CABBAGE & TURKEY SAUSAGE
W I T H B A B Y P O TAT O E S
By Christina McGairk
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! Welcome to 2022! It’s that time of year where new year’s resolutions are made and traditions are celebrated. In our family, on New Year’s Day, my parents always cooked cabbage, black-eyed peas, and cornbread to stuff our tummies. I never really questioned it because it was just something we always did on January 1st. Yet now that I’m older, I wondered how this New Year’s ritual came about. I did some digging around and found different stories about why many families carry on this tradition. Some sources say eating black-eyed peas was the way the Jewish people celebrate Rosh Hashanah, while other sources date the tradition back to the Civil war era. Although it’s hard to pinpoint when exactly this tradition started, the symbolism is the same. Black-eyed peas signify coins, cabbage symbolizes money, and cornbread represents gold. I have carried on this New Year’s custom with my daughter TiTi. Her favorite dish is cabbage with turkey sausage. Thankfully, cabbage and the ingredients I put in it are naturally gluten-free. TiTi
is a lover of green vegetables and turkey sausage, but she mainly likes the red potatoes in it. So here it is. I present to you a New Year’s gluten-free dish from my family to yours. CABBAGE AND TURKEY SAUSAGE WITH BABY POTATOES INGREDIENTS · 2 Tbsp of avocado oil · 1 lb of turkey sausage · 1 head of cabbage · 1 onion chopped
· Butter · ½ lb of baby red potatoes with skins off · 1 ½ cups of low sodium chicken broth · Salt and pepper to taste
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Heat 1 Tbsp of avocado oil in a large pot and fry the turkey sausage according to package directions. 2. Keep the sausage in the pot and add the chicken broth. 3. After cutting the cabbage, red potatoes, and onions, throw them in the pot in layers. For instance, a layer of cabbage, butter, a layer of red potatoes, butter, a layer of onions, butter. 4. Let the mixture boil uncovered for 20 minutes or until the cabbage and potatoes If you would like to share gluten-free are soft. tips, tricks, info, etc. in an upcoming 5. Serve warm. issue of Special Needs Living, email us at SpecialNeedsLivingIndy@n2pub.com.
38 Special Needs Living • January 2022
