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12 Fresh Salad Recipes to Make All Year Round
Wave goodbye to your sad and lifeless salad and say hello to these fresh, flavourful creations from the best salad recipes.
From crisp summer lunches to make-ahead dinners and sides worthy of the centre of the table, the best salad recipes know how to do more than fill a bowl. They bring crunch, colour, texture and freshness to every season, turning leafy greens, grains, herbs, roasted vegetables and bright dressings into meals you’ll actually crave.
These easy salad recipes are made for barbecues, work lunches, weeknight dinners and long, sunlit tables, with plenty of flavour in every forkful.
Crispy Rice Salad With Lemon Tahini Dressing
Crispy rice is TikTok’s salad obsession for good reason. This lemon-tahini number brings golden shards of rice, cool cucumber and creamy dressing into one highly craveable bowl, made for lunch as is or dinner with grilled tofu, prawns or chicken.
Indonesian Beef & Vermicelli Salad
This Indonesian beef and vermicelli salad brings smoky seared steak, slippery noodles, crisp carrot, radish, chilli and herbs into one glossy, high-impact bowl. ABC Sweet Soy Sauce Kecap Manis gives the dressing its deep caramel savouriness, lifted with lime, fish sauce, ginger and fried shallots.
Kale Caesar Salad by Love & Lemons
Love & Lemons gives the Caesar a clever green lift, folding massaged curly kale through crisp romaine with garlic croutons, parmesan and a creamy, tangy dressing, with avocado and roasted chickpeas there to turn it from side salad into lunch.
Burrata Salad With Prosciutto & Nectarines
Burrata, prosciutto and nectarines bring instant la dolce vita energy, no plane ticket required. Creamy, salty, sweet and sun-bright, it’s the salad to serve beside grilled seafood, a long lunch spread or anything needing a little Italian theatre. Best with a glass of prosecco close by.
Brussels Sprout Salad with Anchovy Tahini & Za’atar Chickpeas
Roasted Brussels sprouts meet crispy za’atar chickpea crumbles and an anchovy-tahini dressing with Caesar-ish charm and far more intrigue. It’s warm, bright, savoury and textured, with lemon and parsley cutting through the richness. A baked salad for anyone who likes their greens golden, salty and seriously craveable.
Pomegranate Greens Salad With Halloumi Croutons & Spiced Orange Vinaigrette
Bright and flavourful, this pomegranate and halloumi salad is light and filling. The seared halloumi, along with the fresh bursts of pomegranate and tangy orange dressing creates a flavour combination that is hard to resist.
Classic Niçoise Salad With Crispy Smashed Potatoes & Jammy Eggs
A Niçoise-inspired salad made richer with crisp smashed potatoes, jammy eggs, tuna, green beans, olives and tomatoes. It has all the brightness of the French classic, with a little more generosity on the plate: fresh, filling, briny, golden and very easy to love.
Fall Harvest Buddha Bowl
If you prefer your salad ingredients to have their own space, we recommend whipping up one of these buddha bowls. Made with quinoa, sweet potato, brussels sprouts, chickpeas, squash, kale and topped with a maple dijon dressing, there is so much to love about this humble salad.
Beetroot Salad with Goats Cheese & Candied Walnuts
Sweet beetroot, creamy goat’s cheese and honey-candied walnuts make this a salad with serious table presence. Finished with a honey-balsamic dressing, it’s earthy, tangy, crunchy and fresh in all the right places, equally good beside roast chicken or holding its own at lunch.
Thai Prawn Mango Salad
Juicy prawns, ripe mango and a zippy Thai-style dressing make this a 15-minute salad with holiday energy. It’s fresh, fragrant and bright with herbs, chilli and lime, and even better after a spell in the fridge, when all that sweet-sour-salty magic settles in.
Roasted Fennel & Brussels Sprout Salad with Fig Balsamic
Roasted fennel and Brussels sprouts bring this baked salad into golden, caramelised territory, with crisp edges, mellow sweetness and plenty of bite. A sticky fig-balsamic dressing reduces itself while the vegetables roast, then coats everything in tangy autumnal gloss. Add figs, raisins or cranberries and call it cold-weather salad brilliance.
Smoked Salmon, Avocado & Arugula Salad
One of the best flavour combinations has to be smoked salmon and avocado. This simple salad recipe only requires a handful of ingredients to make and can be pre-prepared to help save you time in the kitchen.
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