Asian Zoodle Salad

Make this Asian zucchini noodle salad recipe, and you can enjoy a healthy, nutritious dish that boasts incredible flavour in every mouthful. You need to dice and spiralize some vegetables and combine tangy Asian dressing ingredients to make the best Asian zucchini noodle salad you ever had.

Asian zoodles salad is a wonderful blend of zoodle, or spiralized zucchini noodles along with other vegetables and an Asian inspired dressing.

Also try sesame avocado chicken salad or these light shrimp spring rolls. And for a fun twist, don’t miss spicy baked salmon sushi muffins.

Why You’ll Love This

Colourful:  We eat with our eyes before taking a single bite, and the bright colours in this salad make you instantly want a grab a fork (or pair of chopsticks!) and dig right in.
Nutritious: Each of the vegetables in this recipes comes with its own vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, and the dressing isn’t high fat and doesn’t have any sugar. This is also a low-carb dish.
Different: Salad recipes you find yourself making all the time can get old. What was once your favorite salad can easily become boring, so liven things up with this Chinese style zoodles salad. It makes a great change.

Asian Zucchini Noodles Ingredients

The recipe calls for yellow squash, zucchini, carrots, red onion, green onions, and cabbage. For the dressing, you need mirin, coconut oil and sesame oil, soy sauce, lime juice, garlic paste, and fresh ginger pastes.

How to Make It

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Make the dressing: Shake all the ingredients for the dressing together in a mason jar or similar.
Spiralize the vegetables: Run the raw zucchini, squash, and carrots through a spiralizer, then toss with salt.
Add the other ingredients: Drain off any excess liquid the salts pulled out and toss the squash, carrot, and zucchini noodles with the green onions, red onion, and dressing.

Substitutions and Variations

You can use other kinds of vegetables in this if you want, such as red bell pepper or green bell pepper, thinly sliced mushrooms, snap peas, red cabbage, or even some crushed pineapple chunks if you drain them well first.

You can also use Thai peanut dressing in place of the dressing or add other components such as seasoned rice vinegar (in place of the mirin) or apple cider vinegar, red pepper flakes, extra sesame oil, toasted sesame seeds, or chili garlic sauce.

Sub coconut aminos for the soy sauce if you want. If you want a sweet touch, honey, agave syrup, sugar, or artificial sweetener would work in the dressing.

What to Serve with Asian Zucchini Noodle Salad

You can have this Asian zucchini noodles recipe by itself or pair it with protein such as grilled shrimp, black pepper chicken, miso glazed salmon or rotisserie chicken, or even a juicy steak. Other side salads you may want to try are a hot girl summer salad, green goddess salad or Italian tuna white bean salad.

Zucchini noodles go with pretty much anything, and, if you swap the Chinese-inspired dressing for any other dressing, you’ll find it does go with anything!

How to Store Zucchini Noodle Salad

Store:  Keep the Asian zucchini noodles salad mixture separate from the dressing and refrigerate both for a day before mixing.
Freeze:  This salad doesn’t freeze well because it gets mushy when thawed, so serve immediately for the best result.

Asian Zucchini Noodles Salad FAQs

Asian Zoodle Salad Recipe

This zucchini salad Asian style makes a healthy and tasty meal or side dish. It’s quick and easy to make, and if you have a good spiralizer, you can prepare this in just 15 minutes. It will become one of your favorite salad recipes!

Other Recipes to Try

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• This Instant Pot Buttery Lemon Chicken Pasta is a dish including pasta with zucchini and squash as well as chicken.