Wilted Cabbage Salad With Bacon Food

WILTED CABBAGE SALAD

Steps:

• Quarter, core and very thinly slice 1 small head green cabbage; transfer to a large bowl. Pour 4 cups salted boiling water over the cabbage and toss with tongs until wilted. Let sit 15 minutes. Drain, rinse and pat dry. Whisk 1/4 cup each white wine vinegar and olive oil, 2 teaspoons sugar, 1 teaspoon kosher salt and a few grinds of pepper in the bowl. Add the cabbage and toss well.

GERMAN WARM CABBAGE SALAD (KRAUTSALAT)

Steps:

• Cut the bacon into tiny bits.
• Fry it in a big deep frying pan and fish out all the bits after they are crisp.
• Cut up the onion and garlic and fry them in the bacon fat.
• When they are brown, pour in the vinegar.
• Bring it just up to a simmer, add all the cabbage and bacon, toss it as you would a salad, and serve it.
• The cabbage doesn't cook, but it wilts a little under the hot vinegar.

DANISH WILTED CABBAGE SALAD WITH BACON

Steps:

• Place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Remove bacon, crumble and set aside. Reserve bacon fat.
• Add the onion and garlic and fry in the bacon fat until browned.
• Add the vinegar. Bring to a simmer and add the cabbage and bacon. Saute briefly and add sour cream. Serve warm.

WILTED CABBAGE

Steps:

• Cook bacon in large skillet until crisp; remove bacon, reserving drippings in skillet.
• Crumble bacon, set aside.
• Add onions and next 4 ingredients to drippings in skillet, stirring until blended.
• Stir in cabbage.
• Cook over medium heat, uncovered, 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Sprinkle with reserved bacon.

CRISPY CREAMY CABBAGE SALAD WITH BACON GERMAN STYLE

Steps:

• shred cabbage fine or coarse as you prefer.
• dice bacon (or canadian bacon) and fry crisp.
• Mix half and half, vinegar, oil (or if you like more bacon flavor substitute with the bacon drippings), sugar, salt and pepper.
• Ad bacon bits to the dressing.
• pour over cabbage, mix and store in the fridge for 1/2 hour before serving.