Main course Fasting
Cabbage with rice
Braised cabbage and rice in one pan — cheap, fasting food, and one of those dishes everybody remembers from home.
Recipe from Туѓино Јабано
- Prep
- 15 min
- Cook
- 50 min
- Total
- 1 hr 5 min
- Fasting
- Suitable
Ingredients 10 ingredients
Method
- Shred the cabbage finely and salt it lightly in a large bowl. Leave it ten minutes and squeeze it with your hands — it collapses, and afterwards it cooks more evenly.
- Sweat the finely chopped onion and the pepper in the oil until soft.
- Take the pan off the heat, stir in the paprika, then return it and add the grated tomatoes and the bay leaf.
- Add the cabbage and braise over a medium heat for about fifteen minutes, stirring now and then, until it has wilted and darkened.
- Stir in the washed rice and pour in about 500 ml of hot water. The ratio is roughly two and a half parts liquid to one of rice, but the cabbage will give up more.
- Simmer covered over a low heat for about 25 minutes, leaving it alone for the last ten so the rice does not turn to mush.
- Take it off the heat, scatter with parsley and leave covered for another ten minutes. Eat it hot or cold, with a hot pepper.
If you cannot find it
Substitutions that work outside Macedonia.
- Fresh cabbage
- Sauerkraut, well rinsed — then skip the salting and use less water.
- Long-grain rice
- Any medium-grain rice; risotto rice gives a softer, creamier version.
- Fresh tomatoes
- Two tablespoons of tomato purée let down in hot water.
