Healthy Cabbage Recipe: Cabbage Roses ♥

Simple wedges of cabbage, either red cabbage or green cabbage, steamed and seasoned. Weight Watchers zero points!

My goodness, how delicious something entirely simple can be!

Here's how cabbage roses -- my name, yes, but don't they look like roses?! -- came to be:

• Come March 1, I'm itching to be in the garden, whatever the weather. Starting about now, several times a day I survey all the gardens (there are a few, yes!) to see what's popping through the ground. This time of year, what you see at day's dawn can have changed by day's end.
• My sister mentioned that she's been steaming cabbage recently.

I spike them with nothing more than a spice mix, this one from FamilyStyle Food actually, but you could use a bit of butter, a bit of salt, or, for real spareness, just the cabbage.

CABBAGE ROSES

Hands-on time: 2 minutes
Time to table: 15 minutes
Serves as many as you like

Steaming water
Wedges of cabbage, sliced off a whole cabbage, red or green

Set water to boil with steamer above. Add cabbage wedges, cut-side down, cover and let steam til fully done (try not to undercook).

ALANNA's TIPS & KITCHEN NOTES
I steamed four wedges, two cut-side down and two cut-side up. No surprise, those steamed cut-side down were cooked faster. But they were also cooked more evenly so that's how I'd recommend you cook them, too.

NUTRITION ESTIMATE
Per Serving: 33 Cal (2% from Fat, 17% from Protein, 80% from Carb); 2 g Protein; 0 g Tot Fat; 0 g Sat Fat; 8 g Carb; 3 g Fiber; NetCarb 5; 48 mg Calcium; 1 mg Iron; 9 mg Sodium; 0 mg Cholesterol; Weight Watchers Old Points 0, PointsPlus 0 since cabbage is a 'free' food but technically, based on calculations, 1

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