I promise lots of posts this week with various recipes and pics from our housewarming, but this recipe was requested multiple times tonight with varying degrees of urgency, so it gets first attention. My mom and I first encountered this salad at a potluck. One of the guests showed up with four ziploc bags, and in a matter of minutes had a beautiful salad ready to go. Naturally, we went home and attempted to copy the fantastically sweet and tangy dressing for our own cabbage slaw. After a little tinkering, my we got it just right. Ever since then, it's been a family favorite. I've been known to devour this salad whenever it's in the fridge -- and that's pretty often, considering my mom always keeps around tupperwares of toasted "crunchies," dressing and the other ingredients. This will soon become a staple in your house -- and it's quick to prepare. I should add that this salad will welcome whatever you toss its way: yesterday, I had leftover chopped and spiced water chestnuts, carrots and fennel from some Asian dumplings I had made, so I added them to the salad and they worked quite nicely.
Asian Cabbage Salad
serves 6-8.
salad:
1 bag sliced cabbage or 2 small heads of cabbage, one green and one purple sliced thinly
2 scallions, washed and slivered
1 can mandarin oranges
1 avocado, sliced (optional)
crunchies:
1 bag instant ramen, broken up into small pieces
1/3 cup sliced or slivered almonds or pine nuts
1/4 cup sesame seeds
dressing:
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup brown sugar
several dashes sesame oil
1. Preheat over to 300 degrees. Put ramen noodles, nuts and sesame seeds onto a baking sheet in a single layer. Bake 10-15 minutes, or until ramen are golden. Cool completely.
2. Toss all vegetables in a large salad bowl.
3. Combine dressing ingredients in a small bowl and whisk with a fork.
4. Toss together shortly before serving. Noodles will gradually get soggy, so the sooner served, the better.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Asian Cabbage Salad
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3 comments:
Who has leftover chopped and spiced water chestnuts, carrots and fennel??!!! :)
I made this today and added leftover red pepper! Delicious. I've been such a mixed green snob, I forgot all about the potential of cabbage!
I first encountered what our family calls "Ramen Salad" at a Murch Elementary School potluck picnic in Washington, D.C. Our friends Missy and Mike brought it and Missy was good enough to remember my request for the recipe -- handwritten on a sheet of notebook paper -- just a few days later. Which I promptly lost.
Sad story. But, a week or two after that, as my husband and I slid into the front seat of a rental car in Massachusetts, I pulled down the passenger-side visor to check the mirror and a piece of thermal fax paper that had been tucked up there drifted down into my lap. What was on it?
Ramen Cabbage Salad. Kismet. (Or vanity wins all -- the mirror, remember?)
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