The key is to mix it up with lots of crunch and color from various cabbages, greens, colored bell peppers, snow peas and top it off with a very bright citrus ginger dressing. You can add peanuts or sliced almonds for added flavor.

When I first made this asian slaw, I took the time to shred Napa cabbage, but then realized a bag of angel hair slaw would save a lot of time and provide the same result. I also used a bag of broccoli slaw which has added carrots (more color). The only time consuming part of Asian Slaw will be doing thin slices of colored peppers and making a homemade dressing.

I highly recommend you make your own dressing, as it’s easy, fresh and won’t contain harmful seed oils like canola oil.

My Sesame Ginger Salad Dressing is full of flavor and jumps with brightness. I brought this salad to an Asian night potluck and it was a big hit. I kept hearing words like refreshing, flavorful, delicious.

The main components of the ingredients for Asian slaw are listed below. You can skip the nuts altogether or replace broccoli slaw with more napa cabbage or angel hair slaw. You can add in slivered carrots or finely chopped celery. I’ll leave that to you.

Main Components of Asian Slaw

• Large Napa Cabbage or Bag Angel Hair Slaw
• Broccoli Slaw (bag)
• Red and Yellow Bell Peppers
• Snow Peas or Snap Peas (optional)
• Scallions
• Peanuts or Sliced Almonds
• Sesame Seeds
• Cilantro or Thai Basil

Sesame Ginger Dressing Ingredients

• Fresh Knob of Ginger
• Shallots
• Tamari Sauce (or soy sauce)
• Garlic cloves
• Orange juice from fresh orange
• Lime Juice from fresh lime
• Rice Vinegar
• Sesame Oil
• Avocado Oil

How to Make this Slaw Turn into a Full Dinner

This slaw can be the base for grilled for the following poached shrimp, salmon, fish tacos, salmon tacos.

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Asian Slaw with Ginger Dressing

Asian Slaw with Ginger Dressing for a side or serve with a Protein

Course Salad and Salad Dressing

Cuisine Asian

Keyword Asian Slaw, Ginger Dressing

Prep Time 25 minutes minutes

Servings 8

Ingredients

• 1 Napa Cabbage Or Bag Angel Hair Slaw
• 1 bag Broccoli Slaw
• 6 Scallions
• 1 cup snow peas or edamame optional
• 1 Red Bell Pepper
• 1 Yellow Bell Pepper
• 1/3 cup Peanuts or Sliced Almonds
• 1 tablespoon Sesame Seeds optional

Ginger Dressing

• 3 garlic cloves
• 3 tablespoons Freshly Grated Ginger (1 large knob)
• 1/2 orange
• 1 lime
• 4 tablespoons Rice Vinegar or apple cider vinegar
• 2 tablespoons Tamari or Soy Sauce
• 1 tablespoon Sesame Oil
• 10 tablespoons Avocado Oil
• 1 large shallot
• 1 tablespoon fresh herb cilantro

Instructions

• Slice Bell Peppers into very thin slices. Slice scallions.
• Cook Snow Peas or Snap Peas and put on Ice to maintain color. You can serve them raw in the salad.
• If you are using Napa Cabbage, clean, rinse, dry and slice thinly.
• Put all cabbage and broccoli slaw in bowl. Add vegetables.
• Toss with dressing. You may not use all of the dressing or you may need more. For best flavor dress a few hours ahead and refrigerate.
• Add Peanuts and a sprinkling of cilantro right before serving.

Ginger Dressing

• Grate a large knob of ginger.
• Mince garlic.
• Finely chop shallot.
• Put vinegar, Tamari sauce (or soy sauce) and honey Into a jar Add garlic, ginger and shallots.
• Add juice from orange and lime.
• Add avocado oil and sesame oil and give a good shake.
• You may choose to add more of any Ingredient according to your taste.

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Sesame Ginger Salad Dressing Gluten Free

Gluten Free Sesame Ginger Salad Dressing is part of a series in my exploration for a homemade Asian inspired dressing. It’s important to make your own if you want it to be gluten free, as the store-bought sesame ginger dressing will have soybean oil and soy sauce, which as gluten.

I recently discovered avocado oil, which is great when you don’t want that olive oil taste (my usual preference). To that, of course I add in a small amount of sesame oil and lots of freshly grated ginger. Bottled ginger dressings have a lot of onions; I add in a smaller amount of shallots. I use Tamari (which is gluten free) instead of soy sauce and an organic rice vinegar. I added mustard to bond the dressing, but you could use honey, if you like it a little sweeter.

The Sesame Ginger Salad Dressing can turn a Salad into Dinner.

I made a salad of chopped cabbage, lettuce, toasted rice noodles, chicken, edamame, pineapple and toasted almonds. Another idea would be use the sesame ginger salad dressing on lettuce wraps and skip the rice noodles, for a paleo, low-carb, grain free option.

However, it’s so flavorful, it’s good on lettuce.

I love using fresh ginger in recipes. This gingered roasting salmon is one of my favorites. Carrot Ginger Soup is another healthy choice.

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Sesame Ginger Salad Dressing

How to make homemade sesame ginger salad dressing for salads, dips, marinade.

Course Salad Dressing

Cuisine Asian

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 5 minutes minutes

Total Time 15 minutes minutes

Author Angela Roberts

Ingredients

• 1 large knob ginger grated (about a full tablespoon or 2 teaspoons ground ginger
• 1 shallot minced
• 1 tablespoon tamari sauce or soy sauce
• 1 garlic clove minced
• 2 tablespoons orange juice can use juice of 1 lime
• 1/2 teaspoon dijon mustard can use honey
• 3 tablespoons rice vinegar
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil
• 6 tablespoons oil

Instructions

• Peel ginger and grate.
• Mix ginger, shallot, tamari sauce, garlic, orange juice rice vinegar and mustard in a jar.
• Add in oil and shake well.

Notes

You can replace mustard with honey (or add in additionally)

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Until I had to make an Asian salad dressing for a client, I didn’t realize all the options.

I’ve seen Asian salad dressings based with peanuts, sesame oil, ginger or even cilantro. They are all appealing for different reasons. Thus, this Asian-inspired salad dressing series was born. I plan to bring you all three, but today, I’m featuring the Thai Peanut Salad dressing.

Thai Peanut Salad Dressing

In this recipe, I’ve used peanut butter, rice vinegar, sesame oil, garlic, honey and olive oil.

I’m still devoted to olive oil and think a nice peppery extra virgin olive oil that doesn’t have a heavy taste is still best. I’ve also used grapeseed oil (which as no flavor) and avocado oil.

If you are allergic to peanuts, almond butter is a great substitute, and a little sesame oil will go a long way and ought to be a staple in your pantry.

If you want to transform this Thai peanut salad dressing into a peanut dipping sauce, add one more tablespoon of peanut butter and reduce oil by half. This makes a great appetizer and would be great for crudités (or grilled skewers of meat).

I’ll bring you the salad separately. Like Asian dressing there are so many options. Remember the days of frying up ramen noodles for a crunchy topping, and adding mandarin oranges. I still like that, but hope to bring you some fresh options, using grilled pineapple. mango or fresh oranges.

I always like to hear from you, so please let me know about your favorite Asian-inspired salad dressing, and stay tuned for at least two more salad dressing options.

Let’s connect. Find me on instagram, and all of my recipes are in one place on my Pinterest board.

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Thai Peanut Salad Dressing

Thai peanut salad dressing with honey, sesame oil and Tamari sauce tops your favorite Asian Salad or makes for a great dipping sauce.

Course Salad Dressing

Cuisine Asian

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Total Time 10 minutes minutes

Author Angela Roberts

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoon rice vinegar or apple cider vinegar
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce or Tamari Sauce
• 1 large garlic clove minced
• juice of 1 lime
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 2 tablespoons peanut butter
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil
• 6 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 teaspoon red chile flakes ground red pepper or 1/2 teaspoon chili oil

Instructions

• Mix vinegar, soy sauce, lime juice, garlic.
• Add in honey. Mix well.
• Add in peanut butter.
• Add olive oil, stirring in slowly
• Add in sesame oil, chili flakes.
• You can use ground red pepper or dash of sriracha as a substitute.

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