Description
Smothered Cabbage with Bacon is a simple dish of chopped cabbage cooked with bacon and Creole seasoning, it is a New Orleans tradition where it is eaten together with black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day as it is supposed to bring good luck for the whole year.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1/2 head of cabbage, shredded
- 300 g bacon, sliced
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1 red capsicum, diced
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 stalk of celery, diced
- 1 white onion, finely chopped
- 6 cloves garlic, minced
- freshly ground black pepper
- hot sauce
- extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- In a large skillet heat olive over medium heat, add bacon then fry until golden brown and crispy. Remove bacon from pan leaving the oil, set it aside.
- Add the onion, garlic and celery then sauté for two minutes.
- Add the capsicum then continue to sauté for 2 more minutes.
- Add the red pepper flakes, cabbage and chicken stock then mix it well, cook cabbage for 15-20 minutes or until cabbage is really tender, add the apple cider vinegar then toss back the bacon.
- Remove from heat then serve.