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Braised Cabbage and Onions

Spicy braised cabbage and onions.

Total Time: 90 Minutes

Serves: 6

Plant-Based

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Inspiration

This spicy, warming and comforting winter dish will steal your heart and quickly find its way into regular rotation at your dinner table. Not only is it tasty and nutritious, cabbage has numerous health benefits including supporting digestion, improving heart health, and protecting against heart disease, certain cancers, vision loss, and inflammation.

HEALTH BENEFITS OF CABBAGE:
- Low calorie vegetable that is highly nutritious and rich in vitamins, fiber, minerals.
- Contains powerful antioxidants, including polyphenols, sulfur compounds, and vitamin C - a potent antioxidant that may help reduce inflammation and protect against heart disease, certain cancers, vision loss.
- Contains anthocyanins, which have been shown to support several aspects of heart health.

Ingredients

  • 1 medium head green cabbage (about 2 1/2 pounds)
  • olive oil
  • 2 medium yellow onion (about 8 ounces), halved
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • ½ teaspoon sea salt, plus more to taste
  • ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  • 1½ cups vegetable broth
  • ¼ cup champagne vinegar

FLAVOR TIPS:
- Try using flavored/infused oils.
- I really love the zip created by the champagne vinegar in this recipe, but you could experiment with other vinegars such as apple cider or red wine.

Preparations

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Cut the cabbage in half through the core, then cut each half into four wedges, making sure to retain some of the core in each wedge to hold them together. You should have 8 wedges now.
  3. Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a large, ovenproof, high-sided skillet over medium-high to high heat. Cook cabbage until well browned with lots of color and slightly softened, 3 to 5 minutes per side. Transfer the cabbage to a plate once ready, and repeat the process until all cabbage has been cooked.
  4. Repeat the process one final time with the onions, then add the garlic and cook until softened and aromatic – about 1 minute more.
  5. Return the cabbage to the skillet and arrange, overlapping the wedges as needed.
  6. Season with salt and pepper, then add the broth and champagne vinegar and bring to a simmer.
  7. Transfer the skillet to the oven and bake, uncovered, for 60 to 75 minutes, or until the cabbage is very tender and the liquid has reduced to about half.

Tips

  • Take your time with this recipe – it will just get better the longer you braise it.
  • You can turn up the oven to 400 for the last 10 minutes if you want deeper coloring – just make sure the liquid has reduced enough so that it won’t boil over.
  • Leftover cabbage can be refrigerated for up to 3 days.
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Daniel is an extremely curious person, a wealth of random knowledge and facts. Extremely passionate about a vast array of interests ranging from health to history, science to athletics, everything culinary and the list goes on. Trust us, you would want to be on his team for Trivial Pursuit. Daniel is also years into his battle with brain cancer. He experienced a seizure while on a Zoom call at work in late 2020 and quite literally, his life changed within minutes. After his operation he started to talk about his story but had always known it was more than just him. From then, More Than Our Story became a PROJECT that has evolved into the starting point it is today.

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