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November 21, 2019

Thai Crunch Mason Jar Salad

This Thai crunch mason jar salad combines hearty noodles with crunchy vegetables and peanuts plus an amazing peanut dressing that you’ll want to eat on its own. Make this salad on prep day and enjoy it hot or cold when hunger calls. 

Thai crunch mason jar salad this !

Thai Crunch Mason Jar Salad

This salad has been a favorite from Plenty all year long! I finally have the recipe to share. It has layers of noodles tossed in sesame oil (and seeds!) plus crunchy fresh vegetables, fresh cilantro and salted peanuts. It will keep in the fridge for a few days (especially if you go avocado-less or add that at the end). Also, it can even be served hot as a stir-fry (again, hold the avo, cucumber, and cilantro if you do that as garnishes!). This recipe is designed around filling four big wide mouth mason jars, but you could easily make this in one big bowl as well.

Thai crunch mason jar salad

The Peanut Dressing

Let me tell you – the secret is always in the sauce, but THIS sauce is just incredible. It’s a lot of peanut, a little sesame, and a little sweetness (from honey and rice wine vinegar). It is thick and so good you’ll want to lick the jar!

peanut dressing

How To Make The Thai Crunch Salad

Cook your noodles. These are technically wheat ramen noodles (from Trader Joe’s) but you can use soba noodles or even spaghetti.

noodles

You don’t need this much cilantro so use the rest for cilantro pesto!

Thai crunch mason jar salad - cilantro

Short cut: use pre-shredded carrots + cabbage and zucchini noodles to save time on assembly! Then you just have to chop cucumbers and peppers.

Thai crunch mason jar salad - prep vegetables

Thai crunch mason jar salad
Thai crunch mason jar salad

Thai crunch mason jar salad
Thai crunch mason jar salad

The Recipe

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Thai Crunch Mason Jar Salad with Peanut Dressing

This Thai crunch mason jar salad combines hearty noodles with crunchy vegetables and peanuts plus an amazing peanut dressing that you'll want to eat on its own. Make this salad on prep day and enjoy it hot or cold when hunger calls. 
Course Entree, Salad
Cuisine thai
Keyword avocado, pasta, peanuts
Prep Time 20 minutes minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes minutes
Total Time 35 minutes minutes
Servings 4 large mason jars

Ingredients

  • 10 ounce pack Ramen wheat noodles or spaghetti
  • 2 tsp sesame oil
  • 1 tbsp mixed color sesame seeds white + black
  • 1 bell pepper cut into strips
  • 1 cup shredded carrots
  • 1 cup shredded purple cabbage
  • 1 cup zucchini noodles
  • 1 cup chopped seedless cucumber
  • 1 avocado sliced
  • 1/4 cup salted roasted peanuts
  • 1/4 cup cilantro

For the dressing

  • 1 tbsp coconut aminos or soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 2 tbsp sesame oil
  • 1 garlic clove grated
  • 1/2 tsp ginger grated
  • 1 pinch red pepper flakes
  • 1/2 cup olive oil
  • 3/4 cup peanut butter melted slightly in the microwave
  • 2 tbsp chopped peanuts

Instructions

  • Cook ramen according to package until al dente
  • Toss noodles in 2 tsp of oil and sesame seeds and allow to cool.
  • For the dressing, combine aminos, vinegar, honey, sesame oil, garlic, ginger, and red pepper flakes in a jar. Add olive oil and blend with stick blender. Pour into a bowl and whisk in heated peanut butter until smooth. Stir in chopped peanuts.
  • Portion noodles into the bottom third of a large wide-mouth mason jar. Add veggies in layers and top with avocado, peanuts and cilantro.

Thai crunch mason jar salad

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Comments

  1. Renee says

    November 21, 2019 at 7:42 am

    This sounds amazing. And hey I keep seeing a glimpse of a tattoo on your arm lol. I think we don’t see your arms much or it’s new. What is it of? Also you may have said this and I missed it- does this just store in the fridge ok pre made or would you hold off on the veggies?

    Reply
    • KathEats says

      November 21, 2019 at 7:46 am

      It’s Della (from Plenty’s) arm!

      And yes, this holds up in the fridge for a few days so it’s ideal for a prep day. Your avocado might go a little brown, so if you know you’ll be saving it, I’d add that fresh at serving.

      Reply
  2. Julie Scheu says

    November 21, 2019 at 7:54 am

    Do you eat this right from the jar or pour it into a bowl to mix? I am going to make these to bring to work and want to be prepared for how easy/hard it will be to eat right from the jar!

    Reply
    • KathEats says

      November 21, 2019 at 7:57 am

      Pour it into a bowl and toss with dressing : ) You COULD eat it from the jar, but I think bowl is best.

      Reply
  3. Tonya says

    November 21, 2019 at 8:02 am

    5 stars
    I’m making that dressing tonight and it’s going on whatever!

    Reply
  4. Charmaine Ng | Architecture & Lifestyle Blog says

    November 21, 2019 at 8:58 am

    Thai-inspired salads are the best! The dressing for this sounds so good. Thanks for sharing, Kath! 🙂

    Charmaine Ng | Architecture & Lifestyle Blog
    http://charmainenyw.com

    Reply
  5. Jill says

    November 21, 2019 at 5:18 pm

    I have a nut allergy. Do you think this dressing could be made with sun butter as a substitution? This salad sounds so good and would be great to take to work for lunch.

    Reply
    • KathEats says

      November 21, 2019 at 6:48 pm

      Yes for sure!

      Reply
  6. Julie says

    November 21, 2019 at 6:42 pm

    Ohh this looks so good! I didn’t know Trader Joe’s had dry ramen noodles! I’ll have to make a trip out there this weekend. Are they with the spaghetti and other pastas?

    Reply
    • KathEats says

      November 21, 2019 at 6:49 pm

      It should be with the pasta

      Reply
    • Bex says

      June 9, 2020 at 5:27 pm

      I just added the dressing into my fitness pal and divided it by 4 and it was over 500 calories. When you serve it do you use less dressing and save some for other things? Or do you divide the dressing into four containers?

      Reply
      • Kath Younger says

        June 9, 2020 at 8:07 pm

        The dressing makes a LOT! Use it as needed on the 4-6 servings.

        Reply
  7. Jocelyn Dietrich says

    November 22, 2019 at 2:19 pm

    That salad looks delish!! I love anything with peanut sauce/peanut butter in general lol

    Reply
  8. Susan R says

    November 24, 2019 at 9:39 am

    I saw zucchini noodles listed – that’s one of the noodle options, right? I wasn’t positive or if diced raw zucchini is part of the ingredients…

    Thanks – looks great!

    Reply
  9. Lina says

    May 3, 2025 at 8:16 am

    Hi, this looks delicious, any suggestion to replace the rice vinegar, I can’t have any type of vinegar? Thank you!

    Reply
    • Kath Younger says

      May 3, 2025 at 11:17 am

      I’d probably either use a splash of coconut water or just a bit more of the other ingredients to make up the liquid volume.

      Reply

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