Surimi Salad With Sesame Dressing is fresh, crunchy, creamy, and ready in 10 minutes. Made with imitation crab, avocado, cucumber, and a flavorful homemade sesame dressing.
Surimi Salad With Sesame Dressing
This Surimi Salad With Sesame Dressing is light, refreshing, crunchy, creamy, and perfect when you want a quick meal without turning on the stove. It is made with surimi, also known as imitation crab, plus avocado, cucumber, vegetables, and a flavorful sesame dressing.
It is the kind of salad that works for lunch, dinner, hot summer days, meal prep, or those nights when cooking feels like a personal attack. Everything comes together in about 10 minutes, and no cooking is required.
The cucumber adds crunch, the avocado adds creaminess, and the surimi gives the salad a sweet, delicate seafood flavor. Then the sesame dressing brings it all together.
What Is Surimi?
Surimi is a seafood product often used as imitation crab. It has a mild, slightly sweet flavor and a firm texture that works beautifully in salads, sushi bowls, wraps, and cold seafood dishes.
For this recipe, it is especially convenient because it comes ready to use. Just open the package, slice or shred it, and add it to the salad.
Why You’ll Love This Salad
- Ready fast: about 10 minutes from start to finish.
- No cooking: perfect for hot days or quick lunches.
- Great texture: crunchy cucumber, creamy avocado, and tender surimi.
- Light but filling: works as lunch or a simple dinner.
- Easy to customize: add more veggies, rice, noodles, or greens.
The Homemade Sesame Dressing
The sesame dressing gives this salad its flavor. It is savory, slightly nutty, and pairs beautifully with the sweet surimi and creamy avocado.
You can make the dressing ahead of time and keep it in the refrigerator, then toss everything together right before serving.
Serving Ideas
Serve this Surimi Salad on its own, over greens, with rice, in lettuce cups, or with cold noodles. It also makes a delicious sushi bowl-style meal if you add rice, seaweed, and sesame seeds.
For a lighter dinner, serve it as written. For a heartier meal, add cooked rice, quinoa, soba noodles, or edamame.
Recipe Tips
- Add avocado last: this helps keep it from getting mushy.
- Use cold ingredients: the salad tastes best chilled.
- Slice vegetables thinly: this gives the best texture.
- Serve immediately: the cucumber releases water as it sits.
- Make it spicy: add sriracha, chili crisp, or red pepper flakes.
Can I Make This Ahead?
You can prep most of the ingredients ahead of time, but I recommend adding the avocado and dressing right before serving. This keeps the salad fresh, colorful, and crisp.
How To Store Leftovers
Store leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 day. The salad is best eaten fresh because the cucumber and avocado can soften after dressing.
Surimi Salad With Sesame Dressing Recipe
I hope you try this fresh Surimi Salad at home. It is crunchy, creamy, quick, and perfect when you want something light but satisfying.
Surimi Salad With Sesame Dressing
Ingredients
For Salad
- 8 oz surimi diced
- 1/2 cucumber diced
- 1/4 purple onion finely chopped
- 1 avocado diced
- Cherry tomatoes optional garnish
- Extra sesame seeds optional garnish
For Sesame Dressing
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon sesame seed oil
- 1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds
- 1 teaspoon sugar or honey
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine the surimi, cucumber, purple onion, and avocado.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the rice vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, sesame seeds, and sugar until combined.
- Pour dressing over salad and gently toss to coat.
- Garnish with cherry tomatoes and extra sesame seeds if desired.
- Serve immediately.
Notes
- Best served fresh after tossing.
- Add avocado last to keep it from getting mushy.
- For a heartier meal, serve over rice, greens, or noodles.
- Add sriracha or chili crisp for heat.
- Store undressed leftovers up to 1 day refrigerated.
Nutrition
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this sounds so wonderful! all of those flavors together…and so cool, just in time for summer.
Thanks so much Anna!
Very good. My husband who doesn’t like avocado liked it. I put it in a side bowl for him to add as little or as much as he wanted. He said the whole salad was too green though and because he’s picky about tomatoes too, he said for me to go ahead and add them (I used sliced tomatoes, diced). CAUTION: This is a VERY HIGH sodium salad. Surimi 1 oz is 41 mg sodium, and Shoyu Soy is 800 mg for 1 tablespoon. Find a low or no sodium replacement…Coconut Aminos is not the same as soy but is an alternative for those with heart issues and those that don’t eat soy).
Thanks for your tips Bonnie!!