Chinese Napa Cabbage Salad Recipes

NAPA CABBAGE SALAD

Steps:

• Finely shred the head of cabbage; do not chop. Combine the green onions and cabbage in a large bowl, cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Make the crunchies: Melt the butter in a pot. Mix the ramen noodles, sesame seeds and almonds into the pot with the melted butter. Spoon the mixture onto a baking sheet and bake the crunchies in the preheated 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven, turning often to make sure they do not burn. When they are browned remove them from the oven.
• Make the dressing: In a small saucepan, heat vinegar, oil, sugar, and soy sauce. Bring the mixture to a boil, let boil for 1 minute. Remove the pan from heat and let cool.
• Combine dressing, crunchies, and cabbage immediately before serving. Serve right away or the crunchies will get soggy.

CHINESE NAPA CABBAGE SALAD WITH A CRUNCHY TOPPING

Steps:

• Mix sliced cabbage and green onions in a large bowl.
• Combine dressing ingredients in a jar with a tight lid and shake well to mix.
• Pour dressing over cabbage mixture, toss to coat and set aside.
• In a large frying pan, melt butter and stir in olive oil.
• Add broken noodles, almonds and salt (if desired.)
• Saute until noodles and nuts are lightly golden brown.
• Sprinkle crunchy noodles and almonds over the cabbage mixture.

"MILLION DOLLAR" CHINESE CABBAGE SALAD

Steps:

• In a bowl, whisk together vegetable oil, sugar, wine vinegar, and soy sauce until the sugar has dissolved. Refrigerate the dressing while preparing the salad.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Spread the broken ramen noodles, almonds, and sesame seeds onto a baking sheet.
• Bake the ramen noodle mixture until lightly browned, about 15 minutes, stirring often. Watch carefully to prevent burning. Allow mixture to cool.
• Just before serving, mix together the napa cabbage and green onions with toasted ramen mixture in a salad bowl until thoroughly combined; toss with the dressing.

CHINESE CABBAGE SALAD

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.

NAPA CABBAGE SALAD

Steps:

• In a small bowl, whisk together the garlic, zest and juice of the lime, vinegar, soy sauce, and chili oil. Season with salt; set aside.
• In a medium bowl, toss together the cabbage, pepper slices, scallions, daikon, snow peas, and chives. Pour the dressing over the slaw, toss to combine, and serve.

CHINESE NAPA CABBAGE SALAD (GLUTEN-FREE)

Steps:

• In a very large bowl, mix all the vegetables, sunflower seeds and sesame seeds.
• In a small bowl, mix the remaining 11 ingredients from garlic to black pepper for the dressing.
• Pour the dressing on the salad and mix well. Set aside to let it wilt for 30 minutes.
• Infuse love and serve!

CHINESE (NAPA) CABBAGE SALAD

Steps:

• In large bowl, combine cabbage, radishes, noodles, peanuts and sesame seeds. (Note: If you are bringing this somewhere and have travel time, you may want to keep the crunchy noodles separate and add them just before serving, or they won\'t be crunchy for long after you add the dressing).
• In a separate bowl, whisk together remaining ingredients.
• Toss the dressing with the cabbage mixture and serve.

CHINESE NAPA CABBAGE SALAD

Steps:

• Crush noodles, place them in a medium skillet and brown in butter over medium heat. Add almonds and sesame seeds. Stir often to prevent burning. Add seasoning mix from noodles and cool. Toss in a large bowl with cabbage and onions.
• Prepare the dressing by whisking together the vegetable oil, rice vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil and sugar. Pour over salad, toss and serve.

NAPA CABBAGE SALAD WITH PEANUTS AND GINGER

Steps:

• In a small bowl, whisk together vinegar, mustard, ginger, and both oils until dressing is smooth and combined. Season with salt and pepper.
• In a large bowl, combine cabbage, bell pepper, cilantro, and peanuts. Add dressing to taste, and toss to combine. Serve immediately, garnished with cilantro sprigs.

NAPA SALAD (CHINESE CABBAGE) -- NO RAMEN NOODLES

Steps:

• Wash all produce as necessary.
• Divide your half-head of napa lengthwise into 3 or 4 sections and knife-shred crosswise to yield strips about 1.5 inches long by 1/4 inch wide.
• Divide your bok choy stalks lengthwise into 1in sections if necessary and slice thinly. Knife shred the green leaves to match the napa.
• Mix dressing ingredients and let rest for 5 minutes to blend the flavors.
• Toss together all salad ingredients with the dressing.
• Garnish with pecan halves and thin rings of apple if desired.
• Note -- Other artificial sweeteners, honey, sugar, etc. may be substituted for the Splenda if you prefer.
• Note -- Can add chunks of cooked ham or other cooked meat to make into a main-dish salad.

THAI CHINESE-CABBAGE SALAD

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.

CHINESE NAPA CABBAGE SALAD WITH GRILLED FLANK STEAK

Steps:

• Marinate the flank steak in a plastic bag and refrigerate for 2 hours.
• Prepare the dressing in a blender and refrigerate it.
• Toast the sesame seeds in a small skillet until light brown.
• Grill the flank steak on a high heat 3-4 minutes each side, discarding the marinade.
• The flank steak will be medium rare, but the dressing will finish "cooking" it.
• Place the steak on a plate and let it rest for 10 minutes. Boil the vermicelli in salted water according to package directions.
• Rinse the pasta in cold water and drain.
• Thinly slice the flank steak against the grain.
• In a large salad bowl toss all the ingredients together and refrigerate for an hour or more, then serve it.