If you follow my dinner plans on Facebook, or my girls’ lunch posts on Instagram, you probably have seen I’ve been on a salad kick lately. That is some because I truly am craving them – I think my body is ready for a spring cleanse. And it is some because in the winter there isn’t a lot of other produce options around here!
This one…is momma’s dressing though.
I know you know by know my love affair with all things Asian cuisine so this dressing has my favorite flavors all whisked together in 2 minutes flat (because I still have a teething baby at my hip – I don’t have time for long drawn out recipes all the time!).
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Asian Salad Dressing
Ingredients
- ½ cup expeller pressed sesame oil
avocado oil works well too - ½ cup coconut aminos this replaces soy sauce - it tastes just like it!
- 2 TB natural peanut butter or almond butter Watch the ingredients! Just peanuts and maybe salt! There shouldn’t be other added oils or sugar. If you want a thicker consistency use 3 TB
- 1 tsp red pepper flakes more if you like more heat
- 1 ½ tsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp onion powder
- Sea salt/pepper to taste The coconut aminos are naturally salty just like soy sauce – so just be mindful of that – you won’t need much salt!
works well too
Instructions
- Everything into a small mixing bowl and wisk together!
- Makes about 1 ½ cups of dressing – store in the fridge for weeks. Double up if you want!
Want more Asian cuisine? Try my sweet and sour sauce and Thai peanut sauce!
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This salad dressing sounds so yummy! I love those flavors. Pinned.
This sounds so good and is so easy! Love it;)
This looks so good! I love these types of dressings to change up my salads. The pictures are beautiful too!
That looks amazing! Pinning this for later!
Love the ingredients you’ve used. My kids will flip for this! Pinned!! 🙂
This is great! I have everything to make this.. 🙂
This sounds great. I always make my own dressings and sauces (my fridge looks like a science experiment with all those little mason jars in there). And, we love Asian flavors in our house. Thanks for the recipe.
Delicious and easy – my kind of recipe! Can’t wait to try it!
This sounds delicious! I love making my own salad dressings.
Do you think it would still taste good without the ginger? I hate to sound picky (because I used to be really picky!) but we just hate ginger in our house. lol. It’s the one reason I never make Asian cuisine because it always calls for ginger!
Take it out Donielle! So funny you mention that because I actually used to really hate ginger too! I only started loving it a couple years ago – I am not even really sure why 😉
Thank you, this recipe looks great! I think I’ll use avocado oil and a little bit is sesame.
Can other nut butters be used? What do you recommend?
Hi Sally! Yes absolutely! I use almond butter most of the time actually! And if you use sunbutter that works well too!