Asian Salad with Sesame Lemon Dressing. A scrumptious salad with sweet clementines, crunchy cashews, cucumbers, creamy avocado and eggs with an Asian-lemon dressing!
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This Asian Salad with Sesame Lemon Dressing is probably hands down one of my favorite ways to enjoy a good salad with sweet and savory Asian flavors. It's a perfect meal, side dish or appetizer for the summer time when you don't feel like cooking as it comes together so easily in just 15 minutes!
The salad dressing is also super easy to make with minimal ingredients. It offers a sweet, nutty, and tangy taste to the salad giving it that Asian-flare. This salad makes eating my veggies so effortless because it's delicious!
I created this easy salad recipe in 2020 because I love clementines in a salad! I find this citrus fruit to be so underrated and there aren't enough salad recipes with them. That's how this recipe was created!
Ingredients
Please scroll down to below recipe card for exact measurements.
- Head of romaine lettuce: make sure it's vibrant green and fresh without any yellowing leaves
- Clementines: make sure they're ripened, peeled and separated into bite-size pieces.
- Ripe avocados: to tell if an avocado is ripened, it should be a very dark green almost black color and when you press into the fruit, your thumb should easily imprint it.
- Roasted cashews: or substitute with peanuts
- Soft-boiled eggs: or substitute with hard-boiled eggs for a source of protein
- Persian cucumbers: these are mini cucumbers or substitute with 1 seedless cucumber
- Optional topping: crunchy lentils that are store-bought
Salad Dressing
- Extra virgin olive oil: or substitute with a neutral oil like avocado oil or vegetable oil.
- Garlic
- Sesame oil: do not skip this unless you're allergic.
- Honey or maple syrup
- Yellow mustard: in liquid form
- Freshly-squeezed Lemon juice
- Sesame seeds
How to make Asian Salad with Sesame Lemon Dressing
- In a small pot filled with hot water, bring to a boil on medium-high heat. Carefully lower eggs and boil for 7-8 minutes for a soft-yolk that isn't overly runny. For hard-boiled eggs, boil for 10 minutes. Transfer eggs to an ice bath to cool down before cracking and peeling them with the back of a spoon to help you. Slice them into halves or bite-size pieces.
- In a large bowl, add chopped lettuce, clementines, sliced avocados, cashews, and sliced cucumbers. Top the salad off with eggs.
- In a small bowl, combine salad dressing ingredients with a whisk. Pour as much as you'd like over your salad and enjoy!
Storage
Leftovers will last up to 4 days stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
Expert Tips
- Get fresh ingredients! This goes without saying but make sure the lettuce, cucumbers, clementines are fresh and vibrant in color.
- Use roasted cashews for the ideal crunch.
- Make sure that your avocados are ripened before making this recipe. The fruit should easily imprint with your thumb.
Other Recipes You May Like!
- Spicy Asian Cucumber Salad
- Korean Bean Sprout Salad
- Din Tai Fung Cucumber Salad
- Korean Potato Salad
- Korean Spinach Side Dish
📖 Recipe
Easy 15-min. Asian Salad with Sesame Lemon Dressing
Ingredients
- 1 head romaine lettuce chopped
- 3 clementines peeled and separated
- 2 ripe avocado peeled and sliced
- ¼ cup roasted cashews
- 2 persian cucumbers sliced
- 4 large eggs
Dressing
- 2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil or sub with vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoon honey or sub with maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon mustard liquid form
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- ½ tablespoon garlic grated
- ½ teaspoon sesame seeds
Instructions
- In a small pot filled with hot water, bring to a boil on medium-high heat. Carefully lower eggs and boil for 7-8 minutes for a soft-yolk that isn't overly runny. For hard-boiled eggs, boil for 10 minutes. Transfer eggs to an ice bath to cool down before cracking and peeling them with the back of a spoon to help you. Slice them into halves or bite-size pieces.
- In a large bowl, add chopped lettuce, clementines, sliced avocados, cashews, and sliced cucumbers. Top the salad off with eggs.
- In a small bowl, combine salad dressing ingredients with a whisk. Pour as much as you'd like over your salad and enjoy!
Tasia ~ two sugar bugs
The flavors and textures in the salad look positively delicious! The lemon sesame must be perfection with it!
Leanne
Love all the ingredients in this salad Christie! Beautiful presentation too. Happy long weekend!
Letscurry
This is such a well balanced Salad Christie, I love how you have added citrus fruits into this.