Lemon Parmesan Cabbage Salad with Grilled Chicken Recipe

Not simply one other boring cabbage salad!!! Impressed by a salad made well-known by Karen Martini, an Australian restauranteur and chef, that is made with cabbage, peas and mint tossed with parmesan, lemon and olive oil. A bit distinctive but so acquainted, and topped with a easy, tasty grilled chicken to make this an entire meal. Skip the chicken and peas and you’ve got your self a fast every-day cabbage salad!

Lemon Parmesan Cabbage Salad with Grilled Chicken

It’s most likely completely uncool to confess this, however I all the time have cabbage within the fridge. This solely began as soon as I “grew up” and realised a) how versatile cabbage is b) how fast it’s to shred (e.g. in comparison with carrot) and c) how lengthy it lasts within the fridge (weeks and weeks and weeks!). Then it grew to become part of my common store.

I guess I might blast off 10 fast makes use of for cabbage with out barely taking a breath. Let’s attempt:

1. Stir Fries (use my Chinese language Stir Fry Sauce to make a Cabbage Stir Fry, add garlic and/or ginger, or add chicken and different veggies to make an entire stir fry! And don’t neglect CHOW MEIN!);

2. Coleslaw, Asian shredded salads (e.g. Chinese language Chicken Salad)

3. Soups! Shredded or chopped, Western and Asian ones (terrific so as to add greens into Chinese language Noodle Soup);

4. Sautéed cabbage with garlic and olive oil. Or add parmesan (so good, I make this usually, tremendous fast facet);

5. Including veggies and bulk to omelettes (I do that usually too);

6. Into vegetarian casseroles and lasagnes – once more, improbable for including wholesome bulk as a result of it melds nicely with different veggies and into sauces;

7. Pickled (right here’s a fast one used as a facet in my Fish Tacos);

8. Including hidden veggies into issues like Bolognese, Home made Hamburger Helper and comparable;

9. Wontons, Gyoza (Japanese dumplings!); and

10. Including veggies into one pot rice dishes, like this each well-liked Baked Chicken and Rice.

OK, I did take a breath writing all that out, however you realize what I imply. They simply rolled proper off my tongue. I imply, my keyboard. 😉

So for all these for whom cabbage can be a pantry staple – and if parmesan can be a staple – then there may be each risk you might have all the pieces that you must make this Lemon Parmesan Cabbage Salad. With chicken – if chicken can be a freezer staple!

I do know the mix of peas and cabbage could sound a bit distinctive, however it’s actually a improbable mixture. Suppose – crunchy contemporary cabbage dressed with a lemon dressing with oomph from parmesan, mixed with candy pops of peas and a contact of freshness from mint.

Mint + peas are greatest mates, lemon and parmesan are buddies with everybody.

So even when you’ve got not tried the mix of cabbage, peas, mint, lemon and parmesan earlier than, are you able to think about that it’s simply so proper??

This isn’t a salad mixture I got here up with myself. I feel it was first made well-liked by Karen Martini, a preferred Australian chef and restauranteur. The restaurant model makes use of masses extra oil, and she or he has chilli in hers. And it’s completely terrific.

That is my dwelling model that I’ve tailored to my style (utilizing a lot much less oil!), including a easy lemon marinated grilled chicken to make it an entire meal. Although truly, I make simply the cabbage salad with out the chicken extra actually because I all the time have the components available.

Oh – and the opposite profit is that the dressing isn’t made in a separate jar, it’s simply drizzled proper on the salad then tossed. Good for lazy salads.

Oh – and one other little tip. Sure, that is higher made with freshly grated parmesan as a result of it type of dissolves into the salad. However it’s nonetheless tremendous tasty made with retailer purchased grated parmesan, it simply received’t dissolve totally. 🙂

Inform me – is it actually uncool that I’ve cabbage in my fridge always?? – Johnsat xx

PS Not that I thoughts being a dag. I’ll nonetheless be popping cabbage into my trolley each week!!!