How to make pork and cabbage soup

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How to make pork and cabbage soup
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Pork and cabbage soup on Canberra labour day 2016, what a great idea! A great way to use leftover slowly cooked pork shoulder.

It’s been two long weekends in a row. Not a bad thing. This weekend also marked the beginning of daylight saving in some states and the Australian Capital Territory. Getting an extra day to manage a slightly earlier start is a good thing.

The weather in Canberra has been good. On Saturday and today, we’ve had rain and overcast skies. Sunday was bright, shiny and relatively warm. I managed to get out for a walk around Lake Ginninderra and shoot a couple of photographs. I wanted to play with some new software. It seemed to produce a couple of nice pictures.

Lake Ginninderra photographs

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The cabbage soup

On Sunday, I put a boneless pork shoulder in the slow cooker and had a nice simple pork and cabbage dinner. Today I used some of the leftover pork and boiled some cabbage along with some coconut milk to make a nice soup.

What went into the cabbage soup

  • Leftover pork shoulder in bite sized chunks
  • A quarter of a small drumhead cabbage finely shredded
  • One packet of salt reduced French onion soup
  • Use a single jalapeño pepper and red chilli sliced with the seeds included
  • Two hundred and seventy millilitres of coconut milk

How to put the cabbage soup together

  1. In a large saucepan boil the cabbage and French onion soup until the cabbage is soft.
  2. Toss in the pork and bring it back to the boil for a couple of minutes to heat the pork through.
  3. Drain out most of the water and add the coconut milk and bring it to the boil and then turn down the heat and allow it to simmer for a few minutes.
  4. Ladle the soup into a large bowl and then garnish with the chillies and peppers along with some chopped chives.

How does the cabbage soup taste?

Pork and cabbage soup

It was pretty good. I thought about adding some curry powder, but the chilli and peppers added the right amount of spice while the coconut milk gave it a creamy texture.

Final words

As a kid, I didn’t like cabbage very much but as an adult, I’ve come to enjoy it as a vegetable that can absorb flavours much like pasta can. While boiling it removes the nutritional value, the fibre is still in it and it makes a great filler.

If you try this recipe please let me know what you think.

Rainbow over Lake Ginninderra

9 Responses

    1. The chillies and peppers are quite mild here. I don’t go for those really hot ones because I like to enjoy eating without the pain of a burning mouth and tongue. I don’t understand how people can eat some of those really hot chillies.

  1. I grew up with cabbage rolls so cooked cabbage is a childhood memory but I only ate the nude filling and let my mom eat the cabbage part. I’m still not fond of cooked cabbage though coleslaw isn’t bad nor the shredded cooked filling in egg rolls.

    I love the look of the fresh chili and coconut milk broth though I’m unlikely to make it myself. 🙂

    1. I can remember arguing with Mum and saying I never wanted to eat it again.
      Now I just like it boiled in a bit of stock or soup mix and then served with something else.

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