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. Cut it in thin slices (julienne cut) on a wooden board. Put aside for at least half.

Turkish Red Cabbage Salad is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Turkish Red Cabbage Salad is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular 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 it.

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The ingredients needed to make Turkish Red Cabbage Salad:
  1. Take For the salad:
  2. Prepare 1⁄2 small red cabbage, cored and very finely sliced
  3. Make ready 1 large tomato, chopped into small cubes
  4. Make ready 1⁄4 cucumber, a couple of strips shaved with a veg peeler, then quartered lengthways and thinly sliced
  5. Make ready 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. Prepare For the dressing:
  9. Take 2 tbsp olive oil
  10. Get 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. Prepare 1 tbsp pomegranate molasses
  13. Make ready 1 tsp dried mint
  14. Prepare Good pinch of salt
  15. 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.

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Steps 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).

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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