Vegetarian Recipe of the Day: Spicy Purple Cabbage

This month we feature purple cabbage, also known as "red cabbage". If you compare green to red cabbage you will find some interesting numbers.

Daily Values of Green cabbage vs. Red cabbage

Vitamin A 3 percent 19 percent

Vitamin C 47 percent 84 percent

Iron 2 percent 3 percent

Also green cabbage has few anthocyanins whereas red cabbage has a large amount of these nutrients which create its purple color. Just as green bell pepper has fewer anthocyanins than red bell pepper and a green Granny apple has more anthocyanins. So you might be asking: "what is an anthocyanin?". Anthocyanins are the antioxidants that have cancer-fighting and memory improvement benefits.

However, most of the nutrients needed by the human body do require pigmentation and do not produce unique shades of color in fruits and vegetables.

Pictured above is the recipe with Naturally Santa Fe Beans and Brown Rice. So let's get started:

Ingredients:

1 Medium Purple Cabbage

1 Red Bell Pepper

1-3 Carrots

1 Onion

Seasonings:

2 C Water

1/2 C Corn/Vegetable Oil

2 T Cane Sugar (not pictured)

1 T Pink Himalayan Salt

1 t Italian Seasoning

3 shakes Cracked Red Pepper

1 T Allspice

1 t Mrs Dash

2 T Vegetarian Soy Sauce (or) Coconut Aminos

Directions:

1. Place 2 C water in large pot, add 1/2 C oil in pot. Remove the outer Purple Cabbage leaves and wash. Chop Purple Cabbage into approximately 2 inch pieces, placing in the water (do not heat until ALL ingredients are it the pot). Warning: if you didn't lay out a brown paper bag as a cutting area, you might see some purple stains on your stove top, counter etc.

2. Throw away the core of the Purple Cabbage or use it in you compost pot. This is what the core should look like:

3. Cut the Carrot on an angle. This cut is called an "oblique".

4. Add the Carrot to the pot.

5. Cut up the Red Bell Pepper in strips, then cut into half. This cut is called "Bayonnet" then it is cut into half.

6. Add to pot.

7. Peel an Onion. In this recipe I used a White Onion for its potency. Cut it up as you like

8. Add to the pot.

9. Put 2 T Cane Sugar over the ingredients, then pour over (in a spiral) the additional 1/2 C Oil over everything. This last step makes sure that everything is drained downward to the water at the bottom.