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    Spicy Cabbage and Snap Pea Salad

    May 30, 2014(updated Jun 16, 2020)

    By Michelle Weiner

    A spicy and tangy veggie filled salad.
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    Prep Time 10 minutes minutes
    Total Time 10 minutes minutes
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    Over the years Korean food has become one of my favorite cuisines. It all really started with a cooking class I took from Chef Jet Tila. In his class he covered many different Asian cuisines, but Korean was my favorite by far...with Thai at a close second!

    Snap Pea Cabbage Salad - Ingredients

    Jet did a great job showing the class how to balance flavors and introduced us to so many new ingredients. His class was fantastic. I highly recommend taking any class he may hold in the future.

    From there, I started looking up Korean recipes online and found this amazing websiteΒ MaangchiΒ that is all about Korean food and cooking. MaangchiΒ shares her favorite Korean recipes and tons of information about Korean food on her website. I've cooked a bunch of her recipes and they all have tasted great!

    Anyway, both Maangchi and Jet haveΒ inspired me to incorporate more Korean flavors and ingredients into my everyday cooking. One of the ingredients I often use is gochugaru (hot pepper flakes). GochugaruΒ is red chili peppers that are dried and then grounded into a coarse or fine powder and is used inΒ kimchi and many other Korean dishes. Depending on where you shop, you can find either mild or hot flakes, but I always purchase the hot ones! If you decide to purchase gochugaru, you can usually find it atΒ an Asian marketΒ or if not, through Amazon.

    Snap Pea Cabbage Salad - Tossed

    Since I always have hot pepper flakesΒ on hand I end up tossing it together with a little toasted sesame oil, rice vinegar, salt, and whatever other veggies I have laying around to make a tasty little salad. The other day I was given a gigantic ziplockΒ full of snap peas and half a head of cabbage from a photo shoot I worked on and I ended up adding my hot pepper flake dressing to it, and it was fabulous!

    The dressing has a nice spicy-ness from the hot pepper flakes and a great tang from the vinegar. This salad makes a great side dish, and it would be a filling main salad if you add some grilled shrimp to it!Β Snap Pea Cabbage Salad - Serving

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    Recipe

    Spicy Cabbage and Snap Pea Salad

    A spicy and tangy veggie filled salad.
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    Author: Michelle Weiner
    Course: Salad
    Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 10 minutes minutes
    Makes: 2 -4

    Ingredients

    • 2 cloves of garlic minced
    • 1 Β½ tablespoons rice vinegar
    • 1 Β½ teaspoons Korean hot pepper flakes gochugaru
    • 1 teaspoon light brown sugar lightly packed
    • Β½ teaspoon toasted sesame oil
    • Β½ teaspoon salt
    • 2 cups shredded red cabbage about ΒΌ head
    • 2 cups snap peas cut into thirds
    • 3 scallions thinly sliced
    • 1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds

    Instructions

    • Place the minced garlic, rice vinegar, hot pepper flakes, brown sugar, sesame oil, and salt into a large bowl. Stir until sugar has dissolved.
    • Add the remaining ingredients and toss to coat.
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    Notes

    If you toss the salad with your hands, make sure to wear gloves! The hot pepper flakes will stain your hands red.
    Grill up some shrimp to add to this salad for a simple meal.
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    2. Kathy MacDonald says

      June 01, 2014 at 11:04 am

      I'm going to try this recipe this week as it is snap-pea time now, the recipe is easy and the photos are beautiful.

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      • Michelle Ferrand says

        June 03, 2014 at 8:57 pm

        Yay! Stephen loves it so much, hopefully you and Michael like it as much as he does πŸ™‚

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