Typical salad bars have a few simple ingredients with one or two really special ingredients or dressings. It goes to prove salads don’t have to be fancy.
This is a basic salad made special with spicy peanuts and avocados served with a creamy tahini sesame dressing.
We found a delightful sesame dressing at a Korean Bibimbop restaurant.
My grandson absolutely loved this dressing so much, he started eating salads!
Obviously I had to recreate the dressing! Here is the Creamy Sesame dressing that goes with this salad. The tang and creaminess of the coconut yogurt combined with the nutty tahini make a great (but easy) combination.
Of course you can make this salad with fewer ingredients than what I list in the recipe. See the photo?
Watching your calories? Omitting the nuts and avocado will lower the fat in the recipe! We can all use a little of that!
Korean green salad with chili peanuts
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Butter lettuce Sub romaine or iceberg lettuce
- 1 Serrano or Thai chili Fresno chili if available
- 1 Carrot
- 1 Mini red bell pepper
- 1 Baby or Persian cucumber
- 1/8 Red onion May sub sweet white or green onions
- 1/8 Red cabbage
- 1/8 Green or savoy cabbage
- 2 Avocado's They didn't have this on the salad bar but I thought it a nice addition. It's optional.
- 1 Cup Thai spiced nuts Optional
Instructions
- Prepare the Thai peanuts. (See notes).
- Prepare the ingredients for the salad. Thinly slice the lettuce, cabbages, peppers and the onion.
- Use a shredding peeler to create carrot shreds or use a coarse grater.
- Slice the cucumber lengthwise into quarters and slice them horizontally into a 1/4" slices.
- Toss the salad and arrange into serving bowls.
- Slice open the avocado and remove the seeds. Make thin slices in the avocado then scoop it away from the skin with a large spoon. Divide into servings.
Notes
This is a Snap Pea Sheep recipe.
To make the Thai spiced nuts, coat them in a little aquafaba and sprinkle them with Thai spice or Thai red pepper and Himalayan salt. Toast for 5 minutes until lightly toasted.
Make my creamy sesame dressing to accompany this salad. 
