Raw Vegan Zucchini Ribbons Salad with Asparagus Spears, Heirloom Tomatoes & Toasted Hazelnuts
Raw Vegan Zucchini Ribbons Salad with Asparagus Spears, Heirloom Tomatoes & Toasted Hazelnuts is one green salad. It’s a fresh, tasty raw vegan salad that you need in your life. The dressing in this salad will pleasantly surprise your taste buds.
When is the last time you had a nutmeg salad dressing? Exactly! Discovering new flavours that bring out the best in a dish is just the best.
With summer approaching, my brain is spinning a thousand miles a minute with all these fresh recipes that I want to create. I’m so looking forward to it.
This lovely salad came to be on a sunny weekend day in March, when I was in a mood for a fresh yet straightforward salad but wanting to experiment and try a new spice that would uplift the entire dish.
And this is how the nutmeg made into my dressing. Nutmeg is a fall-winter spice, and it goes well added to squash and zucchini. It’s quite a strong spice, so just a touch of nutmeg makes a dish mightily flavoursome.
When planning this salad, I suggest you find locally grown organic zucchini. You can’t always find freshly grown zucchini, but there is a variety of squash on the market available all year long. Wash the zucchinis thoroughly, wipe them dry, and then peel with the skin on.
As you may have noticed, I like my ‘conversations’ with you here on the blog, so I’m asking you ‘Have you ever tried to bite a piece of raw zucchini or squash?’ Yes, you can eat them raw. When cooked the texture gets quite soft and mushy, but fresh bites are the best in my opinion: crunchy outside, soft inside with sweet and very slight bitter notes.
If you haven’t read my other recipe and blog post with my super delicious Green Curry Zucchini Soup (which you have to try by the way), you can undoubtedly tell from this post that I love zucchini. :) It’s that good, my friends! Give it a chance if you haven’t already.
We’re not moving on without acknowledging the next phenomenal veggie in my salad - the asparagus. Stop and take a peek a the photo below. Stunning vegetable!
It was no brainier that besides the zucchini I needed another star veggie featured in this salad. Can you tell that I’m a vegetable-loving cook? I can’t restrain from describing them and the ways they can elevate a plant-based dish.
You don’t need much asparagus in a dish to elevate it. It takes just a few moderately cooked spears to uncover its undertones of garlic and the slight crunch.
This Raw Vegan Zucchini Ribbons Salad with Asparagus Spears, Heirloom Tomatoes & Toasted Hazelnuts is an easy to accomplish salad that aims to please the veggie-lover inside you.
There is minimal effort to put into obtaining this salad, and you can't deny how beautiful it looks. It can be a perfect starter to your lunch meal, or a simple light supper followed by a nice cup of tea before bedtime.
