Marinated red cabbage with feta, walnuts and spring onions





Commitment to all things vegetable continues. Cabbage is coming out of my ears, as the persistent winter veggie option in the weekly box. I have made sauerkraut (not ready yet) stuffed it with rice and steamed it with lemon and made it into a Japanese style omelette (okonomiyaki) amongst other things. 

Below is my favourite so far and anyone I have made it for. It is raw but the vinegar and marinating time makes it texturally and tastefully somewhere in the middle.

Ingredients

1/2 a red cabbage 
1 tbsp. red wine vinegar 
1 tsp of salt
1 tsp black pepper
4 tsp of grainy mustard
100 ml olive oil 
1 spring onion
1/3 block of feta 
pinch of brown sugar
One handful of dried cranberries
200g walnuts

Method

Finely shred the red cabbage and place it in a bowl. Add the dried cranberries and crumble the feta and toss to combine. Next heat a pan and toast the walnuts until they are lightly browned. Set aside half of the walnuts. To the pan add the olive oil and stir, then the mustard, vinegar, sugar, salt and pepper still stirring the mixture. Pour it over the cabbage and combine with your hands so that it really gets into the cabbage. Cover and leave it for a few hours preferably. Definitely an hour minimum. I thought it tasted best the next day after a long marinating period. If you leave it out for a while you may want to refrigerate it but serve at room temperature.

Serve with the remainder of the toasted walnuts on the top and the sliced spring onion.

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