Purple Cabbage and Parm Salad

Ever been on a tight budget but want a filling meal? James Beard award-winning cookbook author and recipe developer Carla Lalli Music lived on this purple cabbage and parm salad when in her 20s and on a very tight budget (New York rent gobbled up most of her take-home pay). It’s insanely simple—essentially a cabbage slaw with Parmigiano and a Dijon dressing—but it never let her down. It’s filling, healthy, and affordable, with lots of great textures, and super easy ingredients to get at the store. Because it’s so crunchy, it takes a while to eat, which, at the time, was a way to trick herself into thinking she had more to eat than she did. Make yourself a huge bowl after getting home from work, sit in front of the TV, and chomp the night away.

Reprinted from That Sounds So Good by Carla Lalli Music. Copyright © 2021 by Carla Lalli Music. Photographs copyright © 2021 by Andrea Gentl and Martin Hyers. Published by Clarkson Potter, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.