{"id":7029599,"date":"2026-08-06T04:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/health-salad-recipe-food-in-jars\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T04:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:58:06","slug":"health-salad-recipe-food-in-jars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7029599","title":{"rendered":"Health Salad Recipe \u2013 Food in Jars"},"content":{"rendered":"


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This recipe for Health Salad is my own entry in this month\u2019s Community Canning Challenge<\/a>. We are focusing on ways to preserve brassicas and root vegetables<\/a> this month. For more information on the challenge, click here<\/a>. To chat with other participants about what we\u2019ve all made, you can either subscribe to my Substack<\/a> (all challenge related posts are free) or join us on the Food in Jars community group on Facebook<\/a>. Now, on to the recipe! <\/em><\/p>\n

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Health salad is essentially a quick pickled sweet and sour cabbage dish and it is one of the foundational dishes of east coast deli culture. You\u2019ll often see it served alongside pickles at the start of a dine-in deli meal, as something to munch on while you decide what to order. I came to love it during the years that we had an outpost of Philly\u2019s Famous Fourth Street Deli on our block. <\/p>\n

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There are a number of ways to make health salad, but the fixed stars in the recipe\u2019s constellation are cabbage, vinegar, and more sugar than you\u2019d expect for something with the word \u201chealth\u201d in the name. I season mine with salt, pepper, and celery seed, and add carrot to accompany the cabbage. Other recipes will sometimes include bell pepper (both green and red), cucumber, and thinly shaved radishes. <\/p>\n

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Take whatever vegetables you plan on using (this time, I used half a green cabbage and one very large carrot) and either finely slice it with a sharp knife or use the shredding blade on your food processor. I always find myself debating which is more work, hand slicing everything or cleaning the food processor. This time, the food processor felt easier, so that\u2019s how I did it.<\/p>\n

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Once the veg is ready, prepare the dressing by combining 3\/4 cup white vinegar with 1\/3 to 1\/2 cup granulated sugar, 2 tablespoons neutral oil, 1 tablespoon salt, 1 teaspoon black pepper, and 1\/2 teaspoon celery seed in a small saucepan. Warm the dressing, stirring as it heats, until the sugar is dissolved. You do not want to boil the dressing or even make it particularly warm. You just want to ensure the sugar melts into the vinegar. <\/p>\n

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When the dressing is ready, pour it over the veg. Stir to combine and let it sit for awhile. Pack it into a jar and refrigerate it. Provided you use a scrupulously clean jar and you\u2019re careful about using clean utensils when portioning it out, this salad will keep for at least two weeks in the fridge. <\/p>\n

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Now, let\u2019s talk canning, because I know someone will eventually ask me, \u201ccan you can health salad?\u201d Currently, as my recipe is written, you cannot. There aren\u2019t any tested recipes from the National Center for Home Food Preservation or Ball that are easily translated to this application. The closest thing I can find is a recipe for Spiced Red Cabbage in the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving. It uses 12 pounds of cabbage and 8 cups of vinegar, but provided one kept the ratios of veg to vinegar, it does seem like a canning safe recipe could be written. If there is interest, I could work on that, but for today we\u2019re making health salad one quart at a time and keeping it in the fridge. <\/p>\n

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For more about health salad, make sure to read Sonya Sanford\u2019s article on the topic<\/a>. And if you find you like a fridge pickle like this one, don\u2019t miss this giant bowl of pickles<\/a>. It\u2019s always a winner. <\/p>\n

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