Young cabbage with sun-dried tomatoes

On Friday, Ninka and I went out for a little shopping. In the shop, where, I won’t pretend otherwise, we were looking for strawberries — yes, those bad, awful, supposedly completely tasteless strawberries from Spain — it was a young cabbage that caught my eye instead. They were sold individually. The heads were small. Mine was sort of… well, it was small. So the dish I made from it was barely enough for one big bloke.

Normally it would probably have been meant for two. But…

Anyway, I like cabbage. Nicely fried. And that’s what I made, with sun-dried tomatoes, which I somehow never run out of. So I recommend this dish, which I ate with great pleasure today.

What’s more, I don’t know whether you noticed, but it looks pretty decent in the photos. Doesn’t it? 🙂

At a glance:

Preparation time: 1 hour and 15 minutes

Serves: two people (perhaps three as a side dish)

Calories: young cabbage, as science has proven, doesn’t yet know what calories are

Ingredients for fried young cabbage:

• 1 head of young cabbage (mine was really small)
• 10 sun-dried tomatoes (mine were in olive oil)
• a small bunch of chives
• a small onion
• ground black pepper
• sweet paprika
• 2 teaspoons of sugar
• olive oil
• salt

Recipe for cabbage fried with sun-dried tomatoes:

I finely diced the onion. I cut the sun-dried tomatoes (on kitchen paper, so they would “lose” some of their oil) into thin strips. I heated a little olive oil in a medium pot and added the chopped onion and tomatoes. I added 2 teaspoons of sugar and fried everything, stirring, for 2 – 3 minutes.

Meanwhile, I carefully separated the cabbage into leaves. I washed them thoroughly and cut them into thin strips. I added them to the pot and stirred. I added the seasonings: ground black pepper (to taste, whatever you prefer; I like spicier food), sweet paprika and salt. I fried it for 3 minutes, stirring almost constantly. Finally, I added about a glass of water. I put the lid on and braised it for about 40 minutes.

Stirring it from time to time. After that, I removed the lid and fried it until the water had evaporated. Finally, I added the finely chopped chives. I fried it until almost all the water had evaporated. The dish is ready. Enjoy!