Recipe - Cabbage Salad.

[donn]

Made this last night, and tried it out today, and it is quite good. It is modified from a recipe in the RAW cookbook.

2c purple cabbage, shredded
1c carrot, shredded
1/2c onion, shredded
1 whole cucumber, diced
1/2 tomato, diced
1 stalk celery, diced
2 fresh waterchestnuts, diced (if available)
1 small red pepper, diced

1T fresh ginger, grated
1T cumin, ground
1/2t black pepper, ground
1t celtic salt

1/4c fresh lemon juice
1/4c olive oil
1T soy sauce

1/4c walnuts, chopped.

The 'liquids' can be adjusted to taste. Mix it all up, except the walnuts, which can be added on serving so they are more distinctive.

I let this sit over night before eating, and it blended very well - just needed to be stirred.

don.

[Allison]

It sounds delicious!

[askcassyfirst]

Your recipe sounds great, even though I don't eat soy sauce. A good addition to cabbage salad is caraway seed. I love to toss my salads with that, or sesame seeds..brings out more flavor than using celtic salt I think. I just adore cabbage salad...I mean, I love it so much, that i eat it nearly everyday. I recently discovered that it tastes great shredded, with carrots, tomato and cucumber, and a mashed avocado with braggs brand of apple cider vinegar. I had been trying to cut down on my olive oil consumption, so instead of chopping an avocado like normal, I mashed it and used it as a thick dressing...Wow. THat is good.

I read in the Optimum Nutrition Bible that people who include cabbage in their diet several times a week, (and eat meat) are 60 percent less likely to get colon cancer: a suggestion we can make to our non-raw, or non-vegan friends & family. It has a lot to do with fiber, no doubt, but also, cabbage is the best source of l-glutamine, the amino acid that our digestive wall uses for fuel...keeps the cells happy!

Cassy