This dish is even more delicious when we can grow our own cabbage, but store-bought is very suitable and often used. Cabbage seems to be an overlooked vegetable, and when it is used, it is often just mixed with the main ingredients. In this dish, the cabbage shines as the main ingredient. Yes, we consider it a vegetable side, but Nana usually puts sausage in it as well. If you choose, you can leave the sausage out.

Ingredients

• 4 tablespoons butter
• 1 pound smoked link sausage
• 1 medium to large head of cabbage
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon pepper

Instructions

• Melt butter over medium heat in a cast iron skillet.
• Cut sausage into ¼-inch thick round slices.
• Shred your cabbage.
• Sauté sausage in your skillet for 1-2 minutes.
• Add shredded cabbage, sugar, salt, and pepper.
• Sauté for additional 5 minutes.