Cone Cabbage with Anchovy Brown Butter & Pangrattato
Cone Cabbage with Anchovy Brown Butter & Pangrattato
This delightful dish features tender cone cabbage caramelized to perfection, enhanced by a rich anchovy brown butter sauce. Topped with crispy pangrattato and fresh chives, it makes for an elegant appetizer or a flavorful side dish.
- Author
- Courtesy of Chef Chris Cosentino
- Servings
- 4
Ingredients
- 2 heads Cone Cabbage
- 1 bunch Chives
- 4 Tbsp Pangrattato
- 2 Tbsp Oil-packed Anchovy Filets, reserve the oil
- 4 Tbsp Unsalted Butter
- 3 cups Chicken Stock
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 4 each Thyme branches
- 2 each Garlic cloves, crushed and skin off
- Lemon Juice
- 1 cup Panko breadcrumbs
- 3 Tbsp Extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tsp Anchovy oil, (reserved from the oil-packed anchovies)
- 1 Tbsp Thyme
- 1 tsp Lemon Zest
- 2 Tbsp Flat Leaf Parsley, chopped
- TT Kosher Salt
- TT Black Pepper
Directions
- Remove the bruised outer leaves from the cabbage and reserve for braising or steaming.
- Split the cabbage lengthwise then cut into quarters.
- Bring a pot of water to boil then salt. Once boiling, add the cabbage quarters and blanch for 4 minutes. Remove to a tray with a resting rack facing the leaves down so the excess water can run out.
- While the cabbage is cooking, prepare the pangrattato (see recipe below).
- In a sauté pan over medium-high heat, add extra virgin olive oil then remove the pan from the direct heat before adding the cabbage quarters cut-side down. Then add the crushed garlic cloves and the thyme branches.
- Caramelize the cabbage by cooking for 4 minutes each side.
- Add the butter and the anchovy filets to the pan. Next deglaze the pan with lemon juice then add the chicken stock to build an emulsification sauce in the pan.
- Baste the cabbage with the sauce while it’s reducing to help the sauce get into the leaves of the cabbage head.
- Adjust the sauce with kosher salt and fresh ground black pepper.
- Serve individually or on a shared platter, with the cut sides up. Spoon the sauce over the cabbage.
- Top each with the pangrattato and a nice sprinkling of cut chives.
- Serve immediately as an appetizer or a side to a main dish.