Thai Carrot Salad with Curried Cashews

Exceptional! Made as written (with cashews) and it was delicious!

I think this is one of the best salads I have ever had!!

Sitting and eating this right now. So amazing! Have already shared recipe with some friends. I wanted something Thai and a salad. Googled it and when I saw this recipe from Minimalist Baker, I knew I had to try it. I have made other recipes from her and never been disappointed.

Phenomenal! So easy and delicious! We had leftover peanut sauce (from Easy Pad Thai) so I used that as the dressing. It was great! Loved the curried cashews to go with it. Fantastic summer supper!

This is my absolute favorite salad recipe EVER. It is so satisfying and delicious and the peanut dressing is HEAVEN. I use it for everything. Will make it again and agian and again… Thank you!

We made this with rainbow chard instead of kale which was slightly sautéed. We added some curried roasted chickpeas we had. Didn’t have chili so we used chili oil (homemade) and some chili flakes. We didn’t use pineapple just and subbed the lime for lemon but found it still have a pineapple like flavor. It was super tasty, loved the cashews! Will make again.

i don’t know how you do it dana! another delicious, unusual and interesting dish. i made this for my family and they loved it. i added bite size pieces of pineapple and i didn’t have kale so i just used spinach and mixed leaves- so so tasty….. RIP to the days of dull, boring, romaine lettuce salads!!

Delicious!! I decreased the coconut sugar and didn’t use pineapple juice (just b/c we didn’t have it). So so yummy!! My husband said he’d order it in a restaurant and it was even better than the kale salad at one of our go to restaurants! 😉 That’s a win!

Love it! Great peanut sauce!

Very tasty!! I live in the mountains (Mt.Lassen, CA.) and had every ingredient in my pantry! Not an “overpowering” salad, but light and tasty. We enjoyed it with some salmon. I loved that you had alternatives to the ingredients. Perfect combination of sweet, tangy, crunchy, and slightly spicy. Just as you promised.

I made this recipe AND LIKE THE OTHER 20 OR SO of your recipes that I’ve tried, it was absolutely fantastic. My family has just recently become vegan and we all feel like we are missing nothing only getting to eat fabulously flavoured foods. I make 3-4 of your recipes per week and we love everything I make. Keep on doing what you are doing as I appreciate it so much. You are fantastic at what you do and I tell at least 2 people a week where I get these great recipes. I will try to leave a comment each time I make one of your recipes to help the word get out and to give you a koodos for what you are doing. It can’t be easy but my family and all of your followers appreciate it very much. Thanks so much.

O. M. G. I just made this and haven’t even added the cashews (make those tomorrow) and it is juicy, sweet and spicy all in one (big!) bite. The peanuts didn’t ‘paste’ up to well with the mortar & pestle so I put all the dressing ingredients in a mini-food processor, added a little peanut butter (about 1 1/2 t.), gave it a whirl and it turned out amazing. Also, I didn’t have Bird’s Eye chilis but I had some dried and crushed Tien Tsin chilis (comparable SHU) and they were just right. I can’t wait to have some with the Curried Cashews, but until then . . . . Delicious!!!!

We forgot to get kale and so used baby spinach, worked great! Didn’t follow the process for the cashews just dumped everything into a bowl and then stirred in the cashews, didn’t work well at all (my fault.) Used frozen last year’s crop Thai Dragon chilies, three of them, seeds and all, worked out just right.

This is a very tasty salad which we served with mango slices, wild rice, and chile, garlic, ginger shrimp. My wife was scraping her bowl with her chopsticks! We will do this again no doubt.

Thanks for the great recipe.

Charley

An excellent recipe! An all time favorite! MB never disappoints!

This was sooooooo good and it didn’t even taste like you were eating kale?

Great salad recipe, very quick to make. I cut down on time even more by making the dressing in a blender instead of a mortar and pestle. Used spinach for the greens since that’s what I had on hand. Will make again!

Wow, get ready to hop on the train to flavor town!! Mine didn’t look as picture perfect as this… it looked mostly like shredded carrots but once you take a bite pow, hits you with so much goodness. My husband was losing his mind over this too! It didn’t even feel or taste like carrots!

So, my tips….
– first use a food processor for shredding all those carrots, it’s a lot of carrots! I used the mandolin before I even thought about using my food processor. Save your arms!
– omitted the lime juice on the kale because the dressing already had so much flavor
– I didn’t try it with any pineapple juice, I am interested in how that would balance the dressing some
– I made the curry-spiced cashews and I had to cook them for atleast 4 min. beyond the recipe, my oven is a little weak. They still seemed chewy and moist but when they cooled a little they got more crunchy which is what you want for this salad. I also accidentally put the lime zest on before baking and it still turned out fine.

This reminded me of an asian coleslaw… I think it would be great on a pulled pork sandwich. Could probably leave the pork pretty basic and let this salad bring all the flavor! OMG, drooling!

This was so delicious and so nutritious. It was a huge hit, served with fresh baked french bread. My additions were 3 fresh pineapple spears, chopped into bite sized chunks. I purchased these from a local food shop and used the juice for the optional pineapple juice. And also, 1/3 cup dried cranberries. I used low salt cashews plain since there was already quite a bit of prep and I just did not have the time to make the curried version, although I am sure they would have only added another dimension to the dish. I also added the cilantro. A wonderful summer supper for 2-3 as a main course or 4 as a side dish. Thank you!

What a fantastic recipe, just made this for dinner and loved it. Had a turtle brownie straight from the freezer for dessert too :) Thank you for all your hard work and sharing of delicious recipes.

I’m so obsess with this salad !! Is amazing!!!! Thank u so much for sharing!!!

Love this! I actually live in Thailand and it is reminiscent to Som Dom Papaya Salad here. I usually stay away from Thai inspired recipes since I live here but when reading it I just had to try it. Made it for lunch today, it was delicious and husband devoured it! We had a little left, so I’m going to cook some white fish tonight and add the left overs to have as fish tacos. :)