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Kylie Kwong

Chinese Coleslaw


Serves 4 to 6

Ingredients

Coleslaw

  • 1 small carrot
  • 1 small red onion finely sliced
  • 2 teaspoons sea salt
  • 1 cup brown rice vinegar
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • 1 small cucumber cut in half lengthways
  • ½ cup finely shredded savoy cabbage
  • 3 spring onions scallions, trimmed and cut into thin strips
  • 1/3 cup mint leaf
  • 1/3 cup coriander leaf cilantro
  • 1/3 cup dill leaves
  • 3 red cherry tomatoes cut in half
  • 3 yellow cherry tomatoes cut in half

Dressing

  • 1 tablespoon tamari or light soy sauce
  • ½ teaspoon sesame oil
  • 1 tablespoon brown rice vinegar

Method

Coleslaw

  1. Using a vegetable peeler, peel carrot, then slice finely lengthways into ribbons.
  2. Cut carrot ribbons into thin strips and place in a bowl with half the salt, then mix well. Place onion slices in a separate bowl with remaining salt and mix well.
  3. Set carrot and onion aside for 1 hour.
  4. Combine vinegar and sugar in a small heavy-based saucepan and stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Simmer, uncovered and without stirring, for about 10 minutes, or until reduced and slightly syrupy. Set aside to cool.
  5. Drain carrot and onion and, using your hands, gently squeeze out any excess liquid. Place carrot and onion in the cooled syrup to pickle them lightly.
  6. Using a vegetable peeler, finely slice cucumber lengthways into ribbons and then cut these into thin strips. In a large bowl, combine cucumber with pickled carrot, onion and all remaining ingredients, using your hands to mix thoroughly.
  7. To make the dressing, combine all ingredients in a small bowl. Spoon dressing over salad and serve on a platter.
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  • Ariva Neves
    January 2011

    olá. assisto seu programa na TV a CABO aqui no Brasil. sou de uma cidade chamada Foz do Iguaçu. uma cidade muito linda e muito visitada por ter as cataratas do iguaçu. Gosto muito do seu programa. parabéns. .

  • Rosanna7
    January 2010

    Oh yum...its sounds so fresh and above that really sounds good! Will try all!!

  • JJ81
    February 2009

    Iam serving this salad with Tandoori chicken,Kylies sweet and sour pickeled cucumber , tangy tamarind rice ,drizzled with mint riata. Oh dont forget the garlic paratha.So good ,you,ll love it

  • cathy
    December 2008

    I used ***iang vinegar for this recipe (which is a chinese vinegar and is brown). The resulting salad was soggy, dark in colour and too vinegary even though I drained off the carrot and onion before adding them to the salad. This recipe doesn't work - and when you look at the quantity of the ingredients you are only going to make 2 or 3 cups of salad which is pretty meagre portions for 4 - 6 people. As a reasonably experienced cook I would also say it requires too much messing around and an easier, better result would come from eliminating steps 2, 3, 4 and 5 altogether and quadrupling the amount of carrot and cabbage. Or I could go back to the chinese cabbage recipe on the back of the Changs crunchy noodle pack which was infinitely superior in ease and taste.

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