Christmas spiced Red Cabbage is a must at my Christmas table. Not only does it taste delicious but it’s spicy, sweet, sour notes add interest to the meal, it’s gorgeous deep red colour brings your plate to life and it’s smell, as it simmers away on the back ring of the hob, just shouts Christmas.

This red cabbage is my mum’s favourite Christmas vegetable and it goes brilliantly with the pan fried duck breasts my Dad usually does. Luckily it goes equally well with any Christmas meat, it’s sharpness cutting through the grease of the fattier birds and it’s sweet, sour, spiciness adding interest to the less flavourful ones. Saying that, it will also go equally well with the Boxing Day ham, some cheesy stuffed baked potatoes on the side.

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