Cabbage Soup ala Nita
photo by PaulaG
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 6 -8 slices bacon, cut in 4 pieces each
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 2 vidalia onions or 2 sweet onions, peeled
- 1⁄2 head green cabbage, cored,shredded fine
- 2 fresh carrots, scraped,chopped small
- 2 cans tomatoes, crushed or cut up
- 2 cans campbell chicken broth (Or 2 Knorr Chicken Bouillon Cubes dissolved in 3 cups Hot water)
- 1⁄4 cup dark brown sugar
- fresh ground black pepper
directions
- Prepare vegetables.
- Set aside.
- In a heavy pot or Dutch Oven over medium-low heat, cook bacon until browned.
- Remove and drain on paper towels.
- Reserve bacon drippings for another use, if desired.
- Add butter to pot.
- Melt over low heat.
- Add onions and stirring, saute over medium heat until tender and somewhat translucent-- 5 to 7 minutes.
- Add Cabbage and carrots.
- Stir in and saute-- also stirring-- for about 5 minutes.
- Do NOT overcook.
- Cabbage should be just wilted good and soft.
- Add tomatoes and juice from cans.
- Add Chicken Broth or Bouillon Cubes dissolved in Hot water.
- Thin with additional chicken broth or water if desired.
- Cook covered at a slow boil for about 20 minutes.
- Add dark brown sugar and black pepper.
- Top with crumbled crisp bacon.
- Serve hot.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Nita Holleman
Franklin, NC
We hail fom Central Georgia, but live in our fifth Southeastern State -- Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina (USA). I have been cooking Southern food for more that fifty (50) years. My mentors were my grandfather, my husband's favorite aunt, and several maids/cooks who worked in our home.
I guess the best cookbook you can own would be the all time favorite, "Joy Of Cooking." Although not ethnic, it has lots of basic cooking information in it. I've given it as a gift to all our family.