In Sweden this traditional salad is served in most pizza restaurants, because of its popularity it got the name pizza salad. You can do this salad with only cabbage or with shallots, peppers and carrots. Everyone includes either one of them or neither, it is really up to your taste.
I love this salad and it is so easy to make, on top of it, you can eat it the day after as well.
Swedish Pizza Salad “Pizzasallad”
Yield: 4 servings
Total Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
½ cabbage
½ shallot
1 red pepper
1 carrot
Dressing:
½ cup olive oil
¼ cup vinegar
¼ cup water
1 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
Directions:
Shred the cabbage. I use a Swedish cheese slicer to do that, but you can use a knife too. Then slice the shallot, red pepper, and shred the carrot and put it all into a bowl. The dressing is prepared hot. Put all the olive oil, vinegar, water, salt and pepper into a pot and head up to boil once it start boiling turn it off and pour over your salad and mix well. I suggest you put the salad into the refrigerator for a few hours to cool down and marinate, but you could eat it right away.
Magnus says
August 10, 2010 at 10:26 amFor the Love of God: there is no carrot or shallot in real pizzasallad!
I’ve had pizza and pizzasallad from all over Sweden and I’ve never come across any with carrot in it.
Delishhh replied: — August 27th, 2010 @ 9:11 pm
Magnus, you are right that the original pizza sallad has no onion or carrots, but today you see all variations of pizza sallad, i have even seen it with raisins. You should try it out, i am sure you would enjoy it.
NLP Practitioner · says
November 4, 2010 at 12:33 ammy 8 year old daughter always want me to take her to pizza restaurants because she loves to much pizza ,
Sara says
February 28, 2011 at 12:53 amMagnus, how rude you are! The description very clearly says you can use carrots or not, based on your preference, and they aren’t seen in the picture. I love Sweden, and thank goodness all the people I’ve met there are nice, and don’t throw tantrums over recipes.
Delishhh, thanks for the great ideas!
Cooking Rookie says
April 12, 2011 at 6:54 pmI am going to make it right for dinner right now :-).
Magic of Spice says
April 16, 2011 at 12:18 pmWhat a perfect and easy salad idea, love it! I have not heard of this before but it realy does look delicious 🙂
Mireya says
June 8, 2011 at 4:44 pmNow that’s something I would have never thought of, but I can imagine it tasting great on black bread.
Wilma says
February 20, 2013 at 8:23 amAbout carrot in pizza salad…. There is a pizzarestaurant in Smålandstenar in Sweden who has carrot in their pizzasalad……
And its probably the best salad I have eaten!!!!
Agie says
May 24, 2013 at 11:18 amMagnus I’m sure you haven’t been to every pizza place here in sweden! Some places might put carrots and shallots in their salad, sounds pretty good! The usual spice is oregano,basil and galic powder and some places add a bit of sugar. They don’t usually use olive oil but that’s good if you like it 🙂 It’s not really a swedish recipe though, the iranian refugees brought it to sweden when they opened their pizza places in sweden in the 80’s.
Kiwi says
June 17, 2014 at 6:30 amAgie, you are quie right. I lived in Sweden in the late 80’s early 90’s and it was the Iranian Refugees that introduced me to this awseome salad. Even the Pizza is incredible. I miss the Food and Sweden So much!
Amalia Bond says
June 24, 2014 at 5:17 amI love eating Italian salads and have tried at many of the salad restaurants in Gothenburg. Thanks a lot for the recipe.
K says
April 10, 2016 at 9:00 pmThis is very much like American coleslaw (from the Dutch or German immigrants to our country), except in most regions of our country, we use mayonnaise dressing. However, oil and vinegar has gained favor in certain circles.
Monika says
April 8, 2018 at 12:16 pmI have tried this pizza salad while in Sweden and it was delicious. Thank you for sharing a recipe.
Carrots and Spice replied: — June 7th, 2018 @ 9:37 am
Glad you stopped by!
Mark says
October 13, 2018 at 6:49 pmLived and worked in Sweden for 7 years back in the 90’s. I could live on this pizza salad and quite often at lunch we’d all hit the town for dagens rätt. By the time the pizza came I was generally full from this work of art.
I make this constantly at home and am always adding new ingredients to try.
Carrots and Spice replied: — October 17th, 2018 @ 10:44 am
So good to hear. I still make it all the time. Please share your favorite recipe.