Cabbage and Cucumber Salad

This is one of my favorite salads for fresh young cabbage – fast made slaw with eggs and cucumbers seasoned with fresh dill and mayo to taste.

Usually I take small white head cabbage or a half of it, however it will be the same good with red cabbage (the color will look interesting in this case too ) or napa.

Don’t forget to cool down hard boiled eggs before adding them to the salad – it is not recommended to mix fresh vegetables with hot ingredients.

Ingredients:

• ½ of small white cabbage
• 2 eggs
• ½ of english cucumber or 2 baby cucumbers
• Fresh dill
• Mayonnaise
• Salt to taste

How to prepare, step-by-step:

1. Prepare ingredients: boil eggs in advance and let the cool down, rinse dill and cucumber, clean cabbage of top leaves if needed:
   
   

   Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe: Step 1

2. Finely shred cabbage and put it to the salad bowl:
   
   

   Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe: Step 2

3. Season with salt:
   
   

   Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe: Step 3

4. White cabbage I’ve used (and maybe most kind of the cabbage) is rough, to make it a bit softer press it with your fist:
   
   

   Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe: Step 4a

   
   Or / and squeeze it with your hands until it become more tender and soft (some juice will also appear):
   
   

   Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe: Step 4b

5. Peel hard boiled eggs, slice them in halves and then slice widthwise; add them to the salad bowl:
   
   

   Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe: Step 5

6. Skin cucumber if needed (if it got hard seeds, you may want to remove them too), if cucumber is wide – slice it lengthwise and then cut into thin pieces:
   
   

   Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe: Step 6

7. Add finely chopped fresh dill:
   
   

   Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe: Step 7

8. Dress with mayonnaise (about ½ cup):
   
   

   Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe: Step 8

9. And mix:
   
   

   Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe: Step 9

10. Serve with your choice of main curse dish (I did garnish chopped beef cutlets and fried potato with it for this photo):
    
    

    Cabbage and Cucumber Salad

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