Linguine with Savoy Cabbage Recipe
01. May, 2007 
5 Comments
It’s time for another Cheap Eats post. This post continues my Italian food kick and uses up stuff that was in the fridge. If you only count non-pantry items then the cost of this meal is about $2 for cabbage and when you divide it by 4 – that is very affordable! I would serve it with hunks of bread and a nice green salad. Now you are looking at $2.50 a person. I made a big batch of Minestrone over the weekend (post is coming) and I had the cabbage leftover so I did a google and found this recipe from Mark Bittman which I followed pretty closely. Cabbage is totally my new favorite thing, I love it when it is cooked down into almost nothing,
If you don’t have stock and wine, just use one or the other. The sauce was so good I found myself wiping up the sauce pot with a hunk of bread – very dangerous for the overeating problem. If you have some I think a handful of bacon or pancetta would be nice, but honestly this is so simple that it might complicate it too much.
Linguine with Savoy Cabbage
(serves 4)
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1t of anchovy paste
1 dried red chile
1 head savoy cabbage, cored and shredded
1/2c stock
1/2c dry white wine
2t butter
1/4C Parmesan, freshly grated
1 lb. linguine
salt and pepper
fresh parsley, chopped
1. Put a large pot of salted water on to boil and put medium heat under a big cast iron saucepan, big enough to hold all the pasta.
2. Put the olive oil, garlic cloves, chilis and anchovy paste in the pot, and cook stirring until garlic just begin to brown. the anchovy paste should dissolve into the oil. Add cabbage and stir regularly until it starts to brown.
3. Put the pasta in the water and add the stock and wine to the pot with a few good grinds of pepper. Allow the cabbage to simmer, stirring while the pasta cooks.
4. When the pasta is cooked, reserve about 1C of the pasta water and drain.
5. Add the pasta to the pot and toss, adding the water to thicken the sauce. Add the parmesan and stir until it melts into the sauce. Adjust for seasonings and garnish with parsley.
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Wow… that looks fabulous! I never would have thought of making cabbage with pasta… think it would work without anchovy?
It would need a bunch more salt
I think it would still be good, but the anchovies do add a nice nutty flavour. Let me know if you make it without though.
Hi again, I tried this recipe last night, and it was wonderful. Thanks for another great idea! Please keep the pasta posts coming.
Thanks.
I am so glad you liked it. I will be making pasta for awhile to come, no worries there
What a great way to combine flavors of pasta and cabbage! Thanks for sharing…