Puerto Rican Spicy Cabbage Salad
Puerto Rican Spicy Cabbage Salad is crunchy, spicy, and loaded with flavor, and this would be a fun salad when you don’t have lettuce on hand!
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I love March because it’s the time of year when cabbage goes on sale in grocery stores everywhere, and I am such a huge cabbage fan. So for the month of March I’m going to spotlight some of my favorite recipes using cabbage that you may have missed in the abundance of recipes on this site. And if you’re a cabbage fan like I am, I hope you might discover some new favorite you’ll want to make over and over!
The minute I saw this Puerto Rican Cabbage Salad on Champaign Taste (a blog that no longer exists), I knew I was going to make some version of the salad, since I adore cabbage salad, and cabbage is one of The World’s Healthiest Foods. When I made Puerto Rican Spicy Cabbage Salad with Tomatoes, Radishes, and Celery I loved it from the very first bite. The spicy cabbage salad got two thumbs up from my sister Val and brother-in-law Jon as well, and this salad has definitely become a favorite.
After doing a little internet research about Caribbean cabbage salads, I came up with the version you see here, upping the crunch factor with radishes, adding some chopped celery leaves and green onions, and using a touch of lime juice in the dressing. Since you can get good cherry tomatoes all year, I use those most often in this tasty salad, but if you have fresh garden tomatoes it will be even better! If you’re strictly watching carbs, feel free to use less tomatoes and more radishes and it will still be amazing. With my changes I don’t know how authentically Puerto Rican the recipe is, so if you’re a food purist you may just want to call this “cabbage salad” but no matter what you call it, if you try this recipe I predict you’ll love it just as much as I do.
How to Make Puerto Rican Spicy Cabbage Salad:
(Scroll down for complete recipe with nutritional information.)
- Chop up 5-6 cups of green cabbage, about half of a large head of cabbage.
- Chop up 1 cup of tomatoes. (I used the grape tomatoes from Costco that I love in the winter.)
- Slice about 1/2 cup of celery and chop 1/2 cup of celery leaves. If the celery is large, I might cut it in half before slicing.
- Cut about 6 radishes into half-moon slices and slice 1/4 cup green onions. (Use more radishes and less tomatoes if you’d like to reduce the carbs!)
- Mix together the apple cider vinegar, lime juice, salt, and hot pepper sauce; then whisk in the oil, 1 tablespoon at a time.
- Toss the salad ingredients together, then toss the salad with the dressing.
- Can be served right away or kept in the fridge for a few hours before serving.
More Tasty Cabbage Salad Recipes:
Low-Carb Spicy Cilantro Peanut Slaw ~ Kalyn’s Kitchen
Fried Cabbage and Bacon Slaw ~ The View from Great Island
Val’s Sweet Cabbage Slaw with Green Onion and Parsley ~ from Kalyn’s Kitchen
5-Minute BLT Coleslaw ~ Plating Pixels
Ridiculously Easy Blue Cheese Coleslaw ~ kalyn’s Kitchen
5-Minute Broccoli Kale Slaw ~ Valerie’s Kitchen
Low-Carb Spicy Mexican Slaw with Lime and Cilantro ~ from Kalyn’s Kitchen
This Puerto Rican Spicy Cabbage Salad is crunchy, spicy, and loaded with good flavors! I used diced grape tomatoes; you can use less tomatoes and more radishes to reduce carbs if you prefer. Use one teaspoon lime juice and then taste to see if you want more. Use any hot sauce that has a good flavor. If you have some type of Caribbean hot sauce it would be perfect, you can start with a small amount of hot sauce and add more until it's as spicy as you prefer. Any neutral-flavored oil of your choice will work. This recipe was inspired by a salad recipe I saw on a blog that no longer exists, and I did some internet research on Caribbean Cabbage Salads to come up with the version you see here! Nutrition information is automatically calculated by the Recipe Plug-In I am using. I am not a nutritionist and cannot guarantee 100% accuracy, since many variables affect those calculations.
Puerto Rican Spicy Cabbage Salad
Ingredients
Ingredients:
Dressing Ingredients:
Instructions
Notes
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
6
Serving Size:
1
Amount Per Serving:
Calories: 109Total Fat: 7gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 288mgCarbohydrates: 11gFiber: 4gSugar: 6gProtein: 3g
Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Suggestions:
This Puerto Rican Spicy Cabbage Salad is loaded with healthful low-glycemic ingredients, and is a great choice for any phase of the South Beach Diet as well as being low-carb, gluten-free, dairy-free, and vegan. I’m not sure this salad is Keto but if you’re strictly limiting carbs you might want to use less tomatoes and more radishes, which will still be delicious! And if you use approved hot sauce and oil this salad can easily be Paleo or Whole 30.
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35 Comments on “Puerto Rican Spicy Cabbage Salad”
Incredible salad. Added a small cuke to the mix. The salad dressing needed more hot sauce and lime juice.
So glad you liked it. And I am always down with more lime juice and hot sauce!
Salad look healthy and delicious. I will try this and share my feedback with you.
Thanks for sharing.
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Delicious! I made a bowl to take in my lunch this week. Only addition was a handful of cilantro.
I love that addition; so glad you enjoyed it!
Sandra, so glad you liked it!
I made the salad, my boyfriend loves it and I also do. I had prepared it without tomatoes, because we ate it to potato-pan with tomato.
I reported on my blog about it and link to you 🙂
Greetings from Germany
Sandra
Love this one, Kalyn! Just pinned/tweeted! I've never been a radish lover, but I've vowed to give them another go and being ready to return to eating salads much more often, this salad looks like a good place to start testing them out again. 😉
Shirley
love the salad ingredients and best of all the dressing 🙂
Thanks Lydia; can't rave enough about how much I love this!
Love the dressing on this salad, even more than the cabbage (which I also love). Who cares if it's authentically anything, it sounds so good!
Crystal, I don't know what to answer about a question like that as I'm not qualified to give dieting or medical advice. I didn't have any of those kinds of issues with phase one (in fact, after a few days I usually feel better than usual.) I'd recommend re-reading the book and checking with a doctor if those problems persist.
I'm not sure where to post this question..if I'm in the wrong place let me know. It's my third day on sb and I'm not sure what going on. First the indigestion is killing me, second headache all day. All around a bit cloudy. Is this common? I'm trying to get through the first week any suggestions? I'm eating what is listed coffee,eggs vegies, salad huge, and at night the recommend dinner. Can anyone give me any advice.
Crystal