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Thai Asian Salad Recipe

Published: Aug 13, 2018 · Modified: May 11, 2025 by Megan

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Thai Asian Salad Recipe with nut free sunflower dressing! A loaded detox salad with cabbage, carrots, and bell peppers tossed in a spicy Asian dressing. Healthy fat and carbs unite! Serve as a side salad or add your favorite lean protein for a complete meal.

chopped salad with cabbage and bell peppers in a white bowl.

This Thai Crunch Salad recipe is the perfect salad recipe for when you want to eat more vegetables, but are tired of regular salads. It has a yummy dressing made with peanut butter and pairs with a protein for a complete meal, and doubles as a side or appetizer!

It's one of my favorite asian salad recipes along with my crunchy Asian broccoli salad and Asian peanut lettuce wraps!

Thai Asian Salad with nut free sunflower dressing! A loaded detox salad with cabbage, carrots, and bell peppers tossed in a spicy Asian dressing. Healthy fat and carbs unite! Serve as a side salad or add your favorite lean protein for a complete meal. Vegan + Paleo + Low Calorie + Gluten Free

All you need are a few simple ingredients to make this easy chopped asian salad and feel free to buy vegetables that are pre-chopped. Taking shameless shortcuts like that are one of the biggest tips I give to my midlife weight loss clients.

Thai Peanut Salad

This Thai Asian Salad is easy to assemble for meal prep or a quick dinner and it's Whole30, Paleo, Vegan and nut free. With the exception of the bell pepper, I bought all the veggies already shredded. Huge timesaver! Then I used a salad chopper to give the salad that crunchy texture you get with Asian salads. A pizza cutter works too.

Thai Asian Salad with nut free sunflower dressing! A loaded detox salad with cabbage, carrots, and bell peppers tossed in a spicy Asian dressing. Healthy fat and carbs unite! Serve as a side salad or add your favorite lean protein for a complete meal. Vegan + Paleo + Low Calorie + Gluten Free

The dressing consists of sunflower butter, apple cider vinegar and coconut aminos which is soy and nut free, but tastes like soy sauce. I used sunflower butter as the base which is nut free. You can use any nut butter you like, but I really love the flavor the sunflower butter gives to this salad. It compliments Asian foods well! 

Thai Asian Salad with nut free sunflower dressing! A loaded detox salad with cabbage, carrots, and bell peppers tossed in a spicy Asian dressing. Healthy fat and carbs unite! Serve as a side salad or add your favorite lean protein for a complete meal. Vegan + Paleo + Low Calorie + Gluten Free

Ingredients for the Best Thai Asian Salad

  • Green & Red Cabbage
  • Red Bell Pepper
  • Carrots
  • Sunflower Seeds
  • Sunflower Butter
  • Coconut Aminos
  • Water
  • Apple Cider Vinegar or White Wine Vinegar
  • Lime Juice
  • Minced Ginger 
  • Red Pepper Flakes
Thai Asian Salad with nut free sunflower dressing! A loaded detox salad with cabbage, carrots, and bell peppers tossed in a spicy Asian dressing. Healthy fat and carbs unite! Serve as a side salad or add your favorite lean protein for a complete meal. Vegan + Paleo + Low Calorie + Gluten Free

I make this salad as a base for my lunches and then I add a protein like this pan fried scallop recipe, oven baked cod, baked coconut shrimp, or chicken nuggets in the air fryer for an easy meal throughout the week!

Thai Asian Salad with nut free sunflower dressing! A loaded detox salad with cabbage, carrots, and bell peppers tossed in a spicy Asian dressing. Healthy fat and carbs unite! Serve as a side salad or add your favorite lean protein for a complete meal. Vegan + Paleo + Low Calorie + Gluten Free

Thai Asian Salad and Asian Salad Dressing

Megan Olson
Thai Asian Salad with nut free sunflower dressing! A loaded detox salad with cabbage, carrots, and bell peppers tossed in a spicy Asian dressing. Healthy fat and carbs unite! Serve as a side salad or add your favorite lean protein for a complete meal.
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Prep Time 20 minutes mins
Cook Time 0 minutes mins
Total Time 20 minutes mins
Course Salad
Cuisine Asian
Servings 2 servings
Calories 389 kcal

Ingredients
 
 

For the Salad:

  • 3 cups green cabbage shredded
  • 2 cups red cabbage shredded
  • 2 cups carrots shredded
  • 1 red bell pepper chopped
  • 2 tablespoons sunflower seeds

For the Dressing:

  • 1/4 cup peanut butter or any nut butter
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1 tablespoon coconut aminos or low sodium soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoon white vinegar apple cider vinegar
  • 2 tablespoons lime juice
  • 1/2 tablespoon minced ginger
  • 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes

Instructions
 

  • In a large mixing bowl, add the carrots, cabbages and chopped bell pepper. Use a salad chopper to chop the mixture or a pizza cutter works too.
  • In a blender, add the ingredients for the dressing. Blend until smooth. You can add less water if you prefer your dressing thicker. 
  • Add the dressing and sunflower seeds to the salad. Toss to combine and serve! If not serving immediately, keep the dressing on the side until ready to eat.

Notes

  • My Amazon shop has more products similar to those used for this recipe and that I recommend to my nutrition clients.

Nutrition

Serving: 1servingCalories: 389kcalCarbohydrates: 42gProtein: 13gFat: 21gSaturated Fat: 2gSodium: 324mgPotassium: 1037mgFiber: 10gSugar: 15gVitamin A: 24640IUVitamin C: 178mgCalcium: 172mgIron: 4.1mg
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Megan is a certified nutrition practitioner, author, freelance food photographer and fitness instructor living in Phoenix, Arizona. On her blog, Skinny Fitalicious she shares EASY, gluten free recipes for weight loss. Follow Megan on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram for the latest updates.

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