Napa Cabbage Salad

 We've officially hit the season on the acre where our spring vegetables are growing in abundance, giving one last push before the summer vegetables come into full swing.

This is a salad that we love and that we've adapted over the years from Trisha Yearwood's Thai Cabbage Salad that you can find on Food Network. It's a great way to use up your spring vegetables and it's cool and crisp to eat on a hot day.

Salad Ingredients:

1 head Napa cabbage, roughly chopped

2 green onions, diced

10-15 sugar snap peas, roughly chopped

3 Hakurei salad turnips, diced

3 radishes, diced

2 carrots, diced

1 small cucumber, diced

Dressing Ingredients:

1/2 c oil

1/8 c sugar

juice of one lime

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon pepper

optional- pinch of red pepper flakes or dash of hot sauce to add heat

Some spring favorites include sugar snap peas and spring onions. Napa cabbage isn't as popular, but we hope you learn to love it too after tryng this salad!

Roughly chop your Napa cabbage. We always tell customers to wash their head lettuce because dirt gets stuck in the layers as you can see in this photo.

We use both the bottoms and tops of our spring onions in this recipe. The blushing onions add a fun pop!

The nice thing about this salad is that you can change up the vegetables! The original recipe called for carrots and cucumber, and we started adding in any extra vegetables we had left over from market. Some of our favorites to add in are salad turnips and radishes for their great texture!

We also started adding in sugar snap peas for their sweetness and crunch.

Throw all of the vegetables into a bowl. They look pretty layered (our daughters joke that it's like eating a vegetable trifle) or toss it to mix everything up.

Pour the oil, sugar, lime juice, garlic powder, salt, and pepper into a canning jar. Put a lid on and shake vigorously. Pour over your vegetables. You can eat it right away, but we like to cover it and let it sit in the fridge for a couple of hours to let the flavors come together.

Enjoy!