Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, turkish red cabbage salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Turkish Red Cabbage Salad is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Turkish Red Cabbage Salad is something which I have loved my entire life.
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. Cut it in thin slices (julienne cut) on a wooden board. Put aside for at least half.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook turkish red cabbage salad using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Turkish Red Cabbage Salad:
- Make ready For the salad:
- Prepare 1/2 small red cabbage, cored and very finely sliced
- Get 1 large tomato, chopped into small cubes
- Take 1/4 cucumber, a couple of strips shaved with a veg peeler, then quartered lengthways and thinly sliced
- Get 1 small carrot, coarsley grated
- Make ready 1 small red onion, peeled, halved and finely sliced
- Prepare 1 small bunch parsley, half finely chopped and the other half roughly chopped
- Make ready For the dressing:
- Prepare 2 tbsp olive oil
- Take 2-3 tbsp red wine vinegar (add 2, then taste to see if it needs a little more
- Prepare Juice of 1 lemon
- Get 1 tbsp pomegranate molasses
- Prepare 1 tsp dried mint
- Prepare Good pinch of salt
- Prepare 1 heaped tsp sumac
In a ziplock bag (or a bowl) pour olive oil, lemon juice and salt. Place cabbage in bag (bowl) and give a good mix, shake, rub, to get the oil well coated over cabbage. Instead of making coleslaw, give your cabbage the Turkish treatment and you'll love it! Sprinkle with the salt and toss thoroughly to combine.
Instructions to make Turkish Red Cabbage Salad:
- In a small jug, stir all the dressing ingredients together (except for the sumac) and leave to one side.
- In a large bowl or plate, pile up the sliced red cabbage and using your hands, mix in some of the finely chopped parsley.
- In a separate bowl, gently mix together the carrot, tomatoes, onion and cucumber. Then add this to the top of the red cabbage pile.
- Pour over the dressing (mainly around the red cabbage) and a little over the top. Refrigerate for an hour before serving.
- To serve, sprinkle the salad with the sumac and the roughly chopped parsley.
- Add some additional cucumber slices and lemon quarters for decoration (optional).
Instead of making coleslaw, give your cabbage the Turkish treatment and you'll love it! 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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