Day 348: Zucchini Lemon-Honey Salad ♥ Recipe

<< Today's simple zucchini salad recipe: A pretty combination of sunny-yellow yellow squash and summer-green zucchini, chopped and tossed in a lemony vinaigrette. Low carb. Weight Watchers 1 or 2 points. Not just vegan, "Vegan Done Real". >>

~recipe & photo updated & reposted 2012~
~more recently updated recipes~

2006 Original Post: If the weather's not yet spring-ish, the food can be!

Easily slipping the knife through the soft flesh of the green zucchini and yellow squash, I realized how remarkably different, how spectacularly simple, how wonderfully light and bright, this quick chopped salad seems — now — compared to the root vegetables that felt so perfect just a couple of weeks ago but now seem unappealingly heavy and earthy. Wool sweaters may be still in order. But not for long! We'll doff them — like parsnips and turnips — soon enough!

This is another winner of a spring-to-summer vegetable salad, just summer squash, lemon, honey, green onion and an herb. I used fresh tarragon — hmmm, have I just created an entry for Herb Blogging Weekends? Maybe so!

RECIPE for ZUCCHINI LEMON-HONEY SALAD

Hands-on time: 10 minutes
Time to table: 10 minutes
Serves 4

WHISK
Zest & juice (about 2 tablespoons) of a lemon
Squirt of honey (just a teaspoon or two)
1 tablespoon olive oil
Salt & pepper to taste

STIR IN, SERVE & ENJOY
1 green zucchini (about 1/2 pound), diced
1 yellow squash (about 1/2 pound), diced
1/4 cup chopped herbs (tarragon, mint, cilantro, basil, others)
1 - 2 chopped green onions or a bit of red onion

ALANNA's TIPS & KITCHEN NOTES
2006: The recipe suggests letting it sit for an hour before serving; but it didn't seem to change much in an hour so next time I'll skip that step. (It didn't hurt the salad either so making it a bit in advance is fine.)
2012: For a vegan salad, substitute agave for honey.

TODAY'S VEGETABLE RECIPE INSPIRATION Vegetarian Celebrations by Nava Atlas of Veg Kitchen, this is the original edition and is selling for pennies these days. There's an updated edition too. This was one of my very first vegetarian cookbooks back in the last 1980s, this is the one where the recipes still appeal.

NUTRITION INFORMATION Per Serving: 61 Calories; 4g Tot Fat; 1g Sat Fat; 0mg Cholesterol; 9mg Sodium; 7g Carb; 2g Fiber; 2g Sugar; 2g Protein. WEIGHT WATCHERS POINTS: WW Old Points 1 & WW PointsPlus 2

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