Spicy Coleslaw

Spicy Coleslaw
Andrew Sullivan for The New York Times
Total Time
10 minutes, plus hours' refrigeration
Rating
5(1,491)
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This easy, crisp slaw can be made a few hours ahead of time. It goes well with ribs and a cold beer, fried chicken or whatever summer feast sparks your fancy.

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Ingredients

Yield:Serves 6
  • 1medium head green cabbage
  • 2carrots, peeled and grated
  • ½cup mayonnaise
  • 2tablespoons pickle relish
  • 1tablespoon Dijon mustard
  • 1tablespoon cider vinegar
  • 2teaspoons pepper sauce, like Frank’s, or to taste
  • Kosher salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper
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Nutritional analysis per serving (6 servings)

235 calories; 19 grams fat; 4 grams saturated fat; 0 grams trans fat; 6 grams monounsaturated fat; 9 grams polyunsaturated fat; 13 grams carbohydrates; 5 grams dietary fiber; 7 grams sugars; 4 grams protein; 504 milligrams sodium

Note: The information shown is Edamam’s estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.

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Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Cut the cabbage in half and remove the core. Cut each half in half and slice each resulting quarter into thin ribbons. Mix with carrots in a large, nonreactive bowl.

  2. Step 2

    In a separate bowl, whisk together the remaining ingredients.

  3. Step 3

    Pour the dressing over the cabbage and toss. Season to taste.

  4. Step 4

    The coleslaw may be covered with plastic wrap and refrigerated for a few hours. Toss again before serving.

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Is sweet or dill pickle relish used?

I found this slaw to be fairly oily and bland, even adding more hot sauce and less mayo. Mark Bittman has a recipe that is very light on the oil--better "mouth-feel" and highlights the taste of the vegetables.

This was fantastic. I'm in India trying to replicate slaw from home. This was perfect. I had to make my own mayo, which I've failed at in the past, but I used another recipe on this site to make it, and it worked great, and it made everything better. I may never go back to jar mayo again now that I've pulled it off. It just elevated this slaw so much and made me feel better about it, knowing what went in. Great slaw recipe, but make your own mayo to make it even better!

How do you salt it? What is ratio of cabbage to salt?

Alterations: I did 2 TBLS of apple cider vinegar. 1 tsp. of dijon. 1 TBLS sugar. 1/2 tsp. onion powder. Came out great.

Use an equivalent amount of pickle juice from a jar of pickles. If you don’t have pickles, up the vinegar and salt a bit and add some dried spices (dill, garlic, etc.).

½ head (medium) green cabbage, ½ head (small) radiccio, 1 carrot -- mix and add salt, pepper, and 1 Tbs. cider vinegar and let stand 1 Tbs. bread & butter pickle, minced ¼ c. mayo ½ Tbs. Dijon mustard 1 tsp. Tabasco (no Frank's on hand; sriracha would undoubtedly be fine) Add to veggie mix (no need to combine dressing ingredients separately) and toss.

Tasty basic slaw recipe that I’ll use again and again. Thank you, Sam and the NYT Cooking team for all of your hard work and committment to excellence. I cook from your recipe bank multiple times a week and it brings me joy to prepare great meals!

I like a bit of celery seed and dill [fresh if available] in my slaw. Really picks up the flavor.

I used the siracha and a little bit of habenero hot sauce. I had a cabbage about the size of a volleyball, so I guess it was bigger than a medium. I had to make one and a half of the sauce recipe. It would help to have cup measure of cabbage in the recipe. How big is a medium cabbage?

This has become my go-to summer grilling slaw. Really tasty and all the ingredients are usually on hand. The Frank's hot sauce is the secret weapon and can be adjusted if you, as I do, like it a bit more picante.

Made this as written, except salted the cabbage for several hours first--delicious.

About 8 cups, uncooked.

As far as I can tell, pickle relish is just minced bread-and-butter (sweet) pickles. I never buy bottled relish, preferring to mince the pickles I have on hand that I know I like. I love sweet horseradish pickles and bet they would be good in this recipe. I didn't have Frank's hot sauce on hand, so subbed Tabasco, which worked wonderfully.

A drizzle of honey makes the whole dish come together.

I substituted what I had: cornichons/pickled peppers for pickle relish; Siracha for Frank's; and honey mustard for the Dijon. Super delicious!

I LOVE this slaw! I had no Frank's, so used Tobasco, and I had no carrots so made it just cabbage. What a treat!

Made as directed, though hard to know if the amount of cabbage I used was what was indicated given lack of measured amt. Felt like it could have used just a bit more dressing and definitely more pepper sauce in order to be billed as spicy. Those things being said, it was good slaw. Not a 5-star recipe from my standpoint but a very good place to make coleslaw that is not sweet and to adjust to your own taste once you’ve tasted the dressing.

This was excellent. I had bought a bag of shredded cole slaw mix (shhh), so this was a cinch. Instead of Franks, I used a big drizzle of Trader Joe’s Hot Honey Sauce, and it was great. The only thing I might suggest would be to cut back a smidge on the mustard.

This recipe is easy. I like Ikp's suggestion to add: ½ head (medium) green cabbage, ½ head (small) radiccio, 1 carrot -- mix and add salt, pepper, and 1 Tbs. cider vinegar and let stand 1 Tbs. bread & butter pickle, minced ¼ c. mayo ½ Tbs. Dijon mustard 1 tsp. Tabasco (no Frank's on hand; sriracha would undoubtedly be fine) Add to veggie mix (no need to combine dressing ingredients separately) and toss.

My recipe for coleslaw cabbage,carrot,celery,red apple skin on parsley Coleslaw dressing small squeeze lemon juice.

Excellent! Used Divina Chopped Calabrian peppers (highly recommended). Used heaping measurements for dressing elements and hand cut cabbage and carrots. Good for all kinds main meat, chicken, pasta, and mushroom dishes.

Fail proof.

I love this coleslaw recipe. We finely dice bread and butter pickles for the relish and also a Serrano or jalapeño for extra flavor.

This is a great and easy coleslaw dressing recipe

I used a mandoline for the fine cut, grater on fine for the carrots and 1 whole sweet apple. A nice squirt of agave and no hot sauce. It was divine.

I used sour cream instead of mayonnaise, and added: thinly sliced celery, chili powder, Cajun spice blend, garlic powder, a little bit of granulated raw sugar, salt and pepper (all to taste), and used bread & butter pickle juice instead of pickle relish because that’s what I had on hand. Delicious. Definite repeat.

Thank you! I'm making this recipe for the second time, super with pulled pork. Much improvement between chopping cabbage for V1 and shredding for V2 - blindingly obvious. This time, I worked slower with quartered pieces. Could see the knife move through the shredding. Lifted the top four or five layers to flatten and shred separately English salad cream instead of mayo, 'cos that was on hand. A "hot dog vendor approved" relish. The salt was from a mine in Utah. Homemade mayo next time.

Only three people in the house and gone in 24 hours. So good.

This is a great basic slaw for people who like spice—after making it the first time I reduced the Mayo and upped the hot sauce (by a LOT). I have other slaw recipes that are more involved but for a super fast weeknight side just throw the dressing over a package of coleslaw mix.

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