Easy Curry Coleslaw
I’ve always loved curry coleslaw. Some years ago there was a sandwich delivery van that delivered to the office where I worked and every day I’d order a curry coleslaw baguette! I’ll often make my own quick and easy curry coleslaw, the food cheats’ way of course!
For those of you who have a food processor, or are nifty with large/sharp knives, you might relish the thought of chopping up an entire cabbage etc…. food cheats don’t do this. If you’ve no need for a ton of coleslaw then there’s no shame in buying a small/budget pot of coleslaw from your local shop or supermarket. If there’s only you that likes coleslaw, then it can be tough work getting through a whole pot on your own!
To make an easy curry coleslaw simply:
- Buy any pot of regular coleslaw at the supermarket.
- Add a heaped teaspoon of curry powder for each ~150 grams of weight. So a 280 grams pot of plain coleslaw would need about 2 teaspoons of curry powder to be added.
- Add in some sultanas if you have them.
- Give it all a good stir in.
- Replace the lid and put the coleslaw back in the fridge. The longer you can leave it, the better the end result. Overnight is best.
- Add in some thinly sliced/chopped red/green/yellow peppers
- Make your own jalapeno coleslaw by grating a raw jalapeno chilli into the coleslaw
- Coronation coleslaw – follow a coronation chicken sauce recipe: Coronation Sauce Recipe.
Although you can eat the curry coleslaw immediately, you’ll probably find that the curry powder is a little bit ‘bitter’. It tastes much better if you can leave it to soak into the coleslaw for a few hours, better overnight.
Once made, the shelf-life of your pot of coleslaw is the same as the original coleslaw that you bought; adding the curry powder does not lessen, nor increase, the shelf-life.
What I’ll often do is buy a Large Pot of Coleslaw and spoon half of it out into a separate dish, then add curry powder and sultanas to just half. I’ve then got a choice of two coleslaws in the fridge.
Variations:
Coleslaw’s a great way to squeeze some of those 5-a-day into your diet and can be served as part of a salad, or even alongside hot foods such as chicken nuggets or even as a spicy jacket potato topping!
I’ve a growing collection of small lidded food storage boxes for the fridge which are perfect for holding these small quantities, or you can save a plastic butter tub for when you need to divide a pot of coleslaw in half and mix n match the other half. In high summer I’ll often have 3-4 variations of coleslaw on the go, all stacked up in see through boxes so I can see what I’ve got.
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