Arugula Parmesan Asparagus Salad

This healthy Arugula Parmesan Asparagus Salad is the perfect healthy lunch or side dish! If you’re looking for ways to use cooked asparagus and enjoy its taste and health benefits while it’s still in season, then this recipe is a must-try!

You can serve the asparagus salad for lunch with some bread or as a side dish with fish or meat for a more low-carb meal. Filled with arugula, Parmesan, cherry tomatoes and other raw vegetables, this wonderful salad is refreshing, filling and everyone will love it!

You’ll Love This Healthy Asparagus Salad

This healthy salad with sauteed asparagus has everything I think is pretty pretentious, yet I love the taste of! Asparagus, arugula, cherry tomatoes and Parmesan cheese…It’s light and fresh, yet flavorful and so satiating. And it’s really easy to make.

The dressing is simple, it’s actually just olive oil and some lemon juice. However, I feel like it’s enough to bring all the goodness of the different vegetables, herbs and cheese together.

You can also add a bit more lemon juice, but I feel the tomatoes bring just the right amount of acidity and sweetness that this salad needs. Pretty much the same way I brought the right amount of pretentiousness to this very paragraph.

Ingredients

This is what you’ll need to make this vegetarian asparagus salad:

Sauteed Asparagus. You can saute the asparagus in about 7-8 minutes from start to finish using just 4 ingredients. The recipe is here.

Raw Vegetables. We’re using arugula, but also cherry tomatoes, radishes, cucumber, onion and fresh basil.

Parmesan cheese. I used shaved Parmesan cheese, grated will work as well. You could also use other types of cheeses, for example, I’d love to try the salad with Pecorino or Manchego cheese (it’s my favorite).

Salad Dressing Ingredients. The usual suspects – olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper.

How To Make Arugula Asparagus Salad

Making this healthy asparagus salad is pretty easy as you can probably imagine. Here’s what you’ll need to do:

• Wash and pat dry the fresh produce. Sauté the asparagus as shown in this recipe.
• Use the time to also chop everything you’ll need for the salad: cherry tomatoes in halves, basil thinly, radishes thinly, the cucumbers and the onion/scallions.
• Add the chopped vegetables, the arugula, asparagus, olive oil, salt and black pepper and Parmesan to a bowl. Toss together to allow the flavors to combine.

Enjoy immediately!

What To Serve This Asparagus Salad With

This asparagus salad is great on its own and you can definitely have it for a light healthy vegetarian lunch that is also low-carb.

If you decide you can also enjoy it with some pesto and crusty bread, or serve it along with meat, fish or seafood.

Last time I was very hungry, so I served it with some red pepper hummus, meat and yogurt garlic sauce. It was my lunch/dinner and it was totally worth the wait.

Salad Variations

This vegetarian salad is pretty versatile and allows for many things to be changed. For example, if you don’t like radishes you don’t need to use them. If you’ve got some avocado you’d like to use, you can add it to the salad there.

Or maybe chickpeas? Or quinoa? Cooked pasta? Grilled chicken? Tuna? Feta instead of Parmesan? You can easily make this salad more filling by adding one of these things.

More Easy Vegetarian Salad Recipes

I hope you enjoy this delicious and healthy Parmesan arugula and asparagus salad at lunch or dinner. Make sure to check out these delicious salad recipes as well:

• Easy Mediterranean Black Bean Salad
• 5-Minute Everyday Salad Recipe
• The Best Chickpea Mediterranean Salad

Arugula Parmesan Asparagus Salad

Yield: 1

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 5 minutes

Total Time: 5 minutes

This healthy Arugula Parmesan Asparagus Salad is the perfect healthy lunch or side dish! If you're looking for ways to use cooked asparagus and enjoy its taste and health benefits while it's still in season, then this recipe is a must-try!

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Ingredients

• 1 cup sauteed asparagus
• 1 cup arugula
• 1 tbsp onion, thinly chopped
• 2 tbsp basil, thinly chopped
• 1/4 cup parmesan cheese
• 1/2 cup cherry tomatoes
• 1/2 cucumber, chopped
• 1/4 cup radishes, chopped
• Splash of olive oil
• Salt and pepper

Instructions

1. Saute the asparagus as shown in this recipe.
2. Wash and chop the onion, basil, cherry tomatoes, cucumber and radishes.
3. Add arugula, chopped vegetables, sauteed asparagus, salt and black pepper, the Parmesan cheese and a splash of olive oil to a bowl and toss.
4. Enjoy immediately!

Nutrition Information

Yield 1 Serving Size 1
Amount Per Serving Calories 271Total Fat 21gSaturated Fat 6gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 14gCholesterol 22mgSodium 770mgCarbohydrates 14gFiber 3gSugar 5gProtein 10g

Originally published in May 2022, updated in May 2023 and last updated with new images and tips in June 2026.