A simple healthy recipe for Asian Slaw – easy and crunchy, this vegan slaw can be made ahead and is delicious alongside fish, tofu, or chicken or stuffed into tacos, topped onto burgers, or added to buddha bowls. A great way to add more veggies into your everyday meals.
To be fully alive, fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again. ~Pema
In the next few weeks, beautiful farmers market cabbages will start rolling out if they haven’t already in your area. And when they do, I want you to be prepared! Excited even!
You’ll find a million uses for this easy, crunchy Asian Slaw recipe. A wonderful excuse to purchase one of those stunning cabbages at the farmers market. It’s also a fantastic way to use up all the stray veggies in the fridge- that remaining half cabbage, the stray carrot or parsnip, or the leftover bell pepper. If you are a part of a CSA or shop at the farmers market, many of the veggies you’ll find there can be added to this slaw – like kohlrabi, turnips, beets, or brussels sprouts. Such an easy useful way to add more healthy veggies into our everyday diet.
How to Make Asian Slaw!
And if short on time, many mainstream grocery stores offer a plethora of different gourmet slaw mixes, that are perfect for this too- brussel sprouts slaw, broccoli slaw, carrot slaw… you get the idea. It’s a basic recipe designed to be used as a base for your own creations.
What I love about this easy Asian Slaw is, if I’m in a hurry, I know I can grab a bag of slaw mix from the grocery store, and whip this up in 10 minutes. I’ll throw in some stray veggies if I have them and serve it as a quick healthy side, most often with fish or seared tofu. Oh, and I love the Asian slaw with these easy Salmon Cakes! The leftover slaw stays crunchy and seems to get better with time.
The Asian Slaw Dressing is the best! Not only is it made with accessible ingredients you most likely have in your pantry, it seems to have the right balance of sweet, tart and depth with just a little heat. And of course you can personalize it even further to your own tastes.
For more Make-Ahead Vegan Salads…. take a peek at these!
Serve this Asian slaw with this Baked Miso Salmon, or this Teryaki Salmon, White Miso Black Cod, or these Miso Sweet Potatoes!
Hope you are having a great week, finding the beauty in what surrounds you. Even if it is simply in the face of a cabbage, a beautiful, giant edible flower full of healing nutrients.
xoxo
Easy Crunchy Asian Slaw ( with the BEST Asian Dressing!)
Easy Crunchy Asian Slaw- a simple vegan slaw with the BEST SLAW DRESSING EVER that can be made ahead! Serve this alongside fish, tofu, or chicken or stuffed into tacos, topped onto burgers, or added to buddha bowls. A great way to add more veggies into your everyday meals. #slaw #asianslaw #veganslaw #easyslaw #tacoslaw
- Prep Time: 20
- Total Time: 20
- Yield: 6 1x
- Category: Salad, vegan, slaw, dressing
- Method: tossed
- Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients
- 1 lb shredded veggies (your choice of cabbage, carrots, bell pepper, snow peas, broccoli slaw, brussel sprouts, etc) roughly 6-7 cups.
- 3 scallions, sliced
- 1 cup cilantro ( or Italian parsley or mint) chopped
Asian Slaw Dressing:
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil
- ¼ cup rice wine vinegar
- 3 tablespoons brown rice syrup, agave or honey
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce (or GF alternative like Braggs or Coconut Aminos)
- 1 garlic clove, finely minced ( use a garlic press)
- 1 tablespoon ginger, finely chopped
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon chili flakes or chili paste ( optional)
Optional toppings:
- Toasted sesame seeds
- roasted, crushed peanuts or cashews
Instructions
- Toss slaw ingredients together in a large bowl. Add cilantro and scallions.
- Whisk Asian Slaw Dressing ingredients together in a small bowl.
- Pour dressing into slaw and toss well.
- Garnish with sesame seeds and/ or nuts.
Notes
- Salad will keep up to 3-4 days in the fridge.
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Honestly, this slaw is so ideal for quarantine cooking as all the ingredients have quite a long shelf-life. On top of that, the dressing is so delicious that I’m sure I’ll come back to it for side salads for other asian-inspired meals! I served it as a main with avocado and shrimp and was thouroughly imrpressed.
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Glad you liked it!
Very colorful and appealing to the eye! Also VERY DELICIOUS! YUM YUM
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Not only is the salad delicious (I used red cabbage) the dressing is amazing!! I used only 2 TBsp.’s of honey and opted for chili paste which I increased to 1 Tsp. I topped my salad with chopped roasted almonds (that’s what I had on hand). I think I’ve been looking for an Asian Dressing like this my entire life. This is the one!
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Thanks so much- glad you liked it!
Really easy and very versatile. I used green cabbage and shredded carrots and part of a red bell pepper. I didn’t have cilantro or scallions but it still turned out excellent. Served it with potstickers. Family loved it
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Perfect Lauren!
Honestly, this recipe is the bomb!
This will be our second time making it in a week during our self-quarantining period 😉 I gotta tell ya, It’s nice to have something fresh to accompany our cabinet rations! I too substituted mayo for the olive oil. Gave it a much creamier texture. Thanks for sharing such a delicious dish! Even though our trip to Bora Bora was cancelled, the fam and I can still have some sort of Asian influence on our menu tonight.
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Great to hear!
I made this tonight with the ginger sesame tofu and the kyoto sweet potatoes, and as I made the dressing I wondered ‘is this going to be too salty with all three dishes having soy and miso?’ NOPE, they were all perfect together, and I’m looking forward to eating this for lunch AND dinner again tomorrow!
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Love the combo! Thanks Maigen!
Amazing flavor. Served this with Lemon Chicken and white rice. Perfect meal.
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This is my favorite slaw. So fresh tasting and flavorful. Thanks
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Absolutely delicious 😋
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Perfect!!
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Really delicious. I used bagged cole slaw mix and cut back on the honey and oils. Next time I’ll try some nuts. I added sesame seeds. I might do half and half parsley and cilantro. I served with home made cod cakes and leftover sweet potato. What a fabulous meal!!
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Amazing. Delicious and flavorful
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I put this in a wrap with avocado and greens.. it was great
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This is a perfect complement for any meat, fish, or chicken dish.
Thanx so much
Wendy Ayr
Scotland
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Thanks Wendy! Glad you enjoyed it!
Loveseat this slaw! The dressing was perfect, and it paired so well with the salmon patties!
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Awesome Nichole! Great to hear!
I love this recipe. I’ve made it several times with different vegetables. Thanks for the awesome recipe!
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Thank YOU Lea- so happy you are enjoying this!
Wanted to use up a red cabbage that has been floating around in the fridge forever 😏 but wanted something to go with a Asian inspired rice bowl. This was perfect!! The flavour was sublime and the crunch in the rice bowl hit the spot (since I ran out of cucumbers).
Think I could eat this daily!! Thanks!!
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This was wired
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Best Dressing EVER!!! I added 3 table spoons of mayo instead of olive oil, made the rest according to recipe, and Oh My Word! I could drank the dressing.
Have made salad 2x this week!
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So glad you are enjoying it! Tell me what are you serving it with!??
yum. this is a delicious salad.
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This is by far the best Asian slaw recipe I’ve made ! Loved the freshness with the veggies, the herbs, and nuts added ! Fantastic! !!!❤️❤️❤️😋
Great slaw, fun to make too.
Fresh ginger /a little sweet/hot;
Can’t go wrong.
Fabulous dinner. I only had tuna, but it turned out really well. Easy to make, tasty and great textures. The Asian Slaw went so well with the fish. It all lived up to its expectations. Thank you so much for sharing
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Great to hear!
This recipe is brilliant. The salad dressing is absolutely delicious.
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So happy you like it!