Cabbage and Red Pepper Salad with Lime-Cumin Vinaigrette

Name: Cabbage and Red Pepper Salad with Lime-Cumin Vinaigrette
Yield: Serves 6 to 8 (Makes 5 cups)
Ingredients: 1 pound, green cabbage (about 1/2 medium head), shredded fine; 1 teaspoon, table salt; 2 tablespoons, lime juice; 1 teaspoon, grated lime zest from 1 lime; 2 tablespoons, olive oil; 1 tablespoon, rice vinegar or sherry vinegar; 1 tablespoon, honey; 1 teaspoon, ground cumin; Pinch, cayenne pepper; 1 , red bell pepper, seeded and cut into thin strips

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 1999

Side Dishes

Vegetables

Salads

SERVES6 to 8 (Makes 5 cups)

TIME20 minutes, plus 1 hour standing

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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...

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