Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we're going to make a distinctive dish, sig's rags and fleas( german cabbage and meat broth). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

sig's Rags and Fleas( German Cabbage and Meat Broth) is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It's simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. sig's Rags and Fleas( German Cabbage and Meat Broth) is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have sig's rags and fleas( german cabbage and meat broth) using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make sig's Rags and Fleas( German Cabbage and Meat Broth):

1. {Prepare of Rags and Fleas.
2. {Get 1 of For the Rags and Fleas takes its name from the rag resembling torn cabbage and the cumin seeds that look like fleas. :-).
3. {Take 1 of This dish is traditionally eaten in Hessen in Germany. It was however taken long time ago to Ireland by German settlers. Legend has it that this dish is forerunner of Irish Stew..
4. {Make ready 500 grams of mutton cubed, but lamb or beef can be used.
5. {Take 1 kg of cabbage of choice, shredded or torn finely.
6. {Prepare 1 of vegetable stock cube.
7. {Take 1 tbsp of cumin seeds.
8. {Prepare 1 of good pinch of salt (optional).
9. {Prepare 1 pinch of of fresh ground black pepper or cayenne pepper.
10. {Take 1/4 liter of of water.
11. {Get of little dumplings known as snowballs.
12. {Get 15 of waxy not softboiling potatoes.
13. {Make ready 1 of onion chopped very finely.
14. {Take 1 small of bunch of parsley,chopped very finely.
15. {Get 125 grams of of softened butter.
16. {Take 4 of eggs.
17. {Prepare 1 of -2 tablespoons of plain flour.
18. {Take 1 pinch of each salt, pepper, nutmeg and marjoram.

Instructions to make sig's Rags and Fleas( German Cabbage and Meat Broth):

1. clean and shred the cabbage, cube the meat into mouth sized pieces, add into a pot with the water, add stockcube, salt, pepper and cumin.Simmer slowly for 2 hours until meat is tender. ( or use your crockpot on low to medium).
2. season with salt, pepper if needed and add more cumin seeds if liked.
3. serve with rustic bread , a cold lager or pilsner goes down well with this.
4. for the dumplings. Normally these are made with white potatoes but I needed to use up some purple potatoes, they came out this colour by the time I added all ingredients..
5. boil potatoes the day before eating in their skins and peel.The next day mash them down preferably through a potato ricer..
6. gently heat the butter and soften onions and parsley for about 5 minutes. Add this to the potatoes. First add one egg one after the other stirring it in. Add flour, stir in, add herbs and spices, stir in well..
7. boil in a large pot salted water with wet hands make little balls drop them gently into simmering water for about 15 minutes, serve with Rags and Fleas or any other stew like dish..

So that's going to wrap this up for this exceptional food sig's rags and fleas( german cabbage and meat broth) recipe. Thank you very much for reading. I am confident that you will make this at home. There is gonna be interesting food in home recipes coming up. Remember to bookmark this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!