This roasted cabbage with lime peanut sauce is a fun and different way to eat cabbage.
I know.
Yesterday I told you cookies were coming and today you happily click over here expecting life changing (ok, that’s a little presumptuous), healthy, carrot cake/coconut cake/lemon bar cookies and instead you see cabbage.
If this blog were a business, I’d probably have just lost a few customers. Good thing it isn’t.
I hope you’ll hear this one out.
Or at least, still come back tomorrow for cookies.
I’ve seen a few people roast cabbage recently and was definitely intrigued.
You cut some up for a recipe (like Irish coleslaw) that calls for a cup or maybe 2 cups at most and there’s still a huge chunk of the thing left.
There’s really only so much cabbage one can (happily) eat.
Roasting usually shrinks things so I figured this would at least make it feasible to finish the vegetable in one attempt. The next option was to freeze it and deal with the leftovers later.
I talk about this exact predicament in this air fryer cabbage recipe, which is another way to get super crispy flavorful cabbage also.
Thinking this would turn out anything but delicious was dumb.
#1 roasting makes everything taste better. That’s the truth.
#2 think of these like kale chips, except it’s not kale so anyone adverse to the whole “green” thing has no excuse.
#3 lime + peanuts + dijon mustard. Um, yum. This Thai flavor combination is exactly why I love sticky Thai chicken (which would actually be a great main course with this roasted red cabbage.
I snuck a few bites of this to try it out, refrained from eating the whole bowl right then and there thinking I’d save it for dinner in a few hours and then we ended up eating out at a Thai restaurant after a failed attempt to buy a quad an hour away from Craigslist.
The whole part about it missing an engine that they neglected to mention in the ad or on the phone kind of ruined the deal.
So now that I finally found a way to eat and enjoy a full head of cabbage, I’m going to end up with soggy leftovers.
Go figure.
MORE RED CABBAGE RECIPES:
Pork and Cabbage Stir Fry
Red Cabbage Sauerkraut (Fermented Red Cabbage)
Sheet Pan Pork Chops with Cabbage, Apples and Potatoes
Sweet Honey Dijon Red Cabbage Slaw
Roasted Cabbage with Lime Peanut Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 medium head of red cabbage, sliced
- 1 1/2 tablespoons sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon dijon mustard
- juice of 1 lime
- 1/4 cup peanuts, chopped
- salt & pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Grease a baking sheet.
- In a small bowl whisk together sesame oil, mustard, lime juice, salt & pepper.
- Place sliced cabbage in a large bowl, pour dressing over it and toss well.
- Spread cabbage onto baking sheet and roast for about 60 minutes until crispy, tossing occasionally.
- Top with chopped peanuts and additional salt & pepper to taste.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Oh yum! I bet this is good! I never had roasted cabbage before, but I gotta give it a try!! I usually saute it with other vegetables and have it stir fry style.
I love cabbage in all its many forms, but I have never tried it roasted. I will have to change that very soon. I’m having a hard time with the lime and red cabbage combo only because I did a pH experiment in school and the lime juice turned the cabbage hot pink.
I love cabbage in all its many forms, and my life feels a touch incomplete since I have never roasted it. The lime and cabbage combo reminds me of chemistry when we used red cabbage as a pH indicator. I had a mental picture of the cabbage turning bright pink! Glad to see that wasn’t the case.
I have never bought a cabbage because I just didn’t know what I would do with it all… but since roasting does make everything better… and peanuts + lime =glorious… I may have to bite the bullet and buy one.
Um, that looks delicious!! I LOVE red cabbage – but I know what you mean about how there is always sooooo much of it. I also love peanuts and lime, so Ive totally bookmarked this for the next time our veggie box brings us red cabbage. Recently Ive been making coleslaw – which I love, but there is a limit to the amount one can eat…
I’ve never cooked cabbage before- it’s one of those veggies that I’m sure I would like, but it just sounds so gross!
Lime peanut sauce? Oh that sounds fab!
Cabbage is one of those veggies I don’t buy so much b/c when you cut into it, it multiplies many times over on your cutting board :)
Just must make more of that sauce then I guess :)
Exactly! Roasting it definitely took the bulk down though. I’d say almost halved it. Definitely the way to go ;)
I honestly never thought of roasting cabbage. Awesome idea!! I absolutely love the lime, sesame, peanut combo. So yummy :)
I LOVE cabbage. This is SUCH an interesting way to serve it!!
Sadly, I can eat a whole head of cabbage with spray butter and salt and pepper. BUT, this looks so much better! Can’t wait to try it out!
You are right, I did come back today looking for a cookie recipe…but I am just as excited about this one and look forward to the cookie recipe tomorrow! :)