White cabbage is a product that is affordable all year round. Thanks to this vegetable, you can diversify the menu, add vitamins to the diet. Cabbage salad is a great solution for those who love juicy and healthy dishes.
Cabbage salad can be prepared according to various recipes, seasoning the appetizer with both mayonnaise and vegetable oil. Below we will consider two delicious dishes that perfectly diversify the daily menu.
Cabbage salad recipe number 1
This recipe for cabbage salad is unlikely to be suitable for a festive table, as it is too simple and contains a minimum of ingredients. But such a dish can be a great snack for lunch or dinner.
To make fresh cabbage salad, you will need:
- 500 g of fresh white cabbage;
- 2 fresh medium-sized cucumbers;
- 1 pack of crab sticks;
- parsley, dill or other greens, if any (you can do without greens);
- mayonnaise or vegetable oil for dressing.
The stages of cooking cabbage salad are as follows:
- Wash the cabbage, clean it of all contaminants, inedible parts. Chop the vegetable as small as possible. Place the cabbage in a deep bowl, lightly salt and remember with your hands.
- Wash the cucumbers, cut off the inedible portions, and cut the vegetable into thin slices or halves.
- Open the package with crab sticks, remove the cellophane from the product. Cut the crab sticks into small pieces.
- If you have purchased greens, then wash them, dry them, chop finely.
- Combine the prepared ingredients, stir the coleslaw, season with mayonnaise or vegetable oil and you can eat.
- If you season a salad of fresh cabbage with vegetable oil, then the dish will turn out to be very light and juicy, while mayonnaise will add calories to the snack.
By the way, a mixture of vegetable oil, vinegar and lemon juice can become a delicious dressing for the described salad; it is allowed to use soy sauce. In general, you can experiment by choosing the best coleslaw dressing.
Cabbage salad recipe number 2
The recipe for cabbage salad, which will be discussed later, is quite suitable for a festive table. The ingredients in the dish are simple and affordable, and the appetizer tastes spicy.
- 500 g of white cabbage;
- 200 g of sausage cheese;
- 2 fresh carrots;
- 2-4 cloves of garlic (the amount depends on your taste);
- 100 g mayonnaise;
- salt and pepper to taste.
Try making a fresh cabbage salad once with the same amount of ingredients listed above, and then you can vary the products to your liking.
The appetizer is prepared in the following sequence:
- Finely chop the prepared cabbage, put in a deep bowl, lightly salt, remember.
- Wash the carrots, peel, grate on a coarse shredder.
- Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.
- Prepare the sauce. Pour mayonnaise into a separate plate, add garlic passed through a press to it, salt and pepper to taste. Stir the dressing.
- Put the prepared food in one bowl, season with the prepared sauce, stir the cabbage salad and serve.
If you wish, you can not add sausage cheese to the salad, but without this ingredient, the dish will lose its piquancy.
As you can see, cabbage salad can be prepared with different dressings, choosing the sauce to taste. Try making one of the suggested snacks in your kitchen and decide which one suits you best. Bon Appetit!
