Fresh Summer Tortellini Salad
This spin on a pasta salad combines delicious cheesy tortellini with summer veggies in a garlic and lemon dressing. It’s a great dish on its own or to serve with grilled meats and veggies.
Shepherd’s Salad with Sumac Lemon Dressing
Shepherd’s Salad, or Çoban salatası, is a Turkish dish consisting of chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, onions, and parsley, with a lemon and olive oil dressing. This recipe yields a chunkier version with summer garden vegetables, fresh herbs, and a bright, tart touch of sumac. It’s a great side dish and goes well with grilled meats or plant-based proteins.
Crunchy Thai Chickpea Salad
This delicious salad features crispy vegetables, crunchy chickpeas, and a sweet peanut dressing. It’s filling, satisfying, and packed with flavor and healthy ingredients.
Tiger Salad
Tiger salad (Lao Hu Cai) is a salad from Northern China that combines cilantro, cucumber, green onions, and green chili peppers. Its bold and fresh flavors are said to stimulate the appetite or cleanse the palate between dishes. It’s a very simple salad to throw together while packing a lot of flavors. You can also replace the chili peppers with bell peppers for a tamed tiger salad.
Parmesan Chive Roasted Potato Salad
Crispy on the outside and soft on the inside roasted potatoes are combined with a creamy parmesan and lemon dressing, crisp cucumbers, fresh dill, and zingy chives for a seriously delicious salad. It’s the perfect side for a summer picnic or cookout!
Spicy Peanut Cucumber Salad
This salad combines crisp, refreshing cucumbers with a rich, spicy peanut dressing. It’s the perfect side for a heavy dinner. On the Ingredients Peanut butter is the most popular nut
Vietnamese-Style Crunchy Chicken Salad
This salad is quickly thrown together but deeply satisfying, with crunchy fresh veggies and a tangy and spicy dressing. It’s a great lunch or dinner when you have some left over cooked chicken.
Pomelo Salad with Chili Lime Cashews
This fresh citrus salad pairs juicy and sweet pomelo with crunchy, mildly spiced cashews. It’s delicious and refreshing on its own but also goes well with roasted meat, fish, or coconut-based soups and curries.
Winter Salad with Clementines and Toasted Almonds
Celebrate citrus season with this tasty fresh salad! It features sweet clementines, rich avocado, toasted almonds, red onions, crisp lettuce, and a zip of arugula with a mild but tasty olive oil, clementine, and apple cider vinegar dressing. It is the perfect addition to your winter table.
Sautéed Pear Kale Salad with Bacon and Cambozola
This autumnal kale salad pairs pears, bacon, and cambozola cheese over a bed of lightly dressed kale. It’s the perfect side salad for a harvest feast.
Ezme (Turkish Salsa)
Though it’s often called a salsa, ezme is more of a chopped salad or spread. It’s made with tomatoes, peppers, and onions seasoned with chili pepper and sumac and dressed with olive oil and lemon. Ezme is fresh and zesty and goes great with pita chips, crackers, tortilla chips, or wraps.
Spanish Potato Salad (Vegan)
This delicious potato salad is perfect for a summer gathering, with soft fingerling potatoes, snappy green beans, sweet cherry tomatoes, crisp radishes, and a paprika dressing.
BLT Pasta Salad
This pasta salad is an excellent addition to any summertime meal. It boasts the flavors of a BLT with crisp lettuce, delicious bacon, and juicy tomatoes paired with a ranch-style dressing. Best served just after preparation.
Danish Cucumber Salad – Agurkesalat (vegan)
For lovers of cucumbers and pickles, this fresh salad can’t be beat! In Denmark, these cucumbers can be enjoyed alone, on rugbrødsmadder (traditional open-faced sandwiches), or on Danish hot dogs. They have a crisp texture and a sweet and mildly spiced flavor. Delicious!
Butternut Kale Salad with Tahini Dressing
This salad is the perfect side for a vegetarian, vegan, or traditional feast. The sweet squash, creamy tahini dressing, juicy pomegranate seeds, and fresh kale are an ideal combination. You and your guests will all want seconds!
Summer Couscous Salad with Queso Fresco
This summer salad incorporates many of the season’s best flavors, with sweet corn and strawberries, savory basil, fresh tomatoes, and arugula for a little kick. The queso fresco is a mild but salty cheese, almost like a combination of feta and mozzarella. You can also use cotija cheese for a slightly more robust flavor.
Pad Thai Salad with Cucumber and Carrot Noodles
If you love Pad Thai but don’t want noodles, this delicious fresh salad is just the thing! Crunchy veggies, sweet and sour dressing, and peanuts on top. You can use shrimp instead of chicken, or you can leave out the fish sauce and use roasted tofu or tempeh for a vegan version.
Curried Couscous Salad
Are you looking for a delicious side for your next barbecue or a dish to bring to a potluck? This couscous salad has a delightful balance of curry spice, sweet fruit, and nutty crunch. Everyone will want more! It’s also vegan and can be made gluten-free if you substitute the couscous with quinoa or cauliflower rice.
Salmon and Asparagus Potato Salad
This potato salad is delicious and filling, with sautéed asparagus, roasted salmon, boiled eggs, fresh fill, and hand-made mayonnaise. The flavors are well-balanced, and it’s a great side for a picnic or barbecue. In fact, it can be enjoyed all by itself!
Sweet & Spicy Cucumber Salad
This is a quick and easy salad, perfect for accompanying dinner. The fresh cucumber, sweet dressing, and biting onion are a perfect balance!
Cheddar Crisp Kale Salad
This kale salad combines all the best autumn flavors. The crispy cheddar and sweet apples are a classic combination and the light cider dressing is perfection.
Japanese Potato Salad
Potato salad has been a popular dish in Japan for at least 125 years, first created as a version of the Olivier Salad. Japanese potato salad may vary from home to home, but it has a few key elements that distinguish it from American or German potato salad. It isn’t made with vinegar, it is creamier with the potatoes almost mashed, and it is made with Japanese-style mayonnaise.
Dill and Chive Potato Salad
A simple and delicious potato salad with crisp cucumbers and fresh herbs. The perfect side for a barbecue or picnic
Vegan Autumn Kale Salad with Spicy Chickpeas
This autumn salad is an old revival from the Co-op Café. It pairs kale with cinnamon roasted sweet potatoes, spicy chickpeas, toasted almonds, and chewy dried cranberries. The shallots give it a nice bite to counteract the sweetness. It’s a great holiday side, though it’s so delicious you’ll want to eat it any day of the week!
Fresh Summer Potato Salad
This potato salad is light and highlights the flavors of Maine’s summer produce. We used a mix of potatoes such as gold, red, and blue. Added to that are cherry tomatoes, fresh dill, and fresh cucumber pickles. It is made with an olive oil dressing rather than a mayo base, giving it has a nice clean flavor.
Chilled Bean Thread Noodle Salad
Bean thread noodles (also known as cellophane or glass noodles) are thin, translucent noodle made from mung bean starch. They’re naturally gluten-free, grain-free, vegan, and quite low in calories. The flavor is neutral and the texture is slightly firm, similar to Thai rice noodles. They work very well for chilled salads. This recipe combines them with shaved cucumber, carrots, and daikon radish for a fresh, crisp salad.