Pieday Friday – Homemade + healthy sweet ‘n’ sour coleslaw recipe

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I’m getting ready for BBQ season with this week’s Pieday Friday recipe. Yes, I’m making homemade coleslaw, which we all know is the best type of coleslaw in the world. Sure, you can spend ££s on luxury coleslaw if you really want to, but nothing beats the fresh, zesty crunch of a homemade ‘slaw. Use it to funk up salads, to dollop on top of your burger, to serve as a BBQ side dish, or to mix with cheese as a crunchy sandwich filling. However you use it up, the freshness of a homemade coleslaw will have you going back to the fridge again and again to help yourself to another spoonful with your lunch. Here’s how I made an ultra-fresh and zingy coleslaw: Ingredients (serves 4 plus a small tub of leftovers to keep in the fridge!): 1/4 of a white cabbage, 4 peeled carrots, 1 white onion, 1 red onion, 1 zingy green apple and 1 sweet red apple, cored and quartered, a dash of lemon juice, 250ml non-fat natural yoghurt, 2 tablespoon course mustard, 100ml picked gherkin juice (or white vinegar), salt and pepper.

Use a food processor with a thin slicing blade to finely slice up the cabbage and both onions.

Change to the grater blade and add the carrots, and both apples.

Toss the ingredients together with a splash of lemon juice to stop the apples from going brown.

Dollop in the yoghurt and mustard and give the coleslaw a stir.

Drizzle in the picked gherkin juice (which is both sweet and vinegary), mix again and season to taste.

Store in a sealed tub in the fridge and serve up alongside your BBQ burger this summer! This was the first time I’d tried using a food processor (this one is a Panasonic MK-F800) and it made the process of making the coleslaw fantastically fast. Plus, the fine slicing blade got the onions and cabbage so wafter-thin – something I’ve never been able to achieve with a knife. While I had the food processor on the go, I also whizzed some potatoes through the julienne blade (with skins still on) to rustle up the quickest batch of chips I’ve ever made. Just a spritz of fry-light before oven baking was all the potatoes needed to turn them into crisp homemade (and healthy!) chips. Considering I’d never used a food processor before, I got to grips with the Panasonic processor really quickly. It wasn’t long before I was looking for more vegetables to chop up or slice. While I was at it, I finely sliced up all the rest of the white cabbage so that I could freeze it in portions. I find that cabbage is one of those vegetables that I really like but that I hardly ever eat because you never use a whole one at once (not between the two of us anyway!) so I always end up with a limp half-cabbage that I forget about and find a month later slowing wilting at the back of the salad drawer. At least this way there was no wastage and I’ve got the right size portions in my freezer, ready to eat with bangers and mash. Let me know if you have a go at making this recipe and tell me how you would funk up your coleslaw in other ways – would you add cheese, zesty orange segments or sliced gherkins?? What’s your signature homemade coleslaw recipe that your BBQ guests cant get enough of? Also, it would be great to hear your ideas about what other things I can use my food processor for, so please do get in touch to tell me how you use your applicances. Leave me a comment below or tweet me @cassiefairy.

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