Cabbage salad with carrots and vinegar - 21 cooking recipes

To prepare cabbage salad with carrots and onions, it is better to take fresh, young vegetables. Old cabbage with hard leaves and yellowed stalks is absolutely not suitable. Unless you are going to salt or marinate it for a long time.

But if you need a salad right now, you don’t have time to run around looking for something more suitable in the store, you can use little tricks.

So, how to make cabbage in a salad softer and juicier.

The option that many people advise: thinly slice and mash with your hands - does not always save. More precisely, in most cases it does not work at all in salads. You can even beat the leaves with a masher, it won’t help. But here is an original and, most importantly, simple and proven method. White cabbage... grated, like carrots. And the result will be amazing, you won’t believe how amazing it is.

Another way: pour boiling water over the cabbage, being careful not to cook the leaves. She softens.

As for other types of cabbage: cauliflower, broccoli - few people in Russia add them to such dishes. Plus the first one needs to be cooked, just like the second one at times. And salad varieties of this vegetable are already tender.

The simplest preparation: grate both ingredients, mix, sprinkle with vinegar, let stand for some time (will be indicated in the recipe) and serve. Also added: bell pepper, onion, vegetable oil.