christmas
Scotland

Method

Preheat the oven to 170°C/150°C fan/gas mark 5.
Quarter the cabbage, then discard the coarse outer leaves and cut out the core. Shred the cabbage finely and put it in a large ovenproof pot.
Add the grated apples, cranberries, butter, vinegar,

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