EASY Buttered Rice and Cabbage dinner! One of the best buttered cabbage recipes! This dish uses cooked cabbage and is ready in 20 minutes! It’s a healthy vegetarian rice meal my entire family loves! 
Buttered Rice and Cabbage
This Buttered Rice and Cabbage is an easy comforting meal filled with healthy vegetables that I hope you’ll love as much as I do. It’s so easy to make and it involves one of my favorite ingredients – cabbage!
As a girl my Mother would make the best Polish cabbage recipes, so every time I make it I get a smile on my face!
Cooked Cabbage Recipe
I wanted to create a recipe that would be ready in 20 minutes that is still wholesome with fresh ingredients – a meal you’ll feel good about serving the family.
Ingredients for Buttered Cabbage
The main vegetables in this recipe are cabbage and peas, 2 things that we have in abundance right now in the garden.
I’ve always liked cabbage, but this Summer I turned into a real cabbage lover. I can’t get enough of it, especially sauteed and buttered! Yum.
Our sugar snap peas are coming to a end this season, what’s left is those monster peas that are busting through the pods.
Buttered Rice and Cabbage Recipe
The recipe calls for 1/2 peas so you can either use frozen peas (cook them first) or you can shell fresh peas. Use whatever you hand on hand and is easiest.
This recipe calls for 4 cups of cooked rice, basmati rice (and I love this Indian rice recipe!) is my favorite but you can use any type of white rice. For those nights where you don’t have extra time you can even use instant rice.
How to make buttered cabbage
That’s easy!
Melt 3 tablespoons butter in a large pan over medium high heat. Add cabbage, salt + pepper to taste. Cook for approximately 15 minutes, allowing cabbage to wilt, browning slightly. Stir it semi often.
Once your cabbage is slightly browned, then add in the peas and rice, stir and you have a delicious 20 minute meal!
Hope you enjoy this Buttered Cabbage and Rice meal!
Looking for more cabbage recipes? Try my Cabbage and Kielbasas recipe!
Looking for more rice recipes? Try my Indian Basmati Rice and Cilantro Lime Rice using leftover rice!
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Buttered Rice and Cabbage
PrintIngredients
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 1 small head cabbage chopped
- salt + pepper
- 1/2 cup peas fresh or frozen
- 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
- 4 cups cooked white rice
Instructions
- Melt 3 tablespoons butter in a large pan over medium high heat. Add cabbage, salt + pepper to taste. Cook for approximately 15 minutes, allowing cabbage to wilt, browning slightly. Stir it semi often.
- Add peas to pan and cook 5 additional minutes.
- Take pan off the stove and add cooked rice, remaining 1 tablespoon of butter and Parmesan cheese to pan. Stir to combine.
- Serve and enjoy!
biblegal says
Made this several times as written and it’s delicious..we do add 2 fried eggs with soft yolks on top though for protein, and extra flavor. Thx
Amelia smith says
Omg , my bf was dubious (of the cabbage I think) but we where both super impressed !! So so tasty
April Carter says
This was absolutely delicious!!!! Quick and easy!!!!
Pamela says
Hey April! Don’t you love how easy this recipe is? Thanks for commenting, glad you liked it!
Donna G. says
This sounds delicious. I would add a can of white cannellini beans to bump up the protein. What do you think, Pamela?
Carleen Bretz says
I made this tonight for dinner and it was really good. I will make it again.
Pamela says
Hey Carleen, I’m so happy to hear you liked this dish! Thanks for commenting and letting me know!
Brett Martin says
Thanks so much for joining us at Delicious Dishes! We love your Buttered Cabbage and Rice recipe and hope you’ll join us again this week!
Manali@CookWithManali says
this looks really comforting!!
Monica says
I just love this, Pamela! I love any kind of rice dish but basmati is so extra good. Plus, I always stir-fry cabbage and wondering now why I never thought to combine the two faves. I wish I could have a bowl right now!!
Juliana says
This is sure a nice rice dish…I love the idea of buttered…thanks for the recipe Pamela!
Have a wonderful week 🙂
Dannii @ Hungry Healthy Happy says
I just can’t get enough of cabbage at the moment, and this looks like a great way to make it more of a filling meal.
Ashley says
I love cabbage and am always looking for new ways to use it! Loving how simple and easy this recipe is!!
Angie@Angie's Recipes says
Simple, quick and so delicious!
handmade by amalia says
Yum. Everything is nicer with a little butter.
Amalia
xo