Bea's Baked Cabbage

Recipe Rating:	37 Ratings5
Categories:	Vegetables, Quick & Easy
Collections:	Member's Choice, Festive Feasts

Ingredients

1	head of cabbage
1 or 2	pats of butter
	olive oil
	salt & pepper
	water
	sprinkle of sugar (optional)
	paprika (optional)
	crushed or ground red pepper (optional)

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Bea L.

Well Seasoned

Emerald Isle, NC (pop. 3,655)

coffeetime

Member Since Oct 2010

Bea's Notes:

We love cabbage here at this household. My friend, Rudy, had the best cabbage I had ever tasted and she said that she baked hers in the oven rather than boiling it on top of the stove. So this is more like directions rather than a recipe.

My friend, Rudy, is origanially from LaGrange, Georgia. She met an NC guy and they moved to Raleigh when they married. I wasn't married yet when she & I met at our first public jobs. We clicked from the get-go and I actually learned how to cook from her. We remain friends today. Maybe I'll share the blue ribbon with her even though I changed to a different way of cooking them.

I have listed three optional ingredients, which I use sometimes but not every time.

Comments from the Test Kitchen:

Paprika and red pepper were our seasonings of choice! This cooking technique made for perfectly done cabbage... that would be great with a few cubed red potatoes thrown in too!

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 to 375, depending on how hot of oven you have. Spray roaster pan or deep casserole dish on sides and bottom. Cut cabbage into strips and place them into the pan or dish. Pour olive oil over cabbage (you be the judge of the amount). Put a pat of butter or two on top then salt & pepper to your liking. Put just enough water to basically cover the bottom...no more than a fourth way up. Cover and bake for approximately 45 minutes. Remove lid and continue to bake until water has evaporated. Stir occasionally. I bake mine until it's real tender and has started to brown only because that's the way that I like it. My total time of baking is probably around 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 hours. You can bake it to the tenderness that you prefer.

NOTE: Rudy doesn't use olive oil. She uses only butter...probably 3/4 to 1 stick and probably more! Nor does she use paprika or red pepper. Yeah, she's worse than I am!

*You don't have as much aftertaste as you do when it's boiled. You also don't have that "green fly" that seems to come around when cooking cabbage.

**I added potatoes on top as Janet suggested and it was wonderful! I'll make them like that again. Thanks for the suggestion, Janet!:D

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c g coffeecup

Dec 4, 2010

i have cabbage that needs to be used. i will make this tonight with my meatloaf. you read my mine. this sounds so good

Bea L. coffeetime

Dec 4, 2010

Please let me know if you like it, Char. We absolutely love it and they say that you don't get as much aftertaste as if it were boiled.

Thea Pappalardo Sassy01

Dec 4, 2010

I love almost any vegetable when it's been baked or roasted but I've never tried it with cabbage. Sounds like a great idea. When I have leftover corned beef and cabbage, it cut it up failrly small and fry them til the cabbage starts to brown. Then I scramble eggs into it. I think I enjoy that more than the previous nights dinner.

c g coffeecup

Dec 4, 2010

i loved the cabbage. to the point that i ate nothing else. thanks for the recipe.

Bea L. coffeetime

Dec 4, 2010

You're most welcome. I'm glad you liked them. Oh, and thanks for the 5 stars:)

Vivian Queen-Chase MsVivian

Dec 22, 2010

Hi Bea, I've never had baked cabbage and am anxious to try it. We really like cabbage and after Char's comment I'm really sold.

Bea L. coffeetime

Dec 23, 2010

Oh Viv, these are soooo good. Also they don't smell up the house as bad as boiled cabbage and you don't have the aftertaste as bad either. I do hope you'll give them a shot because I believe you'll like them. Take care and I'm wishing you and your family a safe and wonderful Christmas.

Dee Stillwell LILLYDEE

Dec 27, 2010

Bea, this sounds good but wonder if u need the water? or would they roast without it? It seems like it would retain more of the flavor. I roast most of the veggies we eat with olive oil s&p and the family loves em like that. My ex fiance' loved Brussles Sprouts and I saw Barefoot Contessa roasting them one day and have made them like that ever since. I like em so they are getting a lil' charred...yummy When I make corned beef, I do it in the oven with beer & brn sugar but don't like the cabbage cooked with it so I usually stir fry it and it's great that way too.

Bea L. coffeetime

Dec 28, 2010

Hummm, Dee, I have always used a little water when baking the cabbage in the oven. I don't know about not adding water at all since they are baked in the oven but if you try them please let me know how they turn out. I'm sure they would do just fine. You can actually do these in the microwave and not add water but in the oven, I'm not really sure. I'll be cooking some New Year's Day so I just might try them without water and if so, I'll let you know. Hummm.......

Dee Stillwell LILLYDEE

Dec 28, 2010

ok Bea...sounds good to me. I havne't cooked too much cabbage or Brussles Sprouts since we split up 3 yrs ago. My family aren't fans and I don't usually cook just for me. altho I need to sometimes. I really do like roasted Br Sp. yummm
So what is everyone making for New Years Day? I have always used the ham bone from Christmas dinner and made black eyed pea soup. U know for good luck in the new year? But since we had ribs instead of ham, I have no bone for soup. Maybe I'll just make those roasted black eyed peas for a football game snack. They sound good. I have made garbanzo beans like that before and we liked those. Rachel Ray's recipe.

Bea L. coffeetime