Winter Slaw
March 4th, 2009 by Leora
I rewrote the recipe for tekka such that the only required ingredient is ginger root. For every other ingredient, a possible substitute is given (or you can just opt out of that ingredient). However, if you do not include cabbage, you probably can’t call it a “slaw.”
Ingredients:
- 1 teaspoon grated ginger
- 2 tablespoons sesame oil (or substitute first cold pressed olive oil)
- 1 minced onion
- shredded carrots and/or shredded parsnip (about 1/2 cup)
- 1/4 of a green cabbage, shredded
- 1/4 of a purple cabbage, shredded
- 1 orange: use juice and grated rind (or substitute another citrus fruit, but if you use a lemon, you may want to add something to sweeten the recipe)
- 1 tablespoon barley miso diluted in a little water (optional, but it does add a lot to the flavor)
Preparation:
Heat the oil in a pan and sauté the vegetables in the following order: onion, carrot and/or parsnip, cabbages.
Squeeze juice from the orange over the vegetables. Add the ginger.
Cover with a lid and simmer on a low flame for about 15 minutes.
Add the diluted miso and cook for 3 minutes.
Add the orange rind and stir gently.
This is nice warm, but I can easily gobble it up at room temperature, too. Great flavor.
seems yummy
looks delicious too!
This looks great. I’ll have to try it one of these days.
However, if you do not include cabbage, you probably can’t call it a “slaw.”
This reminds me of when my then two-year-old son asked his grandmother for a piece of “apple pie but without the apples”. He couldn’t understand why all the adults at the table were amused…
Nice photo…it looks delicious. I will definitely try the recipe one day.
This looks wonderful. I’m going to print it to try it–hopefully soon!
It’s wonderful that you can find one recipe and then go off and make your own. But what I especially loved about the tekka is that it’s a condiment and can last quite a while – and be added to almost anything.
But I also love cooked cabbage – you can get pickled ginger in the States (without sugar) that also does amazing things to all my cabbage dishes.