Nebraska Creamed Cabbage
"Can add ham"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (355.3 g)
- Calories 868.5
- Total Fat - 89.1 g
- Saturated Fat - 42 g
- Cholesterol - 126.2 mg
- Sodium - 482.9 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 6.5 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.4 g
- Sugars - 2.6 g
- Protein - 9.9 g
- Calcium - 98.5 mg
- Iron - 1.4 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
In a heavy-bottomed saucepan
Step 2
Melt 3 tablespoons of butter over medium heat.
Step 3
Sprinkle in flour, stirring constantly, as the sauce bubbles and cooks for about 2 minutes.
Step 4
Do not let it brown.
Step 5
Stir in hot milk, continuing to stir as sauce thickens.
Step 6
Bring to boil.
Step 7
Add mustard, cayenne, and salt and pepper to taste.
Step 8
Lower heat and cook, stirring constantly, 3 more minutes.
Step 9
Remove from heat.
Step 10
Meanwhile in stockpot
Step 11
Cut cabbage into 8 wedges.
Step 12
Cook in boiling water 8 minutes, until tender.
Step 13
Drain and trim away any tough outside parts that remain.
Step 14
Chop the cabbage coarsely and mix with the sauce.
Step 15
Place it in a buttered 2-quart casserole. Top with bread crumbs and dot the top with tiny pinches of the remaining butter.
Step 16
Heat oven to 400 degrees.
Step 17
Bake casserole 30 minutes.
Tips
No special items needed.