Add some colour and vitamins to your plate with this aromatic cabbage dish. Perfect with boiled Christmas ham
Ingredients
- 85g golden caster sugar
- 1 ¼kg red cabbage, quartered, cored and thinly sliced
- 2 large onions, halved and thinly sliced
- 2 eating apples, such as Cox's, peeled quartered, cored and very thickly sliced
- 4 raw beetroot, peeled and cut into wedges
- 2 cinnamon sticks, snapped in half
- 3 star anise
- 300ml red wine
- 1 vegetable stock cube, crumbled
- 25g butter
- 3tbsp red wine vinegar
Method
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1 Mix the sugar with 1 tsp salt and plenty of black pepper. In a large, heavy-bottomed pan, layer up a handful of the cabbage, onions, apples and beetroot with the spices and sprinkle with some of the sugar, repeating with the layers until all the ingredients are used up.
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Mix the wine, vinegar and stock cube, pour over the cabbage and dot the butter on top. Tightly cover the pan and bring to the boil over a medium heat. When you can hear it boiling, turn down the heat to low and simmer for 30 mins. Stir well – the mixture will have reduced and softened – then cover and simmer for 15-30 mins more depending on how soft you like it.