This slaw recipe is intended to enhance your main dish.

Chef Eric, here! There is some kind of magical synergy that happens when barbecue sauce and coleslaw get together on a pulled pork sandwich. This green onion and apple slaw recipe is intended to enhance that synergy.

I also love this Green Onion and Apple Slaw on hot dogs and burgers. So, if you get invited to a cookout: showing up with a bowl of this coleslaw will always be a good move.

Ingredients

Note: this recipe makes a large quantity of slaw, if you are just making it for the family at home cut the ingredients in half.

Slaw

1/2 head Green Cabbage
A medium Carrot Shredded
1 Apple cored and shredded
Single bunch Green Onion chopped
1 tsp Kosher Salt
1tsp Sugar
1 tbsp. White Vinegar

Dressing

1 1/2 cup Mayo
1/4 cup White Vinegar
2 tsp Kosher Salt
5 1/2 tbsp. Sugar
1 tsp Black Pepper
1/4 tsp Cayenne Pepper
1/4 tsp Celery Seed

Let’s Get to Shredding

I begin by chopping my green cabbage as thin as I can. Feel free to use any kitchen gadget you have to make this easier for you.

I prefer to do it by hand, as hand shredding cabbage is a great knife skill practice.

Once the cabbage is all shredded transfer it to a large colander.

Then shred your carrot, and apple, and chop the green onions.

Add them all to the colander with the cabbage.

Next, add 1 tsp kosher salt, and 1 tsp sugar, along with 1 tbsp. white vinegar. Mix it all together thoroughly.

Place the colander over a large bowl, to catch the liquid that the salt and sugar extract. And let it sit for at least 30 – 40 minutes.

The point of this step is to pull some of the extra water out of the vegetables before combining it with the dressing.

If you have ever made slaw before, you know that it usually winds up with the dressing getting very watery and unpleasant. This process solves that problem.

A Slaw is Only as Good as Its Dressing

Next in a large bowl, simply combine all the dressing ingredients listed above, and mix them together. Bam, done!

My Cabbage mix has been resting for about 40 minutes now. I have extracted about a cup of water. This would have ruined the slaw.

Now we just simply add the cabbage mix to the dressing bowl and combine, easy peasy lemon squeezy.

This slaw is best after a day or so. It can take time for the flavor of the celery seed, and the green onion to leech into the dressing. So make this the day before the cookout.

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Pairs Great With Apple Bourbon Pork Tenderloin

This will pair great with Debbie’s Apple Bourbon Pork Tenderloin in the instant pot!