White cabbage belongs to the leading products in terms of vitamin C content, and the red and Peking ones are not far behind. These vegetables are available all year round, and the salad of them is one of the simplest and most useful additions to dinner. It can be eaten separately, can be served instead of a side dish. It is useful and does not threaten to gain weight. People who look after their health prepare these snacks almost every day. If you do them for the same recipe, they quickly get bored. The problem is solved simply: salad dressing from fresh cabbage can be different and give an unusual dish to a familiar dish.
Cooking Features
In order for the dressing to help reveal the taste of the main ingredients, giving the salad a new flavor, and at the same time helping to preserve the beneficial properties of cabbage and other vegetables, you need to know a few rules for its preparation.
- Some vitamins in vegetables are liposoluble. These elements are not digested without fat. Vitamin C, which is particularly rich in cabbage, is not among them, but other vegetables, rich in fat-soluble vitamins A and E, can also be included in the snack. The composition of the filling for it is desirable to include products containing fats, such as butter, dairy products.
- Unrefined oil is more useful than refined oil. When cooking salad dressing from fresh cabbage, it is usually not subjected to heat treatment: this means that the nutrients contained in it will not turn into harmful carcinogens. In this case, you can use not only olive oil, but also sunflower, corn, sesame, linseed, any other. Changing this ingredient, you will change the taste of the finished dish, as well as its flavor.
- Pleasant taste with fresh vegetable salad is given by sour sauces. In a dressing for such snacks it is recommended to include vinegar or lemon juice, which give this sourness.
- Sugar will help balance the taste of the dressing. You can do without it, but the taste of the salad will then be less harmonious. Supporters of healthy eating often replace this component with honey.
The recipe for cabbage salad dressing can be chosen any, no matter from which kind of cabbage you make a snack. It is important to keep proportions, then the taste of the finished dish will be pleasant.
Classic salad dressing from fresh cabbage
Composition:
- apple cider vinegar (6 percent) - 60 ml;
- vegetable oil - 60 ml;
- salt, sugar - to taste;
- fresh parsley and dill (optional) - 20 g.
Method of preparation:
- Wash, dry and finely chop fresh greens with a knife.
- Fill it with oil, mix.
- Add apple vinegar. If you do not have fruit vinegar, you can replace it with a table, taking it in the amount of two tablespoons and spreading one spoon of filtered water.
- Mix thoroughly. Add a little salt and sugar, stir and try the dressing.
- Adjust the taste of the dressing with sugar.
Such a sauce is most often seasoned with a classic white cabbage salad with shredded carrots, but it is suitable for any kind of cabbage salads. This recipe refueling - the easiest and most economical.
Salad dressing of fresh cabbage with garlic and lemon juice
Composition:
- olive oil - 80 ml;
- lemon juice - 20 ml;
- sugar - 2-3 g;
- garlic - 1-2 cloves;
- salt, red and black pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Crush the garlic, cover it with lemon juice.
- Add salt, pepper, sugar, stir.
- Pour the mixture into the salad, mix.
- Heat butter in a pan.
- Fill the cabbage with hot oil, mix.
Before serving, lettuce should be allowed to infuse for a while. This recipe for a salad of fresh cabbage, too, many consider the classic.
Salad from Beijing cabbage with mustard
Composition:
- olive oil - 80 ml;
- lemon juice - 60 ml;
- table mustard - 20 ml;
- sesame oil - 5 ml;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Mix salt with lemon juice until it is completely dissolved.
- Spread mustard with sesame oil, then add olive oil and stir until a homogeneous composition is obtained.
- Pour in salted lemon juice, add pepper to taste, mix.
Together with salt, you can add a little sugar to lemon juice to get a softer taste. Refueling is most often used for Beijing cabbage salad, but it is also suitable for white or red cabbage.
Salad dressing of fresh cabbage with lemon and honey
Composition:
- lemon - 1 pc .;
- vegetable oil - 100 ml;
- honey - 5 ml;
- fresh greens - 50 g;
- ground black pepper to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Lemon wash and blot with a napkin. Squeeze the juice out of it, rub the zest.
- Melt the honey to a liquid state.
- Greens, washed and dried, finely chop with a knife.
- Mix the prepared ingredients, add butter, pepper to taste.
- Beat with a whisk until a homogeneous composition is obtained and season the salad.
This sauce is preferred by those who watch their health. Pay attention: there is no salt in its composition, the dressing is tasty and without it.
Korean salad dressing from fresh cabbage
Composition:
- soy sauce - 10 ml;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- apple cider vinegar (6 percent) - 40 ml;
- sugar - 10-15 g;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- hot peppers - 5-10 g;
- coriander - pinch;
- red pepper - a pinch;
- black ground pepper - a pinch.
Method of preparation:
- Crush the garlic with a hand press.
- Pepper seeds, cut a piece of pulp of the desired size and cut as small as possible. Combine with garlic. The amount of pepper depends on how spicy the dishes you prefer.
- Add spices, sugar, mix. Initially, put no more than two teaspoons, add the rest of the sugar, if necessary, later.
- Fill with soy sauce, stir.
- Add vinegar, mix again.
- Combine with vegetable oil. Try the sauce, adjust the taste by adding sugar.
- Place the container with the sauce on low heat, bring to a boil.
- Fill the cabbage with hot marinade and leave to infuse for at least 6 hours in a cool place.
This kind of dressing for salad from fresh cabbage will appeal to lovers of Korean cuisine. Appetizer with this sauce is spicy.
Salad of fresh kefir cabbage with cheese
Composition:
- kefir - 100 ml;
- white cheese - 100 g;
- grape vinegar (6%) - 5 ml;
- table mustard - 5 ml;
- lemon zest - a pinch;
- vegetable oil - 80 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Spread mustard with oil, add lemon zest, mix.
- If you intend to salt the dressing, despite the fact that its composition includes the already salty cheese, add a little salt in vinegar, mix well.
- Pour the vinegar into the oil-mustard mixture, stir.
- Cut the cheese into medium-sized slices, place in a blender bowl. Pour kefir.
- Beat the contents of the blender bowl until smooth.
- Add the remaining ingredients, whisk again with them. The sauce should have a smooth consistency.
An unusual dressing made from kefir and brynza harmonizes very well with the taste of fresh cabbage. Adding this sauce to a salad based on it will not regret it. If desired, the recipe can include finely chopped dill, parsley, cilantro - they will not spoil the taste of the salad. These ingredients are introduced last and stir the sauce one last time by hand, without resorting to kitchen appliances.
Fresh cabbage salad is an easy to prepare, cheap and healthy dish. Knowing how to fill it up, you will have a new snack on the table every day, even without changing the basic composition of the salad.
