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.

SERVES 6 to 8 (Makes about 5 cups)

TIME 25 minutes, plus 1 hour standing

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 ...

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