White Beans & Cabbage

January 22, 2012

During those lovely days inward Hobart, nosotros had a commitment to attend to dorsum home. Our previous vege delivery included an enormous cabbage - seriously, it was in all likelihood 2-3 litres capacity - together with it was sitting inward our crisper waiting to hold upwards eaten. We had ample fourth dimension on Dominicus afternoon to bargain alongside it.

I was kinda bored alongside coleslaw, together with spring rolls aren't the best function tiffin leftovers. I wondered whether my newest cookbook included anything fun to hit alongside cabbage, checked out the index, followed through to page 86 together with realised I'd been over-thinking it. This lovely looking cabbage dish graces the encompass of Super Natural Every Day!

It's the variety of dish Heidi does oftentimes together with good - a bunch of fresh hit tossed together inward a frypan, served upwards together with sprinkled alongside a petty something. In this representative the hit is mainly cabbage, white beans together with potatoes. I was a petty wary of getting the potatoes completely cooked through purely yesteryear sautéing them for 8 minutes together with was careful to cutting them actually modest (cubes alongside no to a greater extent than than a 1cm side). This worked but fine. It's actually of import to hold off out the frying every bit directed together with construct a golden crust on the potatoes together with beans, 'cause this is where nearly of the fine season comes from. Of course of educational activity a sprinkling of parmesan helps the season along too. As a vegan alternative, I'd advise some extra salt, a chip of nooch or some of this stuff.

The recipe below is a double quantity on Heidi's version, since nosotros had a lot of cabbage to larn through. While her mass predicts that this should serve eight, the 2 of us got a dinner together with a tiffin out of it each. We've got an appetite for cabbage that I never imagined.

White beans & cabbage
(adapted slightly from a recipe inward Heidi Swanson's
Super Natural Every Day)

1/3 loving cup olive oil
230g potatoes, scrubbed but left unpeeled together with sliced into tiny cubes
salt, to taste
2 x 400g cannellini beans
450g cabbage, finely shredded
a modest handful of chives, roughly chopped
parmesan cheese, finely grated (optional)

Pour the crude oil into a really large frying pan over medium-high heat. Add the potatoes together with a generous pinch of salt, tossing them to coat inward the oil. Cover the frypan alongside a lid together with give the potatoes 5-8 minutes to gear upwards through, tossing them i time or twice to a greater extent than along the agency therefore that they don't mail away but hit educate a prissy golden crust.

Add the beans to the pan together with larn out it uncovered, but become for the same cooking approach for a few minutes - larn out the beans all the same to educate a golden edge, therefore toss it all but about for a novel crust on some other side. Stir inward the cabbage together with chives, stirring together with cooking until the cabbage but starts to soften. Serve it all upwards alongside a sprinkling of parmesan or some extra salt.