Braised red cabbage with redcurrant jelly

This is such a lovely accompaniment to all sorts of meat dishes, but particularly your Christmas turkey!

What you do:

• 80g butter
• 1 medium onion, diced
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 1 red cabbage (approx 1kg), finely sliced
• 200ml red wine
• 50ml red wine vinegar
• 50ml port
• Juice of 1/2 orange
• Juice of 1/2 lemon
• 60g Demerara sugar
• 100g Tracklements Redcurrant Jelly
• 50g smoked lardons pan fried until crisp
• salt and pepper
• spice bag: ½ cinnamon stick, 1 orange peel, 1 clove, 3 black peppercorns, 3 sprigs of thyme and 1 bay leaf.

What you do:

1. Preheat the oven to 160°C/320°F gas mark 3.
2. Heat the butter in a large casserole dish and cook the onions and garlic on a medium heat until soft and transparent. Add the red cabbage and cook for approx. 5 mins until slightly softened.
3. In a separate pan, mix together the red wine, red wine vinegar, port, lemon and orange juice, Demerara sugar and Redcurrant Jelly. Gently heat until warmed through. Add the liquid to the casserole. Add the spice bag, cooked lardons and season. Oven cook for 1hr 30 mins to 2 hours. Check the seasoning, remove and leave to cool.
4. Remove the spice bag before serving.

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