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Photo of a colorful festive fresh salad for holiday dinners with pomegranate, white and purple cabbage, lettuce, dill, raisins, apple, carrot and mint

Colorful and fresh salad for festive dinners, and not only.

Impress your guests with this festive salad. A feast of colors and flavors with a wonderful fresh sauce.

Course Salad, Salads

Cuisine Raw Vegan, Vegan, Raw

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Prep Time 20

Total Time 20

Servings people

Calories 1152kcal

Author Thodoris Tibilis

Ingredients

Salad

4 cups white cabbage cut into thin strips (julienned)
4 cups purple cabbage cut into thin strips (julienned)
½ lettuce cut into bite-size pieces
2 carrots cut into thin slices using a peeler, and then into small squares
1 apple diced
1 pomegranate the seeds (check out our video on how to deseed it in just 2 minutes)
1 cup dill finely chopped
1 cup fresh mint finely chopped (keep 5-6 whole leaves to serve)
1 cup raisins (preferably black ones)
¼ tsp cinnamon (optional)

Dressing

1 lemon (the juice)
3 Tbsp white vinegar
1 Tbsp pekmez/grape molasses or molasses
1 Tbsp mustard (optional)
salt

Instructions

Preparation

Prepare the sauce by mixing well all the ingredients for the sauce.
Keep aside some dill, mint, raisins, apple, and pomegranate for garnishing.
In a large mixing bowl assemble the salad, adding all the salad ingredients.
Then, add the sauce, toss to coat and serve immediately.

Serving

Serve, transferring the salad to a large salad pan, without any overcooking sauce. Garnish, putting on top the materials we kept for garnishing. In order, apple, raisins, dill, pomegranate and finally mint. If we feel bold enough we pour a little cinnamon in the end :)
If you want to impress, such as at the Christmas dinner, you can serve it without tossing. In this case, you'll have a result similar to the photo. To achieve this, strip each ingredient, side by side with the sauce in a separate bowl. Add the sauce and toss when all guests are at the table and serve immediately. This time, cinnamon is a must!

Notes

1. To prevent the apple from turning brown, as soon as you dice it, dip it in some lemon juice.
2. Serve immediately because the purple cabbage will color the rest of the ingredients as time passes. Of course, they get tastier, but if you're interested in the appearance, serve it immediately.
3. Instead of raisins you can use fresh or dried blueberries or cranberries.
4. If you have any salad left (which is very unlikely!) keep in the fridge for one day. That way the ingredients will marinate and some will soften, but the flavors will come together. It will be less presentable, but very yummy.

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