Cabbage and Red Pepper Salad with Lime-Cumin Vinaigrette
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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 1999, America's Test Kitchen TV
Salting ahead of time creates pickle-crisp cabbage that is perfect for combining with bold flavors.
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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS
Cabbage salads are diluted by the cabbage itself. Its cells are full of water that leaches out once a salad is allowed to sit. One way to solve this problem in our coleslaw recipe, we figured, was to get rid of some of this water before mak...