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Raw Pad Thai Salad

Raw Pad Thai salad with zoodles, cucumber, fresh herbs, and sambal-honey vinaigrette.

Craving fresh Pad Thai flavors without the noodles? This recipe is one of my favorite refreshing and flavorful meals. It’s a go-to during Spring and Summer when you want something cool, light, and easy.

Raw Pad Thai is packed with nourishing ingredients to give you loads of energy.

The thing I love most about this salad is how refreshing it is, and how light I feel after eating it. The recipe is delicious and filling on its own, but you could also add tofu, shrimp, marinated chickpeas, or grilled chicken to add some protein to your meal.

This raw Pad Thai salad is the epitome of eating the rainbow.

Zucchini zoodles and squiggly strips of vibrant carrots and purple cabbage play together under a shower of fresh herbs, cucumber wedges, and orange segments. All dancing with a zippy limey-spicy-honey dressing. I mean… sign me up. Here’s how to create this for yourself:

Raw Pad Thai Salad

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Serves: 6 Cooking Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients

2 zucchinis
3 carrots
½ small purple cabbage
1 cucumber
1 tangelo or orange, zested + supremed
3 tbsp each cilantro, mint, and basil or thai basil
3 scallions
Scant ¼ cup rice wine vinegar (unsweetened)
1 tbsp sambal
2 tbsp raw unfiltered honey, more or less to taste
1.5 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp tamari
Juice and zest of 1 lime
1 inch ginger, finely grated
Sesame seeds and a drizzle of tahini, to top (unless you're keeping Passover)

Instructions

Zest the orange and set zest aside for later.

Zoodle (spiralize) the zucchinis and carrots. Thinly slice cabbage. Combine in a large bowl.

Cut the cucumber in half, and then into slices. Supreme the tangelo or orange. Add to the bowl.

Mince fresh herbs and thinly slice scallions, and add them to the bowl as well.

Prepare the dressing: whisk rice wine vinegar, sambal, honey, sesame oil, tamari, lime zest and juice, orange zest, and ginger.

Refrigerate dressing and salad separately until ready to serve.

Pour the dressing over the salad and toss to combine. Drizzle with tahini and sprinkle with sesame seeds, if using. Serve with protein of your choice.