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Beautiful food deserves a beautiful dish. The color, style and presentation can make or break the best of flavors. Shaved Zucchini Salad with Lemon Chive Dressing was just perfect for my new Qamara Salad Bowl by Le Souk Ceramique from Wayfair.com.
Shaved Zucchini Salad is a visually and textually appealing salad using different shapes and flavors to make an easy salad recipe. Lemon Chive Dressing is fresh and zesty, the perfect homemade salad dressing accompaniment.
Salads can become ho-hum and boring, make sure you check out my 7 tips to keeping them fun and vibrant!
This salad follows many of my tips. Shaving zucchini adds interest in two ways: texture and visual appearance. Tossed in vinegar, it will be zesty on your tongue.
Serve your salad in a beautiful bowl, pretty food is always more alluring. Shallow, wide and colorful, this colorful dish allowed me to do more than merely toss some ingredients together, instead they were constructed masterfully.
Use yogurt as a dressing base. Oils are great, but a rich, creamy yogurt will had healthy sophistication to any dish. Shaved Zucchini Salad with Lemon-Chive Dressing is a sophisticated and flavorful salad your entire family will enjoy!
This salad also features unique croutons: toasted ramen noodles! When I as a kid, I used to like to eat the hard, raw noodles with that salty seasoning packets just plain. Gross, I know.
But as an adult, I ditched the salty packet, toasted up the noodles and made unique flavor and texture croutons!
Lastly, tart goat cheese adds the creamy element, but also compliments the sweet flavors. This shaved zucchini salad is sure to be a winner year round!
Make sure you check out my 7 tips for more interesting salads before you starting chopping!
More fun salad recipes!
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Cobb Salad
Green Curry Steak Salad
Shaved Zucchini Salad with Lemon-Chive Dressing
Ingredients
Salad:
- 2 zucchini
- 1 yellow squash
- 1 carrot
- 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
- 6 cups spring mix lettuce or greens of choice
- 4 ounces soft goat cheese
- 1 package ramen noodles*
Dressing:
- 1/2 cup plain Stonyfield Yogurt
- Juice from 1 lemon
- Zest from 1 lemon
- 2 tablespoons chives minced
- Dash of sea salt
Instructions
- Using a vegetable peeler, shave zucchini and squash until you hit the seedy center, then discard. Shave carrot as well. Add cider vinegar and allow to marinate for 5 minutes while you prepare the salad.
- In a small skillet, dry (no oil), crumble plain ramen noodles, tossing to brown lightly. When browned, remove to cool.
- In a small bowl, whisk together all dressing ingredients, set aside.
- Add spring mix lettuce to a large, colorful serving bowl. Drain zucchini, squash and carrot mixture, pile in the center. Around the outsides, dot with goat cheese and ramen croutons.
- Serve with Lemon-Chive Dressing on the the side.
- If you’ve tried this recipe, come back and let us know how it was!
What a gorgeous and healthy salad! Perfect for using up some of our garden zucchini!
Yum, Yum, Yum, all the ingredients you’ve used in your salad are all my favorites. Love all the colors and textures you’ve used…and that dressing sounds incredible too. Pinning!
Not only love the salad recipe and dressing but love the pretty decorative bowls you used!
toasted ramen noodles and shaved cucumbers! You have some really great ideas here! Thanks for making salads less boring!
What a healthy and delicious summer salad and love the lemon chive dressing! Pinned and shared!
Love the tips and I adore this salad!
Love the tips for making salads more exciting..shaving the zucchini is such a fun idea, particularly if you don’t have a spiralizer!
That is the most gorgeous salad and your dressing sounds wonderful! Love the ‘salad making’ tips!
Dear Jessica, what a fabulous and hearty salad. I love the bits of ramen in there..so creative! xo, Catherine
I love the dish and isn’t Wayfair the bomb! so much fun stuff in one place.
Jessica, you are so right. Presentation is so important. We eat with our eyes. Thanks for the informative post.