Fresh, satisfying salad recipes for every season, from light sides to full meals.
8 real homemade salad dressing recipes with exact ratios, from ranch to sesame-ginger, so you can finally stop buying the same $6 bottle every week.
My Mexican bean salad recipe mixes pinto, black and kidney beans with corn, bell pepper and a cilantro-lime dressing, and it actually tastes better the next day.
A Mediterranean bean recipe with cannellini beans, chickpeas, feta, and olives in a lemon-oregano dressing that tastes better the next day.
My southwest quinoa salad recipe stays fresh all week because the dressing goes on separately. Black beans, corn, lime and cumin, no soggy Wednesday bowl.
This crunchy detox salad is finely chopped kale, cabbage, broccoli, carrots, and chickpeas in a punchy vinaigrette, built to actually keep you full.
Avocado citrus salad done right: segmented oranges, ripe avocado, peppery arugula, and a light vinaigrette. My tested fixes for browning and bitter pith included.
My cowboy caviar recipe uses canned pantry staples, a tangy homemade dressing, and one trick that keeps it from turning soggy at parties.
The best summer salad recipes are the ones that hold up on a table for hours, look good enough to photograph, and taste better than what you would order at a restaurant. Summer is when salads actually get exciting. Not the sad desk-lunch kind, but the kind that shows up at a cookout and disappears
Marry me chicken salad is a chopped salad made with rotisserie chicken, oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes, romaine lettuce, fresh basil, shaved Parmesan, and a creamy sun-dried tomato dressing spiked with Calabrian chili. If you have been on TikTok or Pinterest at all this spring, you have already seen this salad everywhere. It takes all the bold,
Hot honey Caesar pasta salad is a cold pasta salad made with cavatappi, grilled or rotisserie chicken, chopped romaine, cherry tomatoes, shaved Parmesan, and a creamy Caesar dressing spiked with hot honey. I started making this when I realized that Caesar dressing and hot honey were doing the same thing on the flavor wheel from
Viral carrot ribbon salad is a raw carrot salad where carrots are peeled into long wide ribbons using a Y-peeler and tossed in a sesame chili crisp dressing with fresh cilantro, scallions, and toasted sesame seeds. I have been making this ever since it took over TikTok and it genuinely changed the way I look
Copycat Panera strawberry poppyseed salad is a fruit salad made with chopped romaine, fresh strawberries, blueberries, mandarin oranges, pineapple chunks, candied pecans, and a creamy poppyseed dressing. This is one of those Panera orders I used to get every spring without fail, and the copycat takes about five minutes to put together once you have
Copycat Texas Roadhouse house salad is a steakhouse side salad made with iceberg and romaine lettuce, sharp cheddar cheese ribbons, chopped hard-boiled egg, grape tomatoes, and buttery garlic croutons served with dressing on the side. The Texas Roadhouse house salad is one of those side dishes that sounds basic on paper until you are actually