Chinese cabbage salad will be a great addition to lunch or dinner. It can also be used as a separate dish.
He cooks easily and simply, following our recipes, even a novice cook can cope with the preparation of such a salad.
In this article, we will not only teach you to cook such a dish, but also consider the benefits of eating this product, as well as various methods of cooking cabbage salad with an apple and other equally useful and tasty ingredients.
Product benefits
Salads from this vegetable are not only very tasty, but also healthy. The high content of natural vitamin C, vitamins A, B, E, K, folic acid, as well as the rather rare vitamin PP helps to improve metabolism, normalize blood pressure, improve immunity and positively affect the nervous system.
Attention! Due to the high fiber content and low calorie content, only 16 kcal per 100 grams, this variety of cabbage is often used for weight loss. Per 100 grams of salad with this vegetable has an average of 50 to 130 calories, depending on the recipe.
The content of proteins, fats and carbohydrates can be judged by what vegetables and fruits are planned to add, what kind of filling and additional ingredients it will have. On average, 100 grams of protein can be from 1 to 10 grams, fats - from 2 to 7 grams, carbohydrates - from 3 to 15 grams.
Contraindications
When you can not eat a vegetable:
- Do not use this cabbage with increased acidity of the stomach.
- You can not eat vegetables for ulcers, acute gastritis, pancreatitis and colitis.
- It is forbidden to eat cabbage with gastric bleeding, as well as food poisoning and diarrhea.
Dish recipes
With the addition of carrots
This option is a classic for cabbage salads. They can be used as a basis for preparing the following recipes; carrots can be excluded at will.
Ingredients:
- Fresh Peking cabbage - 600 grams.
- Sweet or sour-sweet apple - 400 grams.
- Carrots - 200 grams.
- Fragrant vegetable oil (or olive) - 80 ml.
- Salt (to taste).
Cooking:
- Cabbage forks cut into strips.
- Grate grated carrots.
- Peel the apple and cut it into thin cubes or cubes.
- Mix everything, add a little salt and fill with oil.
Video recipe for Chinese cabbage, apple and carrot salad:
With corn
In addition to cabbage and apple, you can use preserved corn for cooking this dish, light mayonnaise and mustard, as well as salt and pepper for dressing. After preparing all the ingredients they need to be mixed, seasoned and refrigerated for 20-30 minutes.
The dish will sparkle with new flavors if you add fresh cucumber and hard cheese grated on a fine grater (for example, Dutch) to the ingredients listed above. Also in the dressing you can add sour cream 15% fat, proportionally reducing the amount of mayonnaise.
With oranges
Most often vegetables are added to salads to cabbage, with the possible exception of an apple, and here it is proposed to use orange. It gives the dish a citrusy taste and aroma, and also juiciness. In the preparation of the main ingredients (peking and apple) are added sliced slices of peeled orange, used for dressing fragrant sunflower oil or olive. You can also add a little lemon juice and salt to taste.
New taste can be given by adding prunes - it will bring a sweet note, and cheese - it will add salinity.
Video-recipe for making salad from Beijing cabbage, apple and orange:
With crab sticks
The main ingredient of crab salad are crab sticks, and the balance of sweetness and acid is regulated with the help of corn and sour or sour-sweet apples. For cooking you will also need:
- Chinese cabbage;
- red and / or yellow bell peppers;
- fresh cucumber.
For refueling you will need to mix low-calorie mayonnaise and lemon juice. Optionally, you can add herbs: dill and parsley. If it is necessary to make the dish more nutritious, then adding boiled rice and eggs will help.
Preparing a salad of Beijing cabbage, apple and crab sticks according to the video recipe:
With celery
Usually, salads from all parts of celery use its stem, and this recipe is no exception. Celery has a very low calorie, has a number of useful properties and therefore this version of the salad is especially good for people who want to lose their weight.
If we talk about the taste of celery, then it is quite characteristic, sweetish and bitter, and the aroma is tart and spicy. Because of the peculiar taste, it is recommended to add quite a bit of the chopped stalk.
The composition of the recipe is very simple:
- Chinese cabbage;
- an Apple;
- carrot;
- celery;
- parsley;
- dill;
- sour cream 15% fat;
- a little mustard;
- salt.
Instead of dressing from sour cream, you can use olive or unrefined vegetable oil.
Another option could be a recipe consisting of:
- Chinese cabbage;
- fresh cucumber and tomato;
- sweet pepper;
- celery;
- greenery;
- sour cream with salt.
We are learning to cook another Beijing cabbage salad with apple and celery:
With Chiken
This recipe is quite a lot of protein due to the addition of boiled or baked chicken breast. Therefore, the inclusion of such a dish in the diet will perfectly help to gain part of the amount of protein a person needs.
For cooking, in addition to chicken, you will need:
- fresh Peking cabbage;
- apples;
- carrot;
- boiled eggs;
- for dressing - sour cream 15% fat and salt.
You can diversify the composition with the help of greenery:
- dill;
- parsley;
- lettuce leaves;
- cilantro;
- arugula;
- spinach, etc.
With grapefruit
This recipe is rather unusual: the grapefruit slices added to it give both sweet taste and light bitterness, and raisins help to bring the balance of sweetness to the ideal. Also in it non-standard dressing, for the preparation of which you will need to mix:
- soy sauce;
- balsamic vinegar;
- lemon juice;
- olive oil.
The basis here is peking, an additional ingredient is an apple. After preparation of all components they need to be mixed, and then add the prepared dressing.
With grapes
This recipe belongs to a number of unusual dishes, it can be served both on a weekday and on a festive table. To cook it, you will need:
- Chinese cabbage;
- baked or fried chicken breast;
- apples;
- seedless grapes;
- lettuce leaves;
- pistachios, which, like grapes will become a chip when serving.
Salad leaves can be added to the rest of the ingredients, and can be used as decoration, putting the salad on it. Pistachios can not only interfere, but sprinkle them with a ready-made dish. To reduce the caloric content of pistachios from the salad can be excluded, and part of the mayonnaise replaced with sour cream.
With walnuts
The combination of walnuts with dried fruits and nuts with apples is a win-win in desserts and salads. Nuts add an oily flavor and a crunchy texture. Therefore, choosing such a combination of ingredients in a salad, you can expect at least a good result.
For cooking you will need:
- forks fresh peking;
- apples;
- dried apricots;
- raisins;
- prunes;
- walnuts;
- sour cream 15%;
- salt.
To taste the nuts was quite noticeable, it is worth crushing them not too small, cutting into pieces of medium size about 0.5 x 0.5 cm.
If there is very little or no cooking time for some of the ingredients listed above, A quick choice of salads from this variety of cabbage can be a combination:
- finely chopped cabbage;
- carrots;
- various greens (at least dill and parsley);
- salts;
- aromatic dressing in the form of olive oil.
Watch a video recipe for making salad from Chinese cabbage, apple and walnuts:
How to serve?
Salads from Chinese cabbage can be served both independently and with a side dish. For salads with the addition of corn, celery, meat ingredients or crab sticks, mashed potatoes are perfect, and options with citrus and nuts can be served as separate dishes and also used for snacking.
Tip! When serving, you can use lettuce leaves, laying out the finished dish on them or make rolls of leaves using the salad as a filling.
Conclusion
Beijing cabbage does not need additional processing and the recipes are quite easy to prepare; even a novice in the culinary arts will cope with them. And for more experienced culinary specialists there is freedom for improvisation: adding new ingredients and using different dressings, salads can be given a citrus note, sharpness, freshness or unusual piquancy.
