Friday, July 15, 2011

Stuff cabbage with shrimp and lots of other stuff.

Wherein Mr Ullman gets a good meal of the cheap

This is easy and quick. Stuff cabbage with shrimp, spring onions, normal radishes, rhubarb, avocado and rice. Throw in some grape seed oil and some flavored vinegar and life is good.

You start it by making the rice per instructions and putting it off to the side. Steam good sized leafs of cabbage making sure you steam an even number. The cabbage should be steamed long enough to it easy to wrap around something.

Slice the onions and radishes in a food processor and chop up some rhubarb with a knife. Chop up a garlic clove and quickly stir fry some shrimp in the grape seed oil just long enough to firm it up. Pay attention.

Once the shrimp is cooked put it into a bowl. Take a leaf of cabbage and lay it on a plate. Add four or five shrimp on it. Add the onion, radish and rhubarb in measure. Crumble some goat cheese and grated Parmesan on top.

Fold the cabbage leaf over the stuff and fold another cabbage leaf over the top. Get out a casserole dish, cover the bottom lightly with the flavored vinegar. Heat the oven to 250 degrees, put the cabbage rolls into the dish and cook long enough to melt the cheese and heat the vinegar enough to give up its taste. Ten minutes works for me.

Spread the rice on a plate and lightly dust it with paprika and a pinch of cinnamon (go light here). Put the stuffed cabbage on top of this and place a generous plop of avocado on top.

Plan on two stuffed cabbages per person.

Sunchokes would be good here (not for me, that's a food allergy of note for me). A mild sausage or pulled chicken might work in place of the shrimp.

By the way, Parmesan cheese sold in the US is the poor relative of an Italian cheese called Parmigiano-Reggiano. Check it out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parmigiano-Reggiano

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