By | April 21, 2017
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Colorful Marinated Zucchini Salad colorful marinated salad

Chopped veggies ready for the marinade

Colorful Marinated Zucchini Salad

How I got to this colorful marinated zucchini salad started out when I had just picked zucchini from the garden. I didn’t feel like another zucchini bread.

My wife had made a bean salad that had sparked my imagination. The flavor of that bean salad was something special. I thought it might work with raw zucchini.

Fire up my imagination

So I started forming the salad in my mind. First thing, I wanted a raw zucchini salad. No cooking required. Marinating(using the bean salad liquids and spices) would drive the flavor throughout the salad. I could shred it or chop it. The thought of shredded zucchini conjured up images of a very sloppy salad. Chopped salad looked better and better.

The zucchini’s peel could stay on as the pulp of the zucchini would produce only a white salad. I would need some onions and fresh peppers to give it a little color and add some additional flavors. Canned corn would be nice but my wife can not tolerate it so it was out. The salad also had to be sugar-free, as I am a diabetic.

So I had my salad, a raw, no cook, marinated, peel on, chopped, sugar-free zucchini salad. Perfect for a summer salad.

Making the Salad

I used a mandoline to slice my zucchini thin(1/8″). Then I chopped the zucchini to approximately the size of corn kernels. A medium onion and 1/2 of a red pepper received the same chop.

I then added the following ingredients to a bowl.

  • 1 cup of apple cider vinegar
  • 1 cup of oil(canola)
  • 3/4 cup Splenda
  • 1 tsp. of salt

Mix and Marinate

I whisked the ingredients and poured them over the chopped veggies. Mixing the two together until the veggies were fully coated. Covering the container and refrigerating the salad overnight to marinate finished the salad.

The flavor was exactly as I expected. Outstanding! The zuchini, onions, and pepper all maintained their texture during the marinating. Not quite crispy but not mushy either.

 

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