Cabbage Salad with Bacon and Goat Cheese
Red cabbage is kind of a food photographer’s nightmare, but don’t let that stop you from making this amazing Cabbage Salad with Bacon and Goat Cheese! I love this with red cabbage, but use green cabbage if that’s what you have!
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A few months ago I re-discovered this amazing Cabbage Salad with Bacon and Goat Cheese back in my archives and realized it was never going to get the attention it deserved without better photos, and then I tried and tried to get a really good photo of this salad! I made the salad three times and took lots of photos, but after three tries the picture above is the best photo I could come up with for this amazing salad with slightly-wilted red cabbage, bacon, and goat cheese. Please don’t let my limitations as a photographer stop you from trying this recipe; I promise this salad tastes amazing even though it was hard to photograph!
When I was a kid, my mom used to make a type of bacon and cabbage salad that everyone in our family loved. Her salad had lots of bacon, and used a huge amount of bacon grease and a little vinegar as the dressing.This cabbage salad has a lot of healthy red cabbage and less bacon than mom’s salad, and the dressing is mostly made from olive oil, for tasty salad with less saturated fat. Of course, use less olive oil and more bacon fat if that’s what you prefer. And I used six slices of pre-cooked bacon, but of course you can also use more bacon!
The addition of soft goat cheese is also a big flavor boost, and I think Feta cheese would also be great here. And if you’re a big cabbage fan like I am, here are more Favorite Salads with Cabbage.
How to Make Cabbage Salad with Bacon and Goat Cheese:
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- Cook the bacon until it’s very crisp and most of the fat is cooked out, then drain the pan but don’t wipe it out.
- Drain the bacon on paper towels.
- Cut up the cabbage in to quarters and cut away the core. Slice the cabbage into thin strips. (I like a mix of thinner and slightly thinner strips for texture. Use any color of cabbage you prefer, but I love this salad with red cabbage.)
- Crumble the goat cheese immediately when you remove it from the fridge.
- Add the olive oil to the pan and heat, then saute the red onions until they’re starting to soften.
- Add the vinegar and simmer 30-45 seconds.
- Then add the cabbage and cook until it’s barely wilted, tossing to coat with the dressing.
- Season cabbage with salt and pepper, then put cabbage in a bowl and toss in the bacon and goat cheese. YUM!
More Salads with Cabbage:
Amazing Low-Carb Cabbage Salads You’ll Make over and Over ~ Kalyn’s Kitchen
Red Cabbage Salad ~ Taste and Tell
Thai Cabbage Slaw ~ Kalyn’s Kitchen
This Cabbage Salad with Bacon and Goat Cheese is so delicious; feel free to use more bacon and bacon fat if you prefer! I used pre-cooked bacon, then crisped the bacon and blotted off some of the fat; use your favorite method for cooking bacon. Three ounces goat cheese is about 2/3 cup when it's crumbled. This recipe slightly adapted from Vegetables Every Day (affiliate link). 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.
Cabbage Salad with Bacon and Goat Cheese
Ingredients
Instructions
Notes
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
6
Serving Size:
1
Amount Per Serving:
Calories: 188Total Fat: 14gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 9gCholesterol: 18mgSodium: 382mgCarbohydrates: 9gFiber: 3gSugar: 4gProtein: 8g
Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
Red Cabbage Salad with Bacon and Goat Cheese would be a great side dish for any Low-Carb eating plan, and personally I’d splurge on a little bacon and eat it for the South Beach Diet as well. If you’re following the letter of the law for South Beach you could use turkey bacon.
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Historical Notes for this Recipe:
Cabbage Salad with Bacon and Goat Cheese was first posted April 2007 and last update June 2020.
25 Comments on “Cabbage Salad with Bacon and Goat Cheese”
So yummy
So glad you enjoyed it!
Wow! This recipe was unexpectedly amazing! I found it when I was looking for a way to use up the other half of a huge cabbage. I have never made cabbage salad, but now I will be making this one all the time. I seriously couldn't stop eating it.
Thanks Rachel; so glad you liked it!
I make a similar salad with Savoy cabbage – but I think I need more bacon LOL And the onion.The photos are great!
Thanks Katie! I know I'm too critical but all I see is the wrinkle in the fabric!
I love red cabbage but I don't prepare it nearly enough. Adding bacon and goat cheese definitely makes me want to run right out and grab some. Looks delicious, Kalyn!
Bill @ http://www.southernboydishes.com
Thanks Bill! Definitely three of my favorite salad ingredients.
I was wondering why you recommend throwing away the outer leaves when we waste so much food unnecessarily. The cabbage will be cooked so nothing cosmetic would show, is there something on the outer leaves that might be bad for you?
Elizabeth I said "remove discolored outer leaves." This cabbage isn't really cooked, just barely wilted, so if the outer leaves are getting brown, that won't look appealing. Of course other people may use their cabbage up more quickly than I do. And of course if the outer leaves on your cabbage don't look bad, go ahead and use them if you prefer.
I think your picture looks great and I think this salad sounds great! I don't know if I've ever combined goat cheese and cabbage.
Thanks Pam; you are too kind. I did work on the photo quite a bit, but it's still not great.
Your version sounds good to me!
Nice … I did it all different though, but that's the fun of cooking. I just poured some boiling water over my red cabbage. I made my bacon crispy in the microwave (between two sheets of kitchen paper). I didn't have any sherry vinegar, but I did have sherry and some lemon juice and I didn't have any goats cheese, but I did have some feta…. and still an awesome salad 🙂
Anonymous, love the idea of using this on fish tacos. That sounds like it would be fantastic.
The slaw was really yummy. I served it atop mahi mahi tacos with ancho chili salsa. It provided a great texture element.
Wow! I just finished eating this… what a fantastic recipe! I did it without the bacon because I just am not big on bacon and it was perfect! The goat cheese is soft so you really need to mix that in well…
I will absolutely make this again and again… and what a fantastic color it i will add to your meal!
The cabbage-bacon-feta combination sounds truly tasty, so I might try that one soon (not sure why, but cabbage/bacon seem to ask for firmer feta in my eyes, too, as opposed to creamier goat cheese).
This sounds like a great combination! Good and good for you! I will definitely give it a try!
I can taste this just from looking at it. As Christine said, this one’s a keeper.
I see I’m not the only bacon lover out there. Not the only cabbage lover too apparently. They really are a great combo.
My mother made a similar salad but with leaf lettuce. I loved it and I’m going to try yours with the cabbage…and the bacon! Life’s short!
This is one for my files Kalyn. I love red cabbage and can’t get enough good recipes for using it. This one’s a keeper. Thanks!
Kalyn,
I love bacon and this salad won my heart because of that. 😉
Hola Kalyn! I just love red cabbage…have never tried like this. Bacon and goat cheese could really dress up a veggie 🙂
Have a tasty week!