This slaw-salad-steamed vegetable dish features inexpensive and readily available summer vegetables of red, orange, yellow, green and blue-purple colors (vary your colors to vary your nutrients.) You can enjoy the total sum of anti-oxidant vitamins, minerals and fiber from all the rainbow colors for pennies! Use pre-packaged cut cabbage and carrots or shred your own. Lightly steaming the vegetables deepens the flavor and extends the refrigeration “life” of the cleaned and chopped produce. Note: If you use purple cabbage in a large quantity, “blanch” separately or all of your ingredients will have a lovely lavender tint! Plan to use this simple preparation and dressing combination with any fresh garden veggie mixture. Top each serving with grilled tofu, seafood or poultry for a fast “whole meal” salad. Your healthy table will have a gorgeous palette of color; your healthy body will reap the benefit!

Ingredients

1 cup Packaged sugar snap peas, whole or cut in half
4 cups Coarsely shredded green and red cabbage
1 cup Grated carrots
1 cup Fresh cut corn or frozen cut corn
½ cup Sliced red onion
2 cups Chopped bell pepper (red, orange, yellow)

Dressing:
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1 tablespoon Canola oil
½ cup Apple cider or rice vinegar (not balsamic)
1 teaspoon Chili powder
2 tablespoons Brown Sugar (or equivalent sugar substitute)
1 teaspoon Chopped garlic

Preparation

1. Combine dressing ingredients and warm in the microwave for 30 seconds to dissolve and blend ingredients.
2. Boil 6 cups of water in a large pot.
3. Lower the snap peas, green cabbage, carrots and corn into the boiling water. “Blanch”, or steam quickly for 1 minute and drain, saving some water for the purple cabbage. Repeat the blanching process with the purple cabbage.
4. Drain and toss with onion, bell peppers and warm dressing.

Number of Cups: 7
Calories/Cup: 75

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Source: The Healthy Table

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