How to Shred Cabbage for Salad Into Thin Strips

        This page how to shred cabbage into thin strips mostly to share advice for young home cooks. I learned this technique a long time ago. I am Russian, and we have a lot of cabbage dishes and cook cabbage often. I posted a video on YouTube and didn’t expect many people to be interested. It is one of the most watching my videos. Cabbage has the most valuable leaves for salad on top where the leaves are thin. So when we shred the top for salad, the salad will be finer and nicer. Cabbage can be winter lighter color and very solid or summer cabbage, the very fluffy and green color usually. Just maybe useful will be for someone, I going to mention a few tips about fermenting cabbage. For fermented cabbage, the best is winter cabbage. Very important to choose the right salt for pickling. The best for pickling any vegetable is crystal salt because it is natural and has nothing in it. To fine salt, companies add chemicals to prevent hardening and it is not beneficial for canning. Don’t use iodized salt for canning either. I did a lot of canning in my life when I was living in Russia.

         I often use to make coleslaw and other salads with cabbage, like Russian stir-fry cabbage salad or Russian cabbage salad (slightly pickled). I am going to share with you how I was taught by my family member a long time ago. This technique to slice cabbage great to use also to make fermented sauerkraut as other dishes from shredded cabbage.

The bottom of the cabbage I use for cooking different dishes, for example, stuffed cabbage leaves, soup Vegetarian Borscht

Safety Tip For Cutting Cabbage

Please, remember the golden rule when cutting any big vegetable. Create a flat surface on the bottom by cutting a small slice, so it not rolling on a cutting board.