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This simple Lebanese cabbage salad is super quick and easy to make and is so vibrant and fresh. Dressed in a tangy lemon and olive oil dressing, it’s a perfect side to accompany all of your favorite summer mains like chicken kabobs and beef kafta.
Ingredients to make Lebanese cabbage salad
- Cabbage: Use green cabbage for this recipe. It has a great peppery flavor and is wonderfully crunchy and more traditional. I often make this salad using the smaller leaves left over from making stuffed cabbage.
- Tomatoes: Diced tomatoes add a lovely sweetness to the dish. I used plum tomatoes, but cherry will also work.
- Green Onions: Green onions add great flavor to this salad that’s light and less pungent that white onions.
- Parsley: Parsley adds a nice freshness to the dish. You can also use cilantro or fresh mint.
- Dressing: The dressing is made up of extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, dried mint, sumac, salt and pepper.
Tips for making cabbage salad
- Shred the cabbage, don’t cut the cabbage. You can use a knife to shred the cabbage finely, but it can be tedious. I find a wide vegetable peeler (affiliate link) is the best way to accomplish this quickly!
- Don’t skip the fresh herbs! It really lifts the dish and makes it fresh and summery. If you don’t like parsley, you can substitute this for cilantro, basil or mint.
- Cut the tomatoes and green onions into similar sized small pieces. This will make the salad easier to combine and everything will get distributed evenly.
Frequently asked questions
When cabbage sits, it releases water, so it’s best to serve this salad within 4 hours of making it. The dressing can be made up to 5 days ahead of time and stored in the fridge.
Traditionally green cabbage is used, but you can use red if you prefer. They have similar flavors, but red is lightly more peppery. I like to use green which is milder.
I like to serve this salad in the same way as coleslaw. It’s great with grilled chicken, fish and steak and I’ve even been known to top fish tacos with it!
More summer salads:
- Healthy Coleslaw
- Tabouli
- Lebanese Fattoush Salad
- Cauliflower Potato Salad
- Corn Tomato Avoado Salad
- Healthy Tuna Salad
- Healthy Egg Salad
- Avocado Chicken Salad
- Apple Walnut Salad
- Shirazi Salad
- Peach Salad
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Lebanese Cabbage Salad
Ingredients
For the salad
- 6 cups shredded green cabbage
- ½ cup diced tomatoes
- ½ cup packed chopped parsley
- 3 green onions sliced
For the dressing
- ⅓ cup extra virgin olive oil
- ¼ cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
- ½ teaspoon dried mint
- ¼ teaspoon sumac optional
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 garlic clove pressed
Instructions
- In a small bowl, mix the ingredients of the dressing together.
- Place shredded green cabbage, diced tomatoes, and chopped parsley in a large bowl. Pour the dressing over the coleslaw and toss to combine.
- Serve immediately, or cover and refrigerate for up to 4 hours.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information provided is an estimate. It will vary based on cooking method and specific ingredients used.
This is such a delicious and easy salad. It goes great with your Lebanese Potato Souffle/Batata Souffle! You have the BEST Recipe blog! It is perfect.
Love this recipe! Super easy and refreshing. It was my first time making it, but it will definitely be my new go to!
Thank you so much!
Love this coleslaw!!! So delicious! The dressing is the key🍋🍋
Thank you so much!! It really is!
Yummy salad for a summer day. Tasty, light, colorful, crunchy… perfect!
That’s great! Thank you!!
Sooo light and refreshing perfect for the summer. I paired it with her mjadara recipe.
I love that! Sounds delicious!!
So good! My husband loved it too which says a lot. I made mine with a little red bellpepper, lime instead of lemon and added a squeeze of honey to the dressing. I also subbed grapeseed oil for the olive oil. I wished I did but didnt have the mint or Sumac but I imagine it makes it taste EVEN better. Thank you so much!!!! Will definitely make this again very soon! I think it would be great to bring to a party too!
Thank you, Sasha! Those alterations still sound amazing! I think that’d be a great idea!
Fantastic recipe! It’s one of my favorites. I put my family on to it and now they rave about it, too.
So glad you and your family like it, Greta!
This was very good and flavourful
I’m so happy to hear it! Thank you!
The ingredients also do not state green peppers but the instructions do.
Great point…I sometimes add it in there, but it’s not in this specific version, so I just corrected the instructions. thank you!
Is it parsley or cilantro in the recipe? It says one in the ingredients and one in the recipe
Sorry it should be cilantro! But parsley works great too!
This looks SO flavorful and fresh Yumna! Def making this for my next bbq.
Thanks Elizabeth!