Asian Cucumber Noodle Salad
Updated March 26, 2019
Asian Cucumber Noodle Salad-this healthy, gluten-free noodle dish is bright, colorful, and great served as a main dish or side dish.
Happy Monday! Yes, it is a happy Monday because today I am sharing a recipe for a bright and colorful Asian Cucumber Noodle Salad. Look at that beautiful salad. It is sure to cure any and all Monday blues. This salad is happiness in a bowl! It is the perfect salad for Meatless Monday or any day! It is great served as a main dish, I think I will make it for lunch today, or you can serve it as a side dish. It is the perfect party salad! Happiness in a bowl and a party in a bowl! This salad is everything!
Ali from Inspiralized inspired me to make this salad. Or should I say “inspiralized” me to make this salad? Ha!
Ali recently came out with a cookbook all about inspiralizing. What is inspiralizing? Inspiralizing is the art of transforming vegetables and fruits into noodles with the Inspiralizer.
Ali not only has a cookbook about inspiralizing, but she also came out with her own kitchen gadget! How cool! The Inspiralizer turns fruits and veggies into beautiful and healthy noodles in minutes! It is easy to use, easy to clean, and makes the coolest noodles. I was skeptical at first, because I’ve been making zucchini noodles and cucumber noodles with my mandoline. I didn’t think I needed another kitchen gadget. Well, I tried the Inspiralizer and now I am hooked! It is awesome! And it doesn’t take up that much room either. It is a MUST have kitchen gadget. I am going to turn everything I see into noodles:) Watch out!
And I know I will be making this Asian Cucumber Noodle Salad weekly, if not daily. It is my new favorite salad and perfect for spring and summer. The base of the salad is cucumber noodles. I turned a regular old cucumber into delicious noodles in a few minutes, thanks to my trusty Inspiralizer.
The salad is light, fresh, healthy, and gorgeous! The flavors are spot on and again, it just makes me happy. I love fueling my body with healthy food. A healthy body is a happy body!
Put your happy faces on, add a little skip to your step, sing a little song, do a little dance, and make this Asian Cucumber Noodle Salad. It is guaranteed happiness! This salad will turn any frown upside down:)
And make sure you check out Ali’s new cookbook and Inspiralizer. You need them both! Ali’s book has SO many fun ideas and recipes! I am officially addicted to inspiralizing! It’s a good addiction to have, join me:)
Asian Cucumber Noodle Salad
Ingredients
For the Dressing:
- 1/4 cup lite soy sauce or tamari sauce
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- 1 tablespoon water
- 2 tablespoons chopped green onion
- 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
- 1/4 teaspoon grated ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- Salt and black pepper to taste
For the Salad:
- 1 large seedless English cucumber, spiralized (I used Blade C)
- 1 cup cooked edamame
- 1 red bell pepper thinly sliced
- 1 yellow bell pepper thinly sliced
- 2 large carrots julienned
- 1 cup thinly sliced red cabbage
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
Instructions
- First, make the dressing. In a small bowl, whisk together the soy sauce or tamari, sesame oil, rice wine vinegar, lime juice, water, green onions, cilantro, sesame seeds, ginger, red pepper flakes, salt, and pepper. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine cucumber noodles, edamame, peppers, carrots, cabbage, and cilantro. Toss to combine. When ready to serve, drizzle dressing over salad and serve immediately.
- Note-don't dress the salad until you are ready to eat or the cucumber noodles will turn slightly brown.
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I’ve been wondering if I can spiralize cucumbers as of late! But..I was too lazy to try, so thanks for doing the work for me ๐
This salad is GORGEOUS. All the colors are making my eyeballs happy, and I can feel the health through my screen! Pinned!
Thank you!
SO gorgeous! Those colors! I must make this!!
This is absolutely BEAUTIFUL!! I don’t own an inspiralizer yet, but I need one for sure!!
Thanks! Yes, you need one!
What an amazingly colourful salad!
I need to get my mitts on her new cookbook! I have yet to get on the spiralizing train ๐
Such a beautifully vibrant salad!
Absolutely beautiful, as is Ali’s book!
Alright, I need to get a spiralizer ASAP! This looks beautiful!
Love what you did with cucumber noodles, this dish is beautiful!! So happy you like the Inspiralizer and the cookbook!
What a beautiful salad!!!! tis the season for the spiralizer!! Cant wait to break mine out!
Yes, I can feel the Monday blues washing away from me already! This is just gorgeous! I just bought a spiralizer (and one for my mom for Mother’s Day) too so this is perfect timing. I’m already feeling inspiralized! ๐
ok that’s it, I have to get an Inspiralizer now – this looks fantastic and so pretty too!
I’m embarrassed to say my spiralizer has never come out of the box! Your salad may be the enticement I need—it looks phenomenal!
This is so pretty! What a great dish to bring to a potluck, perfect for summer!
Such a gorgeous, colorful salad! I feel healthier just looking at it!
this looks absolutely beautiful and delicious!!
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I am making this for sure. Totally my kind of meal!
Love salads for summer!! This one looks scrumptious.
What a beautiful salad! So many lovely, vivid colors ๐
This looks so light and delicious! I’ll have to get one to spiralize everything!
This is such a pretty salad! Looks like Spring in bowl!
what would you recommend if I want to make this but don’t have a fancy veggie noodler?
Made this for dinner last night and it was so good! It was super filling and healthy. Just wondering…do you have the nutritional information for the recipes you share? I wish I could just make, bake and enjoy, but always trying to watch my health (and waistline) too. ๐
I don’t have the nutritional info, sorry! Glad you liked the recipe!
Can you also include info amount total fat and carbs sodium sugars etc with your recipes?
Thx. Love your posts
Thanks ! Great recipe. I’ve been looking for a good recipe since I have tons of Asian cucumbers that I grew from seeds this year that I picked up at the local Asian store. You should try growing some – they are easy. Here are some pictures
http://earthlychow.com/asian-cucumber-tien-chin-long
Why do you call it Asian? What elements does it contains that make it asian?
The advertisements are a horrendously awkward challenge to even view this post prproperly. I finally managed. Looks great and can’t wait to try it.
This looks colorful, flavorful, fresh and most importantly, DELISH!