Snow Pea Salad With Creamy Tahini Dressing

Do you love an interesting salad? 

This flavorful Asian salad is made with cut up snow peas, radishes, scallions, and cilantro. It is served over a bed of greens and topped with a generous amount of thinly sliced almonds. 

Before adding the almonds and sesame seeds, I tossed the salad in a creamy tahini dressing- the perfect complement to this delicious plant-based salad. 

I especially like to add sliced and then cut the slices in half of red onions to the mix. 

Ingredients:

12 ounces of snow peas, washed, strings removed and cut in half lengthwise

10 ounce bag of shredded carrots

1 cup of sliced radishes

1 cup of sliced scallions 

1 cup of chopped cilantro or parsley

1 cup of sweet red onion, sliced in half moons

Optional: 1 cup of sliced black olives

Salad greens to cover the bottom of the salad bowl

2 tablespoons of toasted sesame seeds

2/3 cup of sliced almonds

Directions: 

Assemble ingredients (except almonds and sesame seeds) in a large salad bowl and mix well with the tahini salad dressing. Before serving top with the sliced almonds and toasted sesame seeds sprinkled across the top of the salad. 

Creamy Tahini Dressing 

Ingredients: 

4 tablespoons of tahini 

1/4 cup of lemon or lime juice

1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder

1/4 cup of water

2 tablespoons of maple syrup or agave

Directions: 

Combine the tahini, lemon juice and garlic powder in the food processor. While running add the water and maple syrup through the shoot. Process until well blended and creamy.