Ellens Easy Napa Salad Recipes

NAPA CABBAGE SALAD

Steps:

• Finely shred the head of cabbage; do not chop. Combine the green onions and cabbage in a large bowl, cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Make the crunchies: Melt the butter in a pot. Mix the ramen noodles, sesame seeds and almonds into the pot with the melted butter. Spoon the mixture onto a baking sheet and bake the crunchies in the preheated 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven, turning often to make sure they do not burn. When they are browned remove them from the oven.
• Make the dressing: In a small saucepan, heat vinegar, oil, sugar, and soy sauce. Bring the mixture to a boil, let boil for 1 minute. Remove the pan from heat and let cool.
• Combine dressing, crunchies, and cabbage immediately before serving. Serve right away or the crunchies will get soggy.

NAPA SALAD

Steps:

• Prepare cabbage as you would lettuce for salad.
• In small bowl, mix noodles, nuts and seeds.
• Set aside.
• In quart jar add vinegar and sugar, shake to dissolve sugar.
• Add soy sauce and oil.
• Put cabbage in bowl.
• top with nut mixture and pour dressing on top.
• Best when nut mixture stays.
• separate until ready to eat so noodles don't get soggy.

NAPA CABBAGE SALAD

Steps:

• Put the garlic in a large salad bowl and mix in all the remaining ingredients except the cabbage.
• Trim the cabbage, removing and discarding damaged or wilted leaves, and cut the head crosswise into 1-inch slices. You should have about 8 cups. Wash well and spin dry in a salad dryer (moisture would dilute the dressing). Ten or 15 minutes before serving, add the cabbage to the dressing, toss well and set aside, so the dressing can penetrate the cabbage and soften it slightly.

ELLEN'S EASY NAPA SALAD

Steps:

• Topping--melt butter in large skillet, brown sesame seeds, almonds, sunflower seeds and ramen noodles until golden brown.
• Drain on paper towels and cool.
• Dressing-- mix sugar, oil, vinegar and soy sauce in small saucepan.
• Cook over medium heat until sugar is disolved.
• Cool.
• Salad-- slice cabbage into ribbons and toss with green onions.
• To serve-- mound salad into bowl, sprinkle on desired amount of topping, and drizzle on desired amount of dressing.