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Home | Salad Recipes

Salad Recipes

When I want something fresh, vibrant, and easy to throw together, salad is always the answer. Whether I’m making a light side dish or a protein-packed main, these recipes are full of flavor and anything but boring.

My Crab Salad is one of those easy, make-ahead lunches I love during warmer months, and Tomato Basil Salad is perfect for summer dinners or backyard gatherings. I also like adding Cooked Beets to salads for extra color, flavor, and nutrition—especially when I’m keeping things plant-based. These recipes are simple, seasonal, and endlessly customizable.

Overhead view of sliced chicken breast on Greek salad with pita and avocado.

Greek Chicken Salad Recipe

Front view of a glass bottle filled with freshly made French dressing, showing its smooth consistency and rich color against a light background.

French Dressing Recipe

A minimalist shot of a tall glass filled with creamy poppyseed dressing, with salad greens and lemon in the soft-focus background.

Creamy Poppyseed Dressing Recipe

A close-up view of the finished sesame dressing with a ceramic spoon lifting the mixture, showcasing floating sesame seeds and a balanced oil-vinegar emulsion.

Asian Salad Dressing Recipe

Creamy ginger dressing in a rustic bowl, garnished with sliced green onions and sesame seeds.

Japanese Ginger Salad Dressing

A spoonful of Thousand Island dressing being drizzled over a fresh green salad.

How to Make the Best Thousand Island Dressing

A small white bowl filled with creamy blue cheese dressing, sprinkled with blue cheese crumbles and chopped chives, surrounded by fresh raw vegetables like sugar snap peas, carrots, and celery for dipping.

Easy 5-Ingredient Blue Cheese Dressing Recipe

A big, round serving bowl brimming with a colorful house salad, perfectly layered with fresh lettuce, crisp cucumbers, juicy tomatoes, shredded carrots, Cheddar cheese, sliced hard-boiled eggs, and golden croutons, all finished with a generous drizzle of ranch dressing.

Everyday House Salad Recipe – Quick and Customizable

Salad tongs lifting a serving of Greek salad from the white platter.

Traditional Greek Salad Recipe (Horiatiki)

Large mixing bowl filled with a prepared ramen noodle salad consisting of toasted ramen noodles and almonds, coleslaw mix, and sliced green onions tossed in a simple sesame dressing.

Ramen Noodle Salad

Round serving plate with crisp Romaine lettuce, iceberg, radicchio, halved cherry tomatoes, black olives, sliced pepperoncini, shaved parmesan, and croutons.

Italian Salad Recipe

Silver spoon drizzling homemade lemon-Dijon dressing over a salad bowl filled with lentil salad made with with cooked green lentils, fresh parsley, cucumber, feta cheese, red onion, cherry tomatoes.

Easy Lentil Salad with Lemon-Dijon Dressing

Large white bowl filled with chopped romaine, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, green onion, red onion, corn, avocado, and crumbled cheese, topped with plump tail-on cooked shrimp and drizzled with cilantro lime vinaigrette.

Chopped Salad with Shrimp

Large white bowl filled with a bed of fresh greens topped with ground beef taco meat, shredded cheese, avocado, olives, tomatoes, and sour cream.

Taco Salad Recipe

White plate filled with cooked, peeled, and sliced red beets garnished with chopped parsley.

Instant Pot Beets

Large dinner plate with a bed of fresh arugula topped with roasted butternut squash combined with cooked golden quinoa, dried cranberries, red onion, pumpkin seeds, feta cheese, and sliced apple, and drizzled lightly with balsamic vinaigrette.

Butternut Squash Salad

Large white oval-shaped serving plate filled with bowtie pasta, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, diced red onion, and mozzarella pearls all tossed in a simple champagne vinaigrette.

Bowtie Pasta Salad

Large white mixing bowl filled with prepared tuna pasta salad made with cooked shells, peas, diced celery and onion, in a creamy mayonnaise-based dressing.

Tuna Pasta Salad

Large white serving bowl filled with prepared creamy pineapple fluff dessert topped with pineapple chunks, mini marshmallows, and chopped pecans.

Pineapple Fluff

Glass jar filled with golden yellow Italian dressing that's been emulsified with the grated parmesan cheese settling on the bottom.

Homemade Italian Dressing

Large white rectangular serving platter with four wedges of iceberg lettuce, cut-side-up, drizzled with homemade blue cheese dressing and sprinkled with crumbled bacon bits, halved cherry tomatoes, chives, and blue cheese crumbles.

Classic Wedge Salad

Assembled buffalo chicken chopped salad made with Romaine lettuce topped with creamy buffalo sauce coated chicken, avocado, corn, carrots, celery, green onions, blue cheese, tortilla strips, cooked bacon, and drizzled with creamy ranch dressing.

Buffalo Chicken Salad

Scalloped edge serving bowl filled with creamy frog eye salad topped with additional mini marshmallows.

Frog Eye Salad

A white plate with three sandwiches made with leftover turkey salad piled between a golden buttery butter croissant with lettuce.

Turkey Salad Recipe

Large white bowl filled with the famous la scala salad that consists of chopped lettuce, salami, chickpeas, mozzarella cheese, and red onion tossed in a tangy dijon vinaigrette.

La Scala Salad

Salad tongs filled with a large serving of green goddess pasta salad and hovering above a large bowl filled with the remaining prepared pasta salad.

Green Goddess Pasta Salad

Large white bowl filled with creamy dill pickle pasta salad garnished with sliced dill pickles and fresh dill.

Dill Pickle Pasta Salad

Small glass jar filled with homemade golden yellow Dijon vinaigrette.

Easy Dijon Vinaigrette

Small plate with golden buttery crackers topped with homemade canned salmon salad and garnished with fresh minced dill.

Canned Salmon Salad

Single water cracker in a white bowl filled with creamy tuna salad presented on a cutting board surrounded by crackers and celery sticks.

Tuna Salad Recipe

Large white salad bowl filled with halved cherry tomatoes tossed in olive oil, balsamic vinaigrette, garlic, salt, black pepper, and fresh herbs.

Cherry Tomato Salad

Large white salad bowl filled with a cold Italian pasta salad made with cherry tomatoes, fresh spinach, mozzarella pearls, salami, black olives, artichoke hearts and rotini pasta all tossed in a homemade Italian dressing.

Italian Pasta Salad

Small serving bowl filled with Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad garnished with minced chives and crumbled blue cheese.

Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad

Large salad bowl filled with chicken Caesar pasta salad filled with Romaine lettuce, croutons, chicken, and penne pasta tossed in Caesar salad dressing.

Chicken Caesar Pasta Salad

Small white spoon removing a spoonful of chipotle ranch dressing from a small glass jar.

Chipotle Ranch Dressing

Small white bowl cooked rotini pasta, shredded cheddar cheese, sliced red onion, green peas, and chopped bacon coated in creamy ranch seasoning and sour cream dressing and topped with thinly sliced green onion and chopped bacon bits.

Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad

Large oval serving plate filled with creamy BLT pasta salad made with bowtie pasta, arugula, avocado, tomato, bacon, and corn in a creamy mayo and sour cream dressing.

BLT Pasta Salad

Small glass jar filled with sunshine yellow champagne vinaigrette.

Champagne Vinaigrette Recipe

Large serving spoon filled with Mediterranean orzo salad hovering over a large bowl filled with the salad.

Mediterranean Orzo Salad

Crab salad served over mixed greens and served with buttery crackers on a white plate.

Crab Salad Recipe

Small glass jar filled with homemade ranch seasoning mix with a small wooden measuring spoon.

Homemade Ranch Seasoning

Grinder salad presented in a large white ceramic salad bowl filled with chopped iceberg lettuce, halved cherry tomatoes, sliced red onion, sliced pepperoncini peppers, and sliced ham, pepperoni, and salami.

Grinder Salad

Image of golden crispy homemade croutons on white parchment paper.

Crouton Recipe

Oval salad plate filled with romaine lettuce tossed in homemade Caesar salad dressing, homemade croutons and shaved parmesan cheese.

Caesar Salad Recipe

Toasted white bread topped with crisp lettuce and creamy avocado egg salad and garnished with fresh chives.

Avocado Egg Salad

Bright green and fresh homemade tabouli in a white bowl.

Tabouli Recipe (Tabbouleh)

Three small bowls filled with chopped Israeli salad.

Israeli Salad

Lemon tahini dressing dripping off a small spoon into a small white bowl filled with the remaining lemon tahini dressing.

Lemon Tahini Dressing

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