Low Carb Coleslaw (Dill Pickle Slaw), is a delicious balance of crunchy and creamy with a surprising ingredient - dill pickles and bacon! So good!
Easy to make and the perfect foolproof recipe for your next weeknight dinner, cookout, or BBQ. This is a healthy coleslaw dressing recipe and its low carb, sugar-free, and keto-approved.
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Dill Pickle Slaw Tastes Amazing
Easy Coleslaw Recipe
This is an easy coleslaw recipe! Yay! While it would definitely be easier to buy a bag of pre-sliced/grated coleslaw, it just tastes better to buy a head of cabbage and slice it yourself. I use my food processor so it might be cheating a little, but it is not hard to slice with a knife either.
Other than slicing the cabbage and dicing the celery and pickles, you are simply mixing up a dressing and pouring it over the top, then seasoning will salt and pepper to taste. All pretty straightforward!
Is Cabbage Good For You?
Yes, cabbage is good for you! It is loaded with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that are especially good for you. It contains over half your recommended daily allowance of vitamin K and vitamin C and is full of insoluble fiber.
With all the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fiber - cabbage not only helps with digestion but it may even help lower your risk of certain diseases and reduce inflammation.
I love eating cabbage and coming up with ways to make it taste even better, but I am definitely not a doctor nor a cabbage expert. 🙂
For more "official" information on whether cabbage is good for you, here are 2 particularly helpful articles from Healthline.com, Health Benefits of Cabbage and EcoWatch, 9 Reasons You Should Eat Cabbage.
Red Cabbage Slaw - All Dressed Up
This is essentially the red cabbage slaw recipe that I grew up with I removed apples and added pickles and bacon for a crunchy dill twist. While it tastes great as is, you can certainly swap out some ingredients if you want.
Make the recipe as listed below, but dress it up with the following:
- Add 1 or 2 grated carrots for more color. It will add a slight amount of carbs but it makes it colorful and pretty! Carrots are also healthy!
- Add 2 tablespoons green onion if you like.
- Add 1 tart apple diced (Granny Smith are my favorite).
- If you don't like pickles and pickle juice just replace the 1 tablespoon of pickle juice with apple cider vinegar.
- Substitute yellow mustard for dijon mustard (or other favorite mustard).
- If you can't get enough dill, dice up some fresh dill or add dried to taste.
Healthy Coleslaw Dressing Recipe
This is a healthy coleslaw dressing recipe, yay! It's low carb, sugar-free, and keto-approved If you are watching a low-fat diet, you can use a fat-free or lower-fat mayonnaise but it does alter the taste a bit.
Feel free to play around with ingredients until the taste is to your liking!
Keto Coleslaw
13.2 g fat | 5.6 g net carbs | 1.3 g protein
With 13.2 grams of fat, 1.3 grams of protein, and 5.6 net carbs, this is a great keto coleslaw recipe option!
Sugar-Free Coleslaw
Swerve sugar substitute is used instead of sugar in this recipe. There are 4 grams of sugar and it comes from the red cabbage. Red cabbage is sweeter than green cabbage. If this is a concern then feel free to use all green cabbage instead. It will still be tasty!
Want more low carb and easy keto grilling recipes? Check out Quick and Easy Low Carb Grilling Recipes, (HERE)
What Goes Will With Coleslaw?
Always a hit at barbecues or cookouts, just about everything goes well with coleslaw. Food that is grilled or has a smokey flavor seems to work well. Pulled pork, for example. Or, any of the following recipes are great ideas:
Keto Coleslaw (Low Carb) Ingredients
Here are the ingredients that you will need:
- 8 oz red cabbage, thinly sliced/shredded
- 8 oz green cabbage, thinly sliced/shredded
- 9 bacon slices, cooked and crumbled
- 2 stalks celery, chopped
- 1/3 cup dill pickles, chopped
- 3/4 cup mayonnaise (we used Sir Kensington Avocado Oil Mayo)
- 1 tablespoon Swerve sugar substitute (Or regular sugar)
- 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon pickle juice
- 1 teaspoon dijon mustard
- Salt and pepper to taste
Other:
How To Make This Easy Coleslaw Recipe
This low carb coleslaw is definitely not hard to make! Here's how to make this easy coleslaw recipe:
Prep
Cook and crumble your bacon. Thinly slice cabbage or use a food processor. Dice celery and dill pickles.
Put cabbage, celery, pickles, and bacon into a large bowl.
Make Coleslaw Dressing
In a small bowl, whisk together mayonnaise, Swerve, cider vinegar, pickle juice, and dijon mustard.
Toss All Ingredients
Pour dressing over coleslaw salad and toss until well combined. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Tip: Don't add salt or pepper until you mix all ingredients together. Bacon, mayonnaise, and pickles can all have varying amounts of salt so you'll need to adjust the salt and pepper accordingly. In fact, wait until you get ready to serve to taste it. The flavors blend after a while. Most of the time I never add salt.
Serve
Yum! Enjoy!
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Low Carb Coleslaw (Dill Pickle Slaw)
Low Carb Coleslaw (Dill Pickle Slaw), is a delicious balance of crunchy and creamy with a surprising ingredient - dill pickles and bacon! So good! Easy to make and the perfect foolproof recipe for your next weeknight dinner, cookout, or BBQ. This is a healthy coleslaw dressing recipe and its low carb, sugar-free, and keto-approved.
Ingredients
- 8 oz red cabbage, thinly sliced/shredded
- 8 oz green cabbage, thinly sliced/shredded
- 9 bacon slices, cooked and crumbled
- 2 stalks celery, chopped
- 1/3 cup dill pickles, chopped
- 3/4 cup mayonnaise (we used Sir Kensington Avocado Oil Mayo)
- 1 tablespoon Swerve sugar substitute (Or regular sugar)
- 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon pickle juice
- 1 teaspoon dijon mustard
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Cook and crumble bacon
- In a large bowl add cabbage, celery, and pickles.
- Whisk mayonnaise, sugar, cider vinegar, pickle juice, mustard together in a small bowl.
- Add dressing to coleslaw salad. Add bacon. Toss all ingredients until well incorporated.
- Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour up to 8 hours.
- Season with salt and pepper (if needed).
- Enjoy!
Notes
For a creamier coleslaw, refrigerate longer or add 1/4 cup more mayonnaise. For crisper coleslaw refrigerate less time.
Do not add salt or pepper until all ingredients are tossed together. Bacon, mayonnaise, and pickle juice all have varying amounts salt and seasoning. Adjust salt and pepper, seasoning accordingly.
Nutrition Information:
Serving Size: 1/8 of recipes (approx. 1/2 cup)Amount Per Serving: Calories: 147Total Fat: 13.1gCholesterol: 11.5mgSodium: 259mgCarbohydrates: 7.2gNet Carbohydrates: 5.6gFiber: 1.6gSugar: 4gProtein: 1.3g
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Jane says
Love love love this recipe! I made it for a family reunion potluck and ate a lot of it myself (against my husband’s theory that you shouldn’t eat what you bring to a potluck, you should be trying other people’s stuff).
seekinggoodeats says
Thank you Jane, I'm so glad you loved it! It is the perfect thing to take to a potluck!
Gabby says
Quick question: what is the serving size?
seekinggoodeats says
Hello, approximately 1/2 cup give or take. Enjoy!
Tina says
This recipe was amazing. Tangy and crunchy and its so lovely to look at it could have been my table centerpiece. Thank you for sharing.
LOVE your website!! Not overrun and bombarded with tons of advertisements and videos.
seekinggoodeats says
Thank you!! So glad you loved the recipe and the site! 🙂
Shelley Wilson says
I'm going to try this recipe on the weekend! FYI, in the article, the recipe is listed twice, but in the first (blog) copy, the green cabbage is omitted. I had me really confused the first couple of times I looked at it, because I'd come back and look at ingredients and they were different than what I just saw! LOL. Thought you'd want to know 🙂
seekinggoodeats says
Yes, thank you for catching that!! I was in reviewing the recipe and must have deleted something on accident! 🙂 Thanks again...hope you enjoy the recipe! 🙂