Vegetarian Thai Salad with Peanut Dressing

This vegetarian Thai salad with peanut dressing is an explosion of flavors and textures. From the salty peanuts, to the sweet mangoes and savory peanut dressing, this truly is my go to salad in the summertime and not to mention so coloruful!

I love making salads during the summer, there is no cooking required it’s all about the prep work of chopping vegetables, tossing some ingredients to create a dressing and just dump everything into a bowl and mix. This Thai salad is a salad that I can eat every single day for breakfast, lunch and dinner and never get sick of.

This Thai salad is by no means an authentic recipe, it is one of those salads where I incorporated elements of Thai vegetables and peanuts and tossed together to create a dish that emulates Thai flavors.

Ingredients for Thai Salad

This salad is very customizable and you can swap out ingredients for any vegetable you like and can also omit the nuts and peanut dressing if you are allergic.

Additionally, this salad is naturally vegetarian. If you are gluten free, you can swap out the soy sauce in the peanut dressing with coconut aminos and you can omit the wonton strips as well.

If you are vegan you can swap out the honey in the peanut dressing with maple syrup or any sweetener of choice.

For this salad, I like to use the following ingredients:

• romaine lettuce
• red and napa cabbage
• tofu
• carrots
• red bell pepper
• cilantro
• mango
• peanuts (or any nut of choice)
• wonton strips
• peanut butter
• soy sauce
• honey
• lime juice

This is a crunchy and veggie packed salad!

My favorite part of this salad is the peanut dressing, it is what takes this salad to the next level! There is something about the combination of this dressing paired with these vegetables that make eating the vegetables so much more enjoyable.

Vegetarian Thai Salad with Peanut Dressing

Nutrition facts: 200 calories 20 grams fat

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Ingredients

• Salad
• 1 cup chopped romaine lettuce
• 1 cup chopped red cabbage
• 1 cup chopped napa cabbage
• 1 cup firm tofu, diced
• 1 cup grated carrots
• 1/2 cup chopped red bell pepper
• 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
• 1 mango, diced
• 1/4 cup peanuts
• 1/2 cup wonton strips
• Peanut Dressing
• 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 1-2 tbsp lime juice
• 1-2 tsp honey or sweetener of choice
• water for thinning out

Instructions

1. In a mixing bowl, combine romaine lettuce, red cabbage, napa cabbage, tofu, carrots, red bell pepper, mango and peanuts.
2. Thoroughly wash the cilantro and chop before adding into the mixing bowl.
3. In a small mixing bowl combine peanut butter, soy sauce, lime juice and honey together until it forms into a creamy pourable consistency. The dressing will be thick at first, gradually add water to thin out the dressing to your desired consistency.
4. Pour the dressing into the salad and mix until the dressing coats all the ingredients.

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