Peggy's Restaurant Cole Slaw

Peggy Prep: 30 min Cook: 0 min 10 servings 1 Comment 24,396

One of Mama Peggy’s most sought-after recipes. This is the recipe for the beloved cole slaw from Peggy’s Restaurant in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, served for almost 30 years on sandwiches and hot dogs, and as a side dish for lunch and dinner plates.

Ingredients

▢ — ½ head of cabbage
▢ — 1 ½ carrots medium
▢ — 1 bell pepper medium
▢ — ½ tbsp course ground black pepper
▢ — ¼ tbsp fine ground black pepper
▢ — ¼ tbsp salt
▢ — 1 ½ cup Duke's mayonnaise

Instructions

▢ — Strip the loose outer leaves from a medium sized cabbage and remove the core.
▢ — Quartering the cabbage will make it easier to shred.
▢ — Shred cabbage into a good-sized bowl using rough side of a grater, getting as much of the greener outer leaves as possible (it adds a little color to your slaw).
▢ — Cut bell pepper into quarters and grate on top of cabbage, from the inside out. Grate to the skin, but don't grate the skin of the bell pepper. You mainly want the meat of the bell pepper, not the skin.
▢ — Grate carrots on top of cabbage.
▢ — You should wind up with enough carrot and bell pepper to cover the cabbage you've already grated, but not so much that it heaps up.
▢ — Sprinkle mixture evenly with course ground pepper, find ground pepper and salt. My general rule is to shake each ingredient out as you move your hand quickly over the bowl, and then again as your hand comes back. That generally seems to be the right ratio. Do this for both kinds of pepper and salt.
▢ — Spoon your Duke’s mayonnaise onto the mixture and mix.
▢ — You can mix everything with a spoon, but I've always done it with my hand. You'll quickly learn how to tell if there's enough mayonnaise by how dry the mixture feels to your hand.
▢ — Generally speaking, when the mixture is right, the slaw will be just moist enough to have a wee bit of standing liquid, but not so much as to be runny. Just moist.
▢ — And there you have it. Peggy's Restaurant cole slaw!

Nutrition

Calories 248
Total Fat 25 g
— Unsaturated Fat 21 g
— Saturated Fat 4 g
Cholesterol 15 mg
Sodium 403 mg
Carbohydrates 5 g
— Net Carbs 3 g
— Fiber 2 g
— Sugars 3 g
Protein 1 g

Serve up a bowl of the beloved Peggy’s Restaurant cole slaw at your next get-together and treat your guests with a bona fide Southern treat. This cole slaw goes well with fish, chicken or barbecue, and is amazing on a Carolina burger (that’s a cheeseburger with chili (that’s sandwich chili, not bean chili, ya heathen), mustard, slaw and onions). A staple of meals at Peggy’s Restaurant in the 1970’s to the 1990’s!

NOTE: You can use whatever your favorite mayonnaise is, of course. We only mention Duke’s because it’s what we used at Peggy’s Restaurant. If you want it to taste like Mama Peggy’s cole slaw, it has to be Duke’s.