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Red Cabbage - Provence meets the Carribean

Name: Red Cabbage - Provence meets the Carribean
Cook time: 90 min
Total time: 90 min
Cuisine: Fusion
Ingredients: 1 KG of cleaned washed finely shredded or cut red cabbage. Remember shred it fine!; 200 ml of decent Cognac or an old dark rhum.; 2 tspn salt or more for taste; 60 grams of bacon fat or the rind of bacon with 40 grams of butter; 2 medium onions diced roughly; 2 Cinnamon sticks; 1 tspn cayenne pepper or a fresh halt bonnet pepper without the seeds; 3 star anis; 4 Tspn of cocoa powder (100% cocoa not Nesquick :)); 0.5 - 1 Tbpsn of cinnamon powder if you like the cinnamon kick; 2 Tbspn ginger powder or even better around 40 grams of grated ginger to taste; 3 bay leaves; 5 lime leaves; 5 cloves; 6 figs quarted; 6 Tbspn balsamic vinegar or even better coconut vinegar; 5 large apples cored, cut in large cubes; 2 - 3 Tbspn of sugar; 0.5 tspn agar agar if you need to thicken the liquid; 250 ml of water or even better chicken stock. When you use stock watch the salt.; Optional: add a vanilla bean; Optional: add cubes of delicious smoked speck just before serving with a nice smokey crisp

The staple in winter for those cosy nights brings you back to the summer with a touch of provence and the amazing carribean. Serve with ginger, chili spätzle and a wonderful piece of game. Alternatively a flakey piece of BBQ fish and roasted plantains

≈ 345 kcal · 5 g protein · 48 g carbs · 14 g fat — AI estimate per serving

Ingredients

Method

1
Gently fry the onion, chili, bacon, butter, sugar and roughly cubed apples
2
After around 10 minutes add bay leaves, lime leaves, the shredded red cabbage, add the vingar, cinnamon sticks and close the pot for at least 10 minutes
3
Add the spices, 0.5 tspn of agar agar,wine, salt, cloves add some of the water cook for 45 - 90 minutes and add water/stock if needed. Close the pot. And watch it every 15 minutes on a medium heart
4
Tip. Once all has been cooked you might have lost some of the apple and figs. Peel and cube an extra apple and quarter a few figs and put in the pan 30 minutes before serving. Ideally as well put in a big strip of smoked porkbelly and let it cook with the cabbage. Delicious!

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Red Cabbage - Provence meets the Carribean

Ingredients

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