Simple Way to Make Speedy Turkish Red Cabbage Salad

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, turkish red cabbage salad. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

The key to a delicious Turkish red cabbage salad The key to cabbage based salads is to slice the cabbage very thinly - as thinly as you possibly can. If the slices are too thick, it will be tough to eat and the bitter flavours are more apparent, even dominating. Use a mandolin if you like; I prefer to use my sharpest knife. Chop red cabbage into really thin slices and wash.

Turkish Red Cabbage Salad is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Turkish Red Cabbage Salad is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have turkish red cabbage salad using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Turkish Red Cabbage Salad:

1. Make ready For the salad:
2. Make ready 1/2 small red cabbage, cored and very finely sliced
3. Make ready 1 large tomato, chopped into small cubes
4. Get 1/4 cucumber, a couple of strips shaved with a veg peeler, then quartered lengthways and thinly sliced
5. Get 1 small carrot, coarsley grated
6. Get 1 small red onion, peeled, halved and finely sliced
7. Get 1 small bunch parsley, half finely chopped and the other half roughly chopped
8. Prepare For the dressing:
9. Take 2 tbsp olive oil
10. Take 2-3 tbsp red wine vinegar (add 2, then taste to see if it needs a little more
11. Prepare Juice of 1 lemon
12. Get 1 tbsp pomegranate molasses
13. Take 1 tsp dried mint
14. Make ready Good pinch of salt
15. Prepare 1 heaped tsp sumac

Finely shred the cabbage, as you would for coleslaw. Put in a colander (or sieve) over the sink, or something to collect the juices (remember they will be purple and might stain things!), shake the salt over them, and toss/stir together. Finely shred the cabbage, discarding the thick central stalk. Sprinkle with the salt and toss thoroughly to combine.

Instructions to make Turkish Red Cabbage Salad:

1. In a small jug, stir all the dressing ingredients together (except for the sumac) and leave to one side.
2. In a large bowl or plate, pile up the sliced red cabbage and using your hands, mix in some of the finely chopped parsley.
3. In a separate bowl, gently mix together the carrot, tomatoes, onion and cucumber. Then add this to the top of the red cabbage pile.
4. Pour over the dressing (mainly around the red cabbage) and a little over the top. Refrigerate for an hour before serving.
5. To serve, sprinkle the salad with the sumac and the roughly chopped parsley.
6. Add some additional cucumber slices and lemon quarters for decoration (optional).

Finely shred the cabbage, discarding the thick central stalk. Sprinkle with the salt and toss thoroughly to combine. The salt will penetrate the cabbage, remove moisture and slightly soften it. In Turkey, red cabbage is used more frequently than regular cabbage in salads. Unlike coleslaw, there's no mayonnaise in the recipe, making it a very healthy and tasty choice for a salad.

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