Our Favorite Salad Recipes

These crisp salad recipes will keep you eating healthy all year long.
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Spinach Salad With Feta Dressing
This easy spinach salad recipe has range: It is elegant enough for a dinner party, will impress at a potluck, and makes for a quick and satisfying midweek lunch—especially if you give it main dish energy by adding chickpeas, or sliced hard-boiled eggs. If frying sounds fussy, you can make crispy bacon in the oven. The creamy feta dressing comes together quickly in a food processor or blender and ups the ante of the simple salad ingredients.
Kale and Brussels Sprouts Salad
Salad is the sleeper hit on any holiday spread. Don't take our word for it—this crunchy kale and brussels sprouts salad recipe will make you a believer. Toasted almonds bring some savory crunch while a dijon-shallot dressing gives the whole dish a bright zip. If you're not feeling the intensity of Pecorino, this salad works just as well with feta, goat cheese, or large shavings of Parmesan.
Spinach Salad With Feta Dressing
This easy spinach salad recipe has range: It is elegant enough for a dinner party, will impress at a potluck, and makes for a quick and satisfying midweek lunch—especially if you add chickpeas or sliced hard-boiled eggs. If frying sounds fussy, you can make crispy bacon in the oven. (Substitute sliced and sautéed mushrooms for a vegetarian riff.) Plus, the creamy feta dressing comes together quickly in a food processor or blender. It even makes an adaptable side dish for Thanksgiving.
Cantaloupe, Cucumbers, Lime, and Mint
It's the tail end of melon season, so you'd better get your cantaloupe fix while you can. There's no harm in eating it straight, here it's paired with crunchy, hydrating cucumbers and cooling, aromatic mint for a next-level experience. Dress the entire thing with a bit of lime for a touch of acid and you have a refreshing melon salad worthy of the season's bounty.
Cantaloupe, Cucumbers, Lime, and Mint
This refreshing summery melon and cucumber salad works as a snack, starter, or side dish.
Crunchy Bean Salad Recipe
With haricots verts and crispy chickpeas, this two-bean salad will wow any party or potluck. Everything is crunchy and bright here and it feels really fresh.
Grilled Zucchini and Bulgur Salad With Feta and Preserved-Lemon Dressing
Zucchini from the grill is one of summer’s simple pleasures. The high heat coaxes smoky, sweet flavors from otherwise mellow squash. Charred zucchini pairs particularly well with sharp flavors. In this summery dinner salad recipe, it’s matched by the deep savory notes of preserved-lemon paste and the tang of creamy feta. If you don’t have a grill, use a large grill pan set over the highest heat on your stovetop to deeply brown.
Spicy Tahini Date Salad
Dates, tahini, and chile paste come together in a salad dressing that’s an exquisite combination of sweetness, nuttiness, and heat.
Brooke’s Carrot-Farro Salad
This colorful salad tastes like spring and fall at the same time; it’s bright and refreshing, nutty and rich, and makes a great addition to a picnic basket.
29 Fall Salads to Get You in That Leaf-Peeping Mood
While summer salads are glorious, we have a soft spot for fall salads. These salads often work as complete meals on their own—but they’re also ideal for accompanying whatever dinner you feel like roasting now that the weather has cooled enough to turn on your oven again. Here are our very best fall salad recipes.
These 3 Thai Recipes Take Salads to Sour, Sweet, Spicy Heights
When Arnold Myint began to delve into traditional Thai cooking, specifically the food culture of his mother’s homeland, he was blown away by the salads he found. These salads were not just the start of a meal or a light midday lunch—they were on another level of bringing together sour, salty, sweet, savory, and spicy flavors. Here's how to make these Thai salads at home.
Marinated Cucumbers With Curled Scallion Salad Recipe
Marinated cucumbers are one of the best snacks during the heat of summer and this nutty version is a worthy addition to your salad rotation. The dressing recipe is a simple yet punchy combination of peanut butter, lime juice, and a touch of sriracha. And the delicious curled scallion salad makes this recipe truly exciting. Serve this dish as a side to your favorite proteins or as a quick summer salad course.
Quinoa a la Mexicana
This refreshing and flavorful, protein-rich salad brings in some of the flavors of the traditional salsa Mexicana that’s often served alongside grilled fish. Blackened green onions are transformed into a smooth and herbaceous dressing with lime juice, cilantro, and avocado oil. The lightly salted cucumbers, blistered tomatoes, creamy avocado, and a touch of crispy quinoa and lime zest make this the salad you want on repeat.
29 Best Make-Ahead Salads You Can Make Now and Eat Later
With plenty of delicate butter lettuces, leafy romaine, and wispy microgreens, the moment you dress a salad, it starts to wilt. But there’s a better (and less expensive) way to keep your desk lunch supplies stocked through the week and to work ahead for that backyard barbecue you’re planning. There are plenty of salads that remain crunchy, verdant, and bright-tasting for hours (and days) after you’ve assembled them. Here are some of our favorite make-ahead salads for your next bento or potluck.
Three Green Bean and Bulgur Salad
This spring-y green bean salad recipe with fava beans and snow peas puts the nutty bulgur to good use—but wild rice or quinoa would make good substitutes as well. The honey vinaigrette is the real star of this salad; you may want to make a double batch to drizzle over salads and grains all week. This recipe keeps salt in check for those looking for low sodium recipes; if sodium isn’t a medical concern for you, feel free to salt to taste.