Fried Cabbage Texas Style Recipes

Steps:

• Place the bacon and vegetable oil into a large pot over medium heat. Season with salt and pepper. Cook for about 5 minutes, or until bacon is crisp. Add cabbage, onion, and sugar to the pot; cook and stir continuously for 5 minutes, until tender.

Steps:

• Heat grapeseed oil in a large cast iron skillet over medium heat. Add onions and cook until softened, about 3 minutes. Add garlic, stir, and cook until fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes. Season with 1 teaspoon Cajun seasoning and stir to combine.
• Mix in red and green bell peppers; cook for 1 to 2 minutes Add cabbage, remaining 1 teaspoon Cajun seasoning, and stir to combine. Add butter and stir until melted. Simmer cabbage until it reaches desired softness, about 15 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.

Steps:

• Place the bacon in a large stockpot and cook over medium-high heat until crispy, about 10 minutes. Add the onion and garlic; cook and stir until the onion caramelizes; about 10 minutes. Immediately stir in the cabbage and continue to cook and stir another 10 minutes. Season with salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, and paprika. Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer, stirring occasionally, about 30 minutes more.

Steps:

• Place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium-high heat until evenly brown. Remove bacon, and set aside.
• Cook onion in the hot bacon grease until tender. Add cabbage, and stir in water, sugar, salt, and pepper. Cook until cabbage wilts, about 15 minutes. Stir in bacon. Splash with vinegar before serving.

Steps:

• Fry bacon until crispy and break into small pieces (set aside).
• Rinse whole head of cabbage.
• Removing loose leaves, break into smaller pieces and save.
• Cut 1 inch thick slice off bottom of head.
• This allows cabbage to sit upright in pan.
• Break slice into smaller pieces and save.
• Cut a round circle large enough and deep enough in top of cabbage head to place your whole onion.
• Be careful while cutting the hole.
• TIP: Using onion as guide, cut circle with depth of pearing knife, cris-cross cuts inside circle at same depth, then dig out hole area with spoon.
• Save cabbage you remove.
• Using a heavy guage, deep pot, add water then place cabbage head in center, place whole peeled onion in hole in top of cabbage.
• Add all cabbage (saved above) around the head, in bottom of pan.
• Add 1/4 stick of butter on top of onion.
• combine all other seasonings (except parsley) and sprinkle on top of and around head of cabbage.
• Cover and cook on low-med heat for approximately 45 minutes.
• Add Butter as described below.
• NOTE:.
• Add remainder of butter on top of onion in 15 minute and 1/4 stick increments during cooking.
• Also, spoon stock over top of cabbage when adding butter.
• At 30 minutes, cut onion in quarters but leave in place.
• During the last 15 minutes sprinkle bacon and parsley over cabbage and onion.
• When done, onion and cabbage will have opened and fallen into a tender, delicious heap.
• Turn off heat, leave covered for 5 minutes then serve and enjoy boiled cabbage East Texas style.

Steps:

• In a large skillet, melt butter over medium heat. Stir in the sugar, salt, pepper flakes and pepper. Add the cabbage and water. Cook for 5-6 minutes or until tender, stirring occasionally.