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Cabbage Salad With Caraway Seeds

By Maren Ellingboe King

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Cabbage slaw with red onions in a bowl.
Photo by Maren Ellingboe King

The original cabbage salad recipe that inspired this one included a packet of gelatin in the dressing, so I’m guessing it was meant to be a molded salad served as part of a buffet. I prefer my cabbage slaw on the crunchy side, so instead of a molded salad I used some of the original spices, added caraway, and swapped the gelatin for a tangy vinaigrette. Caraway is commonly used when making sauerkraut, and it works well with cabbage. This fresh slaw is always welcome on my table as part of a spread with glazed ham, to add texture to fried fish sandwiches, or as a side dish at summer barbecues.

This recipe was excerpted from 'Fresh Midwest' by Maren Ellingboe King. Buy the full book on Amazon. This book was selected as one of the best cookbooks of 2022.

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