Tasty Cabbage Recipes That Prove It’s Great For More Than Coleslaw

Cabbage and Kielbasa

Corned beef isn’t your only pairing option for cooked cabbage. This hearty skillet dinner showcases cozy kielbasa, an easy egg spaetzle pasta, plus a luscious onion and cabbage combo. Can’t find kielbasa, or not a fan? Try this same pan-fried cabbage recipe with chicken sausage, turkey sausage, or any plant-based sausage alternative.

Salmon and Cabbage Noodle Bowls

From meal prep to dinner parties designed for those with different dietary preferences and intolerances, you can’t do much better than a build-your-own-bowl concept. In this snow pea and cabbage recipe, those crunchy veggies act as a fresh complement to the miso-marinated roast salmon and tender buckwheat noodles. Offer each of those building blocks with a bowl of carrot-miso dressing on the side, and everyone can construct their dream creation.

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Pan-Roasted Cabbage, Carrot, and Celery Root

Carve out just 25 minutes and round up seven ingredients to recreate this red cabbage recipe, and you’ll benefit richly from that small investment. After trying the vegetable side dish as part of her holiday menu, one BHG fan raves, “Oh my gosh, this was SO good! Even family members who aren't crazy about vegetables said it was the dark horse of Thanksgiving dinner—and they wanted to take home my leftovers!”

Roasted Cabbage with Olive Tapenade

With everyone from Top Chef host and cookbook author Padma Lakshmi to popular food bloggers to award-winning restaurant chefs adding roasted cabbage to their menus, it’s clear that this side dish trend has some serious star power. And staying power as a cabbage recipe we turn to for casual family meals and dinner parties alike! This easy sheet pan roasted vegetable recipe gets a burst of briny, savory flavor from olive tapenade. Buy a jar or make your own olive tapenade; any and all the ways, the charred, condiment-topped leaves will leave everyone wanting to make this again ASAP.

Haricots Verts-Cabbage Salad with Apricot-Lime Vinaigrette

Crisp-tender blanched green beans team up with shredded cabbage to set the scene for this restaurant-quality salad. A reduction of sweet, savory, and spicy kitchen staple ingredients (plus a generous splash of white wine) star in the vinaigrette that makes each bite of this cabbage recipe shine. Try it as-is for a starter or side, or top with grilled shrimp, salmon, or drained and rinsed white beans to make it a meal.

Stuffed Cabbage Rolls

Sure, you could seek out those pricey egg wraps, keto tortillas, or a cauliflower-infused option. But we like to think of big, sturdy leaves as the original low-carb wrap—at a much lower price and with a few vitamins and minerals along for the ride. Wrap the cabbage around ground beef, tomatoes, and cheese, and as the cabbage rolls recipe braises in a tomato-based sauce the vegetable softens and mellows.

Cabbage and Potato Gratin

Potatoes au gratin is one of our favorite holiday potato sides. But you need not reserve this comfort food for special occasions alone. This red cabbage vegetable casserole can be yours after following just two simple steps; build and bake. As written, it serves eight, but a BHG reader has a smart time-saving trick to make this even easier for weeknights: “I have separated it into two smaller dishes and frozen one so that I can have it ready in a moment's notice. This is one of my favorite recipes!”

Muenster, Cabbage, and Apple Sandwiches

Our editors are hooked on this grown-up grilled cheese! To take your grilled cheese lunch to new flavor heights, simmer onion, cabbage, apple slices, and vinegar in apple cider. Layer that cabbage recipe between slices of rye bread with Muenster cheese, then coat the outside of the bread with cooking oil, butter, or mayo. Cook until golden brown on both sides—and devour. (You don’t have to ask us twice!)

Corned Beef and Cabbage

Corned beef and cabbage recipes aren’t just for celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. This 5-ingredient dinner is as simple as “add all ingredients to the slow cooker and press ‘on.’” Cook for 10 hours on low or 5 hours on high, and the succulent meat, potatoes, and veggies meal is ready to make its debut as the centerpiece of your table.

Fermented Apple-Caraway Sauerkraut

Packed with salty, sour flavor and gut-healthy probiotics, sauerkraut has become one of our go-to refrigerator staples. If you’re curious about how to ferment foods, this apple and cabbage recipe is a terrific place to start. After just 15 minutes of prep time and a few weeks of “marination,” the caraway-seasoned condiment is ready to shine in sandwiches, on top of hot dogs, in grain bowls or salads, as part of potato salad, and so much more.

Spicy Asian Pork Cabbage Rolls

The classic stuffed cabbage rolls recipes in many cookbooks are of Eastern European origin; the dish is believed to have roots in the Middle East as well as Romania, Poland, and Ukraine. These warm, hearty, and flavor-packed pork-stuffed cabbage rolls are a unique and globe-trotting remix. Asian-inspired condiments like soy sauce, sesame oil, rice vinegar, hoisin sauce, oyster sauce, and Sriracha team up for a recipe that you’ll want to add to your regular dinner rotation.

Wilted Cabbage and Brats

Sure you could serve those brats in buns. Again. Or you could dress them up in this well-balanced speedy weeknight dinner. Start the pan-fried cabbage recipe in a skillet, then simultaneously steam the brats and apples in a combo of mustard and water. Stir together the sage-scented sour cream, finish that with the rest of the pan sauce, and the 20-minute meal is all set to serve.

Cabbage Roll Soup

Ready to clean out your crisper drawer? A full 4 cups of leaves simmer down beautifully in this cabbage soup recipe alongside punchy pantry staples like beef broth, tomato paste, fire-roasted diced tomatoes, and hot-style vegetable juice. This slow cooker soup is also one of our favorite ways to stretch a package of ground beef. Thanks to all those veggies and an assist from leftover or store-bought cooked rice, just 12 ounces of meat is plenty to feed six.

Classic Creamy Coleslaw

No round-up of cabbage recipes would be complete without coleslaw, of course. And this classic coleslaw is the only version of this potluck favorite you’ll need, our Test Kitchen pros confirm. If creamy slaw isn’t your style, we also explain how to dress up your cabbage, carrots, and green onions with a lighter vinaigrette.