... also quick to prepare, and not too starchy.
Here's a recipe I learned in Arizona. The guy who showed it to me said it was originally German, though in all my time in Germany I never came across this. Still, it is one of my favorite dishes. It is especially nice when time and money are limited, but the hunger is so much greater. What usually fills this kind of void is yet another pasta dish, so I'm especially happy that this one doesn't need it, or any other grains. Not that I don't like pasta, on the contrary, but I think sometimes a good alternative is called for. Something like this.
Some Very Simple Ingredients:
- 1 kg (2 lbs) cabbage
- 500 g (1 lb) chorizo or a similar sausage
- one large onion
- 5 TBS or more cheap yellow mustard (sure, you may go Dijon, but for cooking I like the cheap stuff)
- salt and pepper
- butter, or something to fry with
And How You Use Them:
- Chop the onions and the cabbage, pull the skin off the sausage and cut it into pieces.
- First pre-fry the onions with the sausage until the onions are glassy and the chorizo crumbly. Take them out of the pan, and add the cabbage.
- Fry the cabbage until soft, then add the mustard. I usually add about 5 tablespoons at this stage, and another 2-3 when it's all finished. Some people might take less, but I love the taste combination of cabbage and mustard.
- Put the sausage and onions back in the pan, and fry it a bit more together with the cabbage.
- Taste, and add some salt and pepper (and maybe some more mustard) as needed.
