Food evokes memories and this dish was one my mom would make when I was younger. That doesn’t mean I automatically ate it but I remember my mom would make it in the winter.
Fast forward a couple of decades and I tried this dish again and my adult tastes approved of this dish. It’s simple, a one-pot wonder, healthy and delicious!
The ingredient list is basically pork, cabbage, onions and a few other things – making this dish “the whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts.”
Pork With Cabbage
Course: MainCuisine: GreekDifficulty: Easy4
servings15
minutes1
hourIngredients
1 1/2 lbs. pork (shoulder/butt, loin or tenderloin)
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1 head of green cabbage
1 1/2 cups diced onion
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
3 strips of lemon peel
3 bay leaves
3-4 sprigs of thyme
1 heaping Tbsp. sweet paprika
1/2 cup tomato puree
pinch of chilli flakes
salt and pepper to taste
Directions
- Cut your meat into chunks and lightly season with salt and pepper. Place a large pot on your stovetop over medium-high heat. Add oil and pork and brown on all sides. Remove pork and set aside.
- Cut your cabbage in half and remove the core. Roughly chop the cabbage and place in the pot along with onions. Reduce heat to medium and cook for 10-12 minutes.
- Add the vinegar, lemon peel, bay leaves, thyme, tomato sauce and some more salt and pepper. Place the pork back in the pot and add enough hot water to almost cover the meat.
- Bring up to a boil, then reduce heat to medium and cover. Cook for 60 minutes.
- At this point, your cabbage will be soft, pork tender. You may cook for another 15 minutes uncovered to reduce liquid.
- Add salt and pepper to taste. Divide and plate, drizzle some olive oil and sprinkle some more chilli flakes on top.
One Response
That is a given that combo is timeless the best…. Sour cabbage works well with that too You can mix in some kimchi for a variation. I’m creation and we ate cabbage a lot of times Winter was the main time but didn’t stop my mom for making things like that also finally shredded cabbage like coleslaw sauteed with onion and then you mix in noodles or that they were homemade dumplings or just pasta cooked separate and then tossed in the cabbage awesome too!