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    Crunchy Asian salad with Veggies and Peanut Dressing

    By Julia | Updated: Jun 23, 2018 | Published: Jul 21, 2014 | 33 Comments

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    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!

    Crunchy Asian Salad with vegetables: spinach, cucumbers, red bell pepper, carrots, sugar snap peas

     

    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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    4.69 from 48 votes

    Crunchy Asian Salad with Veggies and Peanut Dressing

    This crunchy Asian salad with veggies and peanut dressing has lots of vegetables: spinach, cucumbers, red bell pepper, carrots, sugar snap peas. The salad dressing is super creamy, both sweet and sour.
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    Prep Time 20 minutes mins
    Cook Time 10 minutes mins
    Total Time 30 minutes mins
    Course Salad
    Cuisine Asian
    Servings 4 servings
    Calories per serving 506 kcal
    Author: Julia

    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
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    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

    Nutrition Information
    Crunchy Asian Salad with Veggies and Peanut Dressing
    Amount per Serving
    Calories
    506
    % Daily Value*
    Fat
     
    42
    g
    65
    %
    Saturated Fat
     
    15
    g
    94
    %
    Sodium
     
    689
    mg
    30
    %
    Potassium
     
    854
    mg
    24
    %
    Carbohydrates
     
    23
    g
    8
    %
    Fiber
     
    7
    g
    29
    %
    Sugar
     
    11
    g
    12
    %
    Protein
     
    13
    g
    26
    %
    Vitamin A
     
    8370
    IU
    167
    %
    Vitamin C
     
    88.4
    mg
    107
    %
    Calcium
     
    166
    mg
    17
    %
    Iron
     
    4.5
    mg
    25
    %
    * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

    Nutrition Disclaimer:

    The nutritional information on this website is only an estimate and is provided for convenience and as a courtesy only. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed. It should not be used as a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.

    Keyword Asian veggie salad, crunchy Asian salad, crunchy salad
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    1. Ruth

      May 21, 2023 at 9:31 pm

      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.

      Reply
      • Julia

        June 07, 2023 at 7:52 pm

        Ruth - I love your resourcefulness. What a great way to stretch this salad by adding noodles. Love it! ❤️❤️

        Reply
    2. Lea

      June 23, 2019 at 4:35 pm

      Nice salad, Asian flavored dressing, paired with egg drop soup. Thank you for a great much recipe.

      Reply
      • Julia

        July 23, 2019 at 4:54 am

        So glad you liked this recipe!

        Reply
    3. Dinesh singh

      August 28, 2018 at 2:16 pm

      Very good

      Reply
    4. Thabo

      May 04, 2018 at 7:09 am

      Simply refreshing

      Reply
      • Julia

        May 05, 2018 at 2:07 pm

        Yes! 🙂

        Reply
    5. Katherine

      October 14, 2017 at 1:11 am

      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

      Reply
    6. Katrina Weiss

      August 13, 2016 at 5:09 pm

      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.

      Reply
    7. Pamela King

      May 03, 2016 at 12:21 pm

      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!

      Reply
    8. Amanda

      February 08, 2016 at 12:18 pm

      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!

      Reply
    9. Nina

      September 16, 2015 at 8:43 am

      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!

      Reply
    10. Stephanie

      August 29, 2015 at 4:37 pm

      HA! Get over yourself....

      Reply
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