Cameroonian Vegetable Salad & Salad Cream (+VIDEO)
This Cameroonian Vegetable Salad is loaded with carrots, cabbage, hard-boiled eggs, avocado, tomatoes, cucumber and onions. It is so fresh and bursting with the perfect blend of crunchy and creamy!
The salad dressing, mostly known as salad cream in Cameroon, is absolutely to die for. It is the perfect marriage of creamy, tangy and sweet.
Our ‘secret’ weapon ingredient in the dressing is condensed milk. That, combined with mayonnaise, vinegar, oil, and salt, is the truth. Check out the full recipe for the dressing below.
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For the full list of ingredients with measurements, check out the recipe card below.
Right after filming the video for this recipe, we sat down and ate a whole bowl of salad. A whole bowl! It is ahb-solutely ah-mazing.
We have a step-by-step picture style post that shows you how we make this simple vegetable salad. Check out our step-by-step post on Cameroon vegetable salad.
Today, we are taking it a notch further with video. You will see how to make the creamiest salad cream with mayonnaise. You will want to put this Cameroonian salad dressing on everything, we promise. It’s the most notable salad cream.
How it comes together
Subscribe- Yield: 6 people
- Prep: 20 minutes
- Total: 20 minutes
Ingredients
- 3 cups cabbage, thinly sliced, about 1/4 of a medium cabbage
- 3 cups red/purple cabbage, thinly sliced, about 1/4 of a medium cabbage
- 3 cups shredded carrots, 2 large carrots
- ½ medium cucumber
- 2 tomatoes
- ½ onion
- 2 hardboiled eggs
- 1 avocado
For the salad dressing
- 1 cup mayonnaise (approx 239 grams)
- 2 tablespoons condensed milk
- 2 tablespoons white vinegar
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil of choice – we used corn oil
- Pinch of salt
Method
- Chop all the un-chopped vegetables into bite-size pieces. Also chop the eggs and avocado. Arrange them all on a tray/bowl in any pattern you like.
- To make the salad cream: Combine all the ingredients for the salad dressing and whisk until smooth. You could equally blend them or put them in a container with a tight lid and shake until smooth.
- Pour the dressing over the vegetables, toss to combine and enjoy!
