I love cabbage now!. Although cabbage is a great vegetable to eat I did not know how to eat it. I do not like traditional cole slaw and I really like sauerkraut but I do not take the time to prepare it at home. Also cabbage can bloat me up and I do not like that feeling at all. So there are two important things when eating raw cabbage: 1) it has to be finely shredded. I like doing it with a good knife( I love my 6" Santoku Mac knife) but you can process it or use a mandoline. Basically you have to cut the cabbage in two pieces and remove the core( triangle like shape). Then on you hold firm on the flat side of the cabbage against the cutting board and you shredded it finely.
2) You have to chew it well in the mouth so cellulase is released in the upper or cardiac stomach and helps digest the thin layer of cellulose that covers all green raw vegetables.
Salad for 2:
1/2 small cabbage
I/2 carrot peeled with a peeler so you make "noddles"
1/2 daikon same as with carrots
I green onion sliced in rings
leaves of 5-7 cilantro stems
black sesame seeds
5-7 cashews chopped in small pieces
Mix cabbage, carrots, daikon and green onions, sprinkle sesame seeds and chopped cashews, garnish with cilantro leaves.
Dressing ( for 2-3 occasions save in a glass jar in the refrigerator for 5-7 days)
1/2 cup unrefined sesame oil
2 tbs lemon juice
2 tbs Oshawa wheat free-tamari
2 tbs Oshawa Mirin
1 tsp Yozu Vinegar
1 tsp ginger grated with microplane
Optional but great :A bit of wasabi paste (made of wasabi powder and water) or cayenne or finely crushed thai peppper
Mix all ingredients. Pour into salad
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