Eating vegetables has never been more easy than with this simple vegetable chopped salad recipe! Finely chopped cabbage, kale, carrots, and radishes are the base for this brightly-colored salad. For all you veggie lovers, try rainbow wraps or a vegetable crudite!
Key Ingredients
- Cabbage: I alternate using green and purple cabbage, and buy whatever is on sale.
- Kale: Remove the stems before chopping the kale or buy a bag of pre-cut kale and finely chop that.
- Radishes: Peppery radishes add color and flavor.
- Carrots: Carrots add the perfect crunch.
Additions and Substitutions
This recipe is a base, but I would love to see how you get creative and eat whatever vegetables you have available to you. Here are some suggestions for how you can change the salad up a bit.
- Replace the crispy kale and cabbage with other greens such as lettuce, watercress, broccoli sprouts, or alfalfa sprouts. You can also include fresh herbs like cilantro, parsley, dill, or mint.
- Get creative by adding vegetables like red onions, scallions, leeks, Brussels sprouts, snap peas, celery, cucumbers, or bell peppers.
- Shaved almonds and hulled pumpkin or sunflower seeds are a tasty addition to the salad.
- Top the salad with juicy grape or cherry tomatoes.
How to Make Vegetable Chopped Salad
The full recipe with measurements is in the recipe card below.
Step 1: Finely chop the cabbage, kale, radishes, and carrots.
Step 2: Add them to a mixing bowl and stir to combine.
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Serving Suggestions
Toss the chopped vegetable salad with herb based sauces like pistachio pesto or spicy skhug and serrano crema. You can always buy store-bought dressing to finish the salad or make your own. Here are a few of my favorite dressing recipes:
- Sherry Shallot Dressing
- Ranch Dressing
- Miso Vinaigrette
- Avocado Green Goddess Dressing
- Blackberry Vinaigrette
Frequently Asked Questions
What does chopped salad mean?
A chopped salad consists of ingredients that have been uniformly chopped and tossed together.
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Vegetable Chopped Salad
- 1 green or purple cabbage, finely chopped
- 1-2 bunches kale, stem removed, and finely chopped
- 1 package red radishes, finely chopped
- 5 carrots, peeled, and finely chopped
- Finely chop the cabbage, kale, radishes, and carrots.
- Add each one to a mixing bowl and stir to combine.
- The nutritional information shown is an estimate provided by an online nutrition calculator. It should not be considered a substitute for professional advice.