I’m so honored to share simple, beautiful cooking classes with Humana in Mesa, Arizona, for the last few years. This week, our focus was on “High Fiber Foods” with a tasty, simple-to-prepare Asian Salad with Citrus Ginger Root Dressing.
Asian Salad with Vibrant Purple Cabbage and Tangy Citrus Ginger Root Dressing
Make your own gourmet Asian salad with a rainbow of raw organic veggies, your favorite toasted nuts, and intuitively created ginger root dressing.
A quick peek at the set at Humana, with my short Facebook Live.
Asian Salad: Ginger Salad Dressing: 3 Key Ingredients
The essential ingredients for a perfect Asian dressing every time are ginger root, a soy flavoring (wheat-free tamari soy sauce or Bragg’s amino acids), and fresh citrus.
Simple Ingredients
- 1” fresh ginger root, minced
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- ½ cup soy tamari or Bragg’s amino acids
- ½ orange, juiced
- ½ fresh-squeezed lemon or lime juice
- 1 tbsp rice vinegar
- 1 tsp local honey
- ⅓ cup organic extra virgin olive oil
Simple Steps
- Finely mince ginger root and garlic.
- Place in pint-size Mason jar.
- Add all other ingredients (except olive oil) to jar and shake.
- Taste and intuitively add ingredients to create your desired flavor.
- Too much acid: add olive oil
- Not sweet enough: add honey
- Too oily: add lemon or lime juice
Asian Rainbow Salad
Along with a tangy ginger root dressing, a colorful rainbow of raw organic veggies creates a beautiful Asian salad.
Simple Ingredients
- 1 purple cabbage, shredded or sliced
- 2 cups Bok Choy, sliced
- 1 cup carrots, shredded
- 1 cucumber, julienned (long, thin slices)
- 1 cup snap peas or snow peas, cut on bias (Note: not have snap or snow peas)
- 6 green onions, cut on bias
- 1 cup red, purple, or watermelon radishes, sliced
- 1 cup almonds, sliced and dry toasted
Simple Steps
- Dry toast (no oil) sliced almonds in small sauté pan on low heat for 5 minutes.
- Toss all vegetables in a large bowl and mix thoroughly.
- Drizzle the Asian salad dressing on the vegetables and gently toss.
- Top with dry toasted almonds.
- Enjoy!
Happy to share with you the beautiful, colorful, simple-to-prepare Asian Salad. At Humana, we all really enjoyed the freshness of the dish and the ginger-rich dressing.
And, I was so fortunate to enjoy left-overs with my sunset…
Hope you enjoy creating your version of an Awesome Asian Salad.
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