Salad from red cabbage. How to cook it properly?

Probably, people who do not know about what red cabbage represents are very few. But, for every, as the saying goes, we will clarify. Red cabbage is a plant belonging to the family of cruciferous (in other words, cabbage). It is not difficult to guess that the distinctive feature of this vegetable is a special color. The cola of this plant is violet-red. This is what makes red cabbage truly unique in the family of its "relatives". But the appearance is not the only virtue of red cabbage. Among other things, this product is very useful! So, cabbage of this variety contains carotene, vitamins C (one of the most important for life support), B1 (it is also called thiamine and a "vitamin of optimism"), B2 (riboflavin or lactoflavin). It turns out that red cabbage contains substances, without which we simply can not live normally! Important nuance! Red cabbage is not suitable to be sour. But salad from red cabbage is just a wonderful thing. Not only delicious, but, as we found out, useful! But we will not limit ourselves to information on the benefits of cabbage. We will enter more specific information.

So, your attention is a recipe for salad from red cabbage. In fact, there will be several recipes. As they say, for every taste and color!

Salad from red cabbage. Recipe # 1

What you need: red cabbage, orange, apple, lemon juice, mayonnaise is light.

There are no exact proportions for this salad. Everything is taken in accordance with their own tastes and preferences.

What to do:

1. Cut cabbage, sprinkle it with juice squeezed from a lemon (usually 1 tablespoon is enough) and send it to a cold place for 1 hour; Rub the apple on a grater.
2. Orange peel and cut into small slices. Mix all ingredients and season with mayonnaise.

Such a salad is just a real storehouse of vitamins! At the same time, its caloric content is quite small. And if you use not mayonnaise as a dressing, but vegetable oil with mustard, then the number of calories will be even less!

Salad from red cabbage. Recipe # 2

What you need: red cabbage (300 grams), lettuce (200 grams), canned sugar (150 grams), cherry tomatoes (200 grams), soy sauce, vegetable oil (preferably olive), walnuts (optional) Salt (to taste, but it is worth considering that soy sauce is quite salty).

What to do:

1. Rinse thoroughly in running water and dry with salad leaves. It is fine to break them.
2. Shred cabbage, cut into four tomatoes.
3. Nuts grind in a coffee grinder (or with a blender). If any of these devices are not available - will help out an ordinary rolling pin. Nuts lay on the table and walk on them with a rolling pin. Attention! Nuts should not turn into a kind of flour.
4. Mix salad leaves, cabbage, tomatoes, corn and nuts in a salad bowl. Season with soy sauce and butter. Salt to taste!

Salad from red cabbage. Recipe number 3 (warm salad)

What you need: red cabbage (400 grams), apples (300 grams), raisins (50 grams), white wine (150 grams), garlic (2 cloves), salt (to taste), black pepper (to taste), olive oil (40 grams).

What to do:

1. Raisins pour boiling water and leave for 30-40 minutes. After that, drain the water, and rinse with raisins with maximum zeal.
2. Shred cabbage. Cut apples into cubes or thin straws.
3. In a fairly deep pan, heat the oil and add garlic, previously passed through the press.
4. Put cabbage, apples and raisins in the pan. Add salt and pepper. Fry, stirring constantly, 10-15 minutes.
5. Add wine. Stew until there is almost no liquid left.

It should be noted that this salad can be consumed in a warm form. And you can let it cool down, and make a stuffing for an excellent puff cake!

Now you know what you can cook from this wonderful product! Salad from red cabbage is a real work of culinary art!