Southern

Chow-Chow

Name: Chow-Chow
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 4 cups cabbage, shredded; 2 cups green tomatoes, chopped; 1 green bell pepper, chopped; 1 onion, chopped; 1.5 cups apple cider vinegar; 3/4 cup granulated sugar; 1 tbsp mustard seeds; 1 tbsp salt

Tamika @tamika_clt

Chow-Chow is Southern home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the fresh side. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

40 min Easy Vegan Vegetarian Gluten free Dairy free Halal Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 cups cabbage, shredded
2 cups green tomatoes, chopped
1 green bell pepper, chopped
1 onion, chopped
1.5 cups apple cider vinegar
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tbsp mustard seeds
1 tbsp salt

How to cook it

Toss the cabbage, green tomatoes, bell pepper, and onion with the salt in a colander set over a bowl, and let drain 1 hour to pull out excess liquid.
Rinse briefly and pat dry.
Combine the vinegar, sugar, and mustard seeds in a pot and bring to a boil, stirring until the sugar dissolves.
Add the vegetables and simmer until just tender but still with some crunch, about 10 minutes.
Spoon into jars, cool, and refrigerate; it keeps at least two weeks and is ready to eat once cool. Spoon it over dish 51's beans and greens.

Watch how to cook Chow-Chow

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chow-Chow, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
  
  40 min
The cooked vegetable
- Fried Okra
  
  25 min
What it is eaten with
- Buttermilk Biscuits
  
  30 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Chow-Chow carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Chow-Chow
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 100 kcal
Protein: 1 g
Carbs: 25 g
Fat: 0 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 18 g
Sodium: 230 mg
Saturated fat: 0 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Chow-Chow takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.