Napa Cabbage Salad Recipe {Asian Ramen Noodle Salad} (2024)

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Stir together napa cabbage, red cabbage and 1/3 cup sesame sauce in large bowl. Place cabbage on serving platter. Top with carrot, bell pepper, cucumber, edamame, green onion and wonton strips. Sprinkle with herbs, green onion and sesame seeds.

It's a great base to add to. Occasionally I'll add other vegetables if I fancy a more veggie-heavy ramen. Using cabbage of course is not traditional, but often pak choy and Asian-type vegetables are imported and not seasonal, so here you can achieve a similar taste with a seasonal vegetable.

Key ingredients for this Crunchy Ramen and Sesame Salad.

The lettuce- You can use whatever you want or have on hand. For the greens, I used a mix of lettuce for the texture. Super crunchy romaine and softer spring mix is a good balance.

Keep the white and the green parts separated. Cook the white part first before adding the greens, for the perfect cooked texture. (Optional) You can further slice or dice the white or green parts into smaller pieces, for example, long thin strips for making salad and coleslaw, or a small dice for dumpling filling.

Wafu (Japanese-Style) Dressing

Made with soy sauce, rice vinegar, roasted sesame seeds, and grated onion, this versatile wafu dressing goes well with any salad combo you can think of. You will love how it can deliver amazing flavors in such subtlety.

This cold noodle salad is made with ramen noodles, carrots, green onions, bell pepper, peanuts and a creamy peanut-y dressing that has a perfect balance of sesame oil and lime to it as well. I could slurp up the dressing with a straw if it was a normal thing to do!

Let's face it: Ramen ain't health food. But it's pretty simple to add a bit of roughage to your starch. Quick-cooking vegetables like baby spinach, romaine lettuce, bean sprouts, thinly sliced cabbage, watercress, and scallions (amongst others) can be stirred into the soup right before serving.

Ramen is actually of Chinese origin, with most historians agreeing that it was brought to Japan by Chinese immigrants living in Yokohama in the late 19th century. Today, ramen restaurants offer a variety of styles and toppings, but early iterations of ramen were simpler—wheat noodles with Chinese-style roasted pork.

Ramen (/ˈrɑːmən/) (拉麺, ラーメン or らーめん, rāmen, [ɾaꜜːmeɴ]) is a Japanese noodle dish of Chinese origin.

Cut each half of the cabbage in small chunks that can fit into the neck of your food processor. Place the lid on the food processor and remove the pushing mechanism from the feed tube. Make sure the lid snaps into place. Turn on the food processor and add cabbage, one chunk at a time, to the feed tube.