My fresh and healthy Zucchini Salad recipe will rescue you from a bumper crop of summer squash in the most healthy and delicious way!
Zucchini Salad Recipe
This 7 ingredient recipe is an absolute cinch to throw together and will knock your socks off!
Bursting with savory flavors and a healthy crunch, Zucchini Salad is one of the simplest recipes to make with fresh ingredients from your garden.
Recipes Zucchini and Squash
Zucchini and squash can be prepared in various ways and are suitable for many diets, including gluten free, keto, and vegan.
This high fiber fruit is great for healthy digestion and high in:
- Fiber
- Vitamins
- Minerals
- Antioxidants
A Fruit Salad Recipe?
Botanically, zucchini is a fruit, but of course, it’s the last produce you think of for a fruit salad recipe.
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What is Fruit?
Scientifically speaking, fruit develops from the flowering part of a plant and contains seeds. So while squash and zucchini are technically fruit, I prefer to classify them as nutritious and delicious!
When your garden is exploding with zucchini, the only thing to do is make this healthy salad to use it all up.
I hope you love this low carb family favorite recipe as much as we do!
Zucchini Salad
Ingredients
- 2 small yellow summer squash
- 1 small zucchini
- 2 tablespoons basil, sliced into strips
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- ¼ teaspoon celtic sea salt
- ¼ cup salted marcona almonds chopped
Instructions
- Use a vegetable peeler to make squash and zucchini ribbons
- In medium bowl, toss squash, zucchini, basil, olive oil, lemon juice, and salt
- Allow to marinate for 20 minutes to 1 hour (I have served mine immediately)
- Sprinkle with almonds
- Serve
Vegetables for Side Dishes
Organic vegetables are a must-have side dish for our family and an easy part of the path to healthy eating on a budget.
Veggies are an important and versatile component of my nutrient-rich diet. Below are some of my favorite vegetable side dishes.
Recipes Roasted Vegetables
Roasting is a simple process that can be used for vegetables as well as any protein or nut. And Roasted Cauliflower in the oven with Carrots and Zucchini is a fabulous choice for a vegetable medley.
When I’m in a crunch for time, my easy recipe for roasted asparagus fills our plate with a low carb vitamin rich green!
Recipe Zucchini Noodles
Veggie noodles are another great vegetable side dish! Although they were once few and far between, options for healthy low carb noodles are now abundant!
Pull out your spiralizer for zucchini recipes and spin zoodles to your heart’s content, or try using squash for spaghetti and meatballs.
Finally, for an Asian twist, go the seaweed noodle route and make my all-time favorite, kelp noodles with peanut sauce.
Zucchini Recipes Baking
I’m moving on from vegetable side dishes to dessert to provide you with more ways to use up your bountiful harvest of zucchini.
Zucchini Bread Chocolate
Sweetened with honey and a bit of vanilla stevia, Chocolate Zucchini Bread makes an excellent healthy snack for kids.
My moist and chocolaty gluten free zucchini bread is a breeze to pull together and one of the many reasons the food processor is my all-time favorite kitchen tool.
For this one pot recipe, all you need to do is combine the ingredients in the food processor, pour into a loaf pan, and then into the oven!
In need of more ways to use up your favorite summer squash? Take a look at my Zucchini Recipes for Baking.
If you’re looking for a nut free, gluten free zucchini recipe, my Zucchini Chocolate Chip Muffins will hit the spot.
Made with a coconut flour base and lightly with a touch of honey, these mini muffins are equally wonderful for breakfast or dessert with a cup of my caffeine free Dandelion Coffee.
Intolerance to Foods?
I hope you love these fantastically fresh zucchini recipes as much as we do, they’re perfect for folks on restricted diets that have intolerance to a variety of foods.
Zucchini is rich in nutrients, high in fiber, and with my easy recipes, a breeze to add to your diet!
This recipe for Zucchini Salad is an oldie but goodie from the archives. I first shared it in 2009.
Margaret says
Carol, all fruits and vegetables have potassium. Your doctor should have given you a list of permissable foods. – Margaret
Alta says
Delicious! I love summer squash, can’t get enough!
gfe-gluten free easily says
Lovely and so simple as always! The addition of the Marcona almonds is terrific. I ate a lot of salads/side veggies like this on our vacation. I’m so glad restaurants are realizing the merits of these summer veggies.
Ordered your book last week and sure enough I rec’d another as a late BD gift the next day, so someone else will be getting a gift of your book now. :-) My Honeyville blanched almond flour is on its way thanks to the savings code you tweeted! The book is terrific … can’t wait to try more of your almond flour recipes, Elana!
Thanks!
Shirley
Darlene says
Hey, what is the discount code?
carol says
This salad sounds wonderful, but I must ask about the squash/zucchini. Are they high potassium? My husband is on a gluten-free, diabetic, dairy-free, very low-potassium, low-salt diet.
Most of your baked goods require almond flour (hence the title of your cook book!), which is very high in potassium. Is there a low-potassium gluten-free substitute for almond flour that you or your readers can suggest?
Some ingredients I just have no idea about: for example, is chocolate high in potassium?
Thanks to you and your readers for any information or suggestions!
Mia says
Oh that looks really yummy!
Had to share that the Chicken Fingers were a huge hit at dinner tonight! Oh my gosh this new way of cooking is going to satisfy all of us; and it makes me so darn happy :].
I went through half my bag of almond flour already!
Bon Apetit!
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Karen says
I’ll come over to your house and knock on your door for some cookies….gfcfsf….oh yeah!
This salad looks great!
Katrina (gluten free gidget) says
Lovely! Squash is such a versatile veggie.
Meghan (Making Love In The Kitchen says
I was just thinking about how fun it used to be to run through the sprinkler. Sweet summer.
VeggieGirl says
Sounds fun, indeed!! And that salad?? Divine.