Since last week’s recipe, a lot has happened. First me and Jerry, for the first time since we have been together, took a vacation separately. We decided to spend few days with our individual set of friends. I had been particularly excited about this trip as I was about to meet one of my friends with whom I shared a room once. You know roomies?! That bond where you know every slight detail about each other’s lives but a bond so unbreakable, so full of trust that you know you can be your true self in front of that person and that person won’t let the world know about it.
Such was our relation and it is pretty much to this date. Vacation with girl-friends means lingering over at one particular restaurant for hours, discussing issues about each other’s lives, dressing up sometimes for almost no reason and a lot more. As you might remember from the previous post, all we had in our little vacation was lots and lots of food with guilt free over-indulgence.
One thing which I realised after our vacation was that their is one and only one thing very similar in the way men and women take vacations. They all tend to over eat, and eat, lots and lots of rich carb laden comfort food. After we came back home, we both realized that our bodies were in desperate need of something fresh. Something that was miles apart from being cheesy or greasy, more of a detox meal. This salad fitted the role perfectly. A mixture of purple and green cabbage along with carrots and onions. A creamy dressing made with lime, olive oil and tahini.
A very simple salad to put together. The only time consuming part is the chopping part but you can use an attachment for chopping in food processor as well. The vegetables can be chopped well ahead in advance. The only thing you need to put together before lunch or dinner will be dressing which is pretty simple.
Hope this salad makes you feel guilt free after all the indulgences you had on your trip(!).
- 1.5 cups purple cabbage, shredded as fine as possible
- 1.25 cups green cabbage, shredded as fine as possible
- 1 medium carrot, shredded
- ⅛ cup yellow onion, chopped
- 2 tbsp black sesame seeds, toasted
- 1 Tbsp. olive oil
- 2 Tbsp. lemon juice
- ½ Tbsp. liquid honey (or agave, maple syrup)
- 2 tbsp tahini
- ¼ cup water
- Salt to taste (depending on whether or not your tahini is already salted)
- In a big bowl, mix all the vegetables together.
- Mix the dressing ingredients together in another small bowl and stir till you get a uniform paste. Add more water if needed to achieve the desired consistency.
- In a hot skillet, add sesame seeds and toast them till they start jumping out of the skillet.
- Pour dressing over the vegetables. Garnish with toasted sesame seeds and serve.
More Healthy Recipes:
What a beautiful slaw! I have a head of green cabbage in the fridge right now and I think I’ll give this a try. And yes, we always overindulge on vacations, too, then need a week or two of detox after we come home. (grin) I feel like I don’t want anything but apples and oatmeal and CLEAN things in my stomach. Glad you had a good time on your trip.
You should try this slaw Erin.I hope you like it. Yes I had a great time.You know how it feels when you meet college friends! So true Erin. I feel the same. I feel I can live on this salad for days lol! Thanks for commenting though!
I need to take a dish to a detox luncheon, and this slaw looks good, but I’d never heard of tahini. I googled it and found that it is at Walmart but is $20 a jar. I don’t want to spend that much for something I’m not sure I’ll like or use again. Is there a suitable substitue?
Yes you can just use sesame seeds instead. Blend sesame seeds with little olive oil in blender until you get a paste like consistency. It will work!! Hope you enjoy this! Let me know 🙂
Thanks. I got everything tonight to make it this weekend, including some fresh sesame seeds. Will let you know how it turns out.
Perfect!!
Cabbage detox slaw is very interesting. Sure Tahini dressing made is yummy. Eating salads is an important part in detoxifying our body. Fibre in these veggies cleanse unwanted fat depositions and cabbage is a perfect salad veggie. Dash of lemon, honey and tahini ofcourse make the slaw more appetizing and yum!