Easy Vegan Purple Cabbage Salad: Crispy & Flavorful

Vegetarian purple cabbage salad is a light and delicious dish with the crisp, refreshing taste of various vegetables. Especially when paired with a sweet, sour, and spicy dipping sauce, this dish becomes even more enticing. Let’s discover how to make this simple yet beautiful and crispy vegetarian purple cabbage salad!

Ingredients for Vegetarian Purple Cabbage Salad

Serves 3:

• Purple Cabbage: 300 gr
• Bean Sprouts: 100 gr
• Carrot: 1/2 a carrot
• Chili: 1/3 fruit (non-spicy variety)
• Ginger: 1 knob
• Seasoning: 50 gr (vegetarian seasoning powder, sugar, vegetarian fish sauce, lime juice, chili sauce…)

Ingredients for vegetarian purple cabbage salad

How to Choose Ingredients

Tips for choosing good cabbage (both purple and white):

• Choose heavy cabbages with tightly bound leaves.
• Good cabbage has a compact, dense head, tightly closed, and a small stem.
• Avoid cabbages with yellow leaves, foul odor, cracked core, loose or bruised leaves. Avoid cabbages with brown curls or brown spots on the skin.
• Purple cabbage should be deep purple, with crisp, fresh, and firm leaves.

Ingredients for the vegetarian purple cabbage salad dish

How to Prepare Vegetarian Purple Cabbage Salad

Prepare the Ingredients

Upon purchasing, remove any wilted or damaged purple cabbage leaves. Soak in diluted salt water for about 5-10 minutes to clean, then rinse thoroughly with cold water and drain. Slice or shred the purple cabbage thinly.

Wash carrots and ginger, peel, and cut into thin strips. Trim the heads and tails of bean sprouts, then wash and drain. Deseed chili and cut into thin strips.

Tip for preserving cabbage color: Let the cabbage dry completely before cutting. Once cut, avoid letting the cabbage come into contact with water again.

Step 1: Preparing the ingredients for Vegetarian Purple Cabbage Salad

Prepare the Salad Dressing

In a bowl, combine 1 teaspoon vegetarian seasoning powder, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 tablespoon vegetarian fish sauce, 1 tablespoon lime juice, and 1 tablespoon chili sauce. Mix well until the ingredients dissolve.

Step 2: Mixing the dressing for Vegetarian Purple Cabbage Salad

Mix the Salad

Place shredded carrots, ginger, bean sprouts, sliced cabbage, and chili into a large bowl. Pour the prepared dressing over them and gently toss to ensure all ingredients are evenly coated.

Small tip: After shredding carrots, you can soak them in a bowl of cold water for about 15 minutes to make them crispier and tastier when prepared. Then drain them well.

Step 3: Mixing the Vegetarian Purple Cabbage Salad

Finished Dish

This light and delicious vegetarian cabbage salad, with its crisp, refreshing vegetables and sweet, sour, and spicy dipping sauce, is truly appealing, isn’t it? Enjoy it now!

Step 4: The finished Vegetarian Purple Cabbage Salad

Conclusion

Vegetarian purple cabbage salad is not only simple and easy to make but also very visually appealing and delicious. Try this recipe now to bring a wholesome and tasty dish to your family. Don’t forget to check out other salad recipes like Water Lily Stem Salad to diversify your meals.

If you love vegetarian salads, try making Straw Mushroom and Onion Salad for a new vegetarian meal option.

To enhance the flavor of your meal, you can try Cantaloupe Salad (Vegetarian), a refreshing and easy-to-make vegetarian salad.

If you want to try a salad with a unique flavor, refer to how to make Purslane and Peanut Salad.

Finally, if you want a simple yet delicious vegetarian salad, try Vegetarian Potato Salad.

Wishing you success and delicious meals!

Images and recipe adapted from: Diệu Pháp Âm YouTube channel