This crunchy Ramen Noodle Salad combines green cabbage, red cabbage, ramen noodles, green onions, carrots, and toasted almonds, all tossed in a honey garlic ginger sesame dressing.
Easy Ramen Noodle Salad
Learn how to make a delicious, refreshing ramen noodle salad with a homemade dressing. This easy recipe is perfect for a quick lunch or potluck dish. This tasty side dish is ideal for all your summer grilling and is full of flavor from honey, garlic, and ginger. This is one of our favorite ramen salad recipes, and we love to take it to potlucks and family reunions. If you like this recipe, try creamy pea salad, strawberry spinach salad, broccoli salad, and Asian noodle salad.
Ramen Noodle Salad Ingredients
For the salad, you need coleslaw mix, dry ramen noodles, carrots, green onions, and slivered almonds. For the dressing, you need olive oil, rice vinegar, honey, garlic, minced ginger, sesame oil, salt, and black pepper.
Recipe Tips
- Break up the noodles in the package using your hands or the heavy end of a table knife or spoon.
- For extra crunch and flavor toast the almond slivers or sliced almonds before adding them to the salad. It adds great flavor to the salad.
- If pushed for time, substitute ready-to-go coleslaw mix or broccoli slaw.
- Leftovers can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days, but remember that the noodles will soften.
Frequently Asked Questions
You can prepare this salad up to 24 hours in advance, but if you like the crunchy texture from the ramen noodles and the toasted almonds, hold off adding them until a couple of hours before you serve. Mix the honey garlic dressing up to 48 hours in advance. Store in the refrigerator in a mason jar. Remove from the fridge for 40 minutes before drizzling on the salad. Shake well before combining with the salad.
Add grilled chicken, shrimp, salmon, or steak to make it a main dish.
Try chopped pecans, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, or sunflower seeds. They are all delicious.
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Ramen Noodle Salad
Ingredients
Ramen Salad
- 14 ounces coleslaw mix
- 2 3 ounce packages dry ramen noodles broken into pieces seasoning packet discarded
- 1 cup matchstick carrots
- ½ cup sliced green onions
- 1 cup slivered almonds toasted
Ramen Salad Dressing
- ½ cup olive oil
- ¼ cup rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 cloves minced garlic
- 1 tablespoon minced ginger
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a mason jar with a tight fitting lid combine the olive oil, rice vinegar, honey, minced garlic, ginger, and sesame oil. Shake the dressing well to combine. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Break up the ramen noodles and add them to a bowl with the coleslaw mix, carrots, green onions, and toasted almonds. Discard the ramen seasoning packets. Drizzle the salad with the dressing and toss to combine.
Notes
- Break up the noodles in the package using your hands or the heavy end of a table knife or spoon.
- For extra crunch and flavor toast the almond slivers or sliced almonds before adding them to the salad. It adds great flavor to the salad.
- If pushed for time, substitute ready-to-go coleslaw mix or broccoli slaw.
- Leftovers can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days, but remember that the noodles will soften.
Nutrition
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Linda
I LOVE this recipe. I make it as a base. I add cheese, whatever left over meat and veggies from the night before to it and bring it to work! I have been doing this now for 3 months and I never get tired if it. Thank you so much for sharing this <3
Beth Pierce
The pleasure is all mine, Linda! I am so glad that you like it!
Grace
Which packets of Ramen noodles do you use? I assume the Oriental? Or Chicken?
Beth Pierce
You could use either one. You are going to discard the seasoning packet.
Melissa M.
I also added some chicken, avocado and mandarins to ours, so delicious! We will be having this again, it’s perfect for work nights, especially with the summer months ahead.
Beth Pierce
Thanks, Melissa!
Eliza
Love this Ramen Noodle Salad, so easy and delicious. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Sky D
What a unique way to use ramen. I made it for a family get together and everyone loved it!
Andria
This is fabulous. Crispy, crunchy Textures and great flavors. This salad was perfect for my family. They loved every last bite!
Beth Pierce
Thank you, Andria!
Tayla
I made this salad for a get together over the weekend and it was fantastic! That crunch was so good!
Sharon C
As a kid who grew up snacking on raw ramen noodles, this is the grown-up version of it because we need fiber now more than ever! Haha! Thanks for the recipe, it was delicious!
Beth Pierce
My pleasure, Sharon!
Frank
Great recipe. I have made this several times ane everyone loves it. Thanks for sharing the recipe, Beth.
Rosey
What a great way to use the ramen. I never thought to put it in a salad.
Nahashon Kyalo
This is perfect. At least I know I can pull this recipe off and have something I can look forward to trying out this weekend.
Barbie Ritzman
I’m intrigued by the honey garlic ginger sesame dressing on this Ramen Noodle Salad. It’s a new twist for me with ramen noodles.
Monidipa Dutta
This is one of my favs. When I lived in students hostel we would eat it as a snack. And the recipe is the same. Good old memories!