Healthy Red Cabbage Salad Recipe, a Low Carb, Paleo Superfood. (2024)

March 29, 2021August 22, 2022

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I’m a big salad eater. Big. I will make a bowl large enough for a family and eat the whole thing. I like the crunch, the acid, the salt. It’s candy to me, without the carbs and blood sugar spike.

This brightly shredded red cabbage salad is a big bowl of happiness to me. It has crunch from the cabbage, salt from the roasted pumpkin seeds and has brightness from the mustard shallot vinaigrette

Eat the Color Purple for Super Health

The dark purple pigment in red cabbage and other purple vegetables, known as anthocyanin, is a type of phytonutrient that belongs to the flavonoid family. Flavonoids are associated with lowering cholesterol, fighting heart disease and protecting the body against oxidative stress, which will help you age more gracefully, fight cancer and protect our brains. So eat the color purple as much as you can.

Vegetables are my Dream Food and the Red Cabbage Salad Recipe is my binge food.

As spinach tiger, I’m always eating lots of vegetables. They are my dream food, but over the last few months, I was also eating too many carbs, especially for my particular body type. My body is efficient. It stores fat for later, which would have kept me alive longer than most back 1000 years ago, when food was often scarce.

The food supply in my kitchen never runs out and this efficient body, which stores fat for later, must be tricked. This is why I practice modified fasting and a lower carb diet. This kind of salad fits this life style well, as it’s low in net carbs, high in fiber and just so tasty and satisfying. Instead of grabbing chips, I grab a full forkfuls of this, which lasts in the fridge a few days.

A Mustard Shallot Vinaigrette Lends Punch to the Red Cabbage

The great thing about this red cabbage salad recipe is that you can still eat it days later. In fact, it’s better marinating overnight. Shallotsgives just the right punch to the vinaigrette which soaks into the cabbage, softening it a little and creating a great flavor.

No Grains, No Pain for me.

When I originally posted this in 2017 I had cut out all grains, and I noticed that a limp from a pain in my hip (that I had for over a year) had disappeared.

When I did, I eliminated a chronic hip pain. Now I’m only eating keto friendly food and feel so much better. I’m a huge believer in reducing inflammation and it has underscored my belief in the healing and harming power of food.

When you choose not to eat grains, you don’t have to give up textures. I’d rather eat color and have big crunch with full flavor any day.

Red Cabbage Salad Recipe is Perfect for a Potluck

This is a great salad for fatty meats like ham, pork or chicken thighs. It also is perfect for tucking into tacos. This is another one of those pot luck recipes because you can make it the night before and it will stay intact for the whole party.

You could also add in some chopped chicken for a complete salad meal! I did that one night when I got home really late and enjoyed left overs from a roast chicken.

The Oxo Spiralizer is helpful with the red cabbage salad recipe, but not necessary. You can always use a good chef’s knife to shred it.If you don’t have a spiralizer, I highly recommend getting one. I like the OXO as itis very inexpensive, works well and is easy to clean. (This is not sponsored; I just like it).

So tell me how’s your January eating going? Do you start a plan or maybe you’re so good during the holidays you don’t need to worry.

If you like raw cabbage recipes, you’ll also love this triple crunch cabbage salad with feta cheese and marcona almonds.

You can also play around with this by adding ginger, a squeeze of orange and using sesame oil.

My Favorite Salad and Cabbage Recipes

Cauliflower Salad

Tuscan Kale Salad

Cole Slaw with Blue Cheese and Apple

Sauteed Cabbage with Bacon

Crack Slaw

Purple Cauliflower Salad Recipe with Walnut Vinaigrette

My Favorite Pork Recipes

Mock Porchetta

Spare Ribs

Itallian Roast Pork

Slow CookerPulled Pork