Easy Southern Cooked Cabbage in 20 Minutes

Name: Southern Cooked Cabbage
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: ½ medium cabbage ((cut in lge. chunks)); ½ medium sweet onion, diced small (Optional); 2 tbsp bacon drippings ((or vegetable oil)); ½ tsp salt; ½ tsp Ground Black Pepper; 1 tsp dark brown sugar

Southern Cooked Cabbage

Jeff Baygents

This southern cooked cabbage with bacon drippings recipe is very tasty. And it's surprisingly simple and easy to make. It's often ready to serve in about 20 minutes.

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Prep 5 mins

Cook 15 mins

Total Time 20 mins

Servings servings

Calories 101kcal

Ingredients

▢ ½ medium cabbage (cut in lge. chunks)
▢ ½ medium sweet onion, diced small Optional
▢ 2 tbsp bacon drippings (or vegetable oil)
▢ ½ tsp salt
▢ ½ tsp Ground Black Pepper
▢ 1 tsp dark brown sugar

Instructions

Cutup ½ head of cabbage into large chunks and dice the onion. Heat up the skillet to medium-high and add the bacon drippings (or oil) to the bottom of the skillet.
Add the cabbage chunks and diced onions to the skillet. and sprinkle the salt, pepper, and sugar evenly across it. Begin to cook and turn the cabbage initially to coat it with the melted drippings/oil and to distribute the spices.
Cook for about 5 minutes, turning the cabbage a couple of times. If needed, add up to 2 tbsp. of water. Turn the heat down to medium and cover the skillet for about 3 minutes.
Turn heat down to medium-low. Again, if needed, add up to 2 tbsp. of water. Turn the cabbage once . Cover and cook for about 5 more minutes, or until done.

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Resources of Southern Cooked Cabbage

This southern cooked cabbage has a lot of flexibility and is easy and quick to make. Onions are optional. Vegetable oil can be a substitute for bacon drippings.

An Optional Addition for this Recipe for Southern Fried Cabbage

If you want to use bacon in this, it’s easier if you cut up 3 slices of bacon in pieces and then cook it. That way, you just add the cabbage and spices immediately after that. If I have no bacon drippings, I will typically just cook the bacon to serve that purpose. It also happens to add in the extra bacon pieces as well.

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