Spring Salad with Lime & Mint Dressing
Just a quick and easy salad, perfect for lunch or as a side dish during dinner.
I love the colours of these fresh spring vegetables, they taste nice and crispy. And lime and mint is just such wonderful fresh zesty combo for the dressing, I mean you can never go wrong with lime and mint, whether it’s for a salad dressing, a drink or a dessert, it’s always going to be good!
You could really just use any combination of fresh spring veggies for this salas. I used arugula, sugar snap peas, zucchini and radishes. But you could also go for other types of green beans, asparagus, carrots and other types of lettuce, baby spinach or kale, …
Spring Salad with Lime Mint Dressing
Ingredients
- 1 Zucchini
- 200 g Sugar Snap Peas (or other green beans or asparagus)
- 50 g Arugula (oor other salad greens)
- 1 bunch of Radishes
- 1 handful of Mint leaves
For the Dressing:
- 1 Lime
- 2 tbsp Mint Leaves (chopped up)
- 2 tbsp Olive Oil
- 1,5 tsp Honey
- ½ tsp Himalayan Salt
- 1 pinch Black Pepper
Instructions
Make the dressing:
- take the zest of 1 lime, the juice of 1 lime, add olive oil, mint leaves, honey, salt and pepper and blend well in a blender!
Cut and mix salad vegetables:
- cut zucchini in thin ribbons, if your zucchini is freshly picked you can use it like that. Or you could blanch the ribbons for a minute or so and cool un der cold water
- cut radishes julienne strips or any way you prefer
- mix salad greens, sugar snap peas, zucchini ribbons, radishes and mint leaves
- add the lime & mint dressing!
- Enjoy!!
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10 April 2021 by INE BEERTEN
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