A simple healthy recipe for Asian Slaw – easy and crunchy, this vegan slaw can be made ahead and is delicious alongside salmon, 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 Chodron
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. I love it paired with baked Miso Salmon or these Sesame Crusted Salmon Cakes. Or try it with this Teryaki Chicken (either in a bowl or in tacos) or with this Chicken (or Tofu) Katsu!
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.
You may also Like these:
- Make-Ahead Vegan Salads
- Miso Salmon
- Teryaki Salmon
- Miso Sweet Potatoes!
- Mexican Slaw
- Chicken or Tofu katsu!
- Salmon Cakes
Hope you are having a great week, finding the beauty in what surrounds you. Even if it is simply in the face of cabbage, a beautiful, giant edible flower full of healing nutrients.
xoxo
Sylvia
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Easy Crunchy Asian Slaw ( with the BEST Asian Dressing!)
- Prep Time: 20
- Total Time: 20
- Yield: 6
- Category: Salad, vegan, slaw, dressing
- Method: tossed
- Cuisine: Asian
Description
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
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 honey, brown rice syrup, maple, or agave
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce (or GF alternative like Braggs or Coconut Amino Acids)
- 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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Fantastic. Made with shreded iceberg, purple cabbage, carrot, brussels sprouts, yellow bell pepper, red onion, cilantro, green onion. The dressing is so good!
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This dressing is amazing! I used bagged broccoli slaw mix and served with ahi tuna and it was the perfect accompaniment! This will be my go to for delicious asian side! Thank you.
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Amazing salad dressing I use it for any fresh vegetables combo.
Yammm
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It was amazing!! Made this for a third time in just two months. I will eat this for breakfast tomorrow, as well as lunch on the road.
I added some chopped zucchini. Pretty much add any crunchy veggie and you’re set.
Thank you so much! Also, I have made the salmon cakes numerous times. Such good recipes!
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Absolutely wonderful recipe! Served it with blackened salmon…added some chopped mangos because it just seemed right! Delicious!
Hi Sylvia! I hope your new year is a bright beginning 🌞 and hopeful.
I’ve comment about this recipe before and raved about the dressing. It was delicious – the acid, heat, sweetness, spice, and just yummy goodness. I have to omit the spice for my picky eater. It was so yummy that my 2 yr old toddler can eat almost the whole broccoli or cauliflower while dipping in this dressing – in moderation of course. But wow! I’m always impressed by your recipes. Thank you
May you find peace and blessings always 🙏
Awwwwww thanks. Appreciate this. ❤️
A life-changing recipe! My only serious change is I sub Swerve sugar sub for the sweetener for low carb reasons. It qualifies as an ‘Ah-ha’ moment!
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Love it! 🙌
I made the recipe as written and we loved it, thank you
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Thank you for this recipe!!!
I served this salad with teriyaki meatballs, rice and roasted broccoli. The dressing was SO delicious that my sister and I just spooned the extra out of the bottom of the salad bowl and drizzled it over everything!
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This was really tasty and so healthy. I only used 1 T of sweetener (agave) and thought that was enough.
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Very delicious, everyone loved it. Yum Yum!!
What a great clean tasting cole slaw! Thank you so much. I’m eating this with King Salmon made on the grill, Perfect.
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Love this! Make a lot
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It is so good. Thank you!
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Delicious and easy – a total win. Had to add a little salt but that was the only change I made. Thank you!
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Deeeeeeeelish! And so simple. My only modification: I used one tablespoon of maple syrup instead of three because I prefer a less sweet cabbage salad. Thanks for sharing!
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Excellent! The dressing is wonderful. I added a radish and a little carrot just for color since I only had green cabbage. Oh and a little green apple. I love the taste of it all. Thank you. This recipe is a keeper! I can hardly wait to bring it to a potluck or family gathering.
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It’s frustrating the article is so long. I’m at The supermarket and I know you want to rank for seo but it’s not helpful it’s so long with tons of ads and the Ingredients are “your own choice”.
Just ingredients, photo and quick how to.
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Sorry Oscar- I hear you. Yes, the ads are annoying, yet that is how we are able to provide free content. There is a “Jump to Recipe” button at the very top so you don’t have to scroll. You can screenshot the recipe at that point.
Oscar…just jump to “print Recipe” There’s lot’s of great info in there!
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Really delicious!
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Absolutely amazing!! Very easy to make and it goes with everything!!
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Great recipe. I make this at least once a month.
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Delicious, delicious dressing!
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So easy and my family was RAVING about this dish! One of the only times I have ever seen my mom go back for seconds and thirds of veggies. I used maple syrup and topped with both toasted sesame seeds and peanuts.
Perfect balance of crunchy, tangy, and savory with just a hint of sweetness. Thank you for a great recipe.
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Just what I’ve been searching for, the dressing is perfection!
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The dressing is to die for. You could put it on card and enjoy it! The slaw does need to be cut super fine. My husband did the chopping and too chunky! But the dressing saved us.
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Just delicious
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This dressing is absolutely delish!!! I made a huge batch of everything and sent some over to my parents who also absolutely loved it! This is a big win!!!!
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So good! I made mine with cabbage, watermelon radish, bell pepper and carrot. I blended the cilantro into the dressing just cuz I felt like it and used some regular white vinegar since I didn’t have rice vinegar. Awesome, tastes like something you could get at a restaurant. This recipe is a keeper!
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