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Dish of the week: Holubtsi

35 Cabbage Recipes From 23 Cuisines.

Cheap, sturdy and far more interesting than its reputation. Raw, it is slaw and crunchy salad; braised, it collapses into surprising sweetness; fermented, it becomes sauerkraut and kimchi, two of the world’s great preserved foods. Whole leaves are the wrapper for the stuffed-cabbage traditions stretching from the Balkans to Scandinavia, and wedges roasted hard in a hot oven caramelize into something close to a vegetable steak. Napa cabbage is the tender, fast-cooking East Asian counterpart, built for hot pots and quick pickles.

35 recipes on this route

The recipes.

Bowl of yellow spiced pickled vegetables — carrot, cucumber and cabbage batons — dusted with ground peanuts and sesame

Malaysia13 hr 15 min

Acar Awak

Nyonya Spiced Pickled Vegetables

Carved slices of boiled bacon with buttered cabbage wedges and parsley sauce poured over

Ireland2 hr

Bacon and Cabbage

Boiled Bacon Joint with Parsley Sauce

Pot of amber-brown Polish bigos with sauerkraut, chunks of pork and slices of smoked sausage

Poland15 hr 30 min

Bigos

Polish Hunter's Stew

Tall earthenware pot of bosanski lonac with visible layers of beef, cabbage wedges, potato and carrot in dark broth

Bosnia and Herzegovina3 hr 45 min

Bosanski Lonac

Layered Bosnian Meat and Vegetable Pot

Bowl of caldo verde with thin ribbons of greens, creamy potato broth and seared chouriço coins

Portugal55 min

Caldo Verde

Portuguese Green Soup

A Costa Rican casado plate with white rice, black beans, fried plantain, cabbage salad and chicken in tomato sauce

Costa Rica1 hr 15 min

Casado

Costa Rican Soda Lunch Plate

Bowl of colcannon mash flecked with green kale and scallions, melted butter pooled in the centre

Ireland45 min

Colcannon

Mash with Kale and Scallions

Jar of Salvadoran curtido, shredded cabbage carrot and onion in cloudy vinegar brine with oregano

El Salvador24 hr 25 min

Curtido

Salvadoran Lightly Fermented Cabbage Slaw

Wide griddle of red dakgalbi with glazed chicken thigh pieces, cabbage, sweet potato slices and rice cakes

South Korea2 hr 50 min

Dakgalbi

Chuncheon Spicy Stir-Fried Chicken

Uzbek dimlama tipped onto a platter: chunks of lamb over whole potatoes, carrots, peppers and collapsed cabbage in dark broth

Uzbekistan2 hr 10 min

Dimlama

Uzbek Layered Meat and Vegetable Braise

Deep bowl of fårikål with bone-in mutton, collapsed cabbage wedges, peppercorns and boiled potatoes

Norway3 hr

Fårikål

Norwegian Mutton and Cabbage Stew

Gado-gado platter of blanched vegetables, boiled eggs and fried tofu coated in warm peanut dressing

Indonesia55 min

Gado-Gado

Indonesian Salad with Peanut Dressing

Every recipe on this route.

All 35 of them, alphabetically, with the country each one comes from.

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