29 Unique Purple Cabbage Recipes to Try at Home

Here are 29 colorful and delicious purple cabbage recipes for you. If you have purple cabbage at home, try these recipes, and they will impress you!

A Few Words About Purple Cabbage Recipes

Purple cabbage is a cabbage variety with large and thick layers of leaves, grown as a fall vegetable and has dark red color. When cooked, it usually takes on a blue color.

Purple cabbage is one of the vegetables you usually only see in salads and coleslaw. In this recipe roundup, you will see more than just slaws and salads. We have 29 different and unique purple cabbage recipes. You will find main dishes, soups, salads, pickles, and even juices!

You should try these healthy purple cabbage recipes because cabbage is a nutrient-rich vegetable with many health benefits, including reducing inflammation, improving heart health, and improving gut function.

1

Purple Cabbage Soup

What’s better than a warm purple cabbage soup on a rainy, cold day? This purple cabbage recipe is simple, easy, and unique and has the most beautiful and vibrant purple color.

The main ingredient in this purple cabbage recipe is purple cabbage, which is why this soup has this beautiful purple color; it is thick and filling and vegan, dairy, and gluten-free.

Thanks to its delicious taste and fun color, you can make this nutritious soup for your kids, and they will keep asking for more.

For this purple cabbage recipe, you will need purple cabbage, coconut milk, potatoes, and seasonings.

Calories per Serving: 180
Total Preparation Time: 30 Minutes

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2

Asian Purple Cabbage Slaw

This Asian slaw has purple cabbage, carrots, green onions, cilantro, and jalapenos. This purple cabbage recipe is refreshing, easy, and flavorful, you can make it for a gathering or on a summery hot day, and it is also full of nutrients and healthy ingredients.

This purple cabbage recipe is suitable for the keto diet, and to make it vegan, replace the honey with agave syrup.

You can add chicken or beef to the salad to add more protein, or you can add noodles to it to make it more filling.

Calories per Serving: 136

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3

Asian Stuffed Purple Cabbage Rolls

Here is a new recipe you can try over the next weekend, stuffed cabbage, which is traditionally an Eastern European and middle eastern dish made with a bowl of flavorful rice, seasonings, and vegetable filling. And this recipe has an Asian twist. The filling here is like what you find stuffed inside a dumpling.

The filling has soy sauce, sesame oil, sriracha, a lot of garlic, rice, and ground meat stuffed with purple cabbage.

This purple cabbage recipe is fun, easy, flavorful, and nutritious because it has vitamins, protein, and fibers.

Try it and impress your family with this delicious heartwarming dish, and you also can serve it with rice.

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4

Purple Cabbage and Corn Sala

This purple cabbage recipe is refreshing and has a lot of bright colors. Due to it containing a different variety of vegetables, it is nutritious, healthy, and has a lot of vitamins and minerals.

The purple cabbage in this dish gives it a fun color and a crunchy texture, while the corn gives it a sweet taste, and the mayo and lemon dressing helps everything to come together deliciously.

Use canned corn, so you take a shorter time preparing this recipe.

Calories per Serving: 434
Total Preparation Time: 10 Minutes

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5

Purple Cabbage Juice

Who has not heard of green juice and its huge benefits and nutrition? The main ingredient in these 3 juices is purple cabbage, which gives the juice this vibrant color.

The first recipe has red cabbage, cucumbers, pears, and lemon juice, which will make the color of the juice a little lighter. The second juice has red cabbage, oranges, and beets with high iron content.

The last juice has red cabbage, apples, and carrots, which will make this juice super sweet.

Calories per Serving: 165
Total Preparation Time: 10 Minutes

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6

Lentil Stuffed Purple Cabbage Rolls

These vegan purple cabbage rolls are filled with a delicious mixture of onions, garlic, lentils, and brown rice. This plant-based, And the gluten-free meal is cheap, super filling, and delicious!

This purple cabbage recipe is unique and won’t fail to impress anyone who tries it, the filling has rice, lentils, and onions, and the tomato sauce on the top helps to bring the dish together and make it more delicious and flavourful.

This dish is guaranteed to impress you and anyone who tries it.

Calories per Serving: 168
Total Preparation Time: 60 Minutes

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7

Asian Chicken and Purple Cabbage Slaw

This purple cabbage salad is super colorful and flavourful, affordable, and super easy to make, you can make it on a hot summer day, or when you need something refreshing, you can also make it for friends and family gatherings.

This is an Asian-style recipe; you will notice this from ingredients like rice wine vinegar and soy sauce.

This purple cabbage recipe also has peanut butter, avocado, and bell pepper; there is shredded chicken breast for extra protein. And here you have it, the perfect salad when you crave one next time!

Total Preparation Time: 15 Minutes

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8

Purple Cabbage Rolls

This purple cabbage recipe is inspired by Eastern European cuisine. If you are Eastern European, you grew up eating stuffed cabbage or cabbage rolls.

If you are asking yourself, why is this dish purple? Because why not eat colorful, fun food? All you need for this recipe is purple cabbage, tomato sauce, ground beef, and a little bit of patience.

After all, boiling the cabbage, making the stuffing, and rolling the purple cabbage is not so easy.

After rolling the cabbage, put them in a bowl under a bed of sauerkraut that will give it a tangy, sour, and fresh taste.

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9

Rainbow Purple Cabbage Salad

Are you ready for a bowl of yummy filling salad yet? I bet you will not be able to stop eating this refreshing one.

This purple cabbage recipe has anything anyone could want in a salad. It has many different vegetables and a sweet and sour taste from the grapefruit, avocados, and lime and tahini dressing, so it is the perfect healthy dish you can make when you do not feel like cooking.

If you want to make it a whole-meal salad, add some oven-baked tofu or chickpeas. Enjoy!

Total Preparation Time: 10 Minutes

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10

Thai Purple Cabbage Slaw With Lime Sriracha Mayo

This purple cabbage recipe is a slaw recipe, so what is a slaw? Coleslaw means cabbage salad in Dutch.

This is a salad that has shredded cabbage with a salad dressing. It is usually either vinaigrette or mayonnaise. This recipe is inspired by Thai cuisine.

It is a refreshing slaw where the flavors of sriracha and lime are combined to make this flavorful salad, and the crunch of the carrot and red cabbage is paired with that of cashews. You can swap the cashews with peanuts and enjoy!

Total Preparation Time: 15 Minutes

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11

Purple Cabbage And Orange Salad

This red cabbage recipe is a great way to include some vegetables into your diet. The orange and pomegranate in this recipe add a bright color to the dish and some sweetness.

This purple cabbage recipe is delicious, cheap, and super easy, you can always add some sources of protein to it and serve it as a main dish, or you can serve it as a side dish.

The maple syrup and mustard in the dressing bring out all the flavors in this recipe.

This is an important tip to make this salad: massage the dressing with the cabbage to soak all the flavors and make it less hard.

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12

Fried Purple Cabbage With Bacon Salad

This Fried purple Cabbage with Bacon salad could not be better!

You must do a bit of chopping, but you can always save yourself some time but buying pre-chopped vegetables.

This purple cabbage recipe is suitable for keto and low-carb diets, and it has all the good stuff, bacon, butter, garlic, onions, and Parmesan cheese.

You can serve this salad with steaks or chicken strips; you can also add more vegetables or replace the purple cabbage with white cabbage if you want.

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13

Peanut Purple Cabbage Slaw

This Asian Slaw combines fresh crunchy purple cabbage with a 4-ingredient peanut sauce and green onion.

This Thai peanut slaw is perfect for picnics, gatherings, BBQs, and an easy meal in 10 minutes! Once prepared, you can serve this purple cabbage slaw with grilled chicken, shrimp, salmon, and more!

The combination of peanuts, bean sprouts, and green onions with delicious sauce makes for an Asian-inspired slaw. And all you need for this recipe is seven simple ingredients!

Calories per Serving: 145
Total Preparation Time: 10 Minutes

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14

German Purple Cabbage (Rot Kohl)

This delicious German purple Cabbage is a tasty sweet, and sour recipe served with many traditional German dishes.

This is an easy-to-make recipe, but it does take a little time for the cabbage to braise slowly on the stovetop.

This purple cabbage recipe is similar to sauerkraut but has a milder taste. It only needs cabbage, sour apples, sugar, and apple cider vinegar. You can use this recipe in salads, rice, or your favorite meal.

Total Preparation Time: 1hr 25mins

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15

German Purple Cabbage And Apples

This German purple Cabbage and Apple recipe have a hint of a sweet taste from the apples with a bit of sourness from the apple cider vinegar and purple cabbage.

A super easy purple cabbage recipe for any person to make, and just add some protein to it for a one-bowl meal. This recipe has a great balance of fats, veggies, and fruit.

Before making this purple cabbage recipe, ensure you’ve got some really good cast iron or a wok. The food will cook evenly and stick less with a properly seasoned cast iron pan.

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16

Purple Cabbage Slaw With Tuna

This simple purple cabbage recipe is so flavorful and addictively delicious. You’ll not be able to stop eating it once you start.

This salad can be eaten with tuna, but it’s also excellent paired with fish tacos, pulled pork, chicken strips, and fajitas.

As a simple side of this, you can prepare this dish in large quantities and eat it whenever you feel like having a delicious filling salad.

In this purple cabbage recipe, you can use normal mayonnaise and Japanese mayonnaise or make your own at home.

Total Preparation Time: 15 Minutes

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17

Pickled Purple Cabbage

Purple cabbage contains vitamin C, magnesium, fiber, potassium, and much more!

You can use raw apple cider or raw red wine vinegar to pickle it, so you also get the benefits of the probiotics in the vinegar.

For this purple cabbage recipe, you only need water, red wine vinegar, minced garlic, salt, and red pepper flacks for just the right kick. This purple cabbage recipe is perfect with rice, sandwiches, and tacos.

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18

Parmesan And Garlic Roasted Purple Cabbage

This easy Garlic and Parmesan Cabbage Steak is a delicious way to enjoy purple cabbage.  This purple cabbage recipe is easy to prepare and make with only four ingredients.

You only need a bowl and a sheet pan to cook these steaks. You can cook it on the stovetop or in the oven. It’s also budget-friendly and simple to throw together for a last-minute addition.

The only ingredients you need for it are purple cabbage, butter, garlic, and parmesan, and here you have the most delicious vegetarian keto dish.

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19

Fermented Purple Cabbage

Fermented food is a fantastic source of beneficial probiotics. Probiotics are so important for the digestive system’s health.

To add some probiotic-rich food to your daily meals, make this sauerkraut recipe. You can add it to sandwiches and salads.

The nutritional value of foods, like purple cabbage, can be increased by fermentation, making the food easier for us to digest.

Sauerkraut is delicious and a bit tangy, and using purple cabbage in this recipe makes it more notorious.

Calories per Serving: 83
Total Preparation Time: 35 Minutes

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20

Fresh Thai Pesto And Purple Cabbage Spring Rolls

If you love spring rolls, this recipe is for you. If you have tried traditional spring rolls and got bored of them, you should try this recipe!

This fresh pesto and purple cabbage spring rolls will be your new favorite dish to make.

Making your pesto sauce for this recipe is recommended, but if you don’t have the time or the recourses, you can buy it and use it.

These rolls are perfect and do not need any sauce, but if you want one, combine peanut butter, soy sauce, garlic, and sesame oil.

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21

Purple Cabbage Chicken Lo Main

If you love takeout or love to eat lo main, you should try this version at home. This purple cabbage lo main is easy, delicious, fun, and healthy, and you can make it in 15 minutes.

This dish has purple cabbage, carrots, onion, and chicken, but if you are a vegetarian, just replace chicken with any vegan replacement or tofu.

To cook this dish just toss everything in one pan and stir them together for some time, and here you have a delicious lo main. Your kids and family will love this dish. Make it for dinner or a family gathering.

Total Preparation Time: 35 Minutes

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22

Purple Cabbage Rice (Red Cabbage Pilaf)

Purple cabbage is among the vegetables with many health benefits, but people usually dislike it due to its blended taste.

This purple cabbage Indian recipe is mouthwatering and has common ingredients, it has rice, tomatoes, purple cabbage, ginger, and a lot of seasonings that make this recipe explode with flavors like cumin, red chili powder, and cloves, because of the fun purple color of this dish, make it to your kids.

Total Preparation Time: 35 Minutes

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23

White Bean Purple Cabbage Soup

This easy, healthy, vegetarian, and colorful purple soup is for those cold winter days when you need something heartwarming or sick and all you need is soup.

This soup recipe has quinoa, white beans, and vegetables like purple cabbage, which gives it the most beautiful color. The good thing about this soup is that it’s loaded with veggies and good for your health filling.

It won’t be hard to convince your kids to eat this recipe due to its fun color. They will come back for another bowl.

Total Preparation Time: 40 Minutes

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24

Spicy Thai Purple Cabbage Salad in Jar

This crunchy and refreshing salad is perfect for preparing meals for the week. You can put it in the fridge and take it out to eat whenever you want.

This recipe has purple cabbage, cucumber, chilis, edamame, and quinoa. The dressing has the most delicious spicy peanut butter dressing.

This dish is gluten-free and vegan. You can put this salad in a jar and take it to work or school, and you can also add some chicken or beef strips to it add some protein to it.

Calories per Serving: 335
Total Preparation Time: 45 Minutes

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25

Spaghetti With Purple Cabbage And Feta CheeseKeto Ground Pork Omelet with Cheese

Who doesn’t like a hearty spaghetti dish? But this is not any spaghetti, this recipe is unique, simple, and delicious, and if you are a vegetarian, you can also make it.

Red cabbage is usually used to make coleslaw, and you don’t see it often cooked with other ingredients, but you can cook it in so many delicious ways, and this pasta dish is one of them.

This recipe is easy and needs basic ingredients like pasta, feta cheese, and red onion to go with the cabbage, garlic, and red cabbage, and you can always season it with salt and red pepper flakes to taste.

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26

Improved Smoked Cheese and Purple Cabbage Risotto

Risotto is an Italian rice dish cooked with broth until it gets creamy. The broth could be meat, fish, or vegetable broth.

It could contain butter, onion, and Parmigiano-Reggiano. This recipe adds some fun to a regular risotto. This dish has a vibrant purple color duo to it continuing with purple cabbage.

This recipe also has chicken stock which you can make at home. It also has two types of cheese, rice and onions. This recipe is perfect for a date night.

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27

Purple Cabbage Arugula Salad

This colorful, nutritious, sweet, and slightly peppery salad with arugula and Dijon vinaigrette are perfect for preparing and saving in the fridge to eat when you want.

This salad has purple cabbage, arugula, cranberries for a sweet taste, red wine vinegar, and some slivered almonds for the perfect crunch.

Combine the olive oil, vinegar, Dijon mustard, salt, and pepper and add them to the rest of the ingredients after cutting them. This recipe could not get easier.

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28

Roasted Purple Cabbage Steaks

This recipe is the perfect vegan steak recipe ever. You just need to cut the purple cabbage “steaks” and marinate it with olive oil, vinegar, Dijon mustard, and honey to balance the tangy with the sweet taste.

Pit into the oven to cook, and sprinkle with some goat cheese for the perfect tangy taste. You can try this recipe for a normal dinner or the next party dinner.

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29

Purple Cabbage Pie With Feta

This recipe is delicious, unique, and impressive. It’s a vegetarian purple cabbage and cheese pie that you can serve as a main course or as an appetizer.

You can also have it for breakfast. For this recipe, you will just need phyllo pastry which has a crunchy and flaky texture after cooking.

Usually, phyllo pastry is used in middle eastern and Mediterranean cuisines. It is used to make baklava, purple cabbage, feta cheese, butter, and a combination of seeds.

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