German

Krautsalat (Shredded Cabbage Salad)

Name: Krautsalat (Shredded Cabbage Salad)
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: German
Ingredients: 1 small head cabbage, shredded; 3 tbsp white wine vinegar; 3 tbsp vegetable oil; 1 tsp sugar; 1/2 tsp caraway seeds; 1 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Jonas @jonas_koeln

Krautsalat (Shredded Cabbage Salad) is German home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the condiment. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

20 min Easy High fiber Heart healthy Vegan Vegetarian Gluten free Dairy free Halal Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 small head cabbage, shredded
3 tbsp white wine vinegar
3 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp caraway seeds
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Toss the shredded cabbage with the salt in a large bowl and massage it with your hands for a minute, then let it sit for 15 minutes to soften and release liquid.
Squeeze the cabbage lightly to remove excess liquid.
Whisk the vinegar, oil, sugar, and caraway seeds together in a small bowl.
Pour the dressing over the cabbage and toss well to coat, finishing with a grind of black pepper; raw and cold and ready in twenty minutes, what actually comes beside a Schnitzel in the south, unlike hot fermented Sauerkraut or sweet-sour Rotkohl.

Watch how to cook Krautsalat (Shredded Cabbage Salad)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A German dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Krautsalat (Shredded Cabbage Salad), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Abendbrot-Teller mit Putenschinken (Cold Evening Bread Plate with Turkey Ham)
  
  10 min
The cooked vegetable
- Blumenkohl mit Butterbroeseln (Cauliflower with Browned Butter Crumbs)
  
  25 min
What it is eaten with
- Bratkartoffeln (German Pan-Fried Potatoes)
  
  25 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Krautsalat (Shredded Cabbage Salad) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Krautsalat (Shredded Cabbage Salad)
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 160 kcal
Protein: 2 g
Carbs: 12 g
Fat: 11 g
Fiber: 5 g
Sugar: 6 g
Sodium: 590 mg
Saturated fat: 2 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Krautsalat (Shredded Cabbage Salad) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.