Easy Salad Recipes

These easy salad recipes are appropriate for any occasion. Create these salads to stand alone as your entree or to accompany any meal as a side dish.

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White Corn and Baby Pea Salad

Besides corn and peas, this crunchy salad includes green or red pepper, celery, and jicama.

Taco Salad

Full of your favorite taco ingredients such as ground beef, chopped tomatoes, and cheese, prepare this salad when you're expecting a crowd for supper.

Apricot Salad

This easy fruit salad is a great side dish at a summer potluck or a hearty fall dinner. It calls for canned apricot halves, so ...

Hawaiian Salad

This easy fruit salad combines cut up maraschino cherries, pineapple, and mandarin oranges with tiny marshmallows, walnuts and sour cream.

Raspberry-Applesauce Gelatin

Easy and very popular, this quick-to-fix salad combines red raspberry gelatin with applesauce.

Five Color Orzo Salad

Red tomatoes, orange and yellow sweet peppers, green herbs, and white feta cheese make up the five colors in this refreshingly simple salad.

Allison's Asian Spinach Salad

This spinach salad has an Asian influence with shiitake mushrooms, water chestnuts, rice wine vinegar, soy sauce and toasted sesame oil. There's also grapefruit plus...

Romaine & Spinach Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette

Goat cheese, dried cranberries, a chopped pear, and toasted walnuts make this tossed green salad extra-special.

Mediterranean Spring Lamb and Barley Salad

This salad, which is served over torn fresh spinach, is dressed with a mixture of olive oil, balsamic vinegar, garlic, lemon juice, oregano, and parsley.

Cran-ango Chicken Salad

This chicken salad is full of good stuff like crimini mushrooms, black olives, mango, and even some dried cranberries.

Avocado Salad

Avocados are sliced and arranged on serving plates, then drizzled with a dressing that combines olive oil, balsamic vinegar, red onion and Gorgonzola cheese.

Warm Spinach and Strawberry Salad

A bacon, brown sugar, vinegar, and Dijon dressing is tossed with spinach, strawberries, pecans and hard cooked eggs to make this colorful salad.

Meatloaf Ranch Salad

Slices of chilled meatloaf are placed on top of salad greens, with tomato, avocado, olives, mushrooms and onion, and drizzled with ranch dressing.

Going Greek Salad

Greek salad with a interesting combination of sweet and salty flavors. Low fat dressing makes it an extra healthy choice.

No Can Tuna Salad

Fresh tuna combines with cucumbers, scallions, cilantro in a flavorful wasabi dressing. A great dinner salad.

Flank Steak Pasta Salad

Flank steak and soba noodles mixed with a oriental flavored vinaigrette. A cool solution for a hot summer day.

Cold Pasta/Shrimp/Spinach Salad

Cheesy tortellini mixed with colorful vegetables, shrimp, and a tasty dressing. A great side or main dish salad.

Sweet and Salty Salad

Cubed chicken, marinated and baked in mesquite marinade, lime juice & honey, is served on greens with bacon, nuts, tomatoes and honey-mustard dressing.

Salmon Salad Medley

Chunks of salmon are tossed with leafy greens, fresh fruits, feta cheese, nuts and raspberry vinaigrette to make this main dish salad.

Warm Mexican Ground Turkey Salad

A low fat taco salad made with ground turkey. To lower the fat even more, use low fat dressing and light sour cream instead of ...

Spinach Salad with Bacon-Raspberry Vinaigrette

Fresh spinach, sliced mushrooms, sliced red onion, parmesan cheese & bacon is tossed with a heated dressing with raspberry vinegar & brown sugar.

Tomato Salad

Chunks of roma or plum tomatoes, cucumber, bell peppers, onions & green olives are marinated in an olive oil & vinegar mixture with garlic and ...

Easy Taco Salad

Lettuce, tortilla chips, and cooked ground beef seasoned with taco mix, are tossed with a dressing of Velveeta cheese & Rotel tomatoes.

Rice Salad with Grape Tomatoes and Feta Cheese

Cooked and cooled white (or brown) rice, feta cheese & tomatoes are seasoned with lemon juice, dillweed, & garlic in this salad.