Red Cabbage

Name: Red Cabbage (Cavolo Rosso)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: 3 oz (75 g) Speck or smoked prosciutto or smoked streaky bacon; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 2 oz (50 g) butter; 1 glass strong red wine; salt and pepper; 1 large onion, peeled and thinly sliced; 2 lb (1 kg) red cabbage, shredded

Cavolo Rosso

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Italian Regional Cookery

By Valentina Harris

Published 1990

About

This is a really wonderful dish to serve with pork or game. In Trentino they still call this vegetable Rotkhol, and indeed it does sound more authentic in German! I like it very much with roast pheasant or goose.

Ingredients

2 lb (1 kg) red cabbage, shredded
1 large onion, peeled and thinly sliced

Europe
Italy
Trentino
Side dish
Mediterranean
Gluten-free

Method

Prepare the cabbage, making sure that it is clean. In a large pan, fry the onion gently until soft with the Speck, smoked prosciutto or smoked streaky bacon in the olive oil and butter, stirring frequently. Then add the wine and the cabbage, stir, season with salt and pepper and cover so that the cabbage loses none of its colouring. Cook slowly with the lid on the pan, stirring occasionally, fo