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Braised Red Cabbage with Apple

Name: Braised Red Cabbage with Apple
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: Serves 6–8
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 red cabbage (about 1kg), finely sliced; 2 Bramley apples, chopped; 1 onion, sliced; 25g butter; 3 tbsp red wine vinegar; 2 tbsp soft brown sugar; ¼ tsp each ground cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg; salt

Slow-braised with Bramley apple, vinegar and spice — the sweet-sour purple anchor of every Christmas table and every good game dinner.

Prep: 15 min
Cook: 90 min
Total: 105 min
Yield: Serves 6–8
Difficulty: Easy
Era: Georgian

Ingredients

1 red cabbage (about 1kg), finely sliced
2 Bramley apples, chopped
1 onion, sliced
25g butter
3 tbsp red wine vinegar; 2 tbsp soft brown sugar
¼ tsp each ground cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg; salt

Method

Oven150°C300°FFan 130°CGas 2

Layer everything into a heavy casserole with generous seasoning.
Dot with butter, lid on, and braise at 150°C / 300°F (fan 130°C, gas 2) for 1½–2 hours, stirring once or twice.
It should emerge silky, sweet-sour and deeply purple.
Serve with roast pork, goose or game — and note it improves made a day ahead.

Oven temperatures are given in Celsius, Fahrenheit, fan and gas mark throughout. Quantities are metric, as cooked and written in the UK.