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Salad of fresh cabbage and cucumbers

Fresh Cabbage and Cucumber Salad

Quick to throw together, made from budget ingredients, tasty and simple! You'll love this fresh cabbage and cucumber salad from the very first forkful. It's a little out of the ordinary: the boiled yolks are mashed into the mayonnaise to make a really tasty dressing, and the salad looks neater for it, too.

Maria

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

White cabbage (young)

500

Eggs

Cucumbers (large)

Dill (5-6 sprigs)

Mayonnaise

Salt

0.5

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 21 % 3 g

Fats 43 % 6 g

Carbohydrates 36 % 5 g

84 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

Cooking time: 30 min

Step 1:

How do you make a simple fresh cabbage and cucumber salad? First, gather all the ingredients from the list. The salad is best made with young cabbage — it's soft and juicy. I have one long cucumber; if yours are small, use a few.
Step 2:

Wash the head of young white cabbage, remove any spoiled leaves, and shred it finely, avoiding the tough areas around the core. Put the cabbage in a large bowl and scrunch it well with your hands so it releases its juices.
Step 3:

Wash the cucumber, dry it, and cut it into thin strips. If the skin isn't tough, damaged, or bitter, there's no need to peel it.
Step 4:

Hard-boil the eggs, then cool them by covering them with cold water. Peel them. Separate the yolks from the whites. Cut the whites into strips.
Step 5:

Put the yolks in a small bowl with the mayonnaise and mash with a fork. You can use any mayonnaise you prefer. Mine is olive-oil-based. Homemade mayonnaise works too.
Step 6:

Wash, dry, and finely chop the dill. Besides dill, you can use other herbs to taste, such as parsley, cilantro, green onion, and so on.
Step 7:

Add the chopped egg whites, cucumber, dill, and the yolk-mayonnaise mixture to the bowl with the cabbage.
Step 8:

Salt everything and mix thoroughly. The salad can be served right away. Enjoy!

How do you hard-boil eggs? To keep the eggs from cracking as they cook, put them in cold water and set them over low heat. Boil the eggs for 9 minutes after the water comes to a boil, then cover with cold water and cool. The sharp temperature change makes the shells easier to peel.
Since everyone's sense of saltiness, sweetness, bitterness, spiciness, acidity, and heat is different, always add spices and seasonings to your own taste! If you're using a seasoning for the first time, keep in mind that some are especially easy to overdo (chili pepper, for example).