The Last Slaw
A side that changes with the season
Coleslaw lovers usually fall into one of two camps: mayonnaise or vinegar. At Hillside Farmacy in Austin, Texas, chef Sonya Coté skips both in favor of a slaw bound with yogurt. She sweetens the yogurt with honey and tempers slices of slightly bitter kale, bok choy and daikon with golden raisins, pecans, dried cherries and crisp shards of apple and pear. But don’t get too stuck in your (slaw) ways: Coté changes hers with the season, stirring in root vegetables such as beets and carrots in the winter, and spring onions and arugula in the spring.
Seasonal Slaw with Kale, Apple and Dried Fruit
Yield: Serves 8
- INGREDIENTS
3 cups thinly sliced green cabbage
2 kale leaves, stem removed and leaves stacked, rolled and thinly sliced crosswise (about 1 cup ribboned kale)
1 cup thinly sliced bok choy leaves
½ cup thinly sliced daikon radish
1 apple (such as Pink Lady or Honeycrisp)--halved, cored and coarsely chopped
1 Bosc pear?halved, cored and coarsely chopped
¼ cup golden raisins
¼ cup dried cherries
¼ cup pumpkin seeds (Pepitas)
¼ cup toasted pecans
1½ cups plain whole milk yogurt
1½ tablespoons honey
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
About The Chef
Before becoming the chef-owner of Hillside Farmacy, a restaurant and specialty grocer in Austin, Texas, Sonya Coté worked in marketing and graphic design departments of Whole Foods in Dallas, Texas, and the Hoffman Haus and The Natural Palette Cooking School, both in Fredricksburg, Texas. She moved to Austin and worked at Spirited Food Co. and East Side Showroom before opening Hillside Farmacy in 2012
Hillside Farmacy, 1209 East 11th St. Austin, TX; 512-628-0168 or hillsidefarmacy.com
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