Sausage/Cabbage/Onion/Potato Supreme

Well I made something I have not made in awhile.....usually this falls into my " winter comfort food" meals....but it was another rainy dreary afternoon and I couldn't think of anything that I wanted in my usual food rut of five or six standard recipes....so I came up with this....and I ran with it.

Now if you want you can use real onion, real potatoes and real cabbage. I used real onion but had canned potatoes and Margaret Holmes has a pretty good cabbage so I went with those. I also had some Beef Polska Kielbasa so I cooked it as well. You can use whatever pork you have on hand...I like sausage because it gives you lots of flavor. Potatoes tend to be bland so you need something with some flavor.

First I heated up some olive oil in a frying pan. Now I would have used my non-stick frying pan but I couldn't find it so I used a regular frying pan and kept it on low to med high heat. If you heat it too high things tend to stick....particularly potatoes. First I sautéed the real onion in some olive oil until it was clear ( you can use frozen onion but real gives you better flavor).....once the onion was good and ready I then diced up some polska kielbasa into little hunks ( I did halves then I made them into smaller hunks....I used about half a sausage. Now the meat you want to make sure is cooked thoroughly. So heat it for a good little bit maybe 15 min or so until it appears well done. Again, keep the heat relatively low and push the onions and sausage around a lot in the pan.

 

This is when I just started adding diced potatoes to the mixture of onions and sausage. I would have had some prior pictures but didn't decide to put this on the blog til I was at this point.

 

 

 

I used two cans of whole new potatoes ( you can use diced or sliced or whatever) and a can of seasoned cabbage ( you can use real or frozen if you have it)

 

I then diced up two cans of whole potatoes into small hunks and added them to the meat/onion mixture....I kept the heat low to med high and kept pushing them around in the pan. I also added a little bit more olive oil to keep them from sticking. Those potatoes will stick if the heat is too high. I cooked them for a good little bit. Maybe 10 or 15 min til the potatoes looked like hashbrowns. You want them thoroughly warmed inside or they will be hard and not mushy.

 

Once I was satisfied with my potatoes/meat/onion I added the can of cabbage. I drained the liquid before adding the cabbage. This pic is before I stirred the mixture together.

 

I figured the potatoes would make it bland so I added some generous heaps of garlic/onion powder and Italian herbs....

 

then I decided to add some ground black pepper......I am not a fan of pepper but potatoes will absorb the flavor.....

 

The meal turned out really well....very tasty and the cabbage gave it a little bit of tangy taste which was nice with the sausage and the potato and onion mixture which was total comfort food..

 

Well try it and hopefully you will enjoy it as much as I did.--Tips