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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!
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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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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Hardly home made sauce when you use prepared peanut butter
This salad was delicious and beautiful. My family loved it!
Love salads like this! I just bought sugar snap peas at the farmers' market and they were such a treat.
what a pretty salad!
im always on the look out for delicious and healthy salads to make during the week for my vegetarian household.. thanks for sharing this recipe, i definitely will be recreating it.
Thanks, Thalia, I tried to use a variety of vegetables in this recipe, and I think they all work together really well! Especially, with homemade Asian dressing!
This is such a happy harvest salad! It screams fresh and Summer!
Thank you! Yes, it's very colorful - perfect for the Summer!
Soy sauce actually has gluten (I noticed that you labeled it gluten free). Make sure you use Tamari for it to truly be gluten free!
Thank you, Matt, you're right - I just added a correction to the recipe to use Tamari sauce for a gluten free version.
Looks fantastic Julia, wish this was my dinner tonight! So fresh and vibrant!
Thank you! I love fresh salads!
Love the colours and the crunch!
Wow, this is one mega salad packed in nutrition. Love all the colors and the peanut dressing sounds perfect combination for it.
That peanut dressing sounds fantastic! And so many pretty veggies and colors in this salad - it looks so good!
This salad looks so fresh and perfect for summer. I love anything with peanut dressing! I am sure this salad will be no exception!
Wow this salad looks so pretty with all colors, I love the peanut dressing...this is my kind of meal.
Have a beautiful week Julia 😀