Cabbage Bake
Raw cabbage in a bake stays crunchy, which is precisely what nobody wants from a bake. Twenty minutes in a pan changes everything: it turns soft, sweet and compact. Only then does the egg mixture go in, gluing it all into one dense, pastry-free pie.
- Prep
- 25 min
- Cook
- 45 min
- Rest
- 15 min
- Total
- 1 h 25 min
- Servings
- 6
- Level
- Easy
- Per serving
- 230 kcal
Ingredients
Makes: a 22×30 cm dish, 6 portions
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Method
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Step 1: Stew the cabbage
Heat the oil and cook the onion and carrot for 5 minutes, add the cabbage and stew covered for 20 minutes, until soft and reduced by half.
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Step 2: Drive off the moisture
Take the lid off and give it 5 more minutes so the spare liquid goes. Wet cabbage stops the egg mixture setting.
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Step 3: Cool to warm
Tip it into a bowl and let it cool 10 minutes. Added to a hot mass, the eggs would scramble.
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Step 4: Make the custard
Beat the eggs with sour cream, semolina, salt and pepper and leave 5 minutes: the semolina must swell or it stays gritty in the finished bake.
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Step 5: Combine
Fold the custard into the warm cabbage with the dill and half the cheese, spread it in a greased dish and level it.
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Step 6: Bake
Scatter over the rest of the cheese and bake 40–45 minutes at 180 °C to a golden top. Rest 15 minutes before cutting.
Tips & variations
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Tip
The semolina works as a sponge for whatever water the cabbage still gives up in the oven. Breadcrumbs by weight do the same job.
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Tip
Winter cabbage is tougher and wants 10 minutes more stewing. Young cabbage needs only 12, or it collapses.
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Variation
With 300 g of mince, browned separately and folded in, it becomes a full supper. With mushrooms instead, a meat-free one.
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Storage
Three days in the fridge. Good cold, and best reheated in a covered pan rather than a microwave.
Nutrition
| 1 serving | Whole dish 6 servings | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 230 kcal | 1,380 kcal |
| Protein | 11 g | 66 g |
| Fat | 13 g | 78 g |
| Carbohydrates | 17 g | 102 g |
Approximate values calculated from standard ingredient data.
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