How to Make Warm Apple and Cabbage Salad
Most often, we see salads that are cool and crisp — take this apple and celery salad, for example. It’s packed with crisp apples, crunchy celery, and fennel. It’s delicious, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for a warm salad in our lives every once in a while! For this warm apple salad, we lightly cook apples and cabbage with some garlic and celery. The cabbage wilts ever so slightly, but retains a bit of crunch. We love cooked cabbage around here, have you seen our lemon garlic sautéed cabbage or this fried cabbage with bacon? When the apples and cabbage are slightly wilted, we take them off of the heat and toss them with a simple dressing made with apple cider vinegar and Dijon mustard. You could stop there, but to add a bit more texture and crunch, we love to add a handful of pecans, dried cranberries, and feta cheese.
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Recipe updated, originally posted November 2011. Since posting this in 2011, we have tweaked the recipe to be more clear. – Adam and Joanne 1 cup thinly sliced celery hearts (3 to 4 stalks) 4 cups thinly sliced red cabbage (1 small head) 1 garlic clove, minced 1 apple, cored and sliced into 1/4 inch matchsticks 1/4 cup dried fruit like cranberries, cherries, apricots or raisins 1/4 cup toasted nuts like pecan halves, walnuts or pistachios 1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese Salt and fresh ground black pepper 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 teaspoon pure honey Salt and fresh ground black pepper 2Mix in dried fruit, nuts and cheese. Serve warm.
