This Arugula Salad with Shaved Asparagus, Shaved Carrots and Slivered Almonds is simple, elegant and delicious!
It's okay, you are on the right blog. Occasionally I eat salad. Not often but occasionally.
Of course, I eat it with steak, potatoes and dessert. Honestly, that's how I roll.
This recipe calls for shaved asparagus. You are now picturing asparagus as legs and someone is shaving them with shaving cream and a razor, aren't you? I mean, it's all good, it's hard not to.
Just to clarify, if you are going to shave asparagus, hold the shaving cream and the razor, and use a peeler instead.
It's super easy to get nice long strips when you use a peeler. That way you get the strips super thin. I shaved mine in smaller strips so they played nicely with the carrots and almonds. I didn't want any of the vegetables getting asparagus envy. Fragile egos and all that jazz.
I highly recommend you make this today, drizzle some great lemon dressing over top, and then eat a steak.
You can make my Meyer Lemon Dressing to pour over this salad if you like.
So, go forth and make salad. Then, if you're still hungry like me you can chase it down with a steak.
Ingredient Notes:
- Arugula - First of all, go buy some arugula. Buy it as fresh as possible. If you cannot find it you can substitute any lettuce you love, or use straight up spinach.
- Carrots - Next, add some carrots to your grocery cart too. Use baby carrots for this recipe. And by baby carrots, I don't mean those little finger looking ones that are always soaking wet in bags. Buy fresh thin carrots. Costco and most local groceries carry them.
- Aspargus - Then, toss some asparagus in your cart as well. I recommend thin stalks for most recipes. They just taste better. Try to find fresh asparagus. If you can't find it then use frozen.
- Almonds - Last, grab a bag of almonds. Slivered almonds are used in this salad. Any almond will do in a pinch though.
How to Make Arugula Salad:
- First, rinse and dry the arugula. Pop it in a big bowl.
- Next, rinse and dry the carrots. Peel the outside and discard. Then cut the ends off and shave thin round slices with a peeler. Toss the carrots in the bowl with the asparagus.
- Then, rinse and dry the asparagus. Use a peeler to shave long thin pieces off. Discard any woody ends. Toss the shaved asparagus in the bowl with the arugula and carrots.
- Lastly, add the slivered almonds to the bowl as well.
- Then, toss or mix the salad.
- Add dressing, if desired.
- Serve!
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Arugula Salad with Shaved Asparagus, Shaved Carrots and Slivered Almonds
Ingredients
- 5 oz arugula
- 3 baby carrots shaved thinly with a peeler
- 1 bunch asparagus shaved thinly with a peeler
- ¼ cup slivered almonds more or less to taste
Instructions
- Rinse and dry the arugula. Place in a large bowl.
- Rinse and dry the carrots. Peel the outside of the baby carrots and discard. Then cut the end off at a 45 degree angle. Now you can shave thin round slices with a peeler. Toss the shaved carrots over the arugula in the bowl.
- Rinse and dry the asparagus. Now take the peeler and slowly shave pieces off, you should be turning the asparagus as you shave it. That way you shave it all as evenly as possible. Discard any woody ends of the asparagus. Toss the shaved asparagus over the arugula and carrots.
- Toss on slivered almonds. You could toast them if you desire. I was in a hurry so I did not bother.
- Gently toss the salad.
- If you have a favourite dressing you can use that. I like lemon with asparagus so I used Meyer Lemon Dressing.
- Serve with a big old this did not fill me up smile!
Notes
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Marly
I LOVE this salad. Arugula is the best and it's so great that I wouldn't have to make any changes or substitutions to make this veggie/vegan!
Kim Beaulieu
Thanks Marly. I love this salad. Simple but packed with flavour.
Aly ~ Cooking In Stilettos
Non-rabbit girl here but this salad - this salad looks so good I might flirt with the idea for a hot minute. And shaving the asparagus - fab. idea Kim 🙂
Kim Beaulieu
Ha, I usually am too but we've been eating a few more lately.
Asparagus rules the world.
John@Kitchen Riffs
My only problem with shaving asparagus is when I get towards the end, I get some pieces that are kinda clunky looking. Maybe that's when I should use the shaving cream? 😉 Great salad -- thanks!
Kim Beaulieu
I think I just peed my pants from laughing so hard.
I use the clunky pieces in stir fry.
Marjory @ Dinner-Mom
Love your "side"salad" - Never thought to shave asparagus. Next time I have some big stalks I'm gong to go for it!
Kim Beaulieu
Ha, thanks. You totally have to try shaving it. Super cool.
Amy @Very Culinary
Lol. I did wonder if I was at the right place. I'm one of those gals who could easily make a meal out of a salad, but I also can, and do, make meals out of rice. However, If I made this, I might throw in some sliced grilled steak. Sacrilege? Love asparagus - it's my favorite vegetable!
Kim Beaulieu
Ha, I know right. Everyone clicking today is going WTH. Amy you have to visit my kiss my smoke site. Today is a grilled salad recipe, I cracked up when I saw this. I love protein on my salads. I'm a meat girl, no idea why.
I hated asparagus until a few years ago. Now I can't get enough of it. It's so good.
Brenda@SugarFreeMom
Beautiful salad! Arugula is a favorite of mine!
Kim Beaulieu
Thanks. Mine too, love it.
Renee @ CreativeMamaMessyHouse
I think I might bring this for our Mother's Day Barbecue next weekend. Yes, I said BBQ not brunch, that's how we roll! Love how all the ingredients can be found at my local farmers market.
Kim Beaulieu
I love that you do a BBQ, I'm a big grill girl so I'm all for it.
Paula - bell'alimento
Shaving asparagus is where it's at! Lovely girl!
Kim Beaulieu
Right. All the cool kids are doing it. Thanks lady. xx
Dionne Baldwin
I'm growing arugula in my garden this year and I have no idea why. I'm saving this to try when it's ready to eat! Salads are a daily thing here. Then again, so is dessert. 🙂 It's all about balance.
Kim Beaulieu
Ha, it's good stuff. I can actually eat it. I can't eat some other darker greens. I desperately want to make a garden this year. We used to have a huge one.
Emily @ Life on Food
I am glad it is finally warm out. I cannot eat salads in the winter. This one looks fantastic.
Kim Beaulieu
Me either. It feels weird right.
Liz
What a simple, but lovely salad! Great idea to shave the asparagus! And your dressing sounds divine 🙂
Kim Beaulieu
Thanks Liz. I love asparagus, always trying to find ways to jazz it up.
Jenn @ Deliciously Sprinkled
Arugula salads are my favorite, and this looks like a perfect salad for spring! 🙂
Kim Beaulieu
Me too Jenn. I love the taste of it.
Simone
You see now i can never shave an asparagus anymore without thinking about razors and cream... Lol... And I actually do love salads, but the more filling ones mostly with lots of stuff which makes the term salad almost wrong... And desserts ofcourse! Looks good...:)
Kim Beaulieu
Ha, happy to help.
I usually like some form of protein in mine. I grew up in a meat and potatoes family so salad just never quite fills me. Unless I pile steak on it.
Maureen | Orgasmic Chef
My ex-husband always said I owned every kitchen gadget that had a plug and I had to remind him that I thought an electric peeler was just stupid. I've relaxed my need to own every gadget but I still stroll the cookware shops like the obsessed woman I am.
This is a lovely salad and I'd like it for lunch if you deliver.
Ramona W
I needed this recipe in my life last week when I had a bag of arugula (I bought impulsively) and no real idea what to do. Next time... for sure. 🙂
The Mom Chef ~ Taking on Magazines One Recipe at a Time
Being French, we eat our salad at the end of the meal, before dessert, and it's never considered a full meal either. That being said, I'm more than willing to eat a salad for lunch as long as there's some kind of meat on it, but generally, yeah, it's a side dish or palate cleanser. Yours is amazing (barring the shaving cream).
Susan
Kim you crack me up! Asparagus as legs, ha! I can get on board with this salad and I think topping it with a little steak would make it a meal at my house. Although I must admit, every time I get out the peeler the pug goes nuts. He thinks it means he's getting something. Since there are carrots involved that means he would.
Isabelle @ Crumb
I love me a big fat salad full of crunchy veggies, so this one in particular is totally screaming my name... I've done shaved asparagus plenty of times, but it never occurred to me to do shaved carrots too. Freakin' genius. 🙂
Becca from It's Yummi!
All my favorite veggies are crammed into this salad. It's a beautiful bowl of healthy!
Stephanie @ Eat. Drink. Love.
Arugula is my favorite green! This looks perfect!
Angie (@angiesrecipess)
This is my kind of spring salad too. So fresh, light yet full of flavours.