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You’ll want to make this Southern Bacon-Fried Cabbage again and again! It’s hard to believe that such simple ingredients could result in such a flavorful and delicious side dish!
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Are you a fan of cabbage?! For the most part, I can take it or leave it; it’s just okay to me …. unless you’re talking about this Southern Bacon-Fried Cabbage. Goot Lort! I really believe that some of the most simple recipes are the best. Wouldn’t you agree? When it comes to this Southern Bacon-Fried Cabbage, I know it to be true!
We’re talking four ingredients – cabbage, onion, garlic, and bacon … along with a few seasonings. Somehow, it cooks into this mesmerizing dish that I cannot stop eating! I could totally understand chocolate cake, friends, but we’re talking about cabbage!! Cabbage!!
I don’t know what it is about Southern Bacon-Fried Cabbage, but as I said, I cannot stop eating it when it’s made! I find myself grabbing a spoon from the drawer to get a taste …. you know, you have to taste test when you’re cooking! Five minutes later, the same thing!
The great thing is my family digs this side dish just as much as I do, so there are never any leftovers! Which, I guess, depending on how you look at it, that’s a good thing! The only problem is that it means there is less for me … which maybe that’s why I have to “taste-test” it so much?! I have to make sure I get my fair portion!!
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Southern Bacon-Fried Cabbage
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Ingredients
- 6 slices bacon, chopped
- 1 cup onion, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 large head cabbage, cored and chopped
- 2 teaspoons seasoned salt
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
Instructions
- Cook the bacon in a jumbo cooker over medium-high heat until crisp. Remove the bacon to a paper towel-lined plate. Reserve 2 tablespoons of the bacon grease and discard the rest.
- In the same jumbo cooker, return the 2 tablespoons bacon grease. Over medium-high heat, cook the onion until it is soft, about 4 minutes. Add the garlic and continue to cook for an additional 1 minute. Stir in the cabbage and continue to cook and stir for 4-5 minutes. Add the seasoned salt, pepper, onion powder and garlic powder. Mix well.
- Reduce heat to low, cover, and allow to simmer, stirring occasionally, for about 30 minutes.
- Just before serving, mix the bacon into the cooked cabbage. Serve immediately.
Notes
- For a more KETO-friendly meal, omit (or use less of) chopped onion.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Great recipe! I just don’t cook my cabbage that long because you loosr the vitamins and it gets very limp.
I am with you… I don’t think I will cook the cabbage for 30 minutes. I like my cabbage just cook not soggy
Bacon is the ultimate ingredient. I’m not a big fan of sweet potatoes or lima beans, but I would imagine that if Chef Alex or one of the other wonderful chefs from Food Network had a recipe that called for sweet potatoes or lima beans, it also had bacon in it, I’m sure that I would like it.
Bacon makes everything taste better!
This is fabulous flavors!
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OMGosh, what a perfect Keto dish!!Thank you!
thats whats I said!!!
My favorite way of eating cabbage! Except I add a little butter to the bacon grease, more cabbage and sometimes the whole pkg of bacon!! Yum!!
Same here! I can’t keep people off of it! My kids eat bowls of the stuff!
I agree about the added butter….it makes a fabulous difference!
I cooked whole pkg of bacon too, yummy !
Fried cabbage, hot buttered fried corn bread with blackberry jam on the side, fried taters and onions, sliced beefsteak tomatoes and vinegared cucumbers and onions, a skillet full of fried silver queen corn, with thick slices of jowl bacon slurped down with a couple of tall glasses of cold sweet tea! Dang, I miss my Mama!
Man that sounds good…
My mom made this my whole time growing up!
Love that idea..right up to the corn (not my fav. veggie..lol) the rest of the veggies would make a great summer meal without heating up the house too much.
My God !!! This sounds so good !!! I love cornbread with about anything . Born and raised on it …..But , this while thing sounded just like home …Only thing , it was sweet tea ! Didn’t eat the jam with it but sure would eat afterwards. Sure made me hungry . Think I will fix for supper ! Fried cabbage is awesome also .Never tried with bacon .We had slab bacon .But , I’d eat it .Great recipe !!!
That sounds delicious!!?
And she made it all in the day before all of the shortcuts we have today. Women were amazing in those days! Grandma had 7 kids, no dishwasher, no microwave, no iron free clothing, no automatic washing machine, no dryer. Coffee was percolated, cornbread was in a cast iron skillet, jams were homemade. I don’t think grandma ever sat down for dinner, her job was making serving and cleaning up. What a woman.
Wow! My Mom was the same way…plus, she worked full-time!
I`ll agree to that, sounds like us kids growing up, slab BACON, yea man! LoL,
Wow, I’m definitely eating with you. That’s my kind of food!! Wow!!
Awwww, Daisy, I wish I was your neighbor!!!!
Been making this for years but add sliced smoked sausage and al-dente mini-farfalle. Makes for a very hearty meal.
Sounds EXELLENT!!
Sounds like a fabulous way of making a complete meal with the cabbage dish. Love that idea!
I love cabbage! This looks so darn delicious!
This is my kind of cabbage dish…fabulous flavors!
Make this a main dish by adding your favorite smoked sausage, cut into rounds and fry
with bacon. Add other ingredients as listed.
Served as main dish makes great LCHF
meal.. Quick, easy and leftovers are a great plus.
Bacon makes a great addition to cabbage. I like to fry bacon in my cast iron skillet. That fat keeps the skillet seasoned.Thanks for sharing.Wishes for tasty dishes,Linda