Confetti Cabbage Salad with Spicy Peanut Dressing
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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 1999
Salting ahead of time creates pickle-crisp cabbage that is perfect for combining with bold flavors.
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, we figured, was to get rid of some of this water before making the salad, and the ...