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Spiralized Sake Carrot Salad with Nori Granola Topping

November 30, 2015 By Laura 8 Comments

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Spiralized Sake Carrot Salad with Nori Granola Topping is an addictive and healthy blend of Japanese inspired textures and flavors. The entire family adored this salad! Affiliate links were used to link to items I am discussing.

Spiralized Sake Carrot Salad with Nori Granola--unexpected but absolutely delicious and easy!

I meant to have some posts in between the Nori Granola and this Sake Carrot Salad but between Thanksgiving, traveling for the holiday, holiday baking, and, well, life, it just did not happen. And then I figured I really wanted to get you this salad so you would have at least one dish I recommended serving the granola with. So pardon the lack of holiday baking and Thanksgiving leftovers posts (although you guys know I hate turkey so I never really have the latter anyway), but you really must try this salad. Any time of year. It is that good. Promise!

Besides you know me. Christmas cookie posts are coming! As well as updates of older Christmas cookie posts. So stay tuned!

Spiralized Sake Carrot Salad with Nori Granola--unexpected but absolutely delicious and easy!

Before I tell you a bit more about the carrot salad I have to pause and share this photo of Alex. She is getting so old! She really looks like she knows what she is doing behind that camera! I can honestly say I am not sure if I have used some of her photos or not–I think I have! So she did a good job too….

My daughter photographing Spiralized Sake Carrot Salad with Nori Granola

How cool is that? I love it! (P.S. it was Alex’s idea to garnish the salad with extra sheets of toasted nori!)

Anyway, this salad. This salad is adapted from a salad in Heidi Swanson’s Near & Far: Recipes Inspired by Home and Travel, just like the Nori Granola. Heidi calls for toasted nuts or seeds on her carrot salad, and as soon as I saw the recipe I knew I wanted the granola on it–and was quite frankly surprised the recipe didn’t suggest it. In the book, the salad is a grated salad, but I also instantly knew I wanted to spiralize it. I adore spiralized salads. I spiralized both the carrots and the cucumbers–the carrots on the finest setting, and the cucumbers just one setting thicker. I also substituted some very thinly sliced red onion (that I also briefly soaked in cold water to tame it) for green onions because I was out.

Spiralized Sake Carrot Salad

Guys this salad was amazing. And the granola was crucial. All of the flavors played off of one another brilliantly. I can honestly say that we ate every last drop of this salad, and this is one of those dishes that now, several days later editing the photos, I am seriously wishing I had another bowl of it. And I do still have some granola, so….

Make it! You won’t be sorry!

Spiralized Sake Carrot Salad with Nori Granola--unexpected but absolutely delicious and easy!

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Spiralized Sake Carrot Salad with Nori Granola--unexpected but absolutely delicious and easy!
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Spiralized Sake Carrot Salad with Nori Granola Topping
Adapted from Heidi Swanson. You can substitute toasted seeds or nuts for the granola, but I highly recommend you try the granola. You can find the Nori granola here.
Course: Salad
Cuisine: Japanese
Author: TheSpicedLife
Ingredients
For the salad:
  • 4 large, thick carrots, spiralized on thinnest setting
  • 1 English (hothouse) cucumber, spiralized on thick noodle setting
  • 1/2 small-medium red onion, very thinly sliced and soaked in cold water until you need it
  • 2-3 cups Sesame Nori Granola
For the dressing:
  • 1 1/2 T dry sake
  • 2 T light brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • 1/2 t fine sea salt
  • 3 T avocado oil
For garnish:
  • toasted and seasoned nori sheets, optional
Instructions
  1. Toss the spiralized carrots and cucumbers together in a large bowl. Set aside.
  2. Make the dressing--whisk together everything but the oil. Then slowly drizzle the oil into the dressing while whisking briskly.
  3. Drain the onions and toss them into the salad.
  4. Pour about 2/3 of the dressing over the carrot mixture and toss.
  5. Serve the salad in individual bowls topped with a handful of the Nori Granola and the option of more dressing on the side. Garnish with toasted and seasoned nori sheets if desired.

For the collage lovers….

Spiralized Sake Carrot Salad with Nori Granola--unexpected but absolutely delicious and easy!

Filed Under: carrots, cucumbers, granola, Japanese, nori, oats, Salad Dressing, salads, Spiralized, vegetarian Tagged With: carrot, cucumber, granola, Japanese, lemon, nori, sake, salad, spiralized

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Comments

  1. Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

    November 30, 2015 at 7:20 am

    This is beyond awesome! How unique and creative!!!! Love everything spiralized and of course I’m a granola fiend!

    Reply
  2. Christie says

    November 30, 2015 at 7:51 am

    Wow! I love all the flavor in this recipe. The nori granola sounds amazing and perfect to serve with a carrot salad.

    Reply
  3. Nutmeg Nanny says

    November 30, 2015 at 11:53 pm

    What a beautiful looking salad! I really need to get on this spiralized train…they look so good!

    Reply
  4. Sabrina @ Dinner, then Dessert says

    December 1, 2015 at 6:04 am

    The salad looks delicious! Your composition is fantastic!

    Reply
  5. Rachel @ Simple Seasonal says

    December 1, 2015 at 9:38 am

    5 stars
    This looks so flavorful and crunchy! I want a bowl for lunch! It’s fun seeing your daughter behind the camera and taking part in food styling. My four year old little boy likes to pretend to take photos with me with an old broken camera I gave him. For Christmas I got him kid’s vtech one so that he can really get into the fun! I’m sure many of use food bloggers will have kids that leave our homes as talented photographers!

    Reply
  6. mother says

    December 2, 2015 at 1:39 pm

    i want to eat that!

    Reply
  7. rachel @ athletic avocado says

    December 4, 2015 at 9:07 pm

    this looks absolutely gorgeous! I love spiralizing carrots!

    Reply
  8. Sarah Walker Caron (Sarah's Cucina Bella) says

    December 7, 2015 at 7:22 am

    What a beautiful salad. I love that you’ve used a savory granola on it too. Great idea!

    Reply

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Hi! I’m Laura and I am a recovering history major who has re-channeled all of my passion for learning about the history of different countries to learning about their food culture. That doesn’t mean every dish on here is strictly authentic, but it does mean that even my adaptations are not undertaken lightly. My goal is to show you–by doing–that these dishes are possible in your kitchen. Including desserts because I have quite the sweet tooth! Read More…

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