Top 9 cabbage dishes from around the world

Cabbage is a leafy green vegetable, which is celebrated around the world. It belongs to the cruciferous family and is known for its crisp texture and mildly sweet, earthy flavour that adapts beautifully to both raw and cooked dishes. It is rich in fibre, vitamin C and antioxidants, making it a great choice for supporting digestion and immunity. Recently, Taste Atlas celebrated this humble green vegetable and released a list of top cabbage dishes from around the world. Take a look.

It is a traditional dish consisting of steamed dumplings, which consists of pork and chives, cabbage, shrimp, or a combination of different vegetables. When served, zhēngjiao dumplings are often served with soy dipping sauce on the side.

It is a popular variety of Japanese gyoza filled with cabbage, onions, pork, and selected seasonings. It is characterized by a unique frying style in which cooks arrange gyoza in a circular pattern. It is popularly paired with bean sprouts.

It is a variety of stir-fried chicken, which includes chicken cuts, cabbage, tteok rice cakes, carrots, chili peppers, and sweet potatoes. It is a communal dish that's cooked tableside, on large cast iron skillets.

It is a traditional North Macedonian pie that can be filled with a variety of different ingredients such as cheese, spinach, eggs, meat, leeks, or cabbage. It is brushed with oil or butter before baking.

It is one of the staples of traditional Turkish cuisine and is surrounded by leafy greens. The typical wrapping usually includes vine, cabbage, or sauerkraut leaves, or a variety of leafy vegetables such as collard greens and swiss chard and is filled with minced meat, rice or bulgur, various herbs, seasonings, red pepper, paprika, ground sumac, or tomato sauce. Balanced, aromatic and comforting, sarma is a staple at family gatherings, celebrations and everyday meals across Türkiye, symbolising hospitality and home-style cooking.

It is also called Twice-Cooked Pork and is made by preparing fatty pork and then stir frying it with vegetables such as cabbage, bell peppers, leeks, and mushrooms until it develops a brown color and the skin gets crispy on the edges.

It is a simple potato dumpling that consists of a mixture of grated raw potatoes and mashed cooked potatoes filled with crunchy cubes of bread and are often served with dishes such as meat roulades, roasted meat, stuffed cabbage rolls, red cabbage, or sauerkraut.

It is an Indian dumpling or fritter made with chickpea flour, turmeric, chilli powder, fenugreek, and salt. The website notes that muthia comes in many varieties, prepared with spinach, cabbage, gourds, and other vegetables, often steamed or lightly fried, then tempered, making it both versatile and deeply rooted in everyday Gujarati cooking traditions.

Okonomiyaki is a traditional dish that consists of batter and shredded cabbage. First, the batter is cooked, and then ingredients such as fried eggs, cabbage, scallions, dried bonito flakes, bean sprouts, and sliced pork belly are placed on the pancake with the toppings, and the dish is served on top of yakisoba (or sometimes udon) noodles. Often described as Japanese savoury pancake, it varies by region, with Osaka and Hiroshima styles differing in layering, cooking technique, and overall texture.

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