Red Wine Cabbage ala Remy

Ingredients

• 1 KG of cleaned washed finely shredded or cut red cabbage. Remember shred it fine!
• 200 ml broad shouldered red wine
• 2 - 3 tspn salt or more for taste
• 60 grams of bacon fat or the rind of bacon with 40 grams of butter
• 2 medium onions diced
• 1 Cinnamon stick
• 3 cloves
• 3 Tbspn apple vinegar or even better balsamic vinegar
• 3 large apples cored, cut in large cubes
• 2 - 3 Tbspn of sugar
• 0.5 tspn agar agar if you need to thicken the liquid
• 250 ml - 500 ml of water or even better beef 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, bacon, butter, sugar and roughly cubed apples

2After around 10 minutes add the shredded red cabbage, add the vingar, cinnamon stick and close the pot for at least 10 minutes

3Add the 0.5 tspn of agar agar,wine, salt, cloves add some of the water cook for 45 minutes and add water if needed. Close the pot.

4Tip. Once all has been cooked you might have lost some of the apple. 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!