Pickled red cabbage with walnuts & apple

Name: Pickled red cabbage with walnuts & apple
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 30 min
Cuisine: European, British
Ingredients: 1 small red cabbage quartered, cored and finely shredded (with a mandoline, if you can); 2 red onions finely sliced (with a mandoline, if you can); 1 dried red chilli; 2 juniper berries; 2 allspice berries; 200ml red wine vinegar; 75g demerara sugar; 100g walnut halves, toasted and lightly crushed with a pestle and mortar; 1 small pack dill chopped; 3 Granny Smith apple skin on, quartered, cored and sliced

Instructions

Prep:25minCook:5min

Serve this festive pickled red cabbage with cold cuts and sausage rolls on Boxing Day and beyond. It also makes a fantastic side dish for Christmas Day

Updated at: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:27:11 GMT