Categories: Salads

Cabbage and Cucumber Salad

This is one of my favorite salads for fresh young cabbage – fast made slaw with eggs and cucumbers seasoned with fresh dill and mayo to taste.

Usually I take small white head cabbage or a half of it, however it will be the same good with red cabbage (the color will look interesting in this case too 🙂 ) or napa.

Don’t forget to cool down hard boiled eggs before adding them to the salad – it is not recommended to mix fresh vegetables with hot ingredients.

Ingredients:

  • ½ of small white cabbage
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ of english cucumber or 2 baby cucumbers
  • Fresh dill
  • Mayonnaise
  • Salt to taste

How to prepare, step-by-step:

  1. Prepare ingredients: boil eggs in advance and let the cool down, rinse dill and cucumber, clean cabbage of top leaves if needed:
    Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe: Step 1
  2. Finely shred cabbage and put it to the salad bowl:
    Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe: Step 2
  3. Season with salt:
    Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe: Step 3
  4. White cabbage I’ve used (and maybe most kind of the cabbage) is rough, to make it a bit softer press it with your fist:
    Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe: Step 4a
    Or / and squeeze it with your hands until it become more tender and soft (some juice will also appear):
    Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe: Step 4b
  5. Peel hard boiled eggs, slice them in halves and then slice widthwise; add them to the salad bowl:
    Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe: Step 5
  6. Skin cucumber if needed (if it got hard seeds, you may want to remove them too), if cucumber is wide – slice it lengthwise and then cut into thin pieces:
    Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe: Step 6
  7. Add finely chopped fresh dill:
    Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe: Step 7
  8. Dress with mayonnaise (about ½ cup):
    Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe: Step 8
  9. And mix:
    Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe: Step 9
  10. Serve with your choice of main curse dish (I did garnish chopped beef cutlets and fried potato with it for this photo):
    Cabbage and Cucumber Salad

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