Southern Cooked Cabbage
This is a traditional Southern side dish with simple, humble ingredients. But it comes together to form a delicious and comforting vegetable that goes with just about anything.
If you don’t save bacon grease (you really should, it’s a great thing to have around) you can fry 4 pieces of bacon and then crumble the bacon into the cabbage, or just use butter.
This recipe will easily feed 4-6 people, but it’s easy to cut it in half for 2 people.
Southern Cooked Cabbage
Ingredients
- 1 head of cabbage chopped
- 1/2 yellow onion diced
- 2 Tbs of bacon grease or butter
- 2 cup chicken stock
- 2 tsp Worcestershire Sauce
- Black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Cut the head of cabbage into quarters, this makes it easy to remove the core from each quarter. Then cut each quarter into 3 slices and the cut these slices into 1-2” pieces.
- Dice your onion.
- Heat your sauce pan on the stove and melt your bacon grease or butter.
- Cook the onion in the bacon grease until soft.
- Add the cabbage to the onions and stir though the bacon grease to wilt the cabbage for about 5 minutes.
- Add the chicken stock and simmer on low for 10 minutes covered.
- Remove the lid and cook on medium another 15 minutes or so to reduce the stock.
- Grind some fresh black pepper over the top and serve.