These easy salad recipes are perfect for getting more vegetables into your day, summer cookouts or dinner parties. You can use these salad recipes in a number of different ways, including as a main course or side dish.
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7 Layer Salad
This classic picnic recipe has been around for generations. It’s delicious, fresh and best of all cold—perfect for summer! The seven layers are iceberg lettuce, frozen peas, hard boiled eggs, cheddar cheese, red onions, crispy bacon, and homemade dressing.
Tomato Burrata
Learn to make a Burrata and tomato salad using fresh burrata, heirloom tomatoes, basil, balsamic glaze, olive oil and pesto. This recipe is so fresh and delicious!
Strawberry Caprese Salad
This is a twist on the traditional Caprese salad. It’s made with cherry tomatoes, mozzarella pearls, strawberries, and balsamic vinaigrette.
Baked Mini Falafel Salad
Finding salads to make at home that are both filling and flavorful can sometimes be a challenge. This salad will become your new favorite with falafel, lettuce, red onion, cherry tomatoes, olive, and feta cheese.
Warm Cabbage & Noodle Salad
This salad is spicy, salty, super flavorful veggies alongside warm noodles. It includes cabbage, carrots, ramen noodles, ginger, limes, soy sauce, and chopped peanuts.
Creamy Kale Harvest Salad
This salad is creamy and packed with flavor. Ingredients include Granny Smith apples, pecans, dried cranberries, avocados, and kale.
Warm Brussels Sprout Salad
This salad is a little bit lighter, so if you end up eating this often you don’t have to feel guilty. It has Brussels sprouts, craisins, mayo, clove, lime, and cayenne.
Kale, Miso, and Soft Egg Salad
Some days you just need a good salad that is filling, flavor packed, and hearty. This salad is kale, almonds, and boiled eggs.
Creamy Tahini Chopped Salad
Creamy Tahini Chopped Salad makes two big salads or could be divided into four if served with an entrée. It’s made from lettuce, cabbage, bell pepper, onions, and cooked edamame.
Sushi Salad Recipe
This delicious sushi salad has lettuce, crab, avocado, lemon, sriracha, wasabi sauce, mayonnaise, sesame seeds, and seaweed sheets.
Creamy Kale, Brussels and Cranberry Salad
This salad has crunchy kale, Brussels sprouts, sliced almonds, and bright burst of flavor from fresh cranberries.
Spring Salad Niçoise
If you are ever at a restaurant and see salad niçoise on the menu, I highly recommend you give it a try. There are probably one million variations on this classic salad, but most of them involve hard boiled eggs, potatoes, and olives. Plus, the salad is often served in a segmented fashion that I think is both pretty and fun to eat.
Toasted Ravioli Salad
A lot of salads are boring and bland and just not very exciting to eat. Not this salad! This salad has salad greens, toasted ravioli, cucumber, bell pepper, balsamic dressing, and a hard boiled egg.
Spicy Tempeh Taco Salad
This vegetarian-friendly salad has tempeh, white onion, garlic, cilantro, lettuce, salsa, mayo, and sriracha. You can eat this on tortillas or in a bowl.
Kale Cobb Salad with Facon Vinaigrette
This cobb salad includes spinach, kale, hard boiled eggs, raspberries, black beans, avocados, feta, shallot, and facon. Oh yes, that isn’t a typo in the title. we’re using facon and we’re not sorry!
Fried Green Tomato Salad
This delicious salad is made with green tomatoes, flour, eggs, bread crumbs, spinach, and fresh mozzarella. Then you top it with pesto dressing.
Red Quinoa, Kale, and Grapefruit Salad
This salad has kale, red quinoa, grapefruit, avocado, and pumpkin seeds. It’s light and full of good-for-you ingredients but still super flavorful and absolutely beautiful sitting on a table.
Easy Broccoli Salad
This broccoli salad is crunchy, creamy, and flavorful. All you need is broccoli, cranberries, and almonds.
Classic Pea Salad with Bacon
A classic mayonnaise based salad to serve at your next family lunch. The ingredients include frozen peas, mayonnaise, sour cream, crispy bacon, red onion, and cheddar cheese.
Mason Jar Salad
The main pros to the mason jar salad are twofold: first, you can make all your lunches for the whole work week in one sitting and your worries of what to eat everyday for lunch are already solved. These salads include black bean and corn, tomato and mozzarella, quinoa and sweet potato, and Greek chicken.
Simple Cucumber Salad
This cold, crunchy and super flavorful salad is made with cucumbers, ginger, garlic, rice vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, and sesame seed. It’s a simple, cold salad that is easy to make, and it’s flavorful and downright refreshing.
These look delicious!