Red Cabbage - Let's go Swiss
The staple in winter for those cosy nights brings you a touch of Switzerland. Serve with spätzle and a wonderful piece of game.
Ingredients
- 1 KG of cleaned washed finely shredded or cut red cabbage. Remember shred it fine!
- 200 ml of dry white wine or red
- 2 tspn salt or more for taste
- 40 grams of butter
- 2 medium onions diced roughly
- 2 Cinnamon sticks
- 1 tspn cayenne pepper
- 2 tspn anis seeds crushed
- 4 Tspn of cocoa powder (100% cocoa not Nesquick :)) even better take 50 grams of dark chocolate and reduce the sugar used to your taste. Melt it in towards the end.
- 2 - 3 tbpsn of cinnamon powder if you like the cinnamon kick
- 3 bay leaves
- 5 cloves crushed
- 4 juniper berries crushed
- 6 Tbspn Apple or cherry vinegar
- 5 large apples cored, cut in large cubes
- 2 - 3 Tbspn of sugar or honey
- 0.5 tspn agar agar if you need to thicken the liquid
- 250 ml of water or even better chicken stock. When you use stock watch the salt.
- Optional: add a vanilla bean
- Optional: add cubes of delicious smoked speck just before serving with a nice smokey crisp
1Gently fry the onion, chili, bacon, butter, sugar and roughly cubed apples
2After around 10 minutes add bay leaves, the shredded red cabbage, add the vingar, cinnamon sticks and close the pot for at least 15 minutes
3Add the spices, 0.5 tspn of agar agar,wine, salt, cloves add some of the water cook for 45 - 90 minutes and add water/stock if needed. Close the pot. And watch it every 15 minutes on a medium heart
4Tip. Once all has been cooked you might have lost some of the apple pieces. They dissolve in the red cabbage . Peel and cube an extra apple and put in the pan 30 minutes before serving. Ideally as well put in a big strip of smoked porkbelly and let it cook with the cabbage. Delicious!
