Step-by-Step Guide to Make Perfect Turkish Red Cabbage Salad

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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 current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Turkish Red Cabbage Salad is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Turkish Red Cabbage Salad:

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

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).

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. It is very easy to make, a few sprigs of greens (mint, parsley) will make it enticing enough. Place each quarter on its side and slice very thin slices with a sharp knife. Place cabbage and carrots in a bowl and dress it with salt, pepper, oil and vinegar or lemon to taste.

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