Napa Cabbage Salad Recipe

Easy Napa Cabbage Salad Tossed with Homemade Dressing

napa cabbage salad on plate

A napa cabbage salad is delicious and simple to make, even when you toss it in your own homemade sesame oil dressing.

The vegetables are crispy and the dressing is tangy with a hint of sweetness.

You can add some protein to it to make a meal of the salad or you can simply enjoy it with your meal.

Napa Cabbage

Crisp napa cabbage is a wonderful base for a salad.

The flavor is delicious and is still has a nice crunch to it after you’ve added salad dressing.

Napa cabbage are typically large and can weigh two or more pounds at the grocery store, and often bigger than that at a farmer’s market.

This is great, if you can use that much.

Another option is a convenient one pound package of Melissa’s ready to use napa cabbage leaves.

Carrots

Beautiful and delicious carrots are a wonderful addition to this salad.

There are many ways that you can prepare the carrots, depending upon your personal preference.

For my salad, I peeled the carrots and then thin sliced them on the diagonal.

This adds nice texture to the salad and the carrots look pretty.

Cilantro

There are two types of people in the world: those who love cilantro and those who hate cilantro.

My family is in the “we really love cilantro” camp, so I grow it in the garden year round and we eat it often.

I enjoy the flavor and pretty dark green color that it gives this cabbage salad.

However, if you are someone who doesn’t care for cilantro, you can leave it out of this recipe.

Honey

While we don’t need a salad to be overly sweet, a touch of honey gives the napa cabbage salad just the right amount of sweetness.

The honey adds nice flavor along with the sweetness, so choose a good quality honey for this recipe.

Thanks Melissa’s Produce for the honey and vegetables.