This super easy to make Asian Salad Recipe is packed full of healthy veggies and tossed in a tasty sesame ginger salad dressing. It's fresh and crunchy and a crazy delicious side dish.

Who loves crispy, crunchy veggies, roasted peanuts or cashews, and a sweet Asian sesame salad dressing? I thought you might. (I do too!) I also love that this Asian salad recipe is not only one of the tastiest salads ever, it's also super healthy. Like super crazy healthy.

I've been eating huge bowls of this salad with a few slices of herb-marinated steak or a piece of grilled fish on the side. Or sometimes I've eaten every last crunchy delicious bit of this salad all by itself. It's that tasty.

Why this is our favorite easy Asian salad recipe

  1. It's full of crunch, but not too much. There are lots of crunchy carrots in this recipe, but they're grated. Grating the carrots gives them crunch but takes away the crunchiness extreme of chopped carrots.
  2. The dressing is simple and aaaaamzing. It has just the right amount of sweet and tart deliciousness and goes perfectly with the carrots.
  3. Cashews because salted cashews are everything.
  4. It's ridiculously easy to make. Love easy recipes!

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This super easy to make Asian Salad Recipe is packed full of healthy veggies and tossed in a tasty sesame ginger salad dressing. It's fresh and crunchy and a crazy delicious side dish.  | vegan + paleo + gluten-free + Whole30 compliant | theendlessmeal.com #whole30 #vegan #asian #asiansalad #salad #paleo #glutenfree #healthy #carrots #carrotsalad

I recently got together with my girlfriend Kristy of She Eats, who recently published my newest fav cookbook: Cooking With Cocktails. She brought a food blogger friend along and somewhere between Old Fashioneds and shop talk her friend mentioned that he had a beef to pick about someone calling a recipe ‘Asian salad'.

You guys, I started to question my hip/ coolness (no one who uses the term hip coolness is either of those things.) I had no idea that Asian Salad Recipe is a taboo term. Did you know? Apparently, it's too whitewashed or generic or something like that. Who knew! Not me.

What do you think? Are you bothered by it? Does it make you boil up inside? Please say it doesn't so we can be on the same team.

Anyway, this Asian Salad Recipe (or carrot salad with sesame oil and ginger and cashews. whatev.) has long been a mainstay here. It's so easy to whip up, and the flavors are bright and fresh. I love the crispy veggies, crunchy nuts, and tangy sesame dressing. Enjoy, my friends!

This super easy to make Asian Salad Recipe is packed full of healthy veggies and tossed in a tasty sesame ginger salad dressing. It's fresh and crunchy and a crazy delicious side dish.  | vegan + paleo + gluten-free + Whole30 compliant | theendlessmeal.com #whole30 #vegan #asian #asiansalad #salad #paleo #glutenfree #healthy #carrots #carrotsalad

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Asian Salad Recipe

  • Author: Kristen Stevens
  • Prep Time: 15 mins
  • Cook Time: 0 mins
  • Total Time: 15 minutes
  • Yield: 2-4 servings 1x
  • Category: Salad
  • Method: No Cook
  • Cuisine: Asian

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This super easy to make Asian Salad Recipe is packed full of healthy veggies and tossed in a tasty sesame ginger salad dressing. It's fresh and crunchy and a crazy delicious side dish.

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Ingredients

  • 2 carrots, grated
  • 1 red pepper, finely diced
  • 2 celery stalks, finely diced
  • 1/4 medium red onion, finely diced
  • 1/4 cup cilantro or parsley, chopped
  • 2 tablespoons toasted sesame seeds
  • Optional: 1/4 cup roasted peanuts, almonds, or cashews (no peanuts for paleo or Whole30!)

For the dressing:

  • 2 tablespoons sesame oil
  • 1 tablespoon fresh squeezed lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon honey (omit for Whole30, use maple syrup for vegan)
  • 2 teaspoons soy sauce (gluten-free if needed, coco aminos for paleo + Whole30)
  • 1 teaspoon grated ginger
  • 1 small clove of garlic, grated (preferably with a Microplane)
  • Sea salt to taste

Instructions

  1. Combine all the dressing ingredients in a small bowl and whisk together. Set aside.
  2. Toss all the remaining ingredients together in a medium-sized bowl. Pour over the dressing and toss to coat.
  3. That's it, enjoy!