Saturday 22 October 2011

How to Make Home Made Coleslaw

It’s so easy and you’ll never go back to shop bought. 

Take a cabbage – I like red best for the taste and also the colour. Thinly slice along the leaves so you get nice long thin strands.

Grate a carrot – you want equal amount carrot to cabbage so how much you grate, depends on how much you want to make!

I like to add a bit of onion for taste (but Dave hates it so I add it to my bit after). Grate if you can bear it, if not just chop up as fine as you can – for each carrot I would add a table spoon of onion. But it’s up to your taste so keep trying and adding more.

Add in a few heaped table spoons of mayonnaise to the bowl season with salt and pepper and mix. You want enough mayonnaise to coat the contents of the bowl. Have a taste and add more onion or seasoning if required. You can also add things like lemon juice or curry powder/paste to suit what you are eating it with.

I can’t stop eating it out the bowl once it’s made so I have to stick it back in the fridge once I’ve finished. It’s best to make as fresh as possible. You can keep it but not much longer than overnight as the mayonnaise goes a bit watery. But as it’s so easy to make you can just make it fresh each time.

You seriously can’t buy that rubbish from the shop again! Especially if you live in Canada – the coleslaw here is green and sweet. Yuk.