Okay, this is really me just straight up stealing the one from Serious Eats, but I wanted it here so I could refer to it more easily. I did make some adjustments, but not very many. It’s just great fucking coleslaw.
Ingredients
For the salad:
1/2 head green cabbage, finely shredded
1 red onion, finely minced
1 carrot, peeled and coarsely grated
1 bunch parsley, finely chopped
4-6 cloves garlic, finely minced
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup kosher salt
Dressing:
3/4 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
2 tablespoons dijon mustard
1 tablespoon black pepper
3 tablespoons sugar
Directions
First, take everything for the salad mix and put it in a large bowl, sprinkling the sugar and salt on top. Massage it into the vegetables with your hands until it’s thoroughly mixed, then set aside for five minutes while the vegetables brine. After the five minutes are up, rinse the salad mix thoroughly in a colander.
Now you need to dry it off, because otherwise it’s going to be all soggy once you add the dressing. If you have a salad spinner you can use that. But if you’re the kind of person who owns a salad spinner, then we probably aren’t friends and I doubt you will be reading this. So for all the rest of us, take a rimmed baking sheet, line it with a few layers of paper towels, and dump the salad into it. Spread it out evenly, cover with several more layers of paper towels, and press a few times with your hands. Leave it to drain while you assemble the dressing.
To assemble the dressing: See all that stuff under Dressing? Mix it up together.
But, I mean, you’re going to have to run around and measure stuff, so it’ll take a minute.
Okay, so now you need to take your mostly dry salad mix and transfer it into a bowl, then pour the dressing over it, stirring to combine it all. You may want to only pour half the dressing in, depending on how creamy you like it. You can always add more later.
Let sit for half an hour for the flavors to combine, and eat.
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