Authentic Pennsylvania Haluski Recipe
If you’re not from Pennsylvania, chances are you’ve never heard of Haluski. Haluski is a traditional Polish dish, and usually contains, onions, cabbage and noodles. This dish is tasty, and has a desirable texture. In addition to the aforementioned ingredients, butter is also a necessary component to pack that flavor punch. Try making this dish for your family- it goes well with chicken, beef, and fish.
Authentic Pennsylvania Haluski
Serves 4-6
Ingredients:
1 lg cabbage head, chopped
2 lg sweet onion or yellow onion, chopped
2 crushed garlic cloves, chopped
bacon grease about 6-8 slices of bacon
1 stick sweet salted butter (add more as needed – 1/2 stick)
12 oz wide egg noodles
salt and pepper
Directions:
Remove first layer of cabbage only removing and discarding core. Chop cabbage into even 1-inch squares.
Lightly sauté 8 slices of bacon (for the drippings). Remove bacon once done, (do not burn bacon) then sauté onions, garlic and cabbage with bacon drippings with 1 stick butter.
Cook until cabbage has a soft texture. add bacon (this is optional). Add 1 tablespoon of Kosher salt and 1 tablespoon of freshly ground black pepper, add more to taste.
In a separate pot, boil noodles for about 7 minutes (less than al denté).
Once noodles are done, drain and add to cabbage mixture and remove from heat.
Enjoy!
Chef Chuck Kerber
chuck@cooksandeats.com
cooksandeats.com
Yummmmmm
Sounds like Gram’s. Making me hungry!!
Nope Grandma wouldn’t use wide noodles! They’d be homemade egg noodles dried 3 days.
Yes she would use wide noodles.