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Crunchy Asian salad with Veggies and Peanut Dressing

Published: Jul 21, 2014 | 31 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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Crunchy Asian Salad with Veggies and Peanut Dressing
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
30 mins
 

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.

Course: Salad
Cuisine: Asian
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 506 kcal
Author: Julia
Ingredients
Peanut salad dressing:
  • 1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon fresh ginger , chopped, or 1/2 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
  • 1/4 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
  • 1/4 red onion , thinly sliced
  • 1/2 pound snap peas
  • 1 cucumber , thinly sliced
  • 1/2 cup roasted peanuts
  • 1 tablespoon sesame seeds , toasted
Instructions
How to make peanut salad dressing:
  1. In a medium bowl, combine and whisk together all dressing ingredients, except for 1 tablespoon of sesame seeds.
Salad:
  1. 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.
  2. 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 Facts
Crunchy Asian Salad with Veggies and Peanut Dressing
Amount Per Serving
Calories 506 Calories from Fat 378
% Daily Value*
Fat 42g65%
Saturated Fat 15g94%
Sodium 689mg30%
Potassium 854mg24%
Carbohydrates 23g8%
Fiber 7g29%
Sugar 11g12%
Protein 13g26%
Vitamin A 8370IU167%
Vitamin C 88.4mg107%
Calcium 166mg17%
Iron 4.5mg25%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Filed Under: Appetizer, Asian, Bell Peppers, Carrots, Cucumbers, Gluten Free, Nuts, Peanut butter, Recipe, Snap peas, Spinach, Vegetables, Vegetarian Published: Jul 21, 2014 31 Comments

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  1. Katrina Weiss

    Aug 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.

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  2. 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!

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  3. Amanda

    Feb 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!

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  4. Nina

    Sep 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!

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  5. Stephanie

    Aug 29, 2015 at 4:37 pm

    HA! Get over yourself….

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  6. Jennifer Lonton

    Oct 09, 2014 at 7:24 am

    Hardly home made sauce when you use prepared peanut butter

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    • Tammy Van Dierendonck

      Aug 10, 2015 at 6:42 pm

      This salad was delicious and beautiful. My family loved it!

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  7. Laura Dembowski

    Jul 24, 2014 at 1:13 pm

    Love salads like this! I just bought sugar snap peas at the farmers’ market and they were such a treat.

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