Your Memorial Day weekend gathering received’t be full with out these flavorful salad recipes! Get pleasure from a refreshing dish full of seasonal produce like cucumber, tomatoes and spinach. Choices like our White Bean Salad with Feta & Lemon-Garlic French dressing and our Strawberry Caprese Salad are positive to depart everybody glad, irrespective of the way you select to have fun.
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Excessive-Protein Pasta Salad
Photographer: Robby Lozano, Meals Stylist: Julian Hensarling, Prop Stylist: Josh Hoggle
Crunchy cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, roasted purple peppers and purple onions are all blended collectively in a heart-healthy French dressing for a dish that’s as scrumptious as it’s eye-catching. Chickpea pasta, entire chickpeas and contemporary mozzarella pearls add to the dish’s protein.
Bang Bang Broccoli Salad
Photographer: Jen Causey, Meals Stylist: Julian Hensarling, Prop Stylist: Josh Hoggle.
This bang bang broccoli salad options the traditional creamy, candy and spicy bang bang sauce—made with mayonnaise, candy chili sauce and Sriracha—for a daring taste that balances warmth with a touch of sweetness. It’s sometimes used as a dipping sauce; right here we use it as a dressing as an alternative to coat crispy veggies.
White Bean Salad with Feta & Lemon-Garlic French dressing
Photographer: Jen Causey, Meals Stylist: Chelsea Zimmer, Prop Stylist: Claire Spollen
White beans present plant-based protein whereas additionally including fiber to maintain you full. Creamy feta cheese gives a tangy, salty distinction to the brilliant French dressing. Tossed with contemporary herbs and toasted walnuts, this salad is ideal for a lightweight lunch.
Strawberry Caprese Salad
Photographer: Jen Causey, Meals Stylist: Julian Hensarling, Prop Stylist: Josh Hoggle
This caprese salad is a fruity twist on the traditional Italian dish, with juicy, ripe strawberries standing in for tomatoes. The sweet-tart taste of strawberries pairs superbly with contemporary mozzarella, basil and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar.
Loaded Hen & Broccoli Salad
Photographer: Hannah Hufham, Meals Stylist: Julian Hensarling, Prop Stylist: Christina Daley
With tender, juicy rooster and crisp, contemporary broccoli as the bottom, this salad delivers a satisfying chunk in each forkful. A creamy dressing ties all the things collectively, whereas mix-ins like crispy bacon, shredded cheese and scallions add layers of taste.
Cucumber, Tomato & Avocado Salad with Lemon-Shallot French dressing
Ali Redmond
Crisp cucumbers, juicy tomatoes and creamy avocado create a scrumptious distinction on this straightforward salad. Tossed with a zesty lemon-shallot French dressing, this salad is shiny, tangy and completely balanced.
Arugula, Beet & Feta Salad
Photographer: Morgan Hunt Glaze, Prop Stylist: Phoebe Hausser, Meals Stylist: Julian Hensarling
Peppery arugula and tender, candy beets are balanced by a easy French dressing and briny bits of feta cheese on this arugula, beet and feta salad. Utilizing cooked, peeled beets helps make prep a breeze.
Chickpea Chopped Salad with Pita Chips
Photographer: Jen Causey, Meals Stylist: Julian Hensarling, Prop Stylist: Priscilla Montiel
Filled with crunchy pita chips, creamy feta and briny olives, this chickpea, cucumber and tomato salad is contemporary and scrumptious. Get pleasure from it as a facet dish or add grilled or roasted rooster or salmon to make it a foremost dish.
Carrot-Cucumber Salad
Photographer: Brie Goldman Meals Stylist: Annie Probst Prop Stylist: Breanna Ghazali
Carrot salads are refreshing, and this one—with cucumber, purple onion and a zesty cilantro-chile French dressing—is certain to turn out to be a brand new favourite. It’s glorious served with grilled fish.
No-Prepare dinner Chickpea, Beet & Quinoa Salad
Ali Redmond
This straightforward, no-cook chickpea salad comes collectively in minutes. Search for precooked beets within the produce part of the grocery retailer. With a shiny lemony-garlic dressing, this salad is the right facet to accompany grilled rooster or roasted salmon.
Broccoli Crunch Salad
Photographer: Jen Causey, Meals Stylist: Renu Dhar, Prop Stylist: Josh Hoggle
From the crunchy nuts and Parmesan crisps to the chewiness of sun-dried tomatoes, this broccoli salad has a satisfying medley of textures. The red-wine French dressing brings a briny taste that’s balanced by the nuttiness of the cheese.
Raspberry-Spinach Salad with Avocado & Walnuts
Photographer: Jen Causey, meals stylist: Julian Hensarling, prop stylist: Josh Hoggle
This salad contains juicy raspberries, creamy avocado and crunchy walnuts, which create a pleasant combine of colours and taste. The brilliant, citrusy dressing units this salad aside and enhances the richness of the avocado and the walnuts.
Bhel Puri-Impressed Salad
Ali Redmond
This flavorful salad was impressed by bhel puri, a kind of chaat (savory snack) served throughout India, and options puffed quinoa and lentils for additional protein and fiber.
Crunchy Chopped Salad
Photographer: Jen Causey, Meals Stylist: Jennifer Wendorf, Prop Stylist: Christina Brockman
This chickpea-cabbage salad options carrots and cucumbers, giving it a quartet of components that each one start with the letter “C”! This chopped salad is loaded with fiber and prebiotic chickpeas, selling a wholesome intestine.
Cucumber-Blueberry Spinach Salad
Photographer: Morgan Hunt Glaze, Prop Stylist: Lydia Pursell, Meals Stylist: Emily Nabors Corridor
This spinach-blueberry salad has the right stability of candy and tart flavors complemented by refreshing cucumber slices and creamy goat cheese. Champagne vinegar provides a gentle, delicate contact that pairs superbly with summer season fruit. You should utilize white-wine vinegar as an alternative; merely cut back the quantity by a teaspoon to take care of the stability of flavors, because it has a sharper style.
Strawberry Spinach Salad with Avocado & Walnuts
Serve this colourful strawberry spinach salad alongside soup or a half sandwich, or high it with grilled rooster or roasted salmon for a whole and straightforward wholesome meal.
Spinach Salad with Quinoa, Hen & Contemporary Berries
Photographer: Jen Causey, Meals Stylist: Margaret Dickeyt, Prop Stylist: Julia Bayless
This flavorful salad is full of tender rotisserie rooster, juicy berries and hearty quinoa for a filling and satisfying lunch.
White Bean & Cherry Tomato Salad
Photographer: Jen Causey, Meals Stylist: Emily Nabors Corridor, Prop Stylist: Josh Hoggle
This three-ingredient lunch takes a packaged salad equipment to the following degree with the addition of two pantry staples: cherry tomatoes and white beans. The Mediterranean taste profile works properly right here, however one other combine might be simply as easy and satisfying.
Cucumber Chickpea Salad with Feta & Lemon
Photographer: Rachel Marek, Meals Stylist: Annie Probst
This cucumber chickpea salad with feta and lemon is tangy and refreshing. You possibly can get pleasure from it by itself or toss it with greens for a simple lunch or dinner. We love the grassy taste of dill, however one other contemporary herb like oregano, parsley or chives will work properly as an alternative.
Inexperienced Bean Salad with Balsamic & Tomatoes
Photographer: Morgan Hunt Glaze, Prop Stylist: Lydia Pursell, Meals Stylist: Emily Nabors Corridor
This inexperienced bean salad options crisp-tender inexperienced beans, juicy cherry tomatoes and peppery purple onions, all coated in a candy and tangy balsamic dressing. This colourful salad captures the essence of summer season and shines when served alongside grilled meats or seafood. So as to add much more colour to this vibrant salad, swap out half of the inexperienced beans for yellow wax beans.
Zucchini Salad with Burrata
Photographer: Robby Lozano, Meals Stylist: Emily Nabors Corridor, Prop stylist: Lindsey Decrease
This zucchini salad is a style of peak-season bliss, combining sun-kissed zucchini with the creaminess of burrata cheese. Pink peppercorns provide a candy, fruity and barely floral style which pairs properly with the citrus flavors within the dressing; nevertheless, freshly floor black pepper can be utilized of their place.
Bacon-Ranch Potato Salad
Photographer: Morgan Hunt Glaze, Prop Stylist: Lydia Pursell, Meals Stylist: Emily Nabors Corridor
This potato salad is a flexible and crowd-pleasing facet that enhances nearly all the things, making it an ideal selection for bringing alongside to potlucks, barbecues and household gatherings. Our tangy, creamy ranch dressing options all the identical traditional herbs and seasonings because the bottled model. In a pinch, you possibly can swap it out for store-bought.
Cucumber Salad with Mint
Photographer: Morgan Hunt Glaze, Meals Stylist: Margaret Monroe Dickey, Prop Stylist: Julia Bayless
This cucumber mint salad is crisp and refreshing. Whereas white balsamic and brown balsamic vinegar have related taste profiles, white balsamic is used right here to maintain the salad inexperienced and vibrant. Salting the cucumber earlier than it’s blended with different components permits some moisture to leach out, serving to to maintain the cucumber crunchy whereas it sits within the dressing, so ensure to not skip this step!
Shrimp Cobb Salad with Dijon Dressing
We’ve changed rooster with shrimp on this scrumptious and straightforward spin on the traditional Cobb salad. This satisfying salad takes simply 20 minutes to make, so it’s good for weeknight dinners. But it surely’s elegant sufficient to serve to visitors.
Tomato, Cucumber & White-Bean Salad with Basil French dressing
This no-cook bean salad is a scrumptious gentle dinner or lunch. Contemporary basil elevates a simple French dressing recipe that attire up this easy salad into one thing extraordinary.
No-Prepare dinner White Bean & Spinach Caprese Salad
This straightforward white bean and spinach caprese salad options the traditional mixture of juicy tomatoes, creamy mozzarella, aromatic basil and tangy balsamic vinegar, however provides tender white beans and contemporary child spinach to the combo.
Tomato-Cucumber Salad with Whipped Feta
Photographer: Stacy ok. Allen, Props: Christina Brockman, Meals Stylist: Lauren Odum
The feta and cream cheese whip up right into a clean and creamy dip topped with summer-ripe tomatoes and cucumber. Every chunk retains you coming again for extra! Go for feta in brine for the most effective texture, as pre-crumbled feta tends to lack moisture and might make the dip grainy.
