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Dutch Red Cabbage Recipe

 rode kool click to hear 2 3
  • 2 medium red cabbages (3-4Lb, 1½-2Kg)
  • 3-4 apples (Granny Smith)
  • (optional) 10-15 slices bacon

  • ½ tsp ground cloves
  • ½ tsp cinnamon
  • 1 TBsp sugar
  • a little butter

    optional:

  • potatoes
  • meat (sausages, stew beef, or meatballs)

[red cabbage] [red cabbage]
  1. Peel and cut potatoes, start preparing meat and (optional) bacon;
  2. Remove two outer leaves from the red cabbages, wash cabbages;
  3. Cut cabbages in two from top to bottom,
    cut out white stem cone and discard;
  4. Slice bottom quarts of cabbages thinly (¼", ½cm;)
  5. put 2 cups (500ml) water in large cooking pot or wok,
  6. Unravel cabbage slices and wash, put in wok;
  7. Slice top quarts of cabbages thinly (¼", ½cm;)
  8. Unravel slices and wash, add to the large pot or wok;
  9. Lay bacon on top, cut or rip slices in 4 or 5 pieces
  10. Cover pot with lid and bring to a boil, then lower heat,
    but keep at a boil. Total boiling time: about 45 minutes;
  11. Start boiling potatoes 20 minutes after you put on the cabbage, lower heat, cook for 17 minutes;
  12. Wash and core apples, cut in small pieces;
  13. When cabbage has boiled for 30 minutes
    put cut apples on top, cook for 15 minutes more;
  14. When potatoes have cooked for 17 minutes, drain
    and leave on low heat for 2 minutes.
  15. Drain water from cooked cabbage, add some butter and
    ½ tsp of ground cloves, ½ tsp of cinnamon, a Tablespoon
    of sugar and mix.
rode kool
"rooie kool"
hear 		red cabbage
red cabbage

spek
appels
hear 		bacon
apples

kruidnagelen
boter
suiker
hear 		cloves
butter
sugar

The D of 'rode kool' is colloquially softened to a consonant-Y sound (Dutch J.)

[] []
[] [red cabbage, sausage]
red cabbage with apples and bacon, sausage and potatoes
[red cabbage meal]

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