Salad

The best meal prep salads for summer are sturdy, dressing-on-the-side salads that actually hold up in the heat. Here are 8 I make on repeat, plus how to keep them fresh.

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.

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