Make this fresh coleslaw to give a boost to a grey day, or to top up on vitamin C and fibre, or just to have something delicious on its own, with rice or as a side dish with a more substantial main course.
Recipe - enough for four as a side dish. Or for one greedy person.
Ingredients
SALAD
- 1/2 small white or red cabbage
- 2 large carrots
- 1/2 onion
- 1 fresh red chilli (or substitute/combine with sweet chilli sauce
- big handful fresh coriander
- small handful fresh mint
- 1 clove garlic
- 2 tbsp thai fish sauce (replace with soy if vegan)
- juice of 1 lime (enough for at least 5 tbsp)
- 1 tsp sugar
- finely shred the cabbage
- peel and grate the carrots
- finely dice the onion
- crush and peel the garlic and chop finely
- deseed the chilli and chop finely
- finely chop the stems of the washed coriander and shred the leaves
- take the mint leaves off the stems and shred finely
- put everything in a bowl and add the fish sauce, lime juice and tsp of sugar
- stir, mixing thoroughly