Wednesday, August 09, 2006

What's Cooking Wednesday - Asian Slaw

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So I'm continuing on the with the Hellmann's Mayonaisse project. My goal is to try out as many Hellmann's Mayonaisse recipes as I can. Most recipes I am trying can be found at Be Famous For Your Food. Today's recipe is one I found in my recipe box. Origin unknown.

If your summer is anything like mine it's an endless parade of family barbecue after family barbecue. Not that I'm complaining. I love me some barbecue. Sometimes, just sometimes, I hate showing up and seeing macaroni and potato salad as sides. Granted macaroni salad and potato salad are barbecue classics and I would hate to go a complete barbecue season without having their creamy goodness on my plate. So this summer I've really tried to expand my salad horizons and try out some new and different tastes. This recipes kills two birds with one stone, a nice new summer salad recipe and another use for Hellmann's Mayonaisse. I admit I was trying to stick to using Hellmann's in recipes that you wouldn't expect to see them and this recipe doesn't really fit the bill, it being coleslaw and all. I decided to let this recipe into the project because it's the combination of ingredients that I found rather interesting.

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Asian Slaw

12 cups packaged Coleslaw mix
1 can (10 oz) Manadarin Orange segments, drained
1/4 cup Hellmann's Mayo
1/2 cup Catalina Dressing
2 tbsp soy sauce
1/3 cup honey roasted peanuts

Toss coleslaw mix and oranges in a large bowl.

Mix dressings together with soy sauce in a small bowl. Pour mixture over coleslaw mixture; toss gently until well coated.

Cover & refigerate 1- 2 hours or overnight. Sprinkle with peanuts before serving.

Recipe Notes: Well the house was divided on this one. I enjoyed it more than Mike did, but I didn't love it. Mike's not crazya bout anything with too strong of a soy sauce taste so for his benefit I did cut the soy sauce in half. It was still the predominant taste so I can't imagine what it would have been like with another teaspoon in it. When they say to mix gently they aren't kidding. I tried to be as careful as possible but the oranges still disintergrated into nothing. Which maybe wasn't a bad thing just to have little orange bits sprinkled thorough out instead of larger wedges. Now I did have some more after it had restedin the fridge over night and I found it to be much more mellow tasting. The taste of soy sauce was no where near as strong. I did enjoy it much more the second day. I would probably make it for a group or if I had to bring something to a barbecue.

Score 2.5 stars

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