Thai Style Cabbage Salad Recipes

Steps:

• Whisk lime juice, chili paste, and sugar together in a small bowl. Add oil in slow stream while still whisking.
• Combine napa cabbage, carrots, bell pepper, cucumber, cilantro, and peanuts in a large bowl. Season with salt and pepper. Pour dressing over vegetables and toss with tongs to coat. Chill salad for at least 1 hour. Stir and adjust seasonings before serving.

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients and mix well. Can be stored in the refrigerator until ready for use.
• In a saucepan or small wok, heat the canola oil until hot. In a tall container, combine the shallots, lemongrass and chiles. Pour the hot oil over the mixture and stir. Slowly add the fish sauce, lime juice, vinegar and sesame oil. Put vinaigrette back into the saucepan to bring back to a simmer. Pour over the cabbage mixture to coat. There will be leftover vinaigrette. Check for seasoning.
• Combine the jalapenos and serrano chiles, sambal, shallots, garlic and honey in a food processor and blend into a smooth paste. While the processor is running, slowly add the soy sauce and rice vinegar. Season. The mixture can be made up ahead and stored in the refrigerator.
• Set oven on broiler or heat a grill. Quickly marinate sirloin in chile mixture for 3 to 5 minutes, turning to coat completely. Cook sirloin to a medium rare, about 4 minutes a side. Let beef rest for 3 minutes before slicing into thin strips.
• PLATING On a large plate, place a mound of the cabbage mixture and arrange sirloin slices around the salad. Garnish with sesame seeds.

Steps:

• In a bowl stir together the lemon juice, the sugar, and the salt until the sugar and salt are dissolved, add the cabbage, the onion, the carrot, the mint, the coriander, and the oil, and toss the salad well.

Steps:

• Discard outer leaves from cabbage. Quarter cabbage and core. Cut quarters crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Wash cabbage well in a large bowl of cold water and spin dry. In a large glass or stainless-steel bowl toss together cabbage and salt until salt is dissolved, about 5 minutes. Transfer cabbage to a colander set over a bowl. Drain cabbage 1 hour. Rinse cabbage well and squeeze in small handfuls until as dry as possible. While cabbage is draining, wearing rubber gloves, seed and mince chiles. Discard outer leaves of lemongrass and trim root end. Separately mince garlic, shallot, and lower 2 inches of lemongrass.
• In a large bowl toss together cabbage, chiles, lemongrass, garlic, shallot, fish sauce, and lime juice. Salad may be made 2 hours ahead and chilled, covered. Serve salad at cool room temperature.

Steps:

• Combine the first four ingredients in a small bowl; stir well and set aside.
• Heat sesame oil in a wok on medium high heat.
• Add ginger and garlic; saute for 1 minute.
• Add cabbage, bell pepper, and carrot; saute for 2 minutes.
• Add lime juice mixture and bean sprouts; saute for an additional 2 1/2 minutes or until cabbage is tender.
• Remove from heat and sprinkle with chopped cilantro.

Steps:

• To make the dressing, whisk the fish sauce, lime zest, lime juice, and coconut milk.
• Heat the oil in a wok or frying pan.
• Stir-fry the chiles, garlic, and shallots until the shallots are brown and crisp.
• Bring a saucepan of lightly salted water to a boil.
• Add the cabbage and blanch for about 2 minutes.
• Drain thoroughly, then place the cabbage in a bowl.
• Stir the dressing into the cabbage, toss and mix well.
• Sprinkle with the fried shallot mixture.
• Serve.