There’s nothing better than a delicious peanut butter sauce, am I right? Seriously though this Vegan Thai Peanut Slaw has a creamy richness with a hint of sweetness and a light crunch. It’s the perfect summer salad!

I made this one day on a whim, using some simple ingredients I had on hand and it has become a family favorite!

Loaded with superfoods like:

Cabbage
Carrots
Bell peppers
Scallions
Garlic
Ginger
Almonds
Cilantro
Olive oil

It’s really hard to mess this one up. I just love peanut butter so much that my sauce has quite a bit of it in there. Did you know that there was a study that showed women who eat peanuts daily lower their heart disease risk by 50%? That’s enough to justify my slightly obsessive peanut butter habit right there. LOL.

Are Peanuts Healthy

I spent most of my life thinking peanut butter was junk food. Of course, the trans fat and sugar laden kind I ate as a kid was just that. And peanuts potentially carry aflatoxins, a cancer causing agent produced by mold which frequently grows on peanuts, corn and cottonseed. In fact, rodent studies have found that this mold increases the risk of liver cancer. Yikes!

So is it safe to eat them? Well thanks to concerns of this problem, the FDA now tightly regulates the peanut butter industry so there is only a small amount of aflotoxins allowed in today’s products. Theoretically, peanut butter produced in the United States is no longer a problem.

But if you are worried about it, there are some compounds you can take to help mitigate any exposure you may have: chorophyll (think greens, spinach or algae), milk thistle, dandelion, and marshmallow root.

I continue to eat peanut butter because I love it so much. But this Vegan Thai Peanut Slaw recipe would also work with almond butter if you are on the anti-peanut train.