Southern Living Freezer Slaw Food

FREEZER SLAW

Steps:

• Combine cabbage, green bell pepper, onion, and carrots in a large bowl. Mix boiling water and salt together in a bowl and pour over cabbage mixture. Set aside for salt to draw out extra water from vegetables, about 1 hour. Drain well.
• Mix sugar, 1 cup water, cider vinegar, and celery seed in a saucepan; bring to a boil. Cook and stir until sugar is dissolved, about 1 minute. Remove saucepan from heat and cool completely.
• Pour cooled sugar-vinegar mixture over drained cabbage mixture in a large bowl and toss until slaw is well mixed. Spoon slaw into resealable plastic bags and freeze.

FREEZER COLESLAW

Steps:

• Stir together first 3 ingredients and 1 cup water in a saucepan; bring to a boil over high heat, stirring occasionally. Boil 1 minute. Cool completely (about 30 minutes).
• Stir together shredded cabbage and next 5 ingredients in a large bowl. Pour dressing over cabbage mixture; toss gently. Divide coleslaw evenly among 4 (1-qt.) heavy-duty zip-top plastic freezer bags. Seal and freeze 3 days. Store in freezer up to 1 month. Thaw coleslaw at room temperature 3 hours before serving.

SASSY FREEZER SLAW

Steps:

• Mix shredded cabbage and salt together in a colander; drain for 1 hour. Squeeze moisture from cabbage. Stir carrots into cabbage and divide cabbage mixture between pint containers.
• Whisk sugar, vinegar, water, celery seed, and dry mustard together in saucepan over medium high heat; bring to a boil for 1 minute. Cool. Pour cooled vinegar dressing mixture over cabbage mixture, cover containers, and freeze. Thaw before serving.

SWEET-TART FREEZER COLESLAW

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine cabbage and salt; let stand for 1 hour. , In a large saucepan, combine the sugar, vinegar, water, celery seed and mustard seed. Bring to a boil; boil for 1 minute. Remove from the heat; cool. , Add the carrot, green pepper and vinegar mixture to the cabbage mixture; stir to combine. Transfer to large freezer bags; seal and freeze for up to 2 months. , Remove from the freezer 2 hours before serving. Serve with a slotted spoon.

REFRIGERATOR COLESLAW

Steps:

• Toss the cabbage, onion and carrots together in a large bowl.
• Boil the remaining ingredients together and pour over the vegetables.
• Toss just once and let sit at room temperature 1 and 1/2 hours.
• Toss salad once more, cover, and store in the refrigerator overnight before serving.

FREEZER COLESLAW

Steps:

• Cut cabbage and onion.
• Mix with salt and let stand one hour.
• Mix the vinegar, water, mustard seed, celery seed, and sugar.
• Bring all this to a boil and boil one minute.
• Let cool until lukewarm.
• Cut up carrot and green pepper and mix with the cabbage.
• Pour the vinegar mixture over the cabbage, place in containers and freeze.

SEASONED FREEZER COLESLAW

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine cabbage, carrots, green pepper and onion.
• Add sugar and toss to coat.
• In a saucepan, combine vinegar, oil, salt, mustard, and celery seed.
• Bring to a boil.
• Pour over cabbage mixture and toss to coat.
• Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours before serving.
• Coleslaw may be frozen up to 3 months, remove from the freezer 2 hours before serving.

SPECTACULAR OVERNIGHT SLAW

Steps:

• Combine cabbage, onion, peppers and olives. In a large saucepan, mix remaining ingredients; bring to a boil. Cook and stir 1 minute. Pour over vegetables, and stir gently. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Mix well before serving.

FREEZER SLAW

Steps:

• Place cabbage in a very large bowl; toss with salt. Let stand 1 hour., Meanwhile, in a large saucepan, combine sugar, water, vinegar, celery seed and mustard seed. Bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve sugar. Cook 1 minute. Remove from heat; cool slightly., Drain excess liquid from cabbage, if necessary. Add red peppers and carrots to cabbage. Add dressing; toss to coat. Cool completely. Transfer to freezer containers. Freeze, covered, up to 3 months., To serve, thaw coleslaw overnight in refrigerator. Stir before serving.

QUICK FREEZER COLESLAW

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine vegetables with salt; let stand 1 hour. Place remaining ingredients in a saucepan; bring to a boil and boil for 1 minute. Cool. Drain vegetables and add to vinegar mixture; stir gently. Ladle into plastic freezer containers and freeze. When ready to use, defrost and serve chilled.