Cabbage Salad Recipe w/ Leek Dressing

The fun thing about this dressing is that you get a thick dressing with the flavor of leeks. It’s also a great dressing to use as a vegan hollandaise sauce.

Author: Kali Star

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Cabbage Salad Recipe w/ Leek Dressing

You can get a lot of salad to use throughout the week with just one head of cabbage, and you can get a good amount of salad dressing with a couple of leeks!

Ingredients

The Dressing

• 2 cups chopped leeks (more or less)
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1/3 cup lemon juice
• 1/4 cup filtered water
• 1/4 cup nutritional yeast
• 1/2 tsp sea salt

Cabbage Salad

• 1 head of cabbage
• 2-3 purple carrots
• dill
• 1 whole pickle (preferably fermented)
• pumpkin seeds
• sunflower seeds
• snap peas
• paprika
• sea salt
• olive oil

Instructions

The Dressing

1. Slice the leeks and wash them well. You can use some of the green parts, and make sure to use all of the white parts.
2. Cook the leeks down well for about 10 minutes by sautéing them in a large pan with a little oil on low-medium heat.
3. Add all dressing ingredients in a high-speed blender except the nutritional yeast. Blend until smooth and then add the nutritional yeast, and blend again.

The Salad

1. Cut the cabbage into quarters. Then shave the cabbage thin using a mandoline. Then grate the purple carrots.
2. Add the cabbage and carrots to a salad bowl. Pour a touch of olive oil and sprinkle a pinch of salt on top. Massage the cabbage and carrots.
3. Pour the dressing and toss. Add pickle slices, snap peas, fresh dill, pumpkin seeds, and sunflower seeds on top.

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