Salad Recipes

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Root Vegetable Salad/ Serves 6 

This comfort food is good served warm or cold, served alongside or folded into an omelet...

Roasted Pear Salad  

Enjoy this elegant salad at a dinner party or serve the roasted pears over ice cream...

Carrot Salad with Arugula and Mustard Greens  

This simple salad is topped with a light citrus dressing...

Raise the Salad Bar 

Light but satisfying, these leafy dishes will refresh your summer dinner routine...

Spinach Salad with Eggs and Watercress Dressing  

Serves 4 / Watercress is packed with antioxidants and flavor, making a healthful as well as beautiful emerald-green dressing. Combined with spinach and eggs, this is such a simple, light salad, yet it’s spectacularly delicious. ...

Mixed Bitter Greens with Fennel and Smoked Trout  

Serves 6–8 / Like all greens, bitter greens supply iron, but they are also powerful blood purifiers. Taken at the end of a meal, they act as digestive aids as well as palate cleansers. Prep tips: This dressing is fine made ahead, even for days and days, kept in the fridge. ...

Curly Endive with Papaya and Poached Chicken  

Serves 4 / Endive has a bitter edge, which is instantly tamed by just a few bites here and there of red papaya and a spicy citrus vinaigrette. Prep tips: Poaching chicken at a low temperature helps keep it tender and moist. ...

Black-Eyed Pea Salad with Baby Romaine Lettuce  

Serves 4 / Ingredient tip: This recipe calls for fresh black-eyed peas, which cook in a fairly short time. If you can’t find them fresh or frozen, you can use dried black-eyed peas, but be sure to soak overnight and allow a much longer cooking time. ...

Baby Arugula with Moroccan Carrots  

This salad’s exotic sweet-sourness combines well with any smoked meat or fish. ...

Shrimp, Avocado, and Hearts of Palm Salad 

This salad has two dressings: a light vinaigrette for the lettuce and a creamy dressing for the shrimp and vegetables. ...

Southwestern Quinoa and Edamame Salad 

It’s delicious wrapped in butter-lettuce leaves or tortillas; you can also serve it with roasted vegetables drizzled with vinaigrette or a garlic-yogurt sauce. ...

Seared Tuna Salad with Lemon 

Serves 6 / This Japanese-style dinner is practically like sushi in a salad...

Sautéed Onion Salad with Egg 

Serves 4 / Enjoy this summer meal outdoors...

Tuna and Grapefruit Waldorf Salad 

Serves 8 / Reader recipe contest, first place, appetizers/sides. A well-balanced mix of textures and flavors makes this delicious salad “like a party in your mouth,” said one judge...

Salad bar 

Mix and match ingredients to create healthy dinners...

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