Spicy coleslaw… adulterated from Holiday by Bill Granger.
This is a tangy, crunchy, delicious salad. It’s a great way to eat all those healthy, slimming vegetables with ease. Ignore the sugar because by the time you divide it between 10 people the calories won’t count.
You need for 10 holiday slackers, 40 models or 6 hungry metrosexuals
For the salad:
2 tbsp castor sugar
2 tbsp rice vinegar or white vinegar
2 large carrots
2 large handfuls white cabbage, shredded
2 large handfuls red cabbage, shredded
4 celery stalks
1 large red onion, thinly sliced
1 large handful Vietnamese mint leaves (or ordinary mint leaves)
1 large handful coriander leaves
1 kaffir lime leaf
For the sweet chilli dressing:
2 to 3 tbsp rice vinegar or Mirin
1 tbsp castor sugar
1 1/2 tbsp lime juice
2 tbsp fish sauce
2 long red chillies, seeded and finely chopped
1/2 tsp salt
• Time to get out the knives and get chopping. Think of it as a workout. It’s better than Pilates.
• Pour a wine.
• And stay in your Bikini and bare feet.
• To make the salad grab the carrots to marinate them a little with the sugar.
• To do that mix together the sugar and the rice vinegar.
• Chop up the carrots into thin match sticks. Think Nicole Kidman.
• Then throw the carrot in with the sugar and rice vinegar and let it marinate for 20 minutes.
• Now roughly chop up the cabbage and throw in a large mixing bowl.
• Chop the celery stalks into chic thin little match sticks. Think Claudia Schiffer.
• Put on your Tom Ford sunglasses and chop the onions into thin little slices. Wipe away the tears. You will never be as thin as the onion. Or Claudia.
• And while the carrots are marinating you may as well get the dressing started too.
• So now you can squeeze the limes.
• Chop up the chilli (with a knife and fork to stop eye torture).
• Now the carrots have marinated you can drain the juice and add the carrots to the cabbage.
• Now chuck in the chopped celery and onion.
• Scissor the lime leaf into little strips.
• Run out to the Kitchen garden and ask the gardener to pick the mint and coriander.
• Toss those herbs and lime leaf into the mix.
• Pour another wine. All that chopping has been exhausting.
• Now make the dressing. You guessed it. It’s easy.
• Just toss all the ingredients in a bowl.
• Give it a stir so that the sugar dissolves. That way you can’t see it. If you can’t see sugar your hips can’t either.
• Taste it and add what ever you think is missing. Maybe more lime juice if it’s too hot.
• Now add the dressing to the salad and toss.
• Look at those colours! So Prada resort 09. Love those Reds, purples and greens (TIP: the red cabbage is just there as a colour block)
• Serve immediately with Fish, lamb, chicken.
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