Discover a collection of 23 Refreshing Side Salad Recipes designed to add delightful flavors and colors to your meals. Whether you’re preparing for a casual gathering or simply looking to expand your culinary repertoire, these salads offer a variety of options to suit every palate. From traditional favorites like Pasta Salads and Potato Salads to innovative combinations like Cucumber Salads and Couscous Salads, each recipe promises to bring a touch of freshness to your table. Embrace simplicity or get creative. Either way, these salads are sure to enhance any dining experience with their vibrant and delicious appeal.
Chickpea Pomegranate Goat Cheese Salad
This Roasted Chickpea, Pomegranate Goat Cheese Salad is perfect for a holiday menu. It’s a wonderful combination of crunchy roasted chickpeas, pomegranate seeds, goat’s cheese and fresh greens. This salad is drizzled with an easy to make homemade pomegranate molasses dressing. It’s not only tasty, but it’s also a beautiful salad to look at. It will brighten up dinner party with its festive red and green hues.
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Blood Orange, Beetroot and Walnut Feta Salad
Indulge in a burst of flavors with this Blood Orange, Pickled Beetroot Walnut Feta Salad, drizzled with a simple homemade orange vinaigrette salad dressing. This salad is a beautiful medley of colors and textures, with the earthy flavor of the beets pairing perfectly with the salty feta cheese and crunchy walnuts. The blood oranges also known as raspberry oranges, add a touch of sweetness and tartness, which is balanced out by the tangy and zesty orange vinaigrette.
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Grape Salad
A seriously addictive Chicken Salad Chick Grape Salad recipe! This Southern Grape Salad uses real food ingredients and tastes delicious, no it tastes amazing!
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Tomato Cucumber Corn Salad
Tomato Cucumber Corn Salad is a celebration of summer produce. It’s easy to make this vegan Mediterranean-inspired recipe in under 30 minutes. Prepared with either grilled fresh or defrosted frozen corn, sweet onions, aromatic basil, and a splash of balsamic elevate the taste of this seasonal vegetable salad.
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Creamy Potato Salad
This Creamy Potato Salad uses dairy-free mayonnaise, dijon mustard, and apple cider vinegar to form a simple yet incredibly delicious dressing. The addition of celery adds a welcome crunch and a dash of paprika adds a bit of kick.
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Keto Broccoli Salad
Sweet, crispy, and full of fresh veggies. Tastes just like the cookout classic, but THIS Keto Broccoli Salad contains no added sugar and only 2g net carbs!
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Italian Chopped Salad
All your favorite things about Antipasto Platters combine into this super tasty Italian Chopped Salad! Fresh crunchy lettuce and juicy tomatoes pair perfectly with cubed cheese and slivered salami. From there, depth of flavor is added with roasted red peppers, olives, and pepperoncini. All in all this salad is a meal unto itself and perfect paired with your favorite Italian pasta dinners, or anything from the grill as well.
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Tortellini Antipasto Salad
Italian Tortellini Antipasto Salad – a mix of your favourite antipasto items and delicious, cheese filled pasta. Tossed in a light, olive oil and vinegar dressing, this antipasto salad takes no time to make, and is perfect for a quick lunch, or a light summer dinner when it’s too hot to turn the oven on. If you like more summer pasta salads, try our Southern Macaroni Salad, or Dill Pickle Potato Salad!
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Stone Fruit Salad
Summer Stone Fruit Salad with goat cheese, mint, and toasted almonds! Plus a honey-lemon stone fruit salad dressing! This nectarine, plum, and peach fruit salad comes from Chenee Today’s summer cookbook, Sweet Summertime!
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Vegan Couscous Salad
This bright Vegan Couscous Salad with chickpeas, charred corn, and lots of fresh veggies! This vegan couscous bowl is one of the best easy vegan couscous recipes!
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Cottage Cheese Mexican Corn Salad
Summer means a few very exciting things in the food world. In the Midwest especially, it’s sweet corn season, baby. If you’re a fan of Mexican street corn (elote), get ready to fall in love with this Cottage Cheese Mexican Street Corn Salad. This crowd-favorite side dish recreates the flavors of elote and combines it with a creamy cottage cheese sauce.
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Burrata Caprese Salad
This delicious Burrata Caprese Salad recipe brings summer flavors to your table. Creamy burrata cheese, juicy summer tomatoes, and fragrant basil are drizzled with a sweet balsamic glaze and topped with crunchy pine nuts. This dish takes the traditional elements of a classic caprese salad and elevates them with creamy burrata cheese. If you’ve never tried burrata cheese, you’re in for a treat!
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Israeli Salad with Pomegranate Vinaigrette and Roasted Nuts
This Middle Eastern Salad recipe is low in calories, vegan, dairy-free, and gluten-free, making it the perfect option for dietary restrictions and anyone interested in clean, plant-based meals. But don’t let its health benefits fool you. Israeli Salad is also bursting with flavor and easy to prepare. So whether you’re looking for a quick lunchtime bite or a tasty side dish for dinner tonight, this salad has got you covered.
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Chopped Thai Salad
This Chopped Thai Salad is choc-full of raw, crunchy vegetables and saturated with homemade peanut dressing you’ll want to drink right from the jar. It’s a versatile raw vegan salad that’s ready in minutes and makes for a quick, easy lunch, light dinner or healthy side.
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Turkish Potato Salad
This Turkish Potato Salad (patates salatasi) is bursting with freshness and full of texture. It’s a harmonious blend of potatoes, herbs, and a zesty dressing, and no mayo required! This traditional Turkish potato salad is an easy yet delicious side dish, that is sure to impress your taste buds and those of your family or guests.
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Greek Pasta Salad
Add some bright and tangy Mediterranean flavor to a classic potluck dish with this fresh and easy Greek Pasta Salad! This simple side dish is made by tossing pasta, chickpeas, feta cheese, and an assortment of veggies in a zesty Greek dressing.
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Jicama Salad with Apples and Honey Lime Dressing
This Jicama Salad with Apples is light, crisp, tart, and refreshing. It’s quick and easy to make and packed with nutrition. It’s the kind of thing you can make quickly for a light lunch or in large quantities for a summer cookout. The salad includes sliced jicama, green apples, and radishes with a touch of jalapeño and fresh cilantro all tossed together in a light honey lime dressing. And it stays crisp and fresh for hours.
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Hawaiian Tuna Mac Salad
This Hawaiian Tuna Mac Salad is a protein-packed version of a classic, creamy pasta favourite. A simple mayonnaise-based dressing, with the perfect balance of sweetness and tang is all you need for the best macaroni salad ever, and it’s the best side to Hawaiian-style pineapple teriyaki chicken!
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Loaded Sweet Corn Salad
This Loaded Fresh Sweet Corn Salad is a crowd-pleaser if you ever saw one – a quick and simple throw-together recipe you’ll fall in love with after the first bite.
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Pearl Barley Salad
A Pearl Barley Salad recipe that’s loaded with chewy barley and fresh summer vegetables then topped with fresh basil, a sprinkle of vegan feta cheese and a drizzle of lemon miso dressing. Low calorie and high protein, this healthy recipe requires only 8 wholesome ingredients and 20 minutes to make. Ooh La La It’s Vegan, too!
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Antipasto Salad
This zesty Antipasto Salad recipe is filled with all of the best Italian flavors. Tortellini is mixed with peppers, olives, cheese and meat and finished off with a homemade Italian dressing.
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Simple Spinach Salad
Toss together this easy & healthy Simple Spinach Salad in just minutes. With homemade croutons & dijon vinaigrette, it’s a fresh side dish that goes with any meal or enjoy for lunch.
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Cucumber Salad
Cucumber Salad is a refreshing, flavor-exploding side dish that can be made for any occasion! Crunchy, fresh, cucumbers are thinly sliced and tossed in a sweet yet zesty Italian dressing, ready for you to serve up in under 30 minutes!
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