White cabbage slaw with the Thermomix® only works when all the ingredients go into the mixing bowl at the same time. If you pre-chop and add in batches, you end up with uneven piece sizes.
We have been making this raw vegetable salad for years because it comes together faster than any shop-bought coleslaw. The trick: white cabbage, peppers, apple, spring onions and radishes are all chopped together with the dressing in one pass at speed 5. Not before, not after. The oil, vinegar and honey dressing is already in the mixing bowl when the blades start running. That way it coats everything immediately and the salad does not go watery.
White Cabbage Slaw with the Thermomix®
Ingredients 0 / 10 ✓
- 350 g white cabbage
- 200 g peppers red, yellow
- 1 apple
- 3 spring onions
- 100 g radishes
- 45 g sunflower oil
- 3 tbsp white balsamic vinegar
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
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Prepare the ingredients.
White cabbage: trim and cut into pieces. Peppers: wash, remove the stalk and seeds, and cut into pieces. Apple: wash, quarter, and remove the stalk and core. Spring onions: trim and cut into pieces. Radishes: wash and remove the stalks.
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Blend all ingredients.
Add all ingredients to the mixing bowl and chop using the spatula for 5 sec / speed 5. Transfer to a salad bowl and serve.
Tip: Filled into preserving jars, this salad makes a great packed-lunch snack.
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Why all the ingredients must go in at once
Speed 5 for 5 seconds is the line between crisp and mushy. If you chop the cabbage and firm vegetables separately, you have to recalibrate the time for each one. Radishes need fewer pulses than white cabbage. Pepper breaks down faster than apple. When everything is in the bowl together, the differences even out. The softer ingredients cushion the harder ones, and the harder ones slow down the softer ones. The result: a consistent texture with no puree.
The dressing belongs in from the start. Sunflower oil, white balsamic vinegar and honey are not stirred in afterwards but are already in the mixing bowl when the blades start. During chopping the liquid distributes itself between the vegetable pieces. The salad is ready to serve straight away, with no need to adjust seasoning or leave it to rest.
Preparation: rough pieces are fine
White cabbage is trimmed and cut into manageable pieces. No fine shredding, no grating. Rough eighths are enough. The blades do the rest. Peppers are deseeded and quartered, the apple washed and cut into wedges. Spring onions into 3 cm lengths, radishes halved or cut into thirds.
The more roughly you pre-cut, the more even the result. Finely pre-cut vegetables get too small too quickly in the Thermomix®. The mixing bowl needs large pieces to work against.
5 seconds is enough
Speed 5 for 5 seconds is the upper limit. Any longer and the cabbage goes stringy, the radishes turn to mush, and the apple releases too much juice. Any shorter and the pieces stay too large. You can use the spatula to help push down any vegetables that ride up the sides during chopping. After 5 seconds, stop.
The salad stays firm to the bite. No mush, no slop. Every ingredient is still identifiable but small enough to eat with a fork. That is the difference from coleslaw where the cabbage is often shredded too finely and then collapses into a watery mess.
Honey makes the difference
The honey in the dressing is not a sugar substitute. It balances the acidity of the balsamic vinegar and gives the salad a gentle sweetness that works against the sharpness of the radishes and the slight bitterness of the spring onions. Without honey the salad tastes flat. With too much honey it turns sticky. 1 tbsp to 3 tbsp of vinegar is the right ratio.
White balsamic is better here than dark. It does not turn the salad brownish and has a milder flavour. Dark balsamic adds too much of a caramel note that clashes with the apple.
As a packed-lunch snack in a jar
Filled into preserving jars, the salad keeps in the fridge for two days. No longer, because the radishes draw out moisture and the apple browns. For work or school, fill the jar in the morning. Left overnight in the jar, the salad becomes too wet.
Goes well with: Schnitzel and meatballs.
At a barbecue this salad works as a side dish with sausages, steaks or grilled vegetables. We often make a double batch because it disappears faster than expected.
You can find more raw vegetable salads made with the Thermomix® in our salad guide. Also good: red cabbage slaw or coleslaw.
