Cabbage with Bacon & Roots

Serves 6

Ingredients:

• large knob of butter
• 100g/4oz smoked streaky bacon, cut into small pieces
• 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
• few thyme sprigs
• 1 celeriac, cut into batons
• 2 carrots, cut into batons
• 1 Savoy cabbage, shredded
• small glass (125ml) white wine

Method:

In a large pan melt the butter.  Add the bacon and sizzle for 5 mins until golden.   Add the garlic and thyme to the pan and stir for 1 min.  Take the pan off the heat, remove the bacon mixture and reserve.

Add the celeriac and carrot batons into the now empty pan with a little of the bacon flavoured butter.   Gently cook for 10 minutes until soft, then add the cabbage and cook for 5 mins until it starts to soften.   Add the bacon and garlic back to the pan, then add the white wine.   Allow  the wine to evaporate for a few mins then season the mixture and serve.  This can be made ahead and left in the pan, then reheated.

Enjoy!