This crunchy Asian salad with veggies and peanut dressing is amazingly tasty, colorful and refreshing, with a lot of crunch and flavor! Lots of vegetables: spinach, cucumbers, red bell pepper, carrots, sugar snap peas - all tossed in a delicious, homemade peanut dressing, and topped with roasted peanuts and sesame seeds. The salad dressing is both sweet and sour, and very creamy!
What I love about this salad is that it makes use of so many good ingredients, vegetables, and the dressing is quite addicting! Gluten free, vegetarian recipe, full of fiber and nutrients!
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Crunchy Asian Salad with Veggies and Peanut Dressing
Ingredients
Peanut salad dressing:
- ¼ cup rice wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon fresh ginger , chopped, or ½ teaspoon powdered ginger
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce (use gluten free Tamari soy sauce for gluten free version)
- 1 tablespoon honey or more, if you like it sweeter
- 3 tablespoons sesame oil
- ¼ cup vegetable oil
- 3 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
- 2 tablespoons sesame seeds , toasted
Salad:
- 6 cups baby spinach , washed, and dried
- 1 carrot , shredded
- 1 red bell pepper , thinly sliced
- ¼ red onion , thinly sliced
- ½ pound snap peas
- 1 cucumber , thinly sliced
- ½ cup roasted peanuts
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds , toasted
Instructions
How to make peanut salad dressing:
- In a medium bowl, combine and whisk together all dressing ingredients, except for 1 tablespoon of sesame seeds.
Salad:
- Bring a pot of water to a boil, add the sugar snap peas, and cook for about 5 minutes, until peas are crisp tender. Drain, rinse under very cold water (to stop cooking), drain again and set aside.
- Combine all salad ingredients in a large bowl. Pour the dressing over the salad, just enough to coat (you don't have to use all of the dressing, unless you want to). Sprinkle the salad with the remaining tablespoon of toasted sesame seeds.
Nutrition
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To stretch this recipe for unexpected company I cooked, drained and cooled a package of Ichiban noodles (did not add the spice pckg.) and it was delicious.
Ruth - I love your resourcefulness. What a great way to stretch this salad by adding noodles. Love it! ❤️❤️
Nice salad, Asian flavored dressing, paired with egg drop soup. Thank you for a great much recipe.
So glad you liked this recipe!
Very good
Simply refreshing
Yes! 🙂
Hi Julia,
Your Crunchy Asian Salad is just amazing.
I would love to feature this in our website, Greenthickies. Would it be okay if I used one of your images here for it? I will not be posting the actual recipe, but only one image, title, a small quote and link back here.
Will that be all right?
Thanks a lot 🙂
Katherine,
Greenthickies
This salad was very refreshing on a hot summer evening. The dressing really gave it a unique taste. My mom loved it as well. My dad rarely comments about meals, but he ate quite a bit of it so I know he enjoyed it as well. Used a cucumber, peas, and peppers from my garden.
This salad is delicious! I subbed cashews and cashew butter for the peanuts and used apple cider vinegar because I was out of rice vinegar. SO good! Thank you for sharing!
I'm always trying to eat healthy but most salads are so boring and uninspiring and tend to stray away from them. This salad was the exact opposite. Oh my goodness I just want to put that dressing on everything. Light, refreshing and filling and 100% making again!
We made the salad. Great salad ingredients. The dressing was a bit heavy on the fattiness and needed some acid to cut through it and we added lemon juice. Might be just us because we love lemon. Next time we might cut out the almost 1/2 a cup of oil (sesame/olive) and just stick with the peanut butter. The peanut butter really coated everything well. Have no idea if right for others. Thanks!
HA! Get over yourself....