Roasted Cabbage Recipe

Roasted Cabbage Recipe

Cook Time: 30 minutes

This simple yet delicious recipe transforms cabbage into a flavorful side dish, roasted to perfection and finished with a fresh squeeze of lemon.

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
  • head green cabbage, cut into 4 wedges
  • 1 pinch garlic powder, or to taste
  • 1 pinch red pepper flakes, or to taste
  • Salt and ground black pepper to taste
  • 2 lemons, halved

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 450F (230C) and gather all your ingredients.
  2. Brush both sides of each cabbage wedge with olive oil, ensuring an even coating.
  3. Sprinkle each wedge with garlic powder, red pepper flakes, salt, and pepper, adjusting to your taste preference.
  4. Arrange the cabbage wedges on a baking sheet, ensuring they are spaced evenly.
  5. Roast in the preheated oven for 15 minutes. After the first 15 minutes, flip the cabbage wedges and continue roasting for another 15 minutes, or until the cabbage is nicely browned and charred in spots.
  6. Once roasted, remove from the oven and squeeze fresh lemon juice over each wedge before serving. Enjoy!

Cook's Note

To help the cabbage wedges hold together during roasting, try keeping the core attached to each wedge when cutting. It adds stability while cooking.

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

  • Calories: 193
  • Total Fat: 8g (10% DV)
  • Saturated Fat: 1g (5% DV)
  • Cholesterol: 0mg (0% DV)
  • Sodium: 17mg (1% DV)
  • Total Carbohydrate: 37g (13% DV)
  • Dietary Fiber: 9g (33% DV)
  • Total Sugars: 17g
  • Protein: 5g (9% DV)
  • Vitamin C: 184mg (205% DV)
  • Calcium: 133mg (10% DV)
  • Iron: 2mg (9% DV)
  • Potassium: 724mg (15% DV)

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may vary based on your calorie needs.

Roasted Cabbage Recipe

Comments

samnan2

10/06/2025 01:52:54 PM

Hi all, thank you for the reviews! Some of you opted to cover the cabbage, that's a great idea. I do love it charred but if it is too charred for you, you may want to alter the oven temp, since we all know everybody's oven is different! I love the variations you are contributing as well, thanks so much!

Cathy Myers

01/24/2015 08:19:45 PM

Perfect! Baked at 425*, tented with foil, for 20 minutes and then removed and continued to roast for 20 more minutes. Excellent with our red beans and rice dinner. Thank you!

Rock_lobster

02/05/2015 04:23:19 PM

Roasted Cabbage Haiku: "A great recipe, but execution needs work. Should've been covered." Peering at the more recent reviews, I see folks mentioning that they covered their cabbage partially, which I guess I should've done b/c the texture of ours was mooshy in parts, and burnt in others. Absolutely adored the idea behind it and plan on doing it again, as we eat cabbage frequently and are always delighted to try new methods of preparing it.

Gerry Johns

05/23/2015 06:45:06 AM

Excellent recipe. Used 425 degree.... added a little butter to the bottom of pan with the olive oil and left uncovered for the first 20 minutes. I added grated cheese and covered for the last 20 minutes.... really delicious. Then the next time I mixed sour cream and grated cheese and a little milk and added this for the last 20 minutes for a cream cabbage. I will never boil cabbage again.... best recipe ever.

Christina

01/19/2015 12:55:58 PM

Awesome! I used olive oil cooking spray to evenly distribute the oil better. Great flavor and I LOVED the sweet/roasted/charred taste. I've never had/made roasted cabbage before, but I will be making it more often from now on~YUM!!! Thanks for sharing. :)

Julie Angle

03/22/2015 07:18:14 PM

Tried this tonight. I read the reviews first so based on that I used olive oil spray instead of brushing it on the cabbage. I also tented with foil for the first 20 minutes. I also used other seasoning as I have small children and didn't think they could do the pepper flakes. It was awesome!!!! I also made with the pepper flakes for my hubby. He loved it!!!! This will be in the vegetable rotation from now on!!!!

stylefile

02/27/2015 11:10:38 AM

I followed the other reviews and tented the cabbage for the first 15 minutes, and then flipped and roasted without cover. Delicious and easy!

Jeff Lindner

12/21/2015 04:14:29 PM

Lightly brushed with bacon grease instead of olive oil Used JD's Cheddar bacon salt, fresh ground black pepper, crushed red pepper flakes and garlic powder to taste. Roasted at 450° for 20 minutes loosely covered with foil then removed foil and roasted 10 minutes more on the same side. Flipped over all wedges and roasted an additional 10 minutes on opposite side. I made a whole cabbage cut into 8 wedges. I was still able to achieve some deep browning but avoided the char. The end result was deliciously bacon-flavored and definitely will do this way again! Sorry, no picture because the family woofed it down too fast!

HardyPizza5102

03/16/2023 01:28:55 AM

Thank you for this recipe idea! I had a head of cabbage that didn't fit into the dinner I made last night and was looking for something new. We cut a half cabbage into chunks, poured some olive oil on a plate and added some garlic (I cheat and use the "ground garlic in a jar") and onion powder and dipped all cut sides of each chunk into that and placed onto a cookie sheet with foil on it. I poured the remaining olive oil mixture on top and then lightly sprinkled garam marsala and turmeric on them, covered them up with a foil "blanket" and sealed the edges and baked for about 45 minutes along with other things I had in the oven. It was really delicious! I can see other variants as well, but this was mild and sweet with a hint of Indian cuisine.

Wilifry

01/21/2015 04:35:47 PM

Might add celery seed and perhaps a dash of balsamic vinegar and serve with some small dumplings and a nice slice of corned beef.

Linda Poling Higgins Catlin

07/13/2019 07:56:13 PM

This was so delicious I ate all of it. Of course I tented it like so many people said to. Actually I sealed the foil around the pan. I also added time because my oven had not gotten to temperature. When I pulled it out of the oven and removed the foil. Wow was it cooked. Very charred on the edges (crispy black) and the bottom was caramelized. I probably could have eaten it at this point, but still turned them and put it back in the oven for another 15 minutes. I ended up eating the entire pan, including the core, with my fingers, by myself, standing in my kitchen working on a project.

mellinprincess

09/20/2025 03:22:41 PM

Was great! Try it! Was very filling!

Linda

08/17/2025 09:18:28 PM

I followed your recipe exactly and it is delicious. Love the char. Thank you.

SneakyRoe3400

05/27/2025 10:31:58 PM

I thought I’d only be making for my husband but decided to try it. I am so glad I did!! Since I am allergic to peppers, I omitted but sat to the side so my husband could sprinkle some on his. The acid from the lemon wedge really adds to the flavor.

MintCocoa7995

05/13/2025 05:04:33 PM

This was a nice change. I usually cut my cabbage into pyramid shaped wedges, and wrap in foil with a slap of butter to look like Hershey kisses. I bake or throw on the BBQ grill. Oh those cabbage kisses are sooo yummy.

megg

04/28/2025 12:23:14 AM

Just used olive oil, salt & pepper, no other spices or lemon. Turned out great! Love it.

Justine

04/12/2025 09:37:23 PM

I was amazed at how tangy and spicy and sweet this really is... definitely cooking this again

VioletCream8208

04/11/2025 12:52:31 AM

This is such a great way to cook cabbage. The only change I made was to cook at 425 instead of 450. The roasting brings out the sweetness in the cabbage. This will be a regular side on our table.

Mary Jackson

03/31/2025 02:53:25 PM

So comforting, like a warm hug.

MintSalad7679

03/28/2025 11:14:18 PM

I really liked it, next time around I’ll leave the lemon and pepper flakes for others to apply to their taste. I put pepper flakes on half but somehow they got on my portion.