Carrot Feta Salad

Carrot Feta Salad is a healthy spring salad with just a few ingredients. Lemon juice, fresh mint, and roasted pistachios combine with the feta cheese to produce a light and tasty carrot salad with lots of crunch.

This salad can easily be made vegan and I often do. I have been eating more and more vegan meals lately ever since signing up for Purple Carrot delivery meals. Every time I eat one, I find myself saying…. OMG, this is delicious. As a result, I’ve been making more and more vegan meals on my own.

This Carrot Feta Salad can be made vegan by using agave syrup or maple syrup instead of honey as a sweetener and using vegan feta cheese. I use vegan VIOLIFE  Feta cheese which I buy at Publix and I LOVE it! It is so good on salads and I also crumble some on top of hummus. It is delightfully salty and creamy. I think I may even like it better than real feta cheese.

The vinaigrette for this recipe is light. Just a simple mixture of lemon juice, olive oil, and sweetener of your choice.

Carrot Feta Salad Recipe Tips:

This salad is best eaten the day it is made. You want the carrots to be crispy and crunchy and they get soggy over time.

The mint can be left out if you don’t like it or substituted with parsley, dill, or basil.

The carrot ribbons are easy to make with a vegetable peeler. I love to eat carrots this way. Carrot ribbons have a much different texture which makes me feel like I am eating an altogether different vegetable.

Try These Other Healthy Salad Recipes:

• Southwestern Roasted Vegetable Salad
• Healthy Broccoli Apple Salad
• Clean 4-Bean Salad
• Strawberry Fields Salad

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Carrot Feta Salad

Carrot Feta Salad is a healthy spring salad with just a few ingredients. Lemon juice, fresh mint, and roasted pistachios combine with the feta cheese to produce a light and tasty carrot salad with lots of crunch.

Course Salad, Side Dish

Cuisine American

Keyword spring, vegan, vegetarian

Prep Time 25 minutes

Cook Time 0 minutes

Servings 3

Calories 242 kcal

Ingredients

• 4 to 5 medium carrots
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
• 1 tablespoon honey or maple syrup
• pinch of salt
• 1/3 cup crumbled feta cheese, use vegan feta to make this a vegan recipe
• 1/4 cup chopped roasted pistachios
• 1 tablespoon chopped fresh mint

Instructions

1. Peel carrots and then cut into ribbons using a vegetable peeler. You will end up discarding the very middle part of the carrot.

2. Place carrots in a bowl of ice water for 20 minutes. This will help crispen them up.

3. In a small bowl, whisk together the lemon juice, olive oil, honey, and salt.

4. Drain the ice water from the carrots and dry them on paper towels.

5. In a medium bowl, toss the carrots with the lemon dressing.

6. Sprinkle the feta, pistachios and mint on top. Serve.

Recipe Notes

Use regular feta cheese for a non-vegan recipe.

Nutrition Facts

Carrot Feta Salad

Amount Per Serving

Calories 242 Calories from Fat 162

% Daily Value*

Fat 18g28%

Saturated Fat 4g25%

Cholesterol 15mg5%

Sodium 243mg11%

Potassium 395mg11%

Carbohydrates 18g6%

Fiber 3g13%

Sugar 11g12%

Protein 5g10%

Calcium 121mg12%

Vitamin C 11mg13%

Vitamin A 13701IU274%

Iron 1mg6%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Nutritional info is provided as an estimate only and can vary based on brands of products used, measuring techniques and cooking methods.

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