Croatian Cabbage Stew (“prisiljeno Zelje”)
From nitko 11 years ago
- 60 min to make
- Serves 5
This recipe is at least 200 years old. My grand-grandmother was preparing cabbage that way, my, grandmother was preparing that way, my mother was preparing that way, so I am preparing it that way. This is very healthy meal, although it is prepared on lard.
Ingredients
- 500 g cabbage (one medium cabbage “head”) shopping list
- 50 g bacon (smoked, dried) shopping list
- 200 g tomato (strained juice) shopping list
- 1 teaspoon caraway seeds shopping list
- 1 tablespoon vinegar shopping list
- 40 g lard (or oil) shopping list
- salt shopping list
- pepper shopping list
How to make it
- Cut the cabbage to narrow strips approximately 5mm wide and 2-5 cm long. Heat water with vinegar and when it boils put cabbage in it. Cook for 3 minutes.
- During this put sliced bacon (in small cubes) on lard until transparent, add flour and brown it. Add cold water, tomato juice.
- Take out cabbage with hollow spoon, and throw the water out. Add caraway seeds, season with salt and pepper.
- Cook about 30 minutes. Serve as a side dish to sausages, pork chops, and similar meat and mashed potato.
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