Cabbage and Radish Coleslaw

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Salads were not my thing when I was kid. But, then, I never saw many. And the ones I did see were very basic. Almost like a dish that someone forgot to cook.

You know: the classic Australian salad consisting of iceberg lettuce, large red tomatoes, canned beetroot, cucumber and some sliced “meat” like devon. Yuck! Too ordinary.

Consequently, I didn’t make or order a salad for many years. Then, I discovered a salmon salad at my work’s cafeteria that had a boiled egg and mayo and John West Red Salmon and devoured that almost every day for lunch. It was so good!

The 80’s brought the Pritiken Diet to my attention. This diet extolled the benefits of eating vegetable protein instead of animal protein and lots of salad. I started making lots of vegetarian food and discovered to joys and variety of salads.

In recent years, Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson demonstrated the most amazing combinations of raw food and how important a salad dressing is. And how easy it was to make your own. I haven’t bought a salad dressing in a bottle for years.

There’s also a vague recollection of something that might have been coleslaw. A large bowl of soggy cabbage with a very sloppy and bitter tasting mayo springs to mind. Ewwww. Anyway, this coleslaw is light and crisp with freshly cut chives, tomatoes and cucumbers. I could hardly wait to finish photographing it so I could devour it. Yes, I do my own quality control. Lol.

Yield: Serves 4

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Prep Time: 5 minutes

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Total Time: 5 minutes

Ingredients

Cabbage, finely sliced | 1 cup Radish| 2 Olive Oil | 1 tablespoon Salt and Pepper | to taste Lemon Juice | Half a lemon Chives, Coriander & Basil | 1 teaspoon each, finely sliced Red Onion | 1/4 cup, finely sliced Capers, salted | 1/4 cup

Directions

A mandolin is the best tool for this finely sliced coleslaw. Mix the sliced cabbage, radish and onions with the S&P, oil and lemon juice, herbs and capers, gently. Serve with shallow fried Lebanese bread, diced cucumbers and tomatoes. Another grind of salt and pepper over this salad finishes it off beautifully.

Special Diet Information Diabetic appropriate friendly.