30 Minute Meals
Light & Healthy Udon Salad
Prep
20 minutes
Yield
2
This delicious Udon Salad is made with pesto and fresh veggies. It's the perfect recipe for an easy meal prep or quick dinner.
This Udon Salad is an easy bowl to whip up when you’re looking for a light and refreshing lunch. It takes chilled udon noodles with a flavorful pesto sauce, fresh veggies like zucchini and tomatoes, and it’s an easy-to-make dish that’s perfect for summer. Make this recipe for an easy lunch or quick dinner.
❤️ Why You’ll Love Udon Salad
- Healthy: This recipe has healthy fats from the avocado, and olive oil. It also is packed with nutrients from the veggies. Feel good about serving this recipe to the whole family for a nutritious meal.
- Easy: This Udon Salad is so simple to make. In just 20 minutes you’ll have a healthy, delicious meal.
- Meatless: This is a great recipe for Meatless Monday or for a plant-based diet. You can also add protein to it if you aren’t trying to eat meatless and want it to be more hearty.
🍲 Ingredients
Udon Noodles – Udon noodles are a Japanese noodle that are thick, chewy, and made with wheat flour, water and salt. Udon noodles are super versatile and great in both cold and warm dishes like these Spicy Udon Noodles or this Udon Noodle Soup.
Pesto – Pesto can easily be bought in the pasta sauce aisle of your grocery store. However, it’s also really easy to make. You basically just need fresh herbs – basil & parsley are usually recommended – then you just blend it up with olive oil, parmesan cheese, and pine nuts (optional). Making pesto can be a great way to use up herbs in your garden too!
Avocado – Avocados are packed with vitamins, minerals, and healthy fats. They are great for digestion and rich in antioxidants. They’re so good for you and so easy to incorporate into your diet. You can make guacamole, throw them in smoothies to make them creamy, add them to salads or bowls, the options are endless.
👩🍳 How to Make Udon Salad
- Into a bowl add your Udon noodles, and cover with boiling water, set aside for around 7 minutes.
- Spiralize your zucchini, and prepare your tomatoes, avocado, and basil. Set those aside.
- Once your Udon noodles are done, strain them well, and then add a dash of salt + pepper, 1 tbsp of pesto, and 1 tbsp of Olive Oil. Stir till well combined and set aside.
- Ok so the whole idea behind this salad is that you assemble it, make it nice and pretty, then toss it all together!
- I begin assembly this one by simply adding the noodles, zoodles, and veg. Then you can dust the dish with the beautiful and fragrant Nutritional Yeast. Coat the veg in some salt, pepper, and lemon juice.
- Top it with the sesame seeds, walnuts, the last tbsp of Olive oil + Pesto and finish it with fresh lime.
- Voila!
🗒 Tips and Tricks
- Udon Noodles: Rinse the noodles in cold water to prevent them from sticking and to achieve a firm texture.
- Meal Prep: Prep this Udon Salad for an easy, healthy lunch. Make them up in advance and store in your fridge.
🗒 Variations
If you love this Udon Salad, here are some other udon noodle recipes that you’ll love:
🗒 Best served with
👝 How to Store Leftovers
Store leftovers of your Udon Salad in the fridge for up to 4 days. This is a great recipe to meal prep to have on hand all week.
🤔 Common Questions
You can definitely swap udon noodles for your favorite pasta and make this into a pasta salad. Adjust cooking instructions to the package directions.
Add your fav protein to make this udon salad more filling. You can add grilled chicken, tofu, or even cooked shrimp.
Fresh & Easy Udon Salad with Pesto
Ingredients
- 1 packet of Udon noodles cooked in a bowl of boiling water for around 7 minutes
- 1 zucchini spiralized
- Around 10 cherry tomatoes some halved, some not
- 1 avocado I would just slice them nicely, I do different for picture purposes
- 1/2 a cup of basil finely chopped
- 4 tbsp walnuts
- 2 tbsp of your favourtie pesto
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
- a few lime wedges
- 2 tbsp Kouzini Olive Oil
- 3 tbsp lemon juice
- dash of salt
- 1/2 tsp fresh cracked pepper
- White Sesame seeds for crunch
Instructions
- Into a bowl add your Udon noodles, and cover with boiling water, set aside for around 7 minutes.
- Spiralize your zucchini, and prepare your tomatoes, avocado, and basil. Set those aside.
- Once your Udon noodles are done, strain them well, and then add a dash of salt + pepper, 1 tbsp of pesto, and 1 tbsp of Olive Oil. Stir till well combined and set aside.
- Ok so the whole idea behind this salad is that you assemble it, make it nice and pretty, then toss it all together!
- I begin assembly this one by simply adding the noodles, zoodles, and veg. Then you can dust the dish with the beautiful and fragrant Nutritional Yeast. Coat the veg in some salt, pepper, and lemon juice.
- Top it with the sesame seeds, walnuts, the last tbsp of Olive oil + Pesto and finish it with fresh lime.
- Voila!
- It is that easy!
