Winter Cabbage Salad

Quite a nice salad. It's nice in flavour and looks very beautiful with the purple colour from the cabbage. The only problem is that even though I had chopped the cabbage as fine as I could, it was still pretty hard to chew. Also, it's clearly meant to be served as a side dish, not as a light main course or lunch box; it's too simple and one-dimensional for that. I asked DH if it would help to grate the cabbage to make it easier to chew; but he thinks that would reduce the visual beauty of the salad, while the chewiness would matter less if you served it as a side dish.