ASIAN SLAW WITH PEANUT SAUCE

Asian Slaw with Peanut Sauce

TGIF everyone!  This one is short and easy.  I promised to post the salad I made with the Peanut Sauce I made the other day. Asian Slaw's are really easy to make.  I packed this one full of various raw veggies and so it had a tremendous amount of flavor in one bite.  An easy way to give variety to your salads is to vary the cutting methods used.  In this case I tried to Julienne, shred and thinly slice a lot of the ingredients.

ASIAN SLAW WITH PEANUT SAUCE

 

2 cups Shredded Cabbage

1/2 cup Jicama, Julienned (Or Diakon Radish)

1/2 cup Cucumber, Sliced or Julienned

1/2 cup Cilantro, chopped (I love cilantro, so I proably added about a cup!)

1/2 cup Leeks, Sliced or Julienned

1/2 cup Red Radishes

1/2 cup Green Onions, chopped

Avocado to garnish

DRESSING:

Peanut Sauce or your favorite vinaigrette or asian salad dressing.

You can also top it with your favorite nuts.  Mine would be these Sweet & Spicy Cashews, which I can't believe I forgot to use!

Enjoy and have a fabulous weekend!

 

RAW SWEET AND SPICY CASHEWS

Sweet and Spicy Cashews

Ok, friends, I made a little mistake on my Instagram post about the dehydrated cashews.  I called them Chilli Lime, but they are in fact Sweet & Spicy.  So sorry about that folks!  In any case, they are still very tasty!

You will also need a dehydrator to make these if you want to keep them raw.  I got mine HERE and it works great.  I love using this to to dehydrate mushrooms and tomatoes, and I've made Beet Chips too!

These cashews do take a little time, so plan about two days ahead if you want to make these.

RAW SWEET AND SPICY CASHEWS

1-1/2 cups raw cashews ~ soak for 4 hours or more

1/4 cup raw honey

2 teaspoons ground chili pepper

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

 Drain and dry the cashews and toss them in a medium bowl with the honey, chili pepper, and salt until well coated.  Spread them in one layer on a texflex-lined dehydrator (so they don't fall through the grid on the open tray) and dehydrate at 115 degrees for 1-2 days, until crunchy.  I dehydrated mine for 48 hours.

What a tasty treat.  You can eat these alone as a snack or use them in a salad.  I added them to a spicy peanut salad that I made last night.  I'll be sharing that recipe, I think tomorrow.

Enjoy!