Baked Red Cabbage with Raisins - Great Cooking Every Day - Recipe #1

As mentioned in the last post, in the past Toasty bought several "diet" cookbooks in order to find tasty low calorie recipes to add to his repertoire. One such book is "Great Cooking Every Day" which is a Weight Watchers title, and seems aimed at slightly "restaurant styled" rather than "homey" dishes. In other words, the pictures looked great in the store!

Toasty hadn't previously tried anything from this book (so hurrah for this blog). One thing that looked good was a very simple sweet and sour "braised" red cabbage dish, which seemed like a great side dish for the herbed pork tenderloin Toasty had already decided to cook. Toasty has a weakness for a similar dish served along with Schnitzel and curry fries at a local German pub....

The baked cabbage turned out quite well, although the mysterious dissapearance of the cider vinegar necessitated a switch with white wine vinegar. This is definitely a repeater, but needs both a little more sugar, and a little more vinegar, for Toasty's taste. Its possible that the cider vinegar would cure both these problems, although Toasty has an idea to try balsamic vinegar instead. Sadly, however, while Toasty liked this one the discerning Mr. T. was less impressed muttering imprecations about texture. Can Toasty bring him round??


Baked Red Cabbage with Raisins






1/4 cup cider vinear

3 tbsp packed light brown sugar

3 cupes finely shredded red cabbage

1/2 medium red onion, thinly sliced

1/4 cup raisins


Combine the vinegar and sugar in a shallow baking dish and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Add the cabbage, onion and raisins and mix gently with the liquid. Cover with foil and bake for 30-40 minutes until soft. Stir after 10 minutes.

Makes 4 servings.