This is an interesting and delicious way to eat cabbage. The speck, blue cheese and walnuts add an appealing savoury-salty note to the dish.
Stuffed cabbage leaves
Australian Gourmet Traveller French alpine recipe for stuffed cabbage leaves.
- 45 mins preparation
- 35 mins cooking
- Serves 4
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Ingredients
- 1 small Savoy cabbage (about 650gm)
- 100 gm speck, cut into lardons
- 100 gm butter, coarsely chopped
- 40 gm blue cheese, coarsely crumbled
- 2 tbsp coarsely chopped walnuts
- For dusting: seasoned plain flour
Method
Main
- 1Remove 8 leaves from cabbage. Blanch in a large saucepan of boiling salted water (1-2 minutes), drain and refresh, drain, pat dry with absorbent paper, set aside. Cut cabbage heart in half, thinly slice one half (reserve remaining half for another use), set aside.
- 2Sauté speck in a large frying pan over medium-high heat until golden (2-3 minutes). Remove speck, drain on absorbent paper, set aside. Heat half the butter in frying pan over medium heat, add sliced cabbage, sauté until tender (15-20 minutes). Add blue cheese, walnuts and speck, season to taste, mix until combined. Divide cabbage mixture among blanched cabbage leaves, fold ends over, then roll tightly to form cylinders.
- 3Heat remaining butter in a large frying pan, lightly dust cabbage leaves in flour, shake off excess, and cook, turning occasionally, until golden (3-4 minutes). Serve warm.
Notes
Drink Suggestion: Aromatic, cloudy bière de garde. Drink suggestion by Max Allen