Two days after publishing last week’s “Tasty Tuesdays” post (which featured a recipe called “Old-Fashioned Cabbage Salad”), I attended June’s “Cooking Through the Calendar” class offered by my local county cooperative extension office, and I was surprised to discover that they were featuring a recipe called “Fruited Coleslaw”! Because my most recent “Tasty Tuesdays” post featured a cabbage recipe (AND the coleslaw dish that they made for us was quite tasty), I decided to follow up last week’s post by featuring their coleslaw recipe in this week’s “Tasty Tuesdays” post. So… Without further ado, here is this week’s recipe!
Fruited Coleslaw
2 Tablespoons mayonnaise
1/2 teaspoon apple cider vinegar (or any type of vinegar)
2 teaspoons sugar
3 Tablespoons crushed pineapple canned in 100% juice, including juice
2 cups shredded or finely chopped cabbage
1/2 cup chopped apples (or fruit of choice: orange, mandarin oranges, pear)
1/2 cup raisins or dried cranberries
- Wash hands with warm water and soap, scrubbing for at least 20 seconds.
- Wash fresh produce under cool running water, using a vegetable brush to scrub veggies with a firm surface. Dry and cut to prepare for this recipe.
- Combine mayonnaise, vinegar, sugar, and pineapple in a small bowl. Stir to mix well.
- In another bowl, combine cabbage and other fruit.
- Pour dressing over cabbage and fruit. Stir to mix.
- Serve right away.
- Refrigerate leftovers within 2 hours.
Makes 6 servings
Serving size: 1/2 cup
Cost per recipe: $1.57
Cost per serving: $0.26 [A very economical side dish for a summer cook-out!]
Although I don’t normally include the “Nutrition facts per serving” for the recipes I feature in these “Tasty Tuesdays” posts, their recipe for “Fruited Coleslaw” included them, so I figured that I’d do the same by including them, too. [NOTE: If you would like me to include nutritional information for these posts, please let me know, and I’ll try to accommodate your request.] Here’s the nutritional information for “Fruited Coleslaw”:
Nutrition facts per serving:
100 calories; 3.5g total fat; 0.5g saturated fat; 0g transfat; 0mg cholesterol; 40mg sodium; 16g total carbohydrate; 2g dietary fiber; 14g total sugars; 1g added sugars; 1g protein; 0% Daily Value of vitamin D; 2% Daily Value of calcium; 6% Daily Value of iron; 2% Daily Value of potassium.
This recipe also included several other tidbits of information, so I thought I’d share them with you, too. Here goes…
Make it a Meal
- Fruited Coleslaw
- Southern Fish in Foil
- Broccoli Cornbread [I’ve never heard of this kind of cornbread before, but I do like broccoli.]
- Yogurt Parfait
- Glass of water or hot herbal tea
Ingredient Spotlight — CABBAGE
Cabbage is high in vitamin C. Vitamin C helps in healing wounds and in forming bones, ligaments, and tendons.
Source: FDA’s Interactive Nutrition Facts label — Vitamins and Minerals Chart.
Substitutions: This dish would be delicious with many different fruits. Mandarin oranges and blueberries would be a nice complement to this dish.
Although I was a bit skeptical of the addition of raisins or dried cranberries, I was happy that they (the two county cooperative extension office “chefs) decided to go with dried cranberries instead of the raisins (since I don’t like raisins — except in raisin bread), and I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I actually enjoyed the addition of the dried cranberries in this recipe — so much that I might even purchase my own bag of dried cranberries along with the crushed pineapple from my local grocery store. I think I’m going to be making “Fruited Coleslaw” again — if for no other reason than to satisfy my “sweet tooth” at our next family cook-out — though I’ll probably have to limit myself to a single serving to keep my glucose levels under control.
Should you decide to make a batch of “Fruited Coleslaw” for yourself, I’d love to hear what you thought of the recipe. I’m sure the cooperative extension “chefs” would get a kick out of hearing from my readers. So… Please take a moment to let me know your thoughts about this week’s “Tasty Tuesdays” recipe. Looking forward to hearing from you!