Side dishes · Green salads & slaws

Coleslaw

Name: Coleslaw
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 1/2 head green cabbage, finely shredded; 2 carrots mature carrots, grated; 1/2 cup whole-milk Greek yogurt; 2 tbsp mayonnaise; 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar; 2 tsp honey; 1 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp black pepper

Shredded cabbage and carrot in a dressing that's mostly yogurt with enough mayonnaise to taste like the cookout version. Cabbage was the vegetable of the year and this is its oldest job — crunchy volume that makes rich mains eat like meals.

Time: 15 min (15 prep + 0 cook)
Servings: 8
Per serving: 79 kcal
Protein: 2 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

1/2 head green cabbage, finely shredded600 g
2 carrots mature carrots, grated150 g

Dressing

1/2 cup whole-milk Greek yogurt120 g
2 tbsp mayonnaise30 g
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar15 g
2 tsp honey15 g
1 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard8 g
1/2 tsp salt3 g
1/2 tsp black pepper1 g

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Steps

Shred the cabbage as finely as your knife allows — thin shreds soften just enough in the dressing; thick ones stay raw and watery.
Whisk the yogurt, mayonnaise, vinegar, honey, mustard, salt and pepper.
Toss the cabbage and carrot through the dressing.
Rest 30 minutes before serving — the salt pulls water out of the cabbage and the texture settles from raw to slaw. It holds two days; stir before serving.

Why this score

solidly filling

Low energy density — a lot of food for the calories.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

12% of kcal

87% water

32 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 634 kcal goes into the pot, 942 g of ingredients comes out as ~940 g of food → 67 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 67
Protein: (12%); 2 g
Fat: (42%); 3 g
Carbohydrates: (46%); 8 g
of which sugar: 5 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sodium: 182 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.