Boiled bacon with cabbage & carrots

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Barney Desmazery

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Recipe by Barney Desmazery

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1. Place the bacon in a stockpot with the onion and herbs, then cover with water. Bring to a simmer, then cook for 45 mins, topping up with water if needed. Add the carrots, then continue to cook for 15 mins. Ladle 150ml stock into a smaller saucepan; set aside. Add the cabbage wedges to the stockpot, then continue to cook everything for another 10-15 mins until the cabbage is tender, but not overcooked.
2. While everything is having its final cooking, make the sauce. Pour the cream into the 150ml stock and bring to the boil. Simmer for a few mins, then whisk in the mustard and parsley. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
3. Remove the meat from the stock, then carve into thick slices. Serve on a platter with the cabbage and carrots, and moisten with a trickle of stock. Serve the sauce in a jug and some boiled and buttered new potatoes on the side.

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Per serving

694 kcalories, protein 36g, carbohydrate 9g, fat 57 g, saturated fat 23g, fibre 3g, salt 4.51 g

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• Katie

  26 April 2008

  Katie rated and commented on this recipe

  

  The bacon cooked beautifully and the vegetables had a really nice flavour - this was much tastier that I was expecting. I froze the stock then a couple of weeks later used it to make a delicious 'London Particular' pea soup, the recipe for which I found on Delia's website.

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  29 March 2009

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  Made the recipe as given, first class good old fashioned taste we need more recipes with these flavours.

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• CARCASS CRUNCHER

  24 October 2009

  CARCASS CRUNCHER commented on this recipe

  Cooking time stated as 2 hours minimum. But when you add up the times in the instructions it only comes to 1 hour 15 mins???????? I went for the shorter and no one has died yet

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Ingredients

• 1.3kg piece smoked bacon
• 1 onion , peeled and studded with 6 cloves
• large bunch herbs tied together, including bay, thyme and parsley stalks
• 1 bunch new-season carrots (about 12 in total), scrubbed and trimmed
• 2 pointed cabbages , trimmed and each cut into 6 wedges

FOR THE MUSTARD SAUCE

• 150ml stock , from the bacon
• 142ml pot double cream
• 3 tbsp English mustard
• handful fresh curly parsley leave, chopped

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Serves 6

Preparation and cooking times

Prep 20 mins

Cook min 2 hrs

Ingredients

• 1.3kg piece smoked bacon
• 1 onion , peeled and studded with 6 cloves
• large bunch herbs tied together, including bay, thyme and parsley stalks
• 1 bunch new-season carrots (about 12 in total), scrubbed and trimmed
• 2 pointed cabbages , trimmed and each cut into 6 wedges

FOR THE MUSTARD SAUCE

• 150ml stock , from the bacon
• 142ml pot double cream
• 3 tbsp English mustard
• handful fresh curly parsley leave, chopped

Per serving

694 kcalories, protein 36g, carbohydrate 9g, fat 57 g, saturated fat 23g, fibre 3g, salt 4.51 g

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