Fresh cabbage salad with ham and peas.

Description: Fresh Cabbage Salad is very tasty and healthy food, rich of vitamin C. This salad can be delicious appetizer. Cabbage renders the stomach costive, makes sleepy, strengthens the sight and helps in case of chronic cough or enteritis. Cabbage juice with sesame oil is very good for tonsillitis. Put cabbage leave around your head to relieve headache. 

 Ingredients:

1 lb cabbage (white firm head)
1 cucumber, cubed
200 g (8 oz) ham, not fat, chopped into strips
3 - 4 tbsp mayonnaise, your favourite
1,5 cups green peas, canned, (sweet)
Sugar, salt, chopped parsley to taste 

For decoration: 

Parsley sprigs, celery, dill or Melissa leaves.
1 medium onion, sliced.

Method:

1. Slice the cabbage into julienne strips. Sprinkle the cabbage with salt and sugar.

2. Rub the strips with your hands to make them softer and juicier. Add parsley, cubed ham, green peas, cucumber and mayonnaise. Stir thoroughly.

3. Decorate with onion rings and Melissa leaves.