Green Goddess Salad (Viral Tiktok Recipe)
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This viral TikTok green goddess salad recipe was made famous by Baked by Melissa, and once you try it, you’ll totally get why it blew up the way it did. It’s a crunchy chopped salad piled with green veggies and coated in the most addictive creamy green goddess dressing. I made my green goddess salad recipe a budget-friendly version of the original, which would actually be perfect paired with Crunchy Shake and Bake Chicken.
A Quick Look At The Recipe
- ✅ Recipe Name: Green Goddess Salad (Viral Tiktok Recipe)
- 🕦 Ready in: 10 minutes
- 🤝 Serves: 4
- 🍴 Calories: 308kcal
- 🧑🍳 Main ingredients: white cabbage, cashews, nutritional yeast, extra virgin olive oil
- ✨ Summary: This viral TikTok green goddess salad recipe is ready in 10 minutes. Crunchy, creamy, budget-friendly & so addictive!
Why you’ll love this recipe
- Budget-friendly: The original Baked by Melissa green goddess salad calls for walnuts, shallots, chives and two lemons. I’ve swapped a few things to keep the cost right down without losing any of the flavour.
- Flavourful: By finely dicing all of the ingredients, we get a hint of flavour from each veggie in each bite of the goddess salad. Make sure to try my Mexican Chicken Salad for another flavourful option!
- The perfect dressing: The creamy green dressing coats all of the chopped veggies in the most delicious flavour. I can see why this green goddess salad went so viral!
Other Tik Tok recipes you might like to try: Viral Salmon Rice Bowl, Pizza Toast and Chocolate Swirl Custard Toast.
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Ingredients
- White cabbage: The star of the show in this green goddess salad. It’s crunchy, vibrant and almost peppery. I have tried red cabbage, as that has the same crunch but for this salad I prefer the white cabbage.
- Spring onion: I added the greener end of the onion into the green goddess dressing and thinly sliced the white end of the onion to go into the chopped salad.
- Cashews: To make the dressing and as a healthy source of fats, the cashews blend to form the most creamy dressing for your Tiktok green goddess salad. I use them in this Vegan Mac and Cheese with Red Pepper too & it’s so lovely.
- Nutritional yeast: Another essential component of the dressing! I used the nutritional yeast to add the creaminess, but I also love the subtle cheesy flavour. I sometimes use this instead of parmesan when making my Easy Pesto Gnocchi.
- Extra virgin olive oil: Make sure you use extra-virgin olive oil for your Tiktok salad as it helps emulsify the dressing. Don’t skip it or swap for regular olive oil!
See the recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities.
Variations/ Adaptations
- Make it creamier: Add half an avocado to the blender when making the dressing. It makes it even creamier and adds healthy fats. This is my favourite swap if I’ve got a ripe one sitting on the counter.
- Make it a meal: Stir through shredded chicken, chickpeas or quinoa to bulk the green goddess salad right up. I’ve done this for a quick WFH lunch and it keeps me full for hours.
- Turn up the heat: Add a fresh jalapeño or a small green chilli into the blender when making the dressing. If you love a bit of spice, my Nando’s Spicy Rice Recipe is easy to make vegan as well.
How to make this Tiktok Green Goddess Salad
- Start by finely chopping the cabbage into small pieces (Image 1).
- Then slice the cucumber into small pieces on a chopping board (Image 2).
3. Next finely slice the spring onion (Image 3).
4. And then finely chop the iceberg lettuce (Image 4).
5. Prepare the ingredients for the dressing: the lemon juice, extra-virgin olive oil, rice vinegar, basil, spinach, cashews & nutritional yeast (Image 5).
6. Then add them to a blender to blend together until smooth (Image 6).
7. Now pour the creamy green dressing onto the large salad (Image 7).
8. Combine together to evenly coat all of the ingredients. Serve and enjoy immediately (Image 8).
Other healthy recipes for you to try are this one: Crustless Pizza Bowl, Rainbow Grain Bowl and Healthy Noodle Bowls.
Tips for the best result
- It may take a bit of time, but you want all of the ingredients to be chopped to the same small sized pieces. This ensures that you get a good variety of the chopped elements of the salad within each bite, which is what made this tik tok green goddess salad so viral.
- We’re starting the green goddess salad from scratch, so we want to ensure that all of the ingredients and dressing is seasoned perfectly. Add a generous amount of salt, when blending the dressing and taste to adjust before stirring into the chopped ingredients.
- As a lot of the flavour for this recipe comes from the brightness and the freshness of the raw ingredients, we want to ensure that they are as fresh as possible. When you’re cooking ingredients, the freshness can sometimes be more disguised, but not so much when slicing up and enjoying raw!
What is Green Goddess Salad?
Green goddess salad has been around way longer than TikTok! The original green goddess dressing was actually invented back in 1923 in San Francisco, made with anchovies, mayo, parsley and tarragon. Pretty different from what we’re making here! The TikTok version by Baked by Melissa is a totally modern, vegan-friendly reinvention, which is also lighter, fresher, and that creamy cashew-based dressing is something else.
What makes this a green goddess chopped salad specifically is that everything gets finely diced so you get a mix of every ingredient in each forkful (or chip scoop, no judgement). I’ve made a lot of salads for this blog and this is honestly one of my all time favourites. It’s so nutritious too!
You can find the original viral tiktok salad recipe by Baked by Melissa here.
Green goddess salad dressing — what’s in it?
The green goddess salad dressing is what makes this recipe. It’s a blended mix of fresh basil, baby spinach, cashews, nutritional yeast, lemon juice, rice vinegar & extra-virgin olive oil. The cashews give the vegan green goddess salad that perfectly creamy texture without any dairy at all, and the nutritional yeast adds a subtle cheesy flavour that’s impossible to leave out. It blends up to this gorgeous vivid green colour that looks almost too good to pour over a salad.
Serving Suggestions
This green goddess salad is great on its own but I absolutely love it as a dip. Just grab a bag of tortilla chips & go to town. Melissa herself eats it this way and I completely understand why. It also works really well alongside grilled chicken, fish, or even a jacket potato. For something more substantial, stir through some shredded chicken breast or chickpeas to bulk it out.
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Leftover Storage and Reheat Instructions
Refrigerator: Stored in an airtight container, the green goddess salad keeps well for 2-3 days. I’d keep the dressing separate and toss it in just before eating for the best texture.
Freezer: Don’t freeze the viral green goddess salad as the raw veggies will turn mushy and the dressing won’t survive it.
Reheat: This is a cold salad, so just pull it from the fridge, give it a toss, and you’re good to go.
FAQs
This green goddess chopped salad is great to make at the beginning of the week for a quick lunch to grab from the fridge. For maximum freshness, I’d store the chopped salad separately to the dressing and add to the salad when it’s time to eat.
You could stir in shredded chicken breast, pork mince, sliced turkey steaks, chickpeas or quinoa to add protein to the viral Tiktok salad.
If you’re looking for a nut-free green goddess salad. Replace the creaminess that the blended cashews provide by adding 2 tbsp of mayonnaise into the blender. Also increase the nutritional yeast by 1 tbsp. You could also substitute the nuts with a small avocado.
Either add a fresh jalapeno or green chilli into the blender to add spice to the dressing, or finely chop pickled jalapenos for a tangy kick of spice throughout the chopped salad.
Other salad recipes to try after this one: Healthy Tortellini Salad, Honey Soy Chicken Salad, Halloumi Vegetarian Caesar Salad, Panzanella Salad with Halloumi, and Pomegranate Halloumi Salad.
If you tried this Budget Green Goddess Salad recipe, it would mean so much to me if you couldleave a review & a star rating to let me know how you found it! I love hearing about your experiences – it motivates me to keep creating more and more recipes for you guys 💛 Let’s get cooking! – Mimi x
Green Goddess Salad
Ingredients
- 1 white cabbage (£1.07)
- 1 cucumber (£0.45)
- 50 g spring onions (£0.50)
- 1 iceberg lettuce (£0.46)
Dressing
- 1 lemon, juiced (£0.20)
- 1 handful of fresh basil (£0.55)
- 1 handful of spinach (£0.90/2)=(£0.45)
- 35 g cashews (£1.39/4)=(£0.35)
- 1 tbsp rice vinegar
- 5 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
- 3 tbsp nutritional yeast
Method
- Finely chop/dice the cabbage, cucumber, half of the spring onion (reserving the greener half for the dressing) and iceberg lettuce. Add to a large mixing bowl.
- To a blender, adding the liquids first, combine the lemon juice, extra-virgin olive oil, rice vinegar, basil, spinach, cashews, nutritional yeast and greener end of the spring onion. Season generously with salt and blend until smooth.
- Pour the dressing into the large salad and toss to evenly coat all of the ingredients. Serve & enjoy immediately either on it’s own or with tortilla chips to dip!
Notes
- Finely chop all ingredients to the same small size for a good variety of chopped elements in each bite.
- Salt generously while blending the dressing and adjust to taste before stirring into chopped ingredients.
- Use fresh veggies to ensure the brightness and freshness of raw ingredients are not disguised.
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