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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.

Mandarin Orange Salad

Try this easy-to-make cool salad for your next picnic or potluck. Very tasty.

Tomato Aspic

This easy tomato aspic recipe contains both lemon-flavored and unflavored gelatins, along with vegetable juice cocktail and canned mixed vegetables. Serve it with th...

Wilted Lettuce Salad for 1

This quick and easy salad recipe is just enough for one. This green salad is made with lettuce, tossed with a warm dressing of bacon ...

Shrimp and Cabbage Salad

This cabbage and shrimp salad uses ramen noodles which are cooked just briefly before adding to the salad mixture. It does not use the seasonings ...

Sourdough Croutons

Seasoned with oregano, thyme, and pepper, these homemade croutons make any tossed salad seem extra-special.

Ham & Rice Salad

Frozen peas, onion, canned mushrooms and pimiento are marinated in Italian salad dressing, then tossed with cooled, cooked rice and ham.

Napa Cabbage Salad

Use napa or regular cabbage, add ramen noodles, sesame seeds and almonds browned in butter. Drizzle with a mixture of vinegar, sugar, oil, and soy ...

7-Layer Salad

This popular make-ahead vegetable salad has layers of lettuce, celery, onion, green pepper, frozen peas, cheese, and salad dressing.

Fiesta Style Tuna and or Chicken Salad

Add as much of each of these ingredients as you like to make a tuna salad to fit your taste. Eggs, celery, tomatoes, green onion, ...

Roasted Pineapple and Avocado Salad by Gigo

Pineapple chunks, roasted in the oven, are combined with avocado, mint, balsamic vinegar and spinach.

Pizza Pasta Salad

Use elbow or shell macaroni for this salad. Add cheese, onion, olives, and pepperoni. The dressing is made with olive oil, vinegar, oregano and garlic ...

Waldorf Turkey Salad

This main dish salad combines diced cooked turkey with apples, celery, red onion and toasted walnuts, in a mayonnaise and sour cream dressing with smoked ...

Broccoli/Cauliflower healthy salad

Save on your preparation time by purchasing cauliflower and broccoli that's already been cut up for you.

Cranberry Waldorf Salad

Instead of walnuts, pecans also work in this fruit salad.

Spicy Deviled Egg Salad

Cooked macaroni, cheese, and green chili peppers are included in this easy potluck favorite.

Springtime Zesty Easy Pasta Salad

Use any bottled salad dressing you like on this easy pasta and vegetable salad.

Italian Pasta Salad

You can vary the ingredients in this salad by substituting some sweet peppers or zucchini.

Chilly Cherry Jell-o

A bright red salad to serve for Christmas dinner.

Classic Rice Salad

This salad contains lots of good-tasting ingredients such as hard-boiled eggs, pickles, and 2 kinds of olives.

Shoestring Chicken Salad

Celery, carrots, and shoestring potatoes add extra crunch to this creamy chicken salad.

Summer Salad

Macaroni, sweet pepper, cucumbers, and tomatoes all go into this simple salad.

Fresh Fruit Salad

Fresh fruit tossed with a tangy citrus dressing made of yogurt and orange juice--a wholesome and refreshing side dish or salad.

Grape Salad

Fresh grapes with a creamy dressing and a special, surprise ingredient--Butterfinger candy bars that give this salad crunch.

Spanish Veggie Salad

A fast and easy salsa style side dish with tomatoes, pepper, cucumbers, corn and black olives--with cheddar cheese and corn chips.

Taco Cran Salad

Taco salad with a new twist--Craisins and French dressing add a touch of sweetness.

Chef's Friend Salad

Green Bean Salad

Corn Chip Salad

Mac Ranch

Garden Fresh Cornbread Salad

Ronnie's Chicken n' Chips Salad

Venison Corn Barley Salad


Beef and New Potato Salad

No need to peel the potatoes. Leaving the skin on the potatoes hastens preparation and adds a little extra fiber to these leafy beef and ...

Mango Salad with Smoked Turkey

This recipe can do double duty: Serve it as is for lunch or dinner. Or, leave out the turkey and lettuce and cube the mango ...

Beef and Apple Salad

This appealing main-dish salad features crisp raw apples, jicama, and carrots, along with slices of beef.