Vegan Summer Salad with Maple Lime Yogurt Dressing

Vegan Summer Salad with Maple Lime Yogurt Dressing combines sweet fruit with tasty green leafy lettuce. It adds some contrasting savory flavors with onions, capers, olives, and pumpkin seeds. The Maple Lime Yogurt Dressing is sweet and delicious and only takes a minute to make. Overall, this salad is simple and healthy and at the same time, it’s a hearty meal and could easily be a dinner salad.

Vegan Summer Salad with Fruit is Fresh and Delicious!

This is just bursting with fresh flavors that contrast but complement each other. I love salads with fruit, like this Blood Orange Salad and this Michigan Salad.

Maple Lime Yogurt Dressing is Simple to Make!

This dressing is sweet and bright. It needs only three ingredients to be delicious. It’s just vegan unsweetened unflavored yogurt, lime juice, and maple syrup. It’s important to use the unsweetened and unflavored yogurt otherwise it will have vanilla and other flavorings in it. For this dressing that’s perfect with fruity salads, just stir together all the ingredients and it’s done.

Vegan Summer Salad: A Mix of Sweet Fruit and Savory Ingredients

Mixing sweet and savory together is one of my favorite flavor combinations. In this salad, just a few capers and olives add great contrast to the sweet strawberries and blueberries.

Cucumbers are fruit! They go surprisingly well with other fruit. They’re mild and delicious.

Making Salads with Kathy Hester from Healthy Slow Cooking

I was able to make this salad with my friend and fellow recipe developer, Kathy Hester, who runs the website Healthy Slow Cooking. I love her recipes and always learn something new and interesting from her. Kathy does live recipe demos and I was so happy to do one with her where we made salads and chatted.

Here is the link to the salad video

Also, check out Kathy’s Vegan Recipes Facebook group. She always has something interesting and yummy going on over there!

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Vegan Summer Salad with Maple Lime Yogurt Dressing

Vegan Summer Salad with Maple Lime Yogurt Dressing combines sweet fruit with tasty green leafy lettuce. It adds some contrasting savory flavors with onions, capers, olives, and pumpkin seeds.

Course Salad

Cuisine Vegan

Keyword salad

Prep Time 10 minutes

Servings 2

Ingredients

Salad Ingredients

• 1/2 cup sliced fresh strawberries
• 1/2 cup cubed watermelon
• 1/2 cup fresh blueberries
• 1/2 cup sliced fresh cucumbers
• 1/4 cup roasted pumpkin seeds
• 2 tablespoons capers
• 2 tablespoons olives black, green, or kalamata
• 1 cup arugula
• 5 cups lettuce
• 1/4 cup shaved carrot
• 1 lime sliced for juice
• salt and pepper to taste
• crushed red pepper flakes if desired

Dressing

• 1/2 cup vegan yogurt unsweetened and unflavored
• 2 tablespoons lime juice
• 3 tablespoons maple syrup

Instructions

1. Prepare the salad ingredients and assemble.

2. Stir together the dressing ingredients and spoon over the prepared salad.

3. Add salt and pepper and crushed red pepper flakes to taste. A wedge of lime is nice to serve with this for a fresh squeeze of lime juice over the salad at the table/

Lisa Viger Gotte

Hello! I’m Lisa, a vegan artist, photographer, author, Vegan Life Coach Educator, and RYT 200 yoga teacher. I love showing others how simple and delicious a plant-based diet can be. I draw and paint, cook, write, take lots of pics, eat lots of chocolate, and practice gratitude daily.