Vegan green goddess salad
Serves: 6 as a side
Prep time: 20 minsTotal time: 
Recipe photograph by Ant Duncan
Vegan green goddess salad
American TikTok favourite Baked by Melissa made this salad a viral sensation with more than 19m views. This version has lettuce and courgettes in place of the original cabbage and cucumber, but it’s the vibrant green pesto-like dressing that makes it
Serves: 6 as a side
Prep time: 20 minsTotal time: 
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Nutritional information (per serving)
Calories
135Kcal
Fat
11gr
Saturates
2gr
Carbs
4gr
Sugars
2gr
Fibre
2gr
Protein
4gr
Salt
0.9gr
Abigail Spooner
Abi is our Head of Food. She loves the precision and creativity of baking, turning fridge odds-and-ends into a weeknight pasta, and is always bookmarking new restaurants to try. She's happiest hosting friends around a table overflowing with food (and insisting everyone has seconds) or planning holidays around what to eat.
Abigail Spooner
Abi is our Head of Food. She loves the precision and creativity of baking, turning fridge odds-and-ends into a weeknight pasta, and is always bookmarking new restaurants to try. She's happiest hosting friends around a table overflowing with food (and insisting everyone has seconds) or planning holidays around what to eat.
Ingredients
- 1 sweet gem lettuce
- 4 spring onions
- ½ x 20g pack chives
- 1 medium-large courgette
- plain tortilla chips, optional, to serve
For the dressing
- juice of 2 lemons
- 60ml olive oil
- 2 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 2 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 echalion shallot, chopped
- ½ x 20g pack chives, chopped
- 1 x 30g pack basil, leaves picked
- 50g young spinach
- 40g unsalted cashews
- 15g nutritional yeast flakes
- 1 tsp fine sea salt
Step by step
Get ahead
Best on the day of making, but will keep in the fridge for 1-2 days if the salad and dressing are stored separately.
- Add all of the dressing ingredients to a powerful blender or food processor. Blend until smooth.
- Finely chop the lettuce, spring onions and chives. Coarsely grate the courgette and toss everything together in a large bowl.
- Add the dressing to the salad, stir well until coated and enjoy as a side, or with tortilla chips.
What is nutritional yeast?
Available in flakes, nutritional yeast is the same strain of yeast used to make bread, but it’s deactivated in production – don’t try and substitute with regular yeast! It adds a nutty, cheesy flavour to recipes, and is often used in place of Parmesan in vegan dishes.
