All About Cabbage: Crispy Thai Salad
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All About Cabbage: Crispy Thai Salad
Description
All About Cabbage: Crispy Thai Salad features a medley of fresh produce julienned or chopped to maintain crispness and color. Red cabbage provides a sturdy base paired with sweet and juicy mango and apple slices, cool cucumber, carrot, tomato, and bean sprouts for varied texture. Fresh mint and basil leaves contribute bright aromatics.
The dressing is made by blending lime juice with cilantro, brown sugar, garlic, shallot, ginger, fish sauce, and sriracha, creating a harmonious combination of tart, sweet, spicy, and umami flavors. This dressing coats the salad components lightly, enhancing their natural flavors without weighing them down.
The salad is best tossed just before serving to preserve its crispness. The addition of honey-roasted peanuts or cashews on top adds a satisfying crunch and nutty sweetness that complements the other ingredients.
Storage options include preparing the dressing a day or two in advance and keeping it chilled. Leaving out the nuts until serving keeps them crunchy. The salad is naturally oil-free and fat-free, making it a fresh accompaniment or light meal.
Ingredients
For the Salad:
- 1 Roma tomato seeded and chopped, large
- 1 apple thinly sliced or julienned, large
- 1 cucumber seeded, and julienned, large, peeled
- 1 cup carrot peeled and julienned
- 1 Mango julieneed, ripe
- 1 cup bean sprout
- ½ cup red cabbage shredded
- ½ cup mint loosely packed, fresh
- ½ cup basil loosely packed, fresh
- 1 cup peanuts honey roasted, or cashews
For the Dressing:
- 3 lime juiced, whole
- ¼ cup cilantro freshly chopped
- 4 TB brown sugar tightly packed
- 2 cloves garlic chopped
- 1 shallot chopped
- 1 TB ginger freshly chopped
- 1 TB sriracha
- 1 TB fish sauce Asian
Instructions
- Make the Dressing ahead of time: Add all dressing ingredients into a blender (or immersion hand blender) and blend until mixture is mostly liquid (small chunks are fine.) Cover and chill until ready to use.
- In a large bowl, toss together all salad ingredients except for the nuts. Gently toss in desired amount of prepared dressing. Divide into individual plates and sprinkle nuts over the top. Enjoy immediately.
Notes
- Do not omit fish sauce; it provides essential umami without a fishy taste.
- The dressing can be made 1-2 days ahead and refrigerated for convenience.
- Add nuts just before serving to maintain their crunch.
- The salad is naturally oil- and fat-free, making it light and refreshing.
Nutrition Information
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Serving: 4Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 273 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 273kcal | 14% |
| Carbohydrates | 27.2g | 9% |
| Protein | 10.6g | 21% |
| Fat | 17.6g | 27% |
| Saturated Fat | 2.3g | 12% |
| Sodium | 140.1mg | 6% |
| Fiber | 4.2g | 17% |
| Sugar | 6.6g | 13% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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