Simple Clean Eating Super Food Asian Salad

Want to make a fun but super easy clean eating Asian salad to munch on all week long? This is my favorite “weekly meal prep” salad. I made this one on Sunday, and today is Tuesday—my daughter and husband just fought me for the last few bites right before I sat down to create this post. I’d say that’s a win!

My son is a bit picky with onions (and I tend to use tons), so he isn’t loving it just yet. I may try an onion-free version for him next time. While I like most any salad, my people only go for the really, really yummy ones, so I’m always on the lookout for salads that will entice them.

This salad offers lots of crunch sort of like what you get with a chopped salad, which is nice as some salads tend to get soggy. It contains carrots, green onions, almonds and wonton strips for maximum crunch.

This recipe is an easy button recipe. You can make it cleaner or more convenient to meet your needs. I often use a bag of slaw mix and a bagged rotisserie chicken to speed up the process. This recipe packs nutritious ingredients and leaves you feeling light and ready to take on the afternoon or evening.

If you have all of the ingredients nearby, you can easily make this salad in less than twenty minutes. If you are making it to eat over a few days like I often do, you may want to leave your almonds and wonton strips off until you are ready to dig in. While you can totally toss them in, they will lose a little crunch in the fridge.

Minus those small details, it stores perfectly in a big glass bowl with an air-tight lid.

Super Foods in This Asian Salad

This simple Asian salad is packed with superfoods like romaine lettuce, red and green cabbage, carrots and almonds. Romaine lettuce is rich in minerals, such as calcium, phosphorous, magnesium and potassium. It also packs vitamin C, vitamin K and folate.

Red and green cabbage gives you plenty of fiber, folate, potassium, magnesium, vitamin A and vitamin K. Carrots are a good source of beta carotene, fiber, vitamin K1, potassium and antioxidants. Almonds may just be the most nutritious nut. They contain lots of vitamin E, magnesium and potassium.

Wonton strips aren’t something that I would call clean, but they are my daughter’s favorite part of the salad, so here we are ;). Whole Foods carries them in their 365 brand, so I would recommend grabbing those or just upping the sliced almonds and skipping them if you are aiming to eat super clean.

I eat this salad often without the wonton strips, and it’s still delicious.

The dressing for this salad is simple too. I keep all of these ingredients on hand so no special trip to the grocery required! It’s a basic Asian-themed dressing with less than 10 ingredients.

Making your own salad dressings is a great way to reduce sugar in your diet. Store-bought Asian dressings tend to contain quite a bit of sugar. The recipe below contains just enough sugar to curb the tart flavor from the rice vinegar.

If you want something a little more elaborate for the dressing, you can add some peanut butter, grated ginger and dash of hot sauce to give it a Thai feel. There are lots of possibilities for this clean eating Asian salad, but this is my favorite fast and easy way to make it. I hope you will give it a try!