well hello folks it's Mike again as we
welcome you back to quito style and
today we're going to be cooking some
fried cabbage we're gonna have bacon in
it fried bacon and I'm gonna fry some
bacon first to show you how easy this is
and how good this is in a cast-iron
skillet now in a previous video we we
actually clean the skillet that we had
cooked bacon in I showed you how to
clean the skillet real good and also the
re season it and I usually Reese's in my
skillet with bacon grease and so we'll
go ahead we'll probably you won't stay
for just a minute or two here we've
already got some ready we baking that
we're going to be cooking I've got my
cabbage already chopped up just fine
strips of cabbage and we've got some
summer sausage here that we've chopped
up just in chunks and we're gonna fry
that up a little bit and we've got a red
onion that we've cut into strips and
we'll grill them up real good too and
then as far as seasoning I use red lips
real salt and that comes out of Utah and
it's a great sea salt that I use a lot
it's really really good enjoy
I've got some pepper we're gonna add to
it I've got some garlic that's gonna
minced garlic cause when I asked there's
this cabbage and so we're gonna have a
good cabbage fried cabbage and and
summer sausage meal for New Year's Day I
need to get back over to my skillet and
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you don't have any hot spots and it's
kill it and like longest or bough
skillet that you have it has tips on you
couldn't use a metal factory and it like
I do this skillet here these skillets
here they'll stand the test of time
matter of fact people even actually put
skillets like these test iron skillets
in their will people pass them down from
generation to generation and they're
just so good they're durable you can't
hardly you know you can't abuse them
well you can't abuse them if you don't
keep them seasoned and cleaned and
everything but if you take care of a
cast-iron skillet will take care of you
and the other thing about skillets that
they won't do like a cast-iron skillet
no the cast-iron skillet actually
releases iron and you get iron in your
food and in your body and we all need
iron for that's just a trace mineral
that we
so much better than just the tip line
itself today that's nonstick they talk
about like I'm saying earlier if you
season your skillet well it's basically
nonstick anyway so you don't have to
worry about that you need to season it
after every use clean it and seize it
real good
I'm gonna go ahead and pull this bacon
and show you what it looks like to grill
these other ingredients here that we've
got I'll finish this up in a little bit
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hold you up on this now one thing that I
do have is my grease catcher that I
catch excess grease in we don't want
this much grease and folks be sure and
have you a silicone handle like this for
your skillet because these skillets get
hot and you can use these silicone
handles a good skillet has two handles
on it one long handle and a short handle
where you can pick it up with a puppet
pot holder and you can just pour your
grease out and I'm not going to pour it
all out because I need it to cook up my
onion so we're just going to pour out a
good portion of that these grease
catchers are really good you've got a
strainer in the top you just pour your
hot grease in it it'll strain down
through the holes and let me show you
what it looks like down in the bottom
cast coming hot let's see it just
strains down in you got real clean
baking grease then and that's all I ever
put in it I don't mix any other type of
grease I just saved my bacon grease so
that's bad now what I'm gonna do today
is I'm gonna put my red onion in and
Grill these lightly you know I've got
these chopped and strips with actually
one kind of rough chop and big to go
into this cabbage cabbage is just one of
the strips also
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get that down and then just then that
grease on it never helps saute these
onions up real good
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bacon grease is a good path - it's a
good lawyer to cut down on the fat and
it's good for you a lot of this store
balton and bean oil soybean oil and
different money like that corn oil and
safflower all that kind of stuff is
really not good for you with good animal
fats like bacon grease and lard and and
hollyball is real good coconut oil is
real good avocado oils another good fat
and as far as cooking I cook a lot in
bacon grease and lard and we got these
onions they're gonna saute up we'll let
them do that and we'll come back to you
here shortly and we'll finish all this
stuff okay well while we were gone we
went ahead and put these over three
pieces of bacon back in to get them
cooked down and we've got those cooked
down the onions are all sauteed real
good they're not fried up real too far
there's this kind of al dente a if you
will and so what we're gonna ban was
going go ahead and follow these other
three pieces of bacon I'm gonna put them
on my paper plate here to drain them and
I'm going to go ahead and pull these
onions up so we can get the summer
sauces in here and start frying it
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that's really good be good on just a
hamburger I just love onions on
hamburgers let's think about onions now
folks I mean these you got to be careful
with onions because onions are actually
sweet and so it would raise your carb
count up as far if you're doing this
keto style which we are so you got to be
careful with you know vegetables that's
growing underground that's one of your
big key indicators right there if it's
something that you can eat on keto is if
it's grown below the ground generally
like carrots and onions and stuff like
that potatoes all those things are real
sweet and starchy and they turn the
sugar so you got to watch your sugar
count on the onions and stuff like that
but anyway it's New Year's and we're
going to have some good old cabbage with
some onions in it bacon but just be
careful with that I just want to make a
note of that we'll put these over here
and let these be draining on the paper
plate and we'll get our summer sausage
and this is just just regular summer
sausage it's nothing special we just
kind of got it chopped up here and we're
just gonna heat this up real good and
this is gonna go in our cabbage I want
to get all this stuff free cook before
we get our cabbage in there because I
had a cabbage when you first start
cooking it will take up a lot of space
and your skillet but that's okay because
it will cook down there's a lot of water
content in cabbage and so once it starts
cooking down it will streak down as it
cooks and then
cooked down we will will add all of our
other onions and bacon and some
accessories back into that anyway we'll
let that get started there
all this summer sausage is precooked
anyway and for year they don't have to
be it's a whole lot you want to cook
them a whole lot you can just buy on
them serum a little bit
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so while this is doing that will will if
this hook up and we'll come back to you
here shortly we'll get that cabbage in
in the skillet and show you what that
looks like okay all right well we've got
our summer sausage in the skillet we've
been browning that up and don't you look
at the color of that man that is so good
like I said this is already precooked so
you don't have to cook this very long
get this the way you want it by the fact
you don't want to overcook it so you
just get a good sear on this all the way
around and we'll go ahead and pull this
and then we'll get our cabbage started
so you'll bear with me here sure they
watch them for this up and I hope I can
do this without messing up I got some
tongs here so let's move a can pick
these up with tongs that's a lot safer
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little summer sausage and cabbage this
is gonna be so good so you've never had
summer softer than cabbage and onions
you need to give this a try it's real
simple and it's real healthy cabbage is
really good for you it's really good he
told me little actually a cabbage and
broccoli and cauliflower and stuff like
that
real good we'll get the rest of this out
of here and we'll set this aside what
we're gonna do now and we still got a
little bit of grease in here and that's
about right if you'll take a look at
that you don't need a whole lot of
grease there's very little grease in
there basically just enough to cover the
bottom of the pan and we're gonna start
putting our cabbage in there now you
don't want to dump this whole bowl in
there you want to kind of just start
lightly layering this in here because
like I said cabbage has water content to
it has water in it and so we don't want
this this by chance splashed up on us so
be sure just lay this in here and like I
said it's gonna take up the whole pan
because it's a big head of cabbage but
that's ok because as it cooks it will
begin to cook down and shrink down on
you so don't don't freak out because
it's taken up so much
when you fill it here matter of fact you
may have to do this and in stages where
you fill it up pretty little ways let it
cook down and then add the rest of your
cabbage to it so as this begins to cook
down I'll let this cook down and we'll
come back to you and show you how this
works out okay all right well we've got
our cabbage cooking down and folks I
want you to just look at that color
that's just absorbed all those goodies
that that bacon is left in the skillet
look how Brown that is that's just got a
beautiful color just start to get really
soft and pliable the water is cooking
down on it and if you have seen this
earlier when I got all the rest of the
drop the piece barrel I teased out about
that but anyway alright folks well we
got our cabbage all cooked down and what
I've done I've taken and incorporated
all the other ingredients into this I've
added the summer sausage I've added the
grilled onions to this I took and
crunched up the bacon into bacon bits
and a couple other things that I did I
had it two tablespoons or actually two
teaspoons of minced garlic and I put
about a tablespoon and a half maybe
almost two tablespoons of Redmon's real
salt and then I added about a tablespoon
and a half of black pepper and we just
took and mixed all this up I just wanted
to show you the finished product here
and let you see what this looks like
when you fry of cabbage and add your
summer sausage and your bacon your
grilled onions and your garlic and
everything to that so anyway that's what
it looks like to have fried cabbage
we're going to get this together have a
plate of this and see what it tastes
like for a New Year's Day you guys have
a happy new year that's Mike over here
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