One of the most common foods to have as the side to your main dish, especially when you are enjoying barbecue foods, coleslaw is everyone’s favorite. Filled with vegetables, such as cabbage and carrot, mayonnaise and vinegar, it can be an awesome addition to sandwiches, burgers, and hot dogs.
Health benefits
Since coleslaw is a vegetable-based dish, its nutritional value is obvious. It contains rich amounts of sodium and potassium. Due to fewer amounts of fat and protein, people who are on a diet may consume it as a main dish.
Ingredients
shredded cabbage: 6 cups
shredded carrot: 1 cup
mayonnaise: 1 cup
celery seed: 1 tsp
white wine vinegar: 1/4 cup
Sugar: 1/4 cup
Salt and pepper to taste
How To Make Coleslaw
- Take a large bowl and mix the shredded cabbage and carrot in it.
- Use a smaller bowl for making the dressing. Mix mayonnaise, celery seed, vinegar, sugar, salt, and pepper.
- Combine the dressing with the shredded vegetables.
- Put the mixture in the refrigerator to chill.
- Serve in a bowl and enjoy.
Trivia
- The origin of this dish goes back to the time of ancient Romans. They were the first to make a dish consisting of cabbage, eggs, vinegar, and spices.
- A Dutch cookbook, ‘The Sensible Cook: Dutch Foodways in the Old and New World’ from 1770 contains a recipe, including slices of cabbage, melted butter, vinegar, and oil.
However, mayonnaise was added to the ingredient list after almost 250 years.