Shaved Zucchini Salad for One

Ingredients

Scroll down to the shaved zucchini salad recipe card for the amounts of each ingredient, but here's a quick visual + description of what's in this recipe.

• Zucchini: You can totally eat raw zucchini, I prefer it in thin strips, which makes this recipe so great!
• Corn: Use fresh, canned (I'd rinse it), or thawed frozen corn. Either works!
• Feta cheese: Salty feta cheese is so good with this raw zucchini.
• Sunflower seeds: crunchy, salty sunflower seeds are a great addition to this shaved zucchini and feta salad.
• Olive oil: for the dressing, this simple dressing really compliments the fresh vegetable flavors in this simple shaved zucchini salad.
• Lemon juice
• Red pepper flakes

Instructions

Scroll down to the shaved zucchini salad recipe card for more detailed instructions. Here's a quick overview + photos to see how to make this recipe in general.

1. Slice zucchini in half, and then use a vegetable peeler or mandolin to shave off thin slices of zucchini.

2. Once zucchini is cut, place it in a medium sized bowl. Add corn, crumbled feta to bowl.

3. Make dressing by adding lemon juice & a pinch of red pepper flakes to olive oil. Drizzle over your zucchini salad before serving.

4. Season your shaved zucchini salad with salt and pepper to taste, toss & enjoy.

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Serve with

• Chicken burgers
• Shrimp for a complete meal (+ a grain if you're anything like me)
• Panko Tofu
• Baked Panko Chicken
• Air Fryer Frozen Salmon

Storage Tips

It's best to store leftover ingredients from your shaved zucchini salad with feta separately in the fridge (well the corn, feta, and zucchini). These ingredients should last a week+. If it's been dressed, it's best between 1-3 days.

I'd recommend waiting until serving to shave the zucchini with your vegetable peeler, this way it'll have the best texture.

Dont't freeze this shaved zucchini salad. But you could freeze sliced or shaved zucchini to cook after defrosting.

Substitutions/Tips

• Slice zucchini in half to make peeling easier
  You can also use a mandolin. I've used both, they're equally easy.
• Buy zoodles to save more time on this shaved zucchini salad.
• Make just enough to eat right away, this stores fine, but isn't nearly as good after being refrigerated. Or dress each salad before serving to save leftovers.
• Add more red pepper flakes if you'd like your zucchini with feta spicy, or less for less spicy. Dressing will continue to get spicier as it sits out.
• Optional add-ins: You can honestly add any vegetable into this shaved zucchini salad that you want, also nuts can substitute sunflower seeds. But this combination of simple veggie flavors and textures can't be beat.

Other easy vegetable sides

• Air Fryer Broccolini
• Apple Cucumber Salad
• Carrot Cucumber Salad
• Cucumber and Tomato Salad
• Cucumber Beet Salad with Feta
• Frozen Microwave Broccoli

What to do with the leftover ingredients

When you're cooking for one, you often have leftover produce, cans of whatever ingredient, etc. Here are a couple ideas on how to use up the leftover ingredients. It'll help you save money by wasting fewer ingredients.

• Zucchini: add it to Refried Bean Tacos, Veggie Quesadilla, Breakfast Tacos, or a Burrito bowl.
• Corn: Pantry Rice and Bean Soup, Turkey Pumpkin Chili, Fish Tacos with White Sauce.
• Feta Cheese: Add to this Strawberry Salad with Balsamic or swap it for goat cheese in this Beet Salad.

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