Lizanns Oriental Cabbage Salad Recipes

Steps:

• In a small skillet, toast sesame seeds over medium heat until golden brown and fragrant.
• In a small bowl, mix together vinegar, sesame oil, olive oil, sugar, salt, pepper, and ramen seasoning packet.
• In a large bowl, mix together cabbage, carrots, and crushed ramen noodles. Toss with dressing to coat evenly. Top with toasted sesame seeds.

Steps:

• Combine soy sauce, vinegar, sugar and oil in a small saucepan and cook over medium heat until sugar dissolves.
• Remove from heat and cool.
• (Can be made a day in advance,) Refrigerate until ready to use.
• Break up Ramen noodles (discard seasoning packets or save them for another use).
• Saute noodles, almonds and sesame seeds in oil until they brown.
• Stir often.
• Remove from heat.
• Combine cabbage, onions and noodle mixture.
• Toss with the dressing about 20 minutes before serving (this allows the noodles to soften).

Steps:

• In a large bowl, toss togehter vegetables.
• In a jar with lid add all dressing ingredients.
• Refrigerate.
• When ready to serve mix all ingredients together and serve.
• Ramen noodles will loose their crunch after awhile so it is always best to mix everything together right before you serve it.
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Steps:

• Cut cabbage in half, and remove core. Cut into 1-inch wedges and then into 1-inch pieces. Toss these lightly in a bowl, and set aside.
• Under running cold water, scrub beet with a vegetable brush or paper towel. Trim the beet top and beet root to provide a flat base for slicing on a mandoline. Set thickness to 1/8 inch, and slice beets into flat rounds. Season beets with half the lemon juice, and add them to the bowl with cabbage. Set aside.
• Make sesame-anchovy dressing. In a small bowl, cover hijiki with warm tap water. Allow to bloom for 15 minutes, then drain well, and season with ume vinegar or red-wine vinegar. Add miso, tahini, rice vinegar, shiro shoyu, the remaining lemon juice and the anchovies, and whisk to combine. Dressing should have a thick, almost mayonnaise-like consistency.
• Make the kasha furikake. Pour neutral oil into a sauté pan, and place over medium-high heat until it begins to shimmer. Pour kasha into the hot pan, and stir it quickly with a spoon to coat with oil. Allow kasha to fry in the oil, stirring constantly, until it has darkened by two shades of brown. Drain kasha through a fine strainer, and transfer to a plate covered by paper towel. While it is hot, season with the seaweed, which should adhere to the kasha. When it has cooled, mix kasha in a small bowl with the toasted sesame seeds and, if using, the shio kombu. Salt to taste.
• Make the salad. Add 3 tablespoons of the sesame-anchovy dressing to the bowl with the cabbage and the beets, and mix well to combine. Add more dressing if necessary. Transfer the salad to a serving bowl, and sprinkle 4 tablespoons or so of the kasha furikake over the top. (Leftover kasha furikake may be passed at the table, or saved to eat over white rice.)