Rainbow Salad with Peanut Dressing
Rainbow salad with Best ever peanut sauce – its full of healthy colorful vegetables. This salad is not vegan, but you can easily veganize it by using brown sugar instead of honey. Its great for meal prepping and potlucks.
Servings: 4 servings
Ingredients
Veggies
- 2 cups of lettuce
- 1 cup red or green cabbage
- 1 cup carrot
- 1 cup broccoli slaw
- ½ cup any color bell pepper
- ½ cup snap peas
- 1 cucumber
- 1 mango
- 1/3 cup edamame
Herbs
- ¼ cup scallions only green parts
- ¼ cup cilantro chopped
- 5-7 mint leaves
Nuts
- ¼ cup Lightly roasted peanuts
- 1 tsp Sesame seeds
optional toppings
- fried rice noodles/Wonton noodles
- grilled tofu
- brown rice / soba noodles/quinoa
Peanut Butter Dressing
- ¼ cup peanut butter
- 1 inch piece ginger
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 tbsp coconut aminos or tamari soy sauce can be sub
- 2 tbsp lime or orange juice
- 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar
- 1 tsp sesame seed oil toasted
- 1 tsp hot sauce or red chili flakes (sriracha)
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp honey agave or maple syrup (sub)
Instructions
- Whisk all the ingredients of the dressing and add about ¼ cup water. Start off with less water and then see if its enough runny. Taste it if it needs anything more, add. Set aside.
- Chop all the vegetables. I prefer julienne them so that all of them are in same size. Assemble everything in big mixing bowl.
- To assemble-
- Toss the salad mix in a bowl with peanut dressing and add the herbs, roughly chopped peanuts and sprinkle sesame seeds with some lime slices. Serve immediately.