Thai Carrot Salad

Thai Carrot Salad

from cookclickndevour.com
15 min

Thai carrot salad is a easy and filling salad recipe that you can put together as side dish for any Asian meal. Ready in 15 minutes, no cook, vegan salad with amazing flavor and crunch. If you are fan of Asian flavors, you are going to love this easy salad recipe.

Ingredients

  • 2 carrots (about 2 cups shredded)
  • 1 cup cabbage (shredded)
  • 1/2 cup red onions (finely sliced)
  • 1/2 cup peppers (finely chopped)
  • 1/4 cup cilantro leaves (finely chopped)
  • 1/2 cup roasted peanuts (crushed coarsely)
  • 2 tablespoons soy sauce (use tamari for gluten free variation)
  • 1 inch ginger (peeled and minced)
  • 3 cloves garlic (peeled and minced)
  • 1 teaspoon rice vinegar (can sub with extra lime juice)
  • 1 teaspoon brown sugar (Or palm sugar or coconut sugar)
  • 1 tablespoon lime juice
  • 1/2 teaspoon cracked black peppercorns
  • 1 teaspoon sesame oil
  • salt (to taste)

Directions

  1. 1

    Rinse the carrots and peel them. You can ether shred the carrots or chop them into sticks using a julienne slicer. Also rinse well and shred the cabbage.

  2. 2

    Into a large bowl or salad bowl, place the shredded cabbage, chopped carrot along with sliced red onion and finely chopped capsicum.

  3. 3

    Into a small bowl or combine measured oil, soy sauce, brown sugar, salt, minced ginger, crushed garlic cloves, vinegar and lime juice. Mix well with a fork to emulsify a bit

  4. 4

    Toss the prepared dressing into the vegetables. Now you can also add some red pepper flakes for extra spice of you prefer.

  5. 5

    Toss the salad well, add chopped cilantro leaves and roasted peanuts.

  6. 6

    Mix very well again. Serve the Thai style carrot salad immediately.