Oven Roasted Cheesy Cabbage
Oven Roasted Cheesy Cabbage. Do you love your cabbage? Well, I have a dish for you that takes this vegetable to the next level. Nice quarters of blanched cabbage combined in a baking dish with crushed tomatoes, paprika, carrots, celery, onions, and mushrooms, not to mention melted cheese. The end result in one word is: crispy!
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: Serves 2-4 people 1x
- Category: Side dish, vegetarian
- Method: Baking/stovetop
- Cuisine: Mediterranean
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 medium-size green cabbage
- 1/2 cup crushed tomato or tomato puree
- 1 carrot chopped
- 1/2 onion chopped
- 1 stalk of celery chopped
- 4 Cremini mushrooms sliced
- 1/2 cup grated Parmigiano Reggiano
- 1/2 cup grated Asiago cheese
- 2 tablespoons D.O.P extra virgin cold-pressed olive oil
- pat of butter (optional)
- salt
- pepper
- 1 1/2 tsp of paprika
Instructions
- Cut cabbage into 1/8 wedges. Put the cabbage into a pot of boiling water. Cook cabbage for about 10-15 minutes, drain and let stand.
- Put 1 tablespoon of oil and a pat of butter into a sauté pan. Bring to heat and add chopped celery, carrots, onions, and also sliced mushrooms.
- Add salt and pepper to taste. Sauté till onions are translucent, and carrots a bit softened. Then set aside.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Place 1 tablespoon of oil into an oven roasting dish. Add cabbage. Spread vegetables over top.
- Add tomatoes by spooning overtop. Sprinkle paprika throughout.
- Top with grated Parmigiano and Asiago. Drizzle some olive oil on top.
- Place in the oven on the middle rack. Bake till cheese starts to brown and edges of cabbage start caramelizing. About 20 minutes.
- Take out of the oven and serve.
Notes
You can use other cheeses such as Cheddar, Fontina, or Swiss.
Use the more robust cabbages as they will hold firmer.
Find it online: https://www.sugarlovespices.com/oven-roasted-cheesy-cabbage/
