A popular, tasty and healthy salad of cabbage and carrots will help complement a meat dish or become a light snack. In addition, you do not need to spend a lot of time and effort in preparing it.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
In the cold winter season, the body is especially vulnerable: it is prone to colds, immunity decreases, hair dulls, the skin loses its elasticity, and mood deteriorates. Daily use of vitamin salad made from fresh vegetables will help to avoid these ailments. It is prepared from a variety of vegetables, but today I suggest using cabbage with carrots. This is the most popular salad combination because these vegetables are always available at any time of the year. In addition, the dish is very simple to prepare and every inexperienced housewife and novice chef can easily cope with it. In addition, to prepare this salad, you do not need to follow the recipe at all. And the composition of the food can be changed by adding or replacing ingredients.
Likewise, any salad includes a delicious and healthy dressing. The basis of any dressing is most often all kinds of vegetable oils: sunflower, olive, flaxseed, walnut, etc. All of them have a beneficial effect on the condition of the skin, blood vessels, intestines and liver function. However, they can be supplemented or diluted with any vinegar (table, wine and fruit), soy sauce, mustard, etc.
- Calorie content per 100 g - 50, 2 kcal.
- Servings - 3
- Cooking time - 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- White cabbage - 300 g
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Basil greens - a few twigs
- Parsley greens - a few sprigs
- Vegetable oil - for dressing
- Soy sauce - 2 tablespoons
- Salt - 0.5 tsp or to taste
Step-by-step cabbage and carrot salad recipe
1. Remove the top inflorescences from the cabbage. they are usually dirty. Cut off the necessary part from the head of cabbage, wash and chop finely. Put the rest in the refrigerator. If the cabbage is winter, then sprinkle it with salt and remember with your hands to let the juice go. This will make the salad juicier. Such actions are not carried out with young cabbage, it is juicy in itself.
2. Peel the carrots, rinse, wipe with a paper towel and grate on a coarse grater.
3. Put chopped cabbage and grated carrots into a salad bowl.
4. Season vegetables with salt, vegetable oil, soy sauce and stir. Refrigerate for 15 minutes.
5. Before serving the salad, sprinkle it with chopped cilantro and parsley. Serve it to the table with any side dish or eat it for a late dinner. The salad is low-calorie, so it will not spoil the figure in any way.
See also a video recipe on how to make a vitamin salad from cabbage and carrots.