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18 Recipes with Cabbage Including Russian Cabbage Rolls, Cabbage Soups and Red Cabbage Pickles. Russian Cabbage Soup Recipe for Shchi (Щи) – Vegan Shchi Recipe. Copyright © 2023 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

18 Recipes with Cabbage Including Russian Cabbage Rolls, Cabbage Soups and Red Cabbage Pickles

Our 18 best recipes with cabbage include everything from my Russian grandmother’s cabbage rolls and an array of hearty cabbage soups to our recipes for red cabbage pickles, Mexican and Tex-Mex recipes brightened with zingy cabbage pickles, and Terence’s sublime crispy salmon fillet recipe with Irish colcannon, a creamy potato mash made with cabbage.

Cabbage seems to be the ‘it’ ingredient of the moment, with recipes for cabbage soups, cabbage pickles, cabbage rolls, and cabbage casseroles increasingly featuring on food site home pages and frequently popping up in newsletters in my In Box these days.

I’m not complaining, I adore cabbage in all its shapes and forms and grew up eating cabbage in everything from my baboushka’s cabbage rolls to countless Russian cabbage soups, while Terence and I have long used cabbage in everything from red cabbage pickles to Terence’s colcannon recipe with cabbage.

Grown and used in cooking for thousands of years in soups, stews and salads, fresh and fermented – into pickles, sauerkraut and kimchi – cabbage is a member of the Brassica genus of vegetables, along with cauliflower, broccoli and kale, and comes in white, green, purple, and red, the latter being the healthiest.

Cabbage is also super healthy and so good for us. Despite being low in calories, cabbage is high in fibre and can improve digestion, combat chronic inflammation, and contains powerful antioxidants that protect the body from free radicals, which can damage cells.

Cabbage is also incredibly nutritious, packed with vitamins and minerals, including vitamin A, iron and riboflavin, and is particularly rich in vitamin B6 and folate, which play key roles in energy metabolism and the nervous system, and vitamins K and C, which protect against some cancers, heart disease, and loss of vision.

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Recipes with Cabbage from Russian Cabbage Rolls and Cabbage Soups to Red Cabbage Pickles

Japanese Style Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe

This Japanese style cabbage and cucumber salad recipe is made with quintessential Japanese ingredients such as sesame seeds and roasted seaweed, which give it a fantastic texture, while the dressing of rice vinegar, Japanese soy sauce, sesame oil, and grated ginger give it a delightful tartness and zingy-ness.

It’s also super easy to make. You just slice the cucumbers lengthways, deseed them, chop them into smaller pieces and salt them. Then you combine shredded cabbage, finely sliced scallions or spring onions, grated fresh ginger, finely sliced roasted seaweed, and sesame seeds.

You add the cucumbers and add a dressing of Shichimi Togarashi Japanese Seven Spice, Japanese sesame oil, Japanese soy sauce, Japanese rice vinegar, and mirin, and you’re done.

Along with a Japanese potato salad, this cabbage and cucumber salad, is the perfect side to Japanese fried chicken, pork tonkatsu and chicken katsu burgers.

Japanese Style Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe with Sesame Seeds

Best Coleslaw Recipe with Purple Cabbage, Crunchy Carrot and Pickled Pink Shallots

Our best coleslaw recipe is made with purple cabbage and pickled pink shallots and has more colour, texture and tang than the average coleslaw thanks to the crunchy cabbage and zingy pickles.

This colourful coleslaw is a feast for the eyes and is as delicious as it looks. It’s a fantastic side to chicken schnitzel, burgers and it makes one of the best barbecue sides – along with a potato in foil buried deep in the coals and topped with sour cream and chives, yum.

It will also make you the ultimate picnic salad. All those bold bright colours just scream summer. Make this German potato salad recipe and you’re set.

A few prep tips: for the cabbage, I recommend a mandoline. For the carrots, I use a nifty little tool popular here in Southeast Asia that looks like a small hand-held vegetable peeler with a wavy blade. This is what you want. Otherwise, a good old-fashioned box grater or a food processor with a shredding attachment.

Best Coleslaw Recipe with Purple Cabbage, Crunchy Carrot and Pickled Pink Shallots

Okonomiyaki Recipe for Japanese Cabbage Pancakes for Umami Lovers + Okonomiyaki Sauce Recipe

This classic okonomiyaki recipe makes the umami-packed Japanese cabbage pancakes that are so popular with umami-lovers and are completely addictive, and are one of our best recipes with cabbage.

These plump savoury pancakes are served at teppanyaki restaurants where they’re made old-school style on the teppanyaki grill.

You’ll also spot them on menus at Japanese izakayas, casual taverns where the food is served to soak up the booze. While heartier, they’re presented with more finesse.

If you’re as addicted to umami as we are and haven’t tried these filling savoury pancakes topped with a sauce made from soy and Worcestershire, creamy mayo, umami-rich bonito flakes and nori flakes, and a sprinkle of furikake (sesame seeds, nori and chilli flakes) for more texture and flavour, make these now. You’ll love them.   

Okonomiyaki Recipe for Japanese Cabbage Pancakes for Umami Lovers + Okonomiyaki Sauce Recipe

Chorizo Cabbage and Three Bean Stew Recipe for My Spicy Take on a Traditional Eastern European Stew

This hearty chorizo cabbage and three bean stew recipe makes my spicy take on a traditional Eastern European stew my Russian grandma cooked and it’s one of our best recipes with cabbage.

Called kapustniak, kapustnyak or kapusniak in Russia, Ukraine and Poland, it was originally made with kielbasa and sauerkraut. I use chorizo to add warmth and deep flavours, and three types of beans to add texture.

Like all good Russian grandmothers, baboushka had an impressive repertoire of hearty soups and stews. In autumn and winter, there seemed to always be a big pot of something bubbling on the stove, steaming up the windows in a kitchen that was always cold, and filling the house with mouth-watering aromas.

I think half the time I cook my Russian family recipes, I do it as much for a taste of the past and to provoke those memories of simpler times, as I do for a chance to savour her delicious food – or something that resembles it. I’d give anything to be in that house again with my family tucking into bowls of baba’s stews and soups. This stew goes some way in taking me back.

Chorizo Cabbage and Three Bean Stew Recipe for a Spicy Take on a Traditional Eastern European Stew

 

Easy Russian Cabbage Rolls Recipe for a Petite Version of Baboushka’s Golubtsi

My easy Russian cabbage rolls recipe for golubtsi (голубцы) makes a more petite version of my baboushka’s bigger cabbage rolls – one cabbage roll was a meal in itself! – and it’s one of our best cabbage recipes.

I cook the savoury pork, beef, carrot, and rice filling before stuffing the cabbage rolls, as they bake much faster than baba’s larger golubtsy filled with a raw meat mixture, yet they’re equally delicious.

I adored my baboushka’s recipe for cabbage rolls stuffed with a savoury meat and rice filling, cloaked in a rich homemade tomato sauce. They were a feature of countless family meals – along with baba’s traditional Russian pelmeni and vareniki, beet potato salad recipe, Russian garden salad, borscht, and more – and not only for Russian Christmas and Easter, but for our family’s regular weekend lunches that rolled into dinner.

But baba’s cabbage rolls were a meal in themselves. They were so filling that as a child I would eat one and then I’d struggle to fit anything else in, my eyes darting around the table at the abundance of food and all the other dishes that I couldn’t fit in. I just wished they’d been smaller, so I’ve made a couple of tweaks…

Easy Russian Cabbage Rolls Recipe for a Petite Version of Baboushka’s Golubtsi

Easy Cabbage Roll Casserole Recipe for an Unstuffed Cabbage Roll Casserole or Lazy Cabbage Rolls

This baked cabbage roll casserole recipe makes an unstuffed cabbage roll casserole or lazy cabbage rolls dish and it’s another of our best cabbage roll recipes.

Blanched cabbage leaves are layered lasagna-like with a rich tomato sauce, farmer’s cheese, and a cabbage roll fried rice made from the savoury ground pork, onion, garlic and carrot filling usually stuffed in the cabbage leaves to make traditional cabbage rolls. It’s so delicious!

If you enjoyed our recipe for traditional Russian cabbage rolls stuffed with savoury rice and mince, baked in a rich tomato sauce called golubtsy (голубцы), above, which are cooked in Russia, Ukraine and neighbouring countries, then you’re going to love this baked cabbage roll casserole recipe for unstuffed cabbage rolls or lazy cabbage rolls.

I highly recommend you cook the rice in a rice cooker, then set it aside to cool and use a round flat bottomed wok to fry the onion, garlic, carrot, minced meats etc, as the wok heats up quickly, retains heat well, and food just cooks faster. 

Easy Cabbage Roll Casserole Recipe for an Unstuffed Cabbage Roll Casserole or Lazy Cabbage Rolls

 

Cabbage Roll Fried Rice Recipe for a Fragrant Fried Rice Inspired by my Grandmother’s Cabbage Rolls

My cabbage roll fried rice recipe makes an incredibly tasty, fragrant fried rice inspired by my Russian grandmother’s cabbage rolls, above.

To the fried onion, garlic, carrot, ground pork, and rice mixture normally ensconced within cabbage leaves, I add shredded cabbage, spices, a little tomato paste, and fresh aromatic dill to make a deliciously addictive fried rice that is my new favourite dish.

If you love cabbage rolls but you think they’re too complicated or time-consuming to make (they’re not) and you love fried rice, you must make my cabbage roll fried rice recipe next time you have leftover steamed rice.

Every time I’ve made the savoury minced meat and rice mixture for stuffed cabbage rolls in recent years I’ve found myself contemplating the idea of creating a cabbage roll fried rice recipe. Well, I finally did it and I’m so pleased I did. It’s absolutely delicious and incredibly addictive, so take that as a warning. 

Cabbage Roll Fried Rice Recipe for a Fragrant Fried Rice Inspired by my Grandmother’s Cabbage Rolls

This Russian Borscht Recipe Makes the Hearty Home-Cooked Soup of my Childhood

This Russian borscht recipe makes the hearty home-cooked soup of my childhood that my baboushka used to make. The Russian-Ukrainian beetroot-driven vegetable soup also contains onions, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, and cabbagee.

Serve it with sour cream and fresh fragrant dill and it’s a filling meal in itself. As a child, we’d eat a big bowl of borscht for lunch or dinner the first night, then for breakfast the next day.

My traditional Russian borscht recipe makes a comforting vegetable soup that I like to think of as Russia’s soup for the soul. Borscht has a special place in the hearts, minds and stomachs of anyone of Russian or Ukrainian heritage who grew up dunking weighty slices of black rye bread into their grandma’s nourishing broth.

This is the Russian borscht of my childhood growing, which is why it’s a deep amber-dark orange colour rather than the deep ruby or purple-tinted borscht you’re probably more familiar with seeing in cookbooks, magazines and food blogs. There’s a reason for that, which I explain in the post.

This Russian Borscht Recipe Makes the Hearty Home-Cooked Soup of my Childhood

Russian Cabbage Soup Recipe for Shchi, The Most Russian of Soups – And Vegan!

This Russian cabbage soup recipe makes shchi (Щи), the most Russian of soups, and it’s easily one of our best recipes with cabbage. If my Russian grandmother wasn’t making borscht, she was cooking a big pot of shchi.

A very old soup, dating to the 9th century, when cabbage arrived in ‘the Land of the Rus’ from Byzantium, shchi was eaten by nobles and peasants alike. The wealthy would include meat in their shchi, while workers made a vegetarian soup, shchi vegetarianskiye. Skip the sour cream (not something I could do!) and you have a vegan shchi recipe.

While you might have thought that borscht was the quintessential Russian soup, the beetroot-based meat and vegetable broth is one of the most popular and best-known Russian soups, but its origin is much-contested and claimed by Ukrainians.

Shchi is resolutely Russian and so beloved by Russians that the Moscow Times called it a “national treasure”.

Easy Russian Cabbage Soup Recipe for Shchi, The Most Russian of Soups – And Vegan!

 

The Cabbage Roll Soup Recipe That Probably Has My Baboushka Rolling In Her Grave

This cabbage roll soup recipe makes a comforting soup inspired by the Russian cabbage rolls called golubtsi (голубцы), filled with savoury minced meat and rice and baked in a rich tomato sauce. It’s one of our best cabbage recipes although by no means an authentic Russian dish.

My Russian grandmother did not make this, nor did my mother. In fact, my baboushka is probably rolling in her grave, but this cabbage roll soup is incredibly delicious, rich, and hearty.

For once, I can’t say that my cabbage roll soup recipe makes a Russian family recipe or even an authentic Russian recipe, as I’d never even heard of cabbage roll soup until a few years ago and research brought up very little. When I did stumble across it, I screwed up my nose, and resisted the urge to give a try.

Although I have to confess that I was very tempted. Now I wish I’d tried it earlier. They say good things come to those who wait. But don’t wait. Make this now. It’s so good.

The Cabbage Roll Soup Recipe That Probably Has My Baboushka Rolling In Her Grave

 

Russian Barley Pickle Soup Recipe for Rassolnik with Chicken and Vegetables

My Russian barley pickle soup recipe for rassolnik made with chicken and vegetables makes a healthy, hearty Russian soup or stew, depending on how dense you like this beloved Russian dish. While borscht might be the best known Russian soup, rassolnik has a special place in people’s hearts and stomachs.

It’s another very old Russian dish that in its early form was far less dense and less like a stew and more like a consommé from what I understand. I don’t recall eating this in Russia – I was too obsessed with sampling the many different regional variations of borscht – so I’m not sure if rassolnik started out as a hearty broth or thickened up in the post-Soviet years or in the Russian diaspora.

Pearl barley and dill pickles are key ingredients, while the vegetables can include any combination of onions, carrots, potatoes, and cabbage – the quintessential Russian ingredients that appear in so many Russian soups and stews – although cabbage is a must as far as I’m concerned, making this one of our best recipes with cabbage.

I also love to add mushrooms, another beloved Russian ingredient, as I adore them, whether they’re eaten on their own or included in dishes such as beef Stoganoff or buckwheat kasha with mushrooms. https://grantourismotravels.com/russian-dill-pickles-recipe/

Russian Barley Pickle Soup Recipe for Rassolnik with Chicken and Vegetables

 

Braised Cabbage Recipe with Bacon for a Rich Savoury Side Dish to Almost Any Main

My braised cabbage recipe with bacon makes a rich savoury side to almost any main course. My baboushka served this traditional Russian-Ukrainian side dish with meatballs, chicken cutlets, pork chops, and roast chicken, and used it to fill Ukrainian-style varenyky.

She typically served the traditional Russian-Ukrainian dish as one of an array of plates that were shared family-style for Sunday lunches and holiday feasts and at a bare minimum included piroshki (hand pies), beetroot and potato salad, a classic garden salad and casserole pots of Russian pelmeni and potato vareniki.

This braised cabbage and bacon dish was an alternative to stuffed cabbage rolls, as you can only have so much cabbage in one sitting. It also served as a side to dishes such as kotleti (chicken meat patties), chicken Kiev, beef Stroganoff, Russian meatballs, lamb or pork chops, or roast chicken.

Easy to make, it comes together quickly, though the lower and slower you cook it, the richer it tastes. It’s another of the best cabbage recipes and will make you an incredibly rich and delicious savoury side dish that is a splendid accompaniment to so many mains, not only Eastern European.

Braised Cabbage Recipe with Bacon for a Rich Savoury Side Dish to Almost Any Main

Salmon Fillet with Colcannon Recipe and How to Get a Perfect Crispy Salmon Skin

This salmon fillet with colcannon recipe has been a favourite since we first tasted the dish at the now-defunct restaurant Banc in Sydney some years ago. The crispy skinned salmon fillet was cooked to perfection, the colcannon – an Irish potato mash – was creamy and rich, and while the red wine sauce seemed an unusual choice, its acidity worked well with a mouthful of the other ingredients.

If you love Terence’s creamy mashed potatoes recipe, you’re going to adore this colcannon recipe. If you’re not familiar with colcannon, it’s a classic Irish mashed potato dish with kale or cabbage and spring onions, and can entertain other ingredients, such as bacon or pancetta.

We love it with cabbage and, as far as I’m concerned, it’s another one of our best cabbage recipes. Terence has added a brilliant cabbage side dish, too, Automata’s roasted red cabbage with bonito butter, but with the same Chinese cabbage that he uses in the colcannon.

Chef Clayton Wells’ recipe for cabbage is one of our favourite side dishes. It’s umami heaven and it’s one of the reasons that Wells became one of our favourite Sydney chefs after just one meal at his restaurant. Make it a priority to eat his food if you haven’t yet.

Salmon Fillet with Colcannon Recipe and How to Get a Perfect Crispy Salmon Skin

 

Burmese Raw Cabbage Salad Recipe and the Secrets to Making the Best Burmese Salads

This easy Burmese raw cabbage salad recipe makes a refreshing salad that is delightfully crunchy and slightly tangy, the perfect contrast to rich oily Burmese curries. It’s another one of our best cabbage recipes.

Mostly made with white cabbage, for colour we’ve used purple cabbage or red cabbage, which is incredibly healthy. This ‘Burmese coleslaw’ should definitely be packed in your picnic basket. It makes a fantastic side salad for a roast chicken for a picnic basket or the perfect companion to a Burmese curry if you’re cooking up a feast of food from Myanmar, which I highly recommend.

Not only is this raw cabbage salad delicious and versatile, it’s also super healthy. Raw cabbage is low in calories, high in fibre, and packed with vitamins and minerals, such as Vitamin K (for bone health and blood clotting), Vitamin C (boosts immune system, helps iron absorption), Vitamin B6 and folate (good for metabolism and nervous system), and calcium, potassium, and magnesium (great for the heart, gut health and digestion).

I’ve adapted this Burmese raw cabbage salad recipe from cookbook author Mi Mi Khaing’s wonderful Cook and Entertain the Burmese Way (1978).

Burmese Raw Cabbage Salad Recipe and the Secrets to Making the Best Burmese Salads

 

Quick Pickled Red Cabbage Recipe for Piquant Purple Pickles to Pep Up Any Meal

This easy quick pickled red cabbage recipe makes piquant purple pickles to pep up any meal and it’s another of our best recipes with cabbage. These delightfully zesty refrigerator pickles are the perfect topping for tacos, a bright filling for burgers or a tangy accompaniment to toasted sandwiches.

Whether you use this red cabbage quick pickle as a side, garnish or condiment, it’s very versatile and you can easily adapt the flavour to your palate. If you liked our Mexican quick pickled onions recipe, you’re going to love this Mexican quick pickled red cabbage.

In Mexico, it’s called ‘col roja en escabeche’, ‘col lombarda en escabeche’ or ‘col morada en escabeche’, all of which mean red cabbage or purple cabbage in escabeche. ‘Col’ is cabbage and ‘escabeche’ refers to the process of ‘cooking’ in an acidic marinade of vinegar and water to which salt, pepper, maybe sugar, and perhaps herbs and spices, such as bay leaves and oregano are added.

Despite sharing this because we’ve suggested it as a topping or accompaniment to many of our Mexican recipes, I left ‘Mexican’ off the title, because pickles have a long history of being made all over the world.

An Egyptian pickles recipe doesn’t differ all that much from a Russian pickles recipe, which isn’t all that different to a Cambodian pickles recipe, and you can really add a spoonful of these to many dishes on our site. More pickles recipes here. 

Quick Pickled Red Cabbage Recipe for Piquant Purple Pickles to Pep Up Any Meal

 

Mexican Chicken Tinga Taco Recipe with Grilled Corn, Pickled Shallots and Purple Cabbage

Our scrummy Mexican chicken tinga taco recipe makes warm soft flour tortillas with delicious (muy delicioso!) Mexican chicken tinga – or tinga de pollo – grilled corn charred on a griddle pan, zingy pickled purple shallots and pickled purple cabbage, making it another of our best recipes with cabbage.

Sprinkled with crumbly Mexican cotija and aromatic coriander, it’s a feast for the eyes as much as the nose and stomach. This meal will brighten up any lunch or casual dinner.

An authentic Mexican chicken tinga taco recipe would typically call for avocado rather than char-grilled corn. Avocado is always wonderful, especially on tacos. However, chicken tinga, which is essentially comprised of shredded chicken, has a soft texture and avocado is soft, so we felt it needed a little crunch, hence corn. 

Another difference is that authentic tinga de pollo in Mexico is mostly served on the larger crispy corn tostadas rather than the smaller soft tacos. We’re using soft wheat flour tortillas here to create our tacos, but by all means use crispy tostadas if you can get them. Douse it all with your favourite Mexican hot sauce and close your eyes and you might just hear mariachis.

Mexican Chicken Tinga Taco Recipe with Grilled Corn, Pickled Shallots and Purple Cabbage

 

Shredded Chicken Tacos Recipe with Avocado, Vegan Chilli and Mexican Pickles

This easy shredded chicken tacos recipe with avocado, vegan chilli, and Mexican pickled onions and pickled cabbage is another of our best recipes with cabbage.

It makes a fantastic filling lunch or light dinner that’s a cinch to make and can be assembled quickly. Pop a fried egg on top for a breakfast taco and make extra shredded chicken from poached chicken and keep in the fridge for salads and sandwiches.

The beauty of this shredded chicken tacos recipe is that it’s a recipe born from leftovers. That means you can plan to make the recipes that made the dishes and condiments that gave us this delicious filling lunch or light dinner – or breakfast, if you pop a fried egg or poached egg on top – starting with this vegetarian chilli.

That also means no cooking – aside from warming up the tortillas in a pan and heating up the chilli – making this a fantastic mid-week meal.

Shredded Chicken Tacos Recipe with Avocado, Vegan Chilli and Mexican Pickles

Easy Vegetarian Chilli Recipe for Chilli Con Carne Sin Carne (Without Meat) and It’s Vegan Too

Speaking of that vegetarian chilli, while it’s not made with cabbage as such, like the chicken tingas and shredded chicken tacos recipes above, this is another fantastic dish that really shines when topped with those red cabbage pickles.

This easy vegetarian chilli recipe makes a chilli con carne sin carne (without meat) and it’s vegan if you prepare it without dairy accompaniments, such as sour cream and cheese.

While this bean chilli is a cinch to make and comes together quickly, it’s full of so much flavour thanks to the spices that even meat-lovers won’t miss the beef mince that we’d normally include in our classic chilli con carne recipe.

I’ve been making this easy vegetarian chilli since the mid-1980s when I began cooking big pots of chilli soon after Terence and I moved in together, so it’s an oldie but a goodie. In fact, it’s gotten better with age!

Easy Vegetarian Chilli Recipe for Chilli Con Carne Sin Carne (Without Meat) and It’s Vegan Too

 

Please do let us know in the comments below if you make any of our 18 best cabbage recipes as we’d love to know how they turn out for you.

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  1. Lina says

    February 9, 2022 at 2:34 pm

    This is such a cool collection of cabbage recipes. Did not realize you had all these on GT! Made a few and will try more. Love the site guys and always look forward to your recipes x

  2. Lara Dunston says

    February 9, 2022 at 5:46 pm

    Hi Lina, thank you so much for the kind words and for taking the time to drop by and leave a comment. Please do visit again and let us know how the dishes go :)

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Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check o Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check out our seafood recipe collection, especially if you celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve with a fish focused meal in the Southern Italian tradition, transformed by Italian-Americans into the Feast of the Seven Fishes, or like Australians, who celebrate Christmas in the sweltering summer, feast on seafood for Christmas Day lunch, we’ve got lots of easy seafood recipes for you.

Our recipes include a classic prawn cocktail, blini with smoked salmon, a ceviche-style appetiser, and devilled eggs with caviar. We’ve also got recipes for fish soup, seafood pies and pastas, salmon tray bake, and crispy salmon with creamy mashed potatoes.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/seafood-recipes-for-christmas-eve-and-christmas-day-menus/
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Merry Christmas if you’re celebrating!! 

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If you’re still looking for food inspo for Chris If you’re still looking for food inspo for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day meals, my smoked salmon ‘carpaccio’ recipe is one of dozens of recipes in this compilation of our best Christmas recipes (link below). 

The Christmas recipe compilation includes collections of our best Christmas breakfast recipes, best Christmas brunch recipes, best Christmas starter recipes, best Christmas cocktails, best Christmas dessert recipes, and homemade edible Christmas gifts and more.

My smoked salmon carpaccio recipe makes an easy elegant appetiser that’s made in minutes. If you’re having guests over, you can make the dish ahead by assembling the salmon, capers and pickled onions, and refrigerate it, then pour on the dressing just before serving. 

Provide toasted baguette slices and bowls of additional capers, pickles and dressing, so guests can customise their carpaccio. And open the bubbly!

You’ll find that recipe and many more Christmas recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/best-christmas-recipes/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

Merry Christmas!! X

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If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I sh If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I shared a collection of recipes for homemade edible Christmas gifts — for condiments, hot sauces, chilli oils, a whole array of pickles, spice blends, chilli salt, furakake seasoning, and spicy snacks, such as our Cambodian and Vietnamese roasted peanuts. 

I love giving homemade edibles as gifts as much as I love receiving them. Who wouldn’t appreciate jars filled with their favourite chilli oils, hot sauces, piquant pickles, and spicy peanuts that loved-ones have taken the time to make? 

Aside from the gesture and affordability of gifting homemade edibles, you’re minimising waste. You can use recycled jars or if buying new mason jars or clip-top Kilner jars, you know they’ll get repurposed.

No need for wrapping, just attach some Christmas baubles or tinsel to the lid. I used squares of Cambodian kramas (cotton scarves), which can be repurposed as napkins or drink coasters, and tied a ribbon or two around the lids, and attached last year’s Christmas tree decorations to some.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/homemade-edible-christmas-gifts/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

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This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’ This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’s perfect if you’re just back from the fish markets armed with luxurious fresh crab meat. It’s a little sweet, a little spicy, and very, very moreish.

Our crab omelette recipe was one of our 22 most popular egg recipes of 2022 on our website Grantourismo and it’s no surprise. It’s appeared more times than any other egg recipes on our annual round-ups of most popular recipes since Terence launched Weekend Eggs when we launched Grantourismo in 2010.

If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

And do browse our Weekend Eggs archives for further eggspiration (sorry). We have hundreds of egg recipes from the 13 year-old series of recipes for quintessential egg dishes from around the world, which we started on our 2010 year-long global grand tour focused on slow, local and experiential travel. 

We’re hoping 2023 will be the year we can finally publish the Weekend Eggs cookbook we’ve talked about for years based on that series. After we can find a publisher for the Cambodia cookbook of course... :( 

Recipe collection here (and proper link to Grantourismo in our bio):
https://grantourismotravels.com/22-most-popular-egg-recipes-of-2022-from-weekend-eggs/

If you cook the recipe and enjoy it please let us know — we love to hear from you — either in the comments at the end of the recipe or share a pic with us here.

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I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angko I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angkor Archaeological Park, home to stupendous Angkor Wat, pictured, celebrated 30 years of its UNESCO World Heritage listing. 

That’s as good an excuse as any to put this magnificent, sprawling archaeological site on your travel list this year.

While riverside Siem Reap, your base for exploring Angkor is bustling once more, there are still nowhere near the visitors of the last busy high season months of December-January 2018-2019 when there were 290,000 visitors. 

Last month there were just 55,000 visitors and December feels a little quieter. A tour guide friend said there were about 150 people at Angkor Wat for sunrise a few days ago.

If you’re looking for tips to visiting Angkor, Siem Reap and Cambodia, just ask us a question in the comments below or check Grantourismo as we’ve got loads of info on our site. Click through to the link in the bio and explore our Cambodia guide or search for ‘Angkor’. 

And please do let us know if you’re coming to Siem Reap. We’d love to see you here x

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Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky, flavourful and succulent chicken thighs that are fantastic with steamed rice, Chinese greens or a salad, such as a Southeast Asian slaw. 

The chicken can be marinated for up to 24 hours before cooking, which ensures it’s packed with flavour, then it can be cooked on a barbecue or in a pan.

Terence’s soy ginger chicken recipe is one of our favourite recipes for a quick and easy meal. I love the sound of the sizzling thighs in the pan, and the warming aromas wafting through the apartment. 

It’s amazing how such flavourful juicy chicken thighs come from such a quick and easy recipe.

Recipe here (and proper link to Grantourismo in our bio): https://grantourismotravels.com/soy-ginger-chicken-recipe/

If you cook it and enjoy it please let us know — we love to hear from you — either here or in the comments at the end of the recipe on the site or share a pic with us x 

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Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re mak Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re making with my market haul from Psar Samaki in Siem Reap — all for a whopping 10,000 riel (US$2.50)?! 

Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

For more on these culinary connections you’ll have to wait for our Cambodian cookbook and culinary history. In a hurry to know? Come support the project on Patreon. (link in bio)

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It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour matches the furnishings of our rented apartment. So, no, I did not colour-coordinate the interiors to match our cat’s eyes. 

I keep getting DMs from pet clothing brands wanting to “partner” with Pepper and send her free cat clothes and cat accessories. Although she did wear a kerchief for a few years in her more adventurous fashion-forward teenage years, I cannot see this cat in clothes now, can you? 

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