This 5-Ingredient Southern Bacon Fried Cabbage Recipe Is Absolutely Incredible!

This 5-Ingredient Southern Bacon Fried Cabbage Recipe Is Absolutely Incredible!

This incredible cabbage recipe makes enough for six servings but if you want more to enjoy again, you can double the ingredients. It takes fifteen minutes to prepare and thirty minutes to cook. It will smell so good you will be dying to try it!

 

Let's Get Started…

The Ingredients To Gather:

  • 4 slices bacon
  • 2 lbs green cabbage
  • 1 onion
  • 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
  • 1⁄2 cup water

Now That You Have Those Simple Ingredients Together It’s Time To Roll Up Your Sleeves & Get Cooking Southern Style!

Since this recipe has you cooking with Cabbage, you have to be careful how you make this dish. Make sure that you wash the cabbage and dry it all the way through.

While Cooking…

You do not want any extra water in the pan and make sure that all of the fat on the bacon is still left on.

Be Careful…

The Bacon and the Cabbage are the main ingredients. However, there are some steps that you have to follow when making this or else they will over cook. This is a temperamental dish so make sure you follow this recipe exactly and do not skip any parts of it.

You can serve this traditionally for dinner but you can also have it for breakfast. Make sure to serve this up with some Rye Bread or if in the morning go with some plain old grits with some black, cracked pepper. Oh, we forgot to mention that a white onion is best but you can also use yellow or purple.

Directions:

  1. In dutch oven or  skillet over medium heat, cook bacon until browned.
  2. Add cabbage, onion, salt;  coat cabbage  with bacon fat.
  3. Add water,  reduce heat to medium-low; cover,  cook 30 minutes.

Finished!

This southern bacon fried cabbage is so easy and delicious it may be your new favorite cabbage recipe. Have you tried this cabbage yet?

Let Us Know How It Turned Out!

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27 Comments

  1. Carolyn Harris
    Carolyn Harris September 02, 23:08

    or homemade bread like my Mom made

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  2. Marie Coffey
    Marie Coffey September 02, 23:39

    With corn bread!

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  3. Cordy Watkins
    Cordy Watkins September 03, 12:13

    Mmmmmmmm!! I love cabbage and bacon!!!!! What a tasty recipe, that is!!

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  4. Chris Hawkins
    Chris Hawkins September 03, 12:30

    Kati Hawkins

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  5. Donna Newman
    Donna Newman September 03, 12:40

    I tried this but added some kebalsa sausage to it. It was really good.

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  6. Ramona Leiling
    Ramona Leiling September 03, 13:30

    Virginia Anderson

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  7. Vina Chetri
    Vina Chetri September 03, 14:38

    The bacon and buttered corn bread is already clogging my arteries! Lol

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  8. Betsy Lynn
    Betsy Lynn September 03, 17:27

    This is dinner for myself tonight. Yum yum

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  9. Nicole Tina
    Nicole Tina September 03, 20:34

    C

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  10. Carlyle Webb
    Carlyle Webb September 03, 20:58

    My family has been making this as long as I could remember. It s the only way I know.

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  11. Jodie Jensen Cooper
    Jodie Jensen Cooper September 03, 23:33

    Rose, want some Southern Cabbage?

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  12. Rose Jensen
    Rose Jensen September 03, 23:36

    Yum!!

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  13. Deanna McJunkins
    Deanna McJunkins September 03, 23:39

    YUMMY

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  14. Chad Durst
    Chad Durst September 04, 00:29

    Marsha Durst

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  15. Maria Lambert
    Maria Lambert September 04, 14:52

    Sound’s great

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  16. Susan Boyce
    Susan Boyce November 26, 13:44

    Looks great

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  17. Cynthia Hanas
    Cynthia Hanas November 26, 14:05

    Yum!

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  18. Alice Seibold Blevins
    Alice Seibold Blevins November 26, 14:37

    And a pot of pinto beans don’t get much better then that !

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  19. Michaela Basnight
    Michaela Basnight November 26, 15:52

    Amy Suzanne Basnight

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  20. Michelle Matthews
    Michelle Matthews November 26, 16:22

    Love it

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  21. Jason Laubenheimer
    Jason Laubenheimer November 26, 20:29

    Jennifer Witt Laubenheimer

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  22. Eleanor Fister Cottone
    Eleanor Fister Cottone November 26, 21:12

    Sometimes for a extra flavor I add a little soy sauce.

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  23. Amy Suzanne Basnight
    Amy Suzanne Basnight November 26, 22:38

    Let’s do this tonight!!

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  24. Gordon Ramsay Recipes
    Gordon Ramsay Recipes November 27, 02:00

    Thanks !

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  25. Fred Bencivengo
    Fred Bencivengo November 27, 02:09

    Add some hot sauce once plated

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