Ribbons of zucchini with tomatoes and onions are mixed with a slightly spicy Asian dressing to make up this refreshing Asian Zucchini Ribbon Salad that’s just perfect for summer.
I hope you are ready for another zucchini recipe! My garden is starting to overflow with zucchini along with other wonderful fresh produce. Here is a basket of goodies that I picked yesterday, it’s so easy to be a vegetarian in the summer!
With fresh produce galore, I love trying out my spiralizer on many of the fresh fruits and vegetables to see what I can create, like these zucchini ribbons. They were so easy to make with the spiralizer, I decided to turn them into a zucchini ribbon salad.
There is no shortage of zucchini, and tomatoes are just starting to appear so the two seemed like the perfect combination for this salad.
This salad is super easy to make. The first step is to make the ribbons. If you don’t have a spiralizer, you can use a mandolin slicer and carefully slice the zucchini horizontally.
Once the ribbons are made, the tomatoes are chopped and the onions are sliced.
Make the dressing, and pour over the salad and enjoy this bowl of summer goodness!
Spicy Asian Zucchini Salad
Asian Zucchini Salad is low carb, gluten free and less than 10 ingredients. It’s refreshing and light – perfect for a summer dinner!
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 15 mins
- Yield: 4 1x
Ingredients
- 2 small to medium sized zucchini
- 1 small onion sliced thin
- 15 to 20 cherry tomatoes cut into quarters
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
- 1 teaspoon chopped cilantro
- DRESSING:
- 2 tablespoons tamari sauce
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons sesame oil
- 1 teaspoon honey or maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
- 1 small clove garlic crushed
- 1 1/2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes
Instructions
- Using a spiralizer or a mandolin make the zucchini ribbons
- Place ribbons into a bowl, add the onions,, tomatoes and sesame seeds
- Mix up the dressing and pour over the salad
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/4
- Calories: 117
- Sugar: 5.9
- Sodium: 512.6
- Fat: 8.4g
- Saturated Fat: 1.2g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3.5g
- Carbohydrates: 9.5g
- Fiber: 2.3g
- Protein: 3g
My Ingredient Picks. . .
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- Eden Organic Tamari Sauce
- Eden Organic Brown Rice Vinegar
- Spectrum Naturals Organic Unrefined Sesame Oil
- Coombs Family Farms Organic Maple Syrup
- Simply Organic Red Pepper Flakes
Check out a few of my favorite zucchini recipes:
- Easy Zucchini Refrigerator Pickles
- 63 Ways To Use Up Your Zucchini
- Zucchini Spagghetti with Lentil Marinara Sauce
Beautiful photos! This looks so good, and I agree, love the bountiful summer produce that makes it easy to eat vegetarian or, in my case, more vegetarian than in the winter!
Thank you Maria!
What a beautiful salad! I love the sound of that dressing, too!
What perfect timing. I just got ANOTHER batch of fresh zucchini from a friends garden and was thinking of ways to prepare it. I love this idea!