Red cabbage is not only a bright vegetable that pleases the eye, but also an extremely healthy product that contains a large amount of vitamin C and carotene. Therefore, red cabbage is included in many recipes (photo below), making each salad bright, colorful and very healthy for its presence.
The simplest salad
There is a large variety of red cabbage salads, each of which the hostess can modify at her discretion. But before moving on to complex dishes with many components, let's try to create a red cabbage salad according to a recipe that requires the lowest possible cost. To prepare it, we need:
- 0.5 kg of cabbage;
- 1 medium onion;
- 1 tablespoon of sugar;
- a pinch of salt;
- two tablespoons of lemon juice;
- two tablespoons of vegetable oil.
To prepare this salad, you just need to chop the cabbage, cut the onions in quarters and grate the vegetables with a pinch of salt and sugar so that they let the juice go. After that, the dish is seasoned with lemon juice and vegetable oil. Ready salad looks beautiful in a transparent bowl. It can be decorated with greens on top.
Autumn salad
We offer an original recipe for red cabbage salad (photo below) in combination with apples. It can be cooked every fall, when the fruit has already ripened, and the cabbage is particularly juicy.
Have to take:
- 0.5 kg of cabbage;
- a couple of medium-sized apples;
- small onion;
- 2 small tomatoes;
- 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
- a tablespoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice;
- a pinch of salt and sugar.
First you need to chop the cabbage, cut the onions into quarters, the tomato into slices, and grate the apple, after removing the peel and core, on a medium grater. Then add sugar, salt and season with mayonnaise and lemon juice.
Hearty salad
This is one of the most delicious recipes from red cabbage, which is high in calories and allows plenty of food, which makes it not just an appetizer to the side dish, but the main dish.
Have to take:
- 0.3 kg of cabbage;
- one medium onion;
- 0.2 kg of processed cheese;
- 0.2 kg of smoked sausage;
- a couple of lettuce;
- salt to taste;
- 0.1 kg of mayonnaise;
- parsley with dill.
Cabbage is chopped in a standard way, onions are cut into quarters, sausages are cut into strips, and cheese is cut into small cubes. Then the dish is seasoned with mayonnaise, salted, mixed and laid out on lettuce leaves washed in cold water. Sprinkled with chopped greens.
Piquant salad
A variety of recipes from red cabbage allows you to cook new salads for every taste every day. And lovers of spicy and spicy food will surely like a salad that contains such components:
- 0.5 kg of cabbage;
- 2 medium-sized carrots;
- half a teaspoon of chopped horseradish root;
- 3 tablespoons of apple or wine vinegar;
- half a teaspoon of mustard;
- a pinch of salt, sugar and pepper;
- dill and parsley.
We start cooking by shredding cabbage and rubbing carrots on a coarse grater (you can just cut the carrots in stripes). Then the vegetables are ground with salt and sugar and removed to the side to let the juice go. At this time, we make a dressing from horseradish root, vinegar, mustard and pepper, which we water the salad, mix it well and leave it in the refrigerator for an hour to completely soak it. Before you put the dish on the table, you need to sprinkle with chopped herbs.
Winter luxury
Among the various recipes for red cabbage salad (photo below), one can distinguish a dish with beets and prunes, which looks nice and tastes great, and is extremely healthy for health, because eating it in the winter can protect against a sudden cold. It consists of the following components:
- 0.5 kg of cabbage;
- 120 g of prunes;
- 300 g of beets;
- a beam of green onion;
- 3 tablespoons of sunflower oil;
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil;
- salt and pepper to taste.
First, chop the cabbage, peel the beets and three on a medium grater. At this time, fill the prunes with warm water and set aside for 20 minutes (boiling water cannot be used, it will spoil the appearance of prunes, turn it into porridge). Then stew the beets in sunflower oil to make them softer, pull the prunes out of the water and cut it into small pieces, and then combine all these components in one bowl. Then you need to pepper the salad, salt, pour olive oil, sprinkle with chopped onions on top - and you can serve.
Bean Salad
Salad according to a simple recipe from red cabbage and beans will seem equally useful and tasty to households and guests, the combination of tastes is simply incredible. And we need it for this:
- 500 grams of cabbage;
- 200 grams of beans;
- 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
- 2 tablespoons of crackers;
- seasoned salt to taste.
In such a recipe, first of all, it will be necessary to deal with beans, which should be pre-filled with water and left overnight. In the morning, the beans are washed, peeled and set to cook until tender. When it is cooked, let it cool and cut the cabbage, as usual. Then we grind it with salt and set aside briefly. On this, all difficulties are completed. Then it remains only to combine the cabbage with beans, add crackers, seasonings to them and season the dish with mayonnaise.
Salad "Bright"
If you want to try something new, you can combine white and red cabbage in one salad, the recipe is simple. The taste of the dish is just fantastic.
This appetizer is being prepared very quickly. Moreover, due to the variety of shades, it will become a real decoration of the festive table. And we need for cooking this:
- 150 g cabbage;
- 150 g of red cabbage;
- 150 g canned peas;
- 150 g of Korean carrots;
- 150 g of ham or half-smoked sausage;
- a small bunch of green onions and dill;
- 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise.
For those on a diet, mayonnaise can be replaced with low-fat yogurt or sour cream. It is only necessary to chop both types of cabbage, cut the ham or sausage in strips, chop the greens. Then it remains only to combine all the ingredients, and then season the salad with mayonnaise and sprinkle it on top with chopped onions and dill.
Cabbage with marinade
And you can also cook, according to an unusual recipe, a delicious salad of red cabbage, which you can eat immediately after cooking, or you can roll it in jars, making a wonderful preparation for the winter. The main thing is to have all the necessary ingredients:
- a head of red cabbage;
- large carrots;
- 2 large beets;
- a head of garlic;
- 2.5 cups of water;
- 100 ml of vinegar;
- 100 grams of sunflower oil;
- 4 tablespoons of sugar;
- 2 tablespoons of salt.
The first step is to cut the vegetables, but not in the usual way. We cut the cabbage into medium sized pieces (it is better to cut each cabbage leaf separately for this), and cut the carrots, beets and garlic into thin plates.
After cutting vegetables, mix them and proceed to the preparation of the marinade. To do this, add vinegar, salt, sunflower oil and sugar to the water, put on fire when it boils, pour vegetables with this brine. Moreover, if you first decompose them into sterilized jars, you can fill them with marinade and immediately roll them up.
And if you want to eat salad immediately, then, pouring the marinade, let it cool and send it to the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
Mischievous Mandarin
If you want exotic, you can cook an unusual salad with the addition of mandarin, which will delight you with a unique taste, according to a tasty and simple recipe from red cabbage. And his appearance is unusual.
Such components will be needed:
- 500 grams of cabbage;
- half a large, juicy and sweet mandarin;
- 200 grams of walnut kernels;
- 3 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar;
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil;
- salt and pepper to taste.
In this case, as in other salads, you first need to chop the cabbage. It is more convenient to use a special knife for this: the strips are neat and of the same size. Then it should be lowered in a frying pan in olive oil, holding it on fire for five minutes (no longer needed, cabbage will lose its brightness). Then we transfer it to a bowl and add tangerines, peeled from film and pits, as well as chopped walnuts. After that, the salad is seasoned with balsamic vinegar, salt, and pepper. 5 minutes you need to give him a "rest" to soak in spices, and can be served.
Mistress note
And in order to always get salads according to the recipes from red cabbage that you liked, you just need to remember a few important rules for their preparation.
- Red cabbage has very hard leaves. To soften them, first you need to chop it, pour boiling water and hold in it for about 15 minutes, adding lemon juice there, so that the cabbage does not lose its bright saturated color.
- It is best to salt and mix the cabbage separately from the other ingredients, then it will not paint them purple.
- To taste with red cabbage, horseradish, mustard and garlic are very harmoniously combined.
- If chopped walnut is added to the salad, it automatically becomes a real decoration of the festive table.
- After salad dressing, it should be set aside for a short time, let it brew, this will help to fully reveal its taste.