Recipes Salad Coleslaw Recipes 17 Fresh Coleslaw Ideas for Crunchtastic Summer Meals By Vanessa Greaves Vanessa Greaves Instagram Vanessa Greaves is a Senior Editor at Allrecipes with nearly two decades of experience helping home cooks gain confidence in the kitchen. A self-taught cook who grew up reading cookbooks for fun, Vanessa lives and breathes the challenges faced by busy everyday cooks to get dinner on the table. Education: Vanessa attended California State University, Dominguez Hills, majoring in English. Experience: While living in Los Angeles, Vanessa co-owned a travel service guiding overseas visitors on adventure tours throughout the Desert Southwest, where she developed a strong instinct for sharing knowledge and discovery. Trading in her hiking boots for high heels, Vanessa made the switch to fashion media, starting at Women's Wear Daily and moving up to W magazine, giving her a deep appreciation for both aesthetics and practicalities. After relocating to Seattle, Vanessa's interests turned to more domestic pursuits: raising a family, gardening, and cooking. Her home garden has been featured in The Seattle Times/Pacific NW Magazine, and she's proud to be part of the team that has grown Allrecipes into the world's largest online community of home cooks. Vanessa holds true to the founding principles of Allrecipes, believing that home cooks are the real experts, and striving to showcase their voices and contributions throughout. Vanessa's favorite recipe on Allrecipes is Lolah's Chicken Adobo. It's a family recipe that her Filipino mom taught her, and her mom taught her, and Vanessa in turn taught it to her son. She probably makes it every other week. To her, it tastes like home, comfort, and love Allrecipes' editorial guidelines Published on July 12, 2021 Share Tweet Pin Email Trending Videos Photo: Doug It's high time to give coleslaw its moment to shine. No longer content to be a ho-hum, predictable side dish of ordinary shredded cabbage and mayo, homemade coleslaw is stepping up its flavor game with all kinds of summery ingredient add-ins, coleslaw dressings, and cabbage varieties to make things extra interesting. Check out 17 of our favorite ways to make rave-worthy coleslaw this summer. 01 of 18 Lemony Cabbage-Avocado Slaw View Recipe bd.weld Combine all the feel good foods of hemp seeds, crunchy cabbage, creamy avocado, and more. The lemon takes this salad from average to deliciously tangy! 02 of 18 Cilantro-Lime Coleslaw View Recipe Christina Fresh lime, cilantro, sweet chili sauce, and rice vinegar make this a zesty coleslaw to go with Mexican or Asian dishes. 03 of 18 Cucumber Slaw View Recipe Pictured: Cucumber Slaw | Photo by Allrecipes Magazine. Cucumbers and carrots supply the crunch, and sweet/sour apple cider vinegar keeps things light and zingy. Try it with a grilled steak to see how it balances out the richness of the meat. 04 of 18 Mango Cilantro Slaw View Recipe Christina This is different twist on cabbage slaw. It's very easy and the mango and honey make it sweet; no sugar in this recipe! Great by itself or wrap a corn tortilla around grilled tilapia and top with this cilantro slaw for a great-tasting fish taco!" —Randy Warner 05 of 18 Hawaiian Colesl.aw View Recipe Photo by Christina. Pineapple and mandarin oranges spiced up with a bit of ginger and nutmeg get tossed around with cabbage and mayo to make a perky, creamy slaw. Perfect for luau menus. 06 of 18 Mike's Coleslaw View Recipe lutzflcat Nuts adds a whole new dimension to this creamy coleslaw. Remember: the toastier the almonds, the better! This coleslaw is full of sweet and salty components — including the honey-basil dressing. 07 of 18 Apple Jicama Coleslaw View Recipe stephanie whitmire Apples and jicama team up with cabbage to make a slaw with triple the crunch. Scoop it onto pulled pork sandwiches for an excellent balance of crisp, tender, sweet, and savory. 08 of 18 Thornehedge Peach Slaw View Recipe Get this recipe: Thornehedge Peach Slaw | Photo by Molly. Use the season's best peaches in this slaw for a bowl o sweet, tangy, crunchy, juicy, deliciousness. How about some grilled pork chops to go with it? 09 of 18 Asian Coleslaw View Recipe leticia Three kinds of cabbage go into this colorful slaw along with red bell peppers, carrots, green onions, and cilantro. A homemade dressing flavored with peanut butter, rice wine vinegar, soy sauce, and ginger make this a 5-star favorite. 10 of 18 Grilled Corn and Red Cabbage Slaw View Recipe Doug The vibrant colors of summer truly shine in this dish. With grilled corn, purple cabbage, crumbled queso fresco, and more, this slaw will make all the other side dishes a little jealous. 11 of 18 Donna Leigh's Creamy Broccoli Slaw View Recipe Photo by Cookin Up A Storm. Bagged broccoli salad, ramen noodles, and sunflower seeds are the big crunch factors in this creamy, tangy slaw. Try it as a colorful side dish for grilled chicken, and find more ways to turn broccoli slaw into quick dinners. 12 of 18 Pickled Ginger Asian Pear Coleslaw View Recipe Photo by Baking Nana. Baking Nana Hit up the Asian aisle of your market for the pickled ginger and miso paste you'll use in this exotic slaw. You'll love it with this grilled ginger-glazed salmon. 13 of 18 Chinese Cabbage Salad l View Recipe Photo by jenniferlstout. Make a big batch of this no-mayo slaw when you need a crowd-pleaser for your next summer potluck. You can sub crispy chow mein noodles for the ramen noodles if you wish. What to serve it with? Everything, including grilled shrimp kabobs. 14 of 18 Picnic Marinated Summer Slaw View Recipe Photo by Occasional Cooker. With cucumbers, sweet bell peppers, tomatoes, and green onions in the mix, this colorful slaw is like a garden on a plate. Serve it with a big, messy plate of BBQ ribs to cut down on the guilt just a bit. 15 of 18 Spicy Bok Choy Slaw View Recipe Photo by marljong. Can you handle this much heat? With two kinds of hot peppers in this slaw, the answer had better be yes. Of course, you can always dial down the peppers and just enjoy the crispy, crunchy, sweet/savory vibe of this Asian-style coleslaw. Even so, with flavor this big you'll want to pair it with something clean and fresh like grilled tuna or halibut to keep your mouth from getting overwhelmed. 16 of 18 Napa Cabbage Salad View Recipe Mona Sweet, mild Napa cabbage (aka Chinese cabbage) makes a refreshing break from the standard red or green cabbage. In this 5-star recipe, it's paired with crunchy ramen noodles and green onions in a vinegar, sugar, and soy sauce dressing. 17 of 18 12-Second Coleslaw View Recipe lutzflcat "When people think of coleslaw, they think of that bowl of soggy, shredded cabbage sitting at the end of the picnic table. This is a completely different approach; a fresh-shredded cabbage prepared as a fast (12 seconds adding ingredients, 30 seconds to mix), crisp, low-cal, low-carb, slightly spicy, and delicious side dish that you should be eating as part of your regular veggie-side-dish rotation." —Chef John 18 of 18 Want More Coleslaw? lutzflcat Find More Coleslaw Recipes Here How To Make The Best Coleslaw Ever 20 Recipes That Start With a Bag of Coleslaw Mix Updated by Emily Boyette Emily Boyette Emily Boyette is a highly qualified editor within the food media industry. She has worked with over 10 well-known brands to produce quality content. From galleries and listicles to recipe manuscripts and articles, her knowledge of cooking goes beyond text. She has over five years of experience in the culinary field and eight-plus years of experience in the editorial space. Emily is passionate about all things cooking, food and editorial. She is motivated by storytelling. She is an Associate Food Editor for Bauer Media Group and is a writer for Allrecipes. She is proud to have worked on a video compilation project for Allrecipes which featured other Meredith brands including Southern Living, Better Homes & Garden, Food & Wine, MyRecipes, and EatingWell. In college at North Carolina State University, Emily was an agribusiness management major. She learned a great deal about economics and how to run a business from the bottom up. She was also a writer in the school newspaper, The Technician, and an active sorority member of Alpha Delta Pi. Ever since she created a food column in the features section of her college newspaper Emily fell in love with writing. Editorial writing is definitely a creative outlet that has grown to become her career. Through working in kitchens, Emily has grown passionate about creating and developing recipes from scratch and learning the science behind why things happen. She has since created her own recipes and finds joy in freelance work. Emily has worked on several video shoots where she assisted in food styling, learning different techniques to get the most beautiful shot. Emily loves seeing her work come to life on the front end and putting her ideas into action to see them play out in reality. She is proud of her creative, abstract, sky is the limit mindset that has led to her success. She can't live without a lemon juicer! No matter what other tricks she has tried (squeezing a lemon in between tongs) nothing gets the job done quite like a juicer. 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