Recipe Coleslaw Oil and Vinegar Slaw With Garlic
This is how I make my coleslaw. It never comes out the same way twice. I very rarely measure out the ingredients, and spices will vary depending on what I have in my spice collection.
Coleslaw goes great as a side dish with just about any meal that you're preparing.
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Spices
These spices go in to this salad every time I make it
Garlic Powder
Sea Salt or table salt (I like to use Garlic Salt if I have it on hand)
Ground pepper
All seasoning salt
Spices that I sometimes will add
Slap Ya Mama Cajun seasoning salt
Onion powder
Garlic pepper
Celery seed
Ingredients
1 head of green cabbage or ½ green ½ red grated
2-3 carrots grated
1 large onion diced
1 green pepper diced you can also use red pepper and yellow if you like
3 stalks of celery diced
¾ cup White Vinegar
¼ cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Canola or Vegetable Oil
½ tsp – 1 tsp of white sugar
Make this early in the day and refrigerate, as if it sits all day it will taste better.
In a large bowl mix your cabbage, carrots, onion, green pepper, celery and all your spices. Make sure all of this is well mixed then add your vinegar and oil mixing well. Sprinkle your sugar into the coleslaw and mix again. Cover and refrigerate. Before serving mix the salad really well once more.
I make coleslaw about every two weeks. It is great to serve with ham, fish n chips, goes great on hotdogs or sausages in a bun and my husband likes it on sub sandwiches that I make him for lunch. DzyMsLizzy a fellow hubber likes to eat peanut butter on cabbage which is really quite yummy.
This salad is really good made with broccoli slaw. Instead of using the cabbage you use broccoli slaw. I found broccoli slaw in the grocery store one day in the same produce section where they sell the bagged cabbage for coleslaw.
Some of The Many Health Benefits of Cabbage
- Cabbage Juice has been known to help heal peptic ulcers
- Reduces risk of stroke and heart disease, helps rheumatisms and skin problems.
- May help to speed up metabolism
- Cabbage has many vitamins and minerals in it, which include Vitamin A, C, E, K, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, iron, copper, manganese selenium zinc sodium phosphorus calcium and magnesium. In raw cabbage there are 25 calories or 103 KJ in 3.5 oz or 100 g.
There are so many wonderful dishes you can make with cabbage. Here are just a few of the many dishes and ways you can add cabbage to your diet.
Sauerkraut
Cabbage rolls
Stews
Soups: Borscht, any type of vegetable soup cabbage goes well in. When I am making turkey soup if I have cabbage on hand I will throw it in.
Boiled dinner such as corned beef and cabbage
Fried cabbage for Bubble and squeak
If cabbage give you gas
Some people find that eating cabbage causes gas. When cooking cabbage if you add a few cumin or caraway seeds to the pot you will find cabbage easier to digest, and it will not tend to give you gas or flatulence.
Other Cabbage Uses
If someone calls you a “cabbage head” it means that they are calling you stupid.
“Mon petite chou” means my little cabbage in French but the meaning is the same as if you would call someone my little darling.
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There are many types of cabbage that include white cabbage, Chinese Savoy and Red. China leads the world for most produced cabbage.
Comments
My husband's favorite food is coleslaw and baked beans. Great recipe. Thanks
Sounds wonderful and defiantly something I wil be trying... Great Hub
Blessings from Alberta
I think even I could make that. Can't wait to try it. Thanks for that easy recipe.
Sounds REALLY good Susan-I love reading recipes for inspiration. Thanks for sharing!
Your recipe sounds great. I'll have to try it.
Yum! With spring coming, I'm back in the mood for coleslaw, and this looks delicious.
Great recipe. I can't wait to try it. I love coleslaw and I am always looking for a new way to make it. Cabbage is so much more nutritious than lettuce, so I always use it to make salads.
Thanks everyone! Very easy to make and tastes great.
This recipe sounds really delicious. Thanks for sharing it. I will be trying it soon.
Thanks for sharing this wonderful recipe. Susan you are gr8.
This is great - I can't stand mayo in anything. Or it has to be really buried and an unidentifiable taste. Eewww. But I was looking for a vinegar based slaw last summer and didn't find a good one. This looks perfect and I like the idea of the seasonings you suggested too.
I make cabbage rolls with burger - tomato sauce and rice as the main ingredients. Then I top the rolls with more sauce and Swiss cheese. Thanks for reminding me of that:)
toknowinfo let me know how you like it.
katrinasui thanks you are gr8 too.
RH Your cabbage rolls sound good with the Swiss cheese topping. Now I am hungry :)
Im making Gumbo now and I don't even feel like eating it:( the downfall to pre-planning meals. This slaw would be great on brats or hot dogs with steak fries - now that sounds good;)
I also like how you did the layout on this page too;)
We eat it all the time on hot dogs and brats :) Thanks.
This has made me think it’s time I made coleslaw again. I love, it but we to through phases of using it and then forget for a while. I didn’t know that cumin seeds were good for relieving gas - I knew about caraway, but I think cumin would go better with coleslaw so will give that a try. Thanks for the useful information.
Yours is the only house in Canada I want to stay. You are such a talented cook and such a lovely person to know. I love this and and everything you do, well done :) Voted up.
Melovy, I've never tried cumin in coleslaw. Let me know how that tastes. If cabbage give you gas drop a few seeds in the pot when cooking cabbage.
Brian, Thank you so much!
This is coleslaw I can actually eat. I am not a fan of thick mayonaise based coleslaw. But peanut butter on cabbage? I have never, ever heard of that. Could be great- peanut butter is great on celery. Thanks for sharing this great recipe.
Susan, you have no idea how much I detest coleslaw; having said that, I admire you as a writer and will support you no matter what you write. I'm sure this is a fabulous recipe!
Tammy, I don't care for the mayo coleslaw either. Let me know if you try it this way and what you think of it. Thanks.
Bill, I appreciate you stopping by even though you dislike coleslaw :)
WillStarr 14 months ago
Sounds great!