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30 best salad recipes
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Getting your your fill of fruits and vegetables each day is easy and delicious with homemakers.com's best salad recipes at your fingertips.
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By Jennifer Melo and the Homemakers Test Kitchen
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For the ultimate in healthy and satisfying fare, there's nothing like a refreshing salad. Whether you're yearning for cool, crisp lettuce, sweet fruit salad or a savoury potato salad, there's something for everyone on this list of Homemakers.com's best salad recipes.
Keep these recipes handy and you'll never be stuck on what to serve as a sensational side dish.
Best salad recipes: Greens
1. Green Salad with Papaya Dressing
This unusual salad dressing, which uses papaya seeds, won a prize at the Cayman Islands Agricultural Fair and inspired this colourful salad.
2. Dark Green Salad with Honey-Mint Vinaigrette
A salad of dark leafy greens offers a simple way to get more lutein. Romaine lettuce has about 26 per cent more lutein than iceberg and spinach has a whopping 90 per cent more!
3. Arugula and Beefsteak Salad with Tomato Vinaigrette
Rib eye, strip loin or tenderloin steak all work well in this fabulous lunch or supper salad.
4. Primavera Lettuce Salad
Simple salads can be a refreshing course before dessert. Ricotta salata is an Italian pressed and dried salted ricotta made from cow's or sheep's milk, the latter being especially tasty. You can substitute feta cheese if you like or you can top the salad with some fresh goat's milk cheese as well.
5. Summer Green Salad
Like olive oil, avocado oil is a healthy alternative. It also features excellent viscosity, which means you can use less oil than you normally would.
6. Wilted Spinach Salad
Featuring festive colours and a fresh, bracing edge, this salad is special without being fussy to prepare.
7. Warm Mushroom and Spinach Salad with Fennel and Tomatoes
Although this unusual salad has a mildly licorice flavour, it is fresh and light-tasting.
8. Chiffonade Salad on Belgian Endive Points
As colourful and fresh-looking as a spring flower, this salad makes a lovely opener for a dinner party.
Best salad recipes: Potato salads
9. Spiced Potato and Green Bean Salad
This dish is a zesty twist on traditional potato salad.
10. New Potato Salad with Tuna
For a wonderful treat, replace the tuna with flaked Poached Salt Cod.
11. New Potato and Pea Salad
This salad combines potatoes and peas, with seasonal herbs. Serve it warm or at room temperature. If your potatoes are small, leave them whole; halve or quarter larger ones.
Best salad recipes: Fruit and melon salads
12. Avocado Salad
A salad of creamy avocados, fresh corn and crunchy walnuts makes a tangy and multitextured accompaniment to grilled meat.
13. Tropical Fruit Salad with Lychees
The syrup from canned lychees is a tasty, convenient way to flavour the fruit salad.
14. Cantaloupe and Watercress Salad
If you aren't serving this salad as part of a vegetarian meal, you can top it with one or two slices of cured ham, such as prosciutto, serrano or Westphalian ham.
15. Yellow Tomato and Lemongrass Salad
Lemongrass adds an exotic citrus perfume to this pale green dressing.
16. Shrimp and Grapefruit Salad
This salad, which is loosely based on a number of similarly flavoured Southeast Asian salads, makes good use of grapefruit.
17. Watermelon, Radish and Cucumber Salad
This novel salad tastes as great as it looks.
Best salad recipes: Vegetable, legume and grain salads
18. Filipino Cucumber Salad
This refreshing summer salad is adapted from a recipe in The Asian Bistro Cookbook (Robert Rose, 1997) by our food editor, Andrew Chase.
19. Lima Bean and Ham Salad
You can add a little heat to this attractive salad by replacing half of the sweet pepper with a hot banana pepper, if you like.
20. Red Cabbage Salad
The colour and intense flavour of red cabbage makes for a beautiful coleslaw. It particularly benefits from salting before making the salad because it is tougher than green cabbage.
21. Grilled Eggplant and Garlic Salad
If desired, you can replace the coriander with the same amount of parsley or simply sprinkle a handful of chopped fresh mint over the salad.
22. Spicy Zucchini Salad
This Northern Chinese and Korean-style side salad is best with small, young zucchini. It makes a lively, garlicky accompaniment for an Asian meal or with grilled poultry, meat or fish.
23. Toasted Orzo Salad with Pecans
Cooking the dry pasta before boiling gives it a toasty, nutty flavour and a warm hue. A few halved cherry tomatoes make a nice garnish on each plate.
24. Tuscan Broad Bean Salad
This salad is great in a lunch box or for a buffet.
25. Lentil Salad with Feta and Herbs
Perfect for lunch or as a colourful buffet offering.
26. Fresh Quinoa Veggie Salad
The light texture of quinoa makes this high-protein ancient New World grain quite appropriate in salads. Use South American light-coloured quinoa or the nutty brown quinoa harvested from Saskatchewan.
27. Tomato and Spelt Salad
Spelt (also known by the Italian name farro) is an ancient type of wheat with a pleasant nutty flavour that is available in health and bulk food stores.
Best salads: Pasta, chicken and tuna
28. Florentine Pasta Salad
This tangy pasta salad is a sophisticated and fresh-tasting lunch.
29. Chicken Salad with Kiwi Lime Honey Dressing
This salad is light, colourful and rich in antioxidants. If you don't have leftover cooked chicken or turkey, buy a roasted deli chicken.
30. Thai tuna salad
Wake up your taste buds with this vibrant take on tuna salad.
For more great salad recipes, check out the following sister site CanadianLiving.com.
-Spinach and Chicken Salad with Miso Vinaigrette
-Quick Spring Salad
-Caesar Salad Chicken Breasts
Know what you're working with before making a great salad with our easy lettuce lessons.
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