This Week's Kitchen

Every week we pick a handful of what's coming out of the ground in biggest supply and build a few simple meals around it to help you with your meal planning. This week we're going all in on one vegetable — sugarloaf cabbage — charred into smoky wedges, stir-fried with ginger and noodles, and folded warm into a salad with apple and haloumi. Here's what we're cooking with it.

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1. Charred Sugarloaf Wedges with Miso-Lemon Butter

A showstopper side — seared hard then roasted, so it chars without turning bitter.

Time: 35 min · Serves: 4 · Featuring: Sugarloaf Cabbage

Ingredients

• 1 sugarloaf cabbage, cut into 6 wedges through the core
• 3 tbsp olive oil
• Salt
• 60g butter, softened
• 1 tbsp white miso
• 1 clove garlic, grated
• Zest and juice of 1 lemon
• Pinch chilli flakes
• 2 tbsp toasted flaked almonds

Method

1. Heat oven to 220°C. Brush cabbage wedges all over with olive oil and season with salt.
2. Sear wedges cut-side down in a hot ovenproof pan, 3-4 minutes, until deeply charred.
3. Transfer pan to the oven, roast 12-15 minutes until the core is tender.
4. Meanwhile mash butter, miso, garlic, lemon zest and juice into a paste. Dollop warm miso-lemon butter over the hot wedges, scatter with chilli flakes and almonds, and serve.

Make it a meal — choose your protein

• Vegan — swap the butter for a miso-tahini dressing and skip the almonds for toasted seeds.
• Vegetarian — serve alongside soft-boiled eggs.
• This week's meat option — pan-seared pork chops or sausages sit beautifully next to the charred wedges. Source it from Chef2Farmer.

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2. Ginger-Garlic Sugarloaf & Noodle Stir-Fry

A quick weeknight stir-fry — sugarloaf's thin leaves cook in minutes and stay sweet, not bitter.

Time: 20 min · Serves: 4 · Featuring: Sugarloaf Cabbage

Ingredients

• 1/2 sugarloaf cabbage, roughly shredded
• 250g noodles of choice
• 2 tbsp neutral oil
• 3cm ginger, julienned
• 3 cloves garlic, sliced
• 2 spring onions, sliced
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp oyster sauce (or hoisin)
• 1 tsp sesame oil
• Sesame seeds, to finish

Method

1. Cook noodles according to packet, drain and set aside.
2. Heat oil in a wok until smoking. Add ginger and garlic, stir-fry 30 seconds until fragrant.
3. Add cabbage and stir-fry on high heat 2-3 minutes — it should stay bright and just wilted, not soft.
4. Add noodles, soy sauce and oyster sauce, toss to combine and heat through. Finish with sesame oil, spring onions and sesame seeds.

Make it a meal — choose your protein

• Vegan — toss through fried tofu or edamame.
• Vegetarian — a fried egg on top turns this into dinner in one step.
• This week's meat option — sliced chicken thigh or beef strips stir-fried first, then set aside and tossed back through at the end. Source it from Chef2Farmer.

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3. Warm Sugarloaf, Apple & Haloumi Salad with Walnuts

Ribbons of sugarloaf, barely wilted, with crisp apple and salty haloumi.

Time: 25 min · Serves: 4 · Featuring: Sugarloaf Cabbage, Apple

Ingredients

• 1/2 sugarloaf cabbage, sliced into ribbons
• 1 apple, thinly sliced
• 180g haloumi, sliced
• 2 tbsp walnuts, roughly chopped
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
• 1 tsp dijon mustard
• 1 tsp honey
• Salt and pepper

Method

1. Whisk olive oil, vinegar, mustard and honey into a dressing; season.
2. Fry haloumi slices in a dry pan 1-2 minutes per side until golden.
3. In the same warm pan, off the heat, toss the cabbage ribbons briefly just to take the raw edge off and lightly wilt them.
4. Pile onto a platter with apple slices, top with haloumi and walnuts, and drizzle with dressing.

Make it a meal — choose your protein

• Vegan — swap haloumi for pan-fried marinated tempeh.
• Vegetarian — as written, with the haloumi.
• This week's meat option — shredded roast chicken or crispy bacon lardons tossed through. Source it from Chef2Farmer.

This Week's Simple Menu

One way to use your veggies without repeating a meal. Every night now has a vegan, vegetarian and meat option so everyone at the table is covered — the meat options below are this week's picks from our friends at Chef2Farmer, and we'll update them together each week based on what they've got.

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