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Savoy cabbage, courgette & runner bean stir-fry

by Jeanne Horak on November 26, 2008 9 Comments in Gluten-free, NaBloPoMo 2008, Vegan, Vegetable side dishes

Savoy-cabbage-courgette-runnerbean-stirfry

One of the things about living alone (albeit temporarily!) is that you still go gorocery shopping as if you are buying for two.  Your shopping autopilot just seems to reach automatically for so many apples, so many courgettes, so many salmon fillets…

This means that, quite often, you have leftover bits and pieces.  Half an onion here, four runner beans there – just random bits and pieces that aren’t enough to make a dish.  So every once in a while I have to make up some way of using up random vegetables.  Over a weekend, it’s likely to be an omelette or a frittata; on a weeknight it’s almost sure to be a stir-fry.

Savoy cabbage is a member of the brassica family and, as such, is packed with a wonderful array of nutrients and antioxidants (in fact, per weight it contains more Vitamin C than oranges, and high levels of beta carotene).  Factoid:  the darker outer leaves contain more Vitamin E and calcium than the paler inner leaves.  Cabbage also contains a factor called Vitamin U which helps to heal stomach ulcers.  Most of the healing properties attributed to cabbage are a result of its high sulphur content, but it is also the sulphur that produces the unpleasant and penetrating smell if cabbage is cooked for too long.

The name Savoy refers to a region in the Alps between France and Italy, thought to be either the region where this particular type of cabbage originated or became popular. Its leaves have a blistered or wrinkled texture (compared to smoother green, white or red cabbages) and the leaves are usually far less tightly packed. It is considered sweeter and more delicate than other cabbages, but beware – it shares the tendency to make consumers, umm, gassy because of the indigestible cellulose that it contains.

So without further ado, here’s what I did to get my greens and clear my crisper drawer in one fell swoop.  It’s easy, quick, delicious – and good for you!  Feel free to substitute whatever vegetables you have rattling around in your fridge – get creative!

SAVOY CABBAGE, COURGETTE & RUNNER BEAN STIR FRY

Ingredients:20081106 SavoyCabbageRawEWeb

1 small or half a large onion, chopped
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 medium courgette, sliced
4 runner beans, chopped
3-4 Savoy cabbage leaves, cut into 1cm strips
olive oil
vegetable stock powder

Method:

Heat a couple of tablespoons of olive oil in a large frying pan.  Add the onion and garlic and sautee over medium heat until soft and translucent.

Add the runner beans and courgette and continue to sautee for a further 3-4 minutes.  Add the cabbage, stir fry for another minute, then add enough water just to cover the base of the pan.  Sprinkle half a teaspoon of vegetable stock powder over the vegetables and steam fry until all the water has evaporated and the vegetables are tender but retain some crunch.  If you wish, grate a little Parmesan cheese over the vegetables and serve hot.

I am submitting ths recipe to the lovely Suganya of Tasty Palettes, who is hosting the   second round of Vegan Ventures this month in honour of it being Vegan Month!  And there’s still time to participate until the end of the month, so get cracking.  Can’t wait to see the roundup 🙂

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  1. nina says

    November 27, 2008 at 3:40 am

    Most people I know who live on their own(temporarily or not) does not even bother to cook for themselves. Leftovers makes for the most interesting meals……something Ferran never gets to experience, he-he!!!!

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  2. WotsForLunch? says

    November 27, 2008 at 6:59 am

    I’m not usually cooking for one but I still land up with the odd courgette or half a pepper. So I often make up meals using the oddments lurking in the fridge.

    Reply
  3. Gemma says

    November 27, 2008 at 7:40 am

    This looks lovely and funnily enough I almost made a sauteed savoy cabbage last night and then changed to sprouts (which I will be writing about tonight). We’re nearly done, I’ll be having a glass of end of November bubbles on Sunday!

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  4. Bellini Valli says

    November 27, 2008 at 8:26 am

    You are like the Energizer Bunnt Jeanne…you keep going and going and going……the month is almost over. You have done so much to promote blogging!!!

    Reply
  5. Peter says

    November 27, 2008 at 9:39 am

    Runner beans are a gem and when found, I go nuts on them…they have a unique natural sweetness to them that I just love.

    Reply
  6. courtney says

    November 27, 2008 at 2:45 pm

    I do love Svoy cabbage. Nice mic of vegtables. I can never seem to buy the right amounts and much goes to waste.

    Reply
  7. jacoba says

    November 27, 2008 at 9:53 pm

    Hope you’re not alone for too long.
    You’ve done well this month – I’m exhausted from just keeping up with checking in. I’ve even done so when I’ve been away and I must say, the discipline of writing every day must have quite something – although I’m sure that you must have pre-published – or haven’t you?
    😉 just curious about that – hehe. Hope it’s not considered rude to ask. I do that – otherwise I’ll never cope.

    Reply
  8. grace says

    November 28, 2008 at 10:21 pm

    that’s a lovely bunch of green-ness, if i do say so myself. 🙂

    Reply
  9. myfrenchkitchen says

    December 1, 2008 at 10:52 pm

    This looks like summer and I can feel the comforting sun! gorgeous colours!
    ronell

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