Red Cabbage Salad Recipe with +12 Ideas for Variations and Cooking Video

Name: Red Cabbage Salad Recipe Top 3*** | Thomas Sixt Foodblog
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: Oranges 1-2 pc; Lemon 1 pc; balsamico 1 tbs; Salt 4 pinches; Pepper black, ground 3 pinches; Cayenne pepper 2 pinches; oliv oil 1 tbs; red cabbage 250 g; Sugar 1/4 tsp; mint 5 twigs; walnut kernels 4-5 pc; pomegranate seeds 1 tbs; goat's cheese roll 1 pc; brown sugar 2 tbs; Cress some; sheep's cheese 1 pc

Red cabbage salad close-up — Dressed red cabbage salad close-up. Coleslaw served in the middle, topped with orange fillets and pomegranate seeds, on top a caramelized goat cheese slice.

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I present my red cabbage salad recipe in this post. This cabbage salad is the raw food temptation par excellence 🙂

Red coleslaw has a side dish tradition with us. It goes well with a wide variety of dishes and harmonises excellently with meat and even fish. The raw vegetable salad is extremely healthy and has earned a place at your table from breakfast to dinner.

Top variations of this salad are on the table today. In addition to delicious marinades and dressings, I will show you various combinations and toppings. Cabbage salad as a main course –> let yourself be tempted!

Cooking success is guaranteed today, because in addition to the instructions there is a cooking video and a table with more than 12 variations. I wish you good luck and bon appétit!

Table of Contents

1. Prepare Red Cabbage Salad Fresh Tips
2. Prepare Red Cabbage Salad in 3 Top Variations
3. Recipe Red Cabbage Salad
4. Calories and Nutritional Values
5. Ideas for More than 12 Variations
6. What red cabbage salad goes with
7. More Vegetable Recipes

1. Prepare Red Cabbage Salad Fresh Tips

Prepare yourself optimally for your herb event. My MINI summary is helpful:

Buy the cabbage as fresh as possible.
Cabbage belongs in the fridge, where it stays crisp for longer.
Remember the basic ingredients: Vinegar, oil, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper.
Which oil: cold-pressed olive oil, sunflower oil, walnut oil…?
An aged balsamic vinegar, at least 12 years old, should already be in your kitchen cupboard 🙂
Play with colours and add more vitamins: Pomegranate, oranges, walnuts, cress….
Decide on the type of chopping: I like to mix finely chopped and coarsely grated.
You can add feta or caramelised goat cheese to the salad, as well as yoghurt!

I will discuss other ingredient variants later in a table.

It is essential to supplement with a cold-pressed oil – only the oil enables the absorption of the valuable cabbage nutrients.!
Nutrition tip from chef Thomas Sixt

Types of cuts for red cabbage salad — You can chop cabbage for the salad in different ways: left very finely grated, centre finely grated, right cut into thin strips.

Be sure to knead the cabbage, as it only becomes soft when combined with salt!
Preparation tip from chef Thomas Sixt

2. Prepare Red Cabbage Salad in 3 Top Variations

Fancy cooking for yourself? Here are some impressions of the different options to help you decide whether you want a side salad, starter or main course. At the same time we pay attention to type-appropriate nutrition 🙂

Orange red cabbage salad — Red cabbage salad with oranges, pomegranate seeds and walnuts
—> **Side Salad from the Tuning Kitchen: Vegan happiness maker, daughter happiness tuner , alkaline health nourisher**…

Red Cabbage Salad Sheep Cheese Close-up — Red cabbage salad with feta cheese
—> **Quick number for aesthetes, greek seducer, main course, home office or dinner quickie…**

3. Recipe Red Cabbage Salad

Here you will find the exact ingredients and step-by-step instructions with lots of photos. You can also serve the salad without oranges, pomegranate or… or… Be inspired and enjoy!

By the way, you can send me a cooking question directly via the comment function!

Red Cabbage Salad

Prepared, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt

Servings 2

Calories 408

Preparation Time 10 Min.

Cook Time 5 Min.

Total Time 15 Min.

Simple variants recipe for red cabbage salad

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Ingredients

Dressing
1-2	pc	Oranges
1	pc	Lemon (I use organic lemon)
1	tbs	balsamico (I use 12 year old vinegar)
4	pinches	Salt (I use primal salt or Himalayan salt)
3	pinches	Pepper black, ground
2	pinches	Cayenne pepper (I use optional)
1	tbs	oliv oil
Salad ingredients
250	g	red cabbage (I use organic vegetables)
1/4	tsp	Sugar (I use brown cane sugar)
5	twigs	mint
4-5	pc	walnut kernels
1	tbs	pomegranate seeds (I use optional)
Variant with cheese
1	pc	goat's cheese roll (Optional for cheese caramelised variant)
2	tbs	brown sugar (Optional for cheese caramelised variant)
	some	Cress (Optional for cheese caramelised variant)
1	pc	sheep's cheese (Optional for variant with sheep’s cheese)

Instruction

Preparation step 1

Red cabbage salad ingredients — Ingredients for red cabbage salad on a kitchen board.

Prepare ingredients

Prepare the ingredients, remove the outer leaves from the cabbage.

Preparation step 2

Squeeze lemon — Lemon half on a lemon squeezer.

Prepare juice

Optionally, squeeze a lemon and prepare the juice for the marinade.

Preparation step 3

Orange juice and orange fillets — Orange juice in bowl and orange fillets.

Prepare oranges

Peel and fillet the oranges, collect the orange juice in a bowl. Set aside the orange fillets.

The orange filleting cooking school shows you how to do this step by step.

Preparation step 4

Red cabbage salad dressing — Mixed dressing for the red cabbage salad.

Prepare marinade

Mix the orange juice, optional lemon juice and balsamic vinegar with a little salt, pepper, sugar and cayenne pepper to make a sweet and sour marinade.

Slowly stir in the olive oil.

Preparation step 5

Red cabbage - red cabbage — Sliced red cabbage head which is also called red cabbage

Cut cabbage

Cut the cabbage head in half with a sharp knife.

Preparation step 6

Cut types

Decide on a variant of the type of cut from the blue cabbage:

finely grated, coarsely grated or cut into fine strips.

Preparation step 7

Cut red cabbage — Finely chopped red cabbage in a bowl.

Marinade cabbage

Add the cut cabbage to the marinade in the bowl, add salt and knead with your hands.

Important: Cabbage discolours the hands, you can put on gloves or the “fresh cabbage processed proof” – blue hands, proudly show!

Preparation step 8

Marinated red cabbage salad in the bowl. Kneading (mechanical action) and salt (chemical action) make the herb soft and taste better.

Rest time

Let the cabbage salad stand for a few minutes.

You can also serve the salad as a simple side salad.

Simple salad with oranges, pomegranate and walnuts

Preparation step 9

Variant 1

Cut the pomegranate in half and carefully pick out the seeds.

You can also do this under water and then sieve out the seeds.

The cooking school preparing pomegranate seeds shows you how to do this step by step with a cooking video.

Arrange the salad on a plate, decorate with pomegranate seeds, orange fillets and walnuts and serve.

Supplement with feta cheese

Preparation step 10

Variant 2

Remove the feta cheese from the packaging and break into pieces.

Arrange the salad and serve decorated with orange fillets, pomegranate seeds, walnuts, pieces of feta cheese and cress.

Complement with caramelised goat’s cheese roll

Preparation step 11

Goat cheese roll cut open — Preparatory work for caramelizing goat cheese: cut the goat cheese roll into slices, prepare the sugar and pan.

Prepare cheese

For the variation with goat’s cheese, prepare a pan, sugar, goat’s cheese roll and creme brulee burner.

Preparation step 12

Cut cheese

Cut the goat’s cheese roll into slices, a thickness of 0.5-0.8 mm has proven to be best.

Preparation step 13

Goat cheese slices in sugar — How to Make Caramelized Goat Cheese … Here's the second step, pressing the cheese slices into the sugar.

Sugar cheese

Press the rounded goat’s cheese slices into the sugar with the cut surface.

Preparation step 14

Sugared goat cheese roll — Caramelize the goat cheese, place the sugared goat cheese slices in a pan.

Place cheese

Then place the goat’s cheese slices in the pan with the sugar side up.

Preparation step 15

Caramelize the goat cheese — Sugared slices from the goat cheese roll while caramelising with the creme brulee burner.

Caramelise cheese

Place the pan on a trivet or on the cooker because of the possible heat exposure downwards.

Caramelise the sugar layer with the creme brulee burner.

Preparation step 16

Caramelized cheese — Caramelized slices from the goat cheese roll photographed in the pan.

Rest time

Allow the caramelised cheese to cool briefly and arrange the salad.

Preparation step 17

Arrange

Arrange the salad in heaps in the centre of the plate.

Decorate with orange fillets and pomegranate seeds, sprinkle with walnuts and place the caramelised cheese slices on top.

Video

You can mix lemon juice with orange juice or alternatively use a white wine vinegar. Balsamic vinegar and other fruity balsamic vinegars also harmonise wonderfully with raw vegetable salad.

4. Calories and Nutritional Values

5. Ideas for More than 12 Variations

You can vary the classic blue cabbage salad in many ways and refine it individually. Here are my top 3 variations with photos and a table with even more ideas.:

Ingredient	Description
Vinegar	White wine vinegar, balsamic vinegar or balsamic vinegar
Fruit juice	Pomegranate juice, orange juice, lemon juice, berry juice
Dairy products	Yoghurt, sour cream, soy yoghurt
Oil	Walnut oil, olive oil, linseed oil, other cold-pressed oils
Spices	Turmeric, curry
Fresh fruit	Orange fillets, grated apple or pear, figs, pomegranate seeds
Vegetables	Fennel, celery, courgette, cucumber
Nuts & Seeds	Cashews, peanuts, walnuts, pine nuts
Dried fruit	Goji berries, sultanas, figs, dates

6. What red cabbage salad goes with

The simple cabbage salad comes as a side salad to the mixed salad. I have already shown you the variations for a cabbage main course. We even know it as an accompaniment to Viennese schnitzel, at the salad buffet in general and it sometimes even has a place at the breakfast buffet.