From Better Homes and Gardens

The Oriental noodles are crunchy when you first make this cabbage salad. If you prefer softer noodles, chill the salad to give them time to absorb some of the soy-vinegar dressing.

Sesame Noodle Slaw

From Better Homes and Gardens

Using bagged salad greens gives you a head start on putting this layered salad together. Diced chicken or turkey can be used instead of ham.

Layered Vegetable Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

Garbanzo beans, the star of this bean salad recipe, are also known as chickpeas. Here's a delicious way to savor their nutty taste and firm texture.

Garbanzo Bean Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

This updated version of the potluck favorite features turkey ham, fresh fennel, and garbanzo beans.

The New Layered Salad

From Food & Wine

Most people throw away broccoli stems, preferring to eat the florets. But cut into long thin strips with a fine julienne peeler, the sweet and crunchy stems are perfect in a fresh-tasting slaw with carrots, scallions and salty sunflower seeds.

Crunchy Broccoli Slaw

From Better Homes and Gardens

To make this layered potluck salad into a main dish salad, add a layer of cooked shrimp or chicken.

Seven Layer Noodle Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

Spelt is a high-fiber grain packed with protein. Toss it with garden-fresh vegetables for a nutritious salad.

Summer Spelt Medley

From Better Homes and Gardens

We left the tuna out of this classic salad, but feel free to add it back in if you like.

Tossed Meatless Salad Nicoise

From Better Homes and Gardens

These lettuce-wrapped hand-held side salads combine sweet and savory warm barley with the cool crunch of radishes.

Orange Minted Barley Wrap

From Better Homes and Gardens

A simple lemon juice and oil dressing allows the flavors of this fruity wheat berry salad to truly stand out.

Wheat Berry Salad with Dried Apricots

From Food & Wine

It's impossible to grill tiny favas, but the sweet-starchy beans get a similar smoky flavor when they're charred quickly in a hot skillet. Jean-Georges Vongerichten tosses the charred beans with garlic, jalapeno, tarragon, and cubes of cheese for a warm salad.

Charred Fava Bean Salad with Lemon and Tarragon

From Better Homes and Gardens

Pea pods, zucchini, summer squash, and a creamy yogurt dressing give additional vibrance to a side salad of greens.

Greens with Dill Dressing

From Better Homes and Gardens

This colorful combination of lima beans, corn, and tomatoes coated with an Italian dressing mixture makes the perfect low-fat side dish any time of year.

Autumn Succotash

From The Food Channel

OK, recipes don't get any simpler than this. But when you've got radishes this fresh, crisp and delicious, you don't need much beyond a bit of salt.

Radishes and Sea Salt

From Better Homes and Gardens

Dinner party fare is quick and easy with this colorful side dish recipe. When seasoned rice vinegar, usually available in supermarkets, isn't available, dissolve 2 teaspoons sugar into plain rice vinegar or distilled white vinegar.

Avocado Rings with Radish "Fireworks"

From Better Homes and Gardens

Orange squash and crunchy apples make this a festive side salad for fall.

Butternut Squash Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

For this Southwestern-style salad, use the firmest jicama available. Store the root vegetable in a plastic bag in the refrigerator up too two weeks. Peel and cut it just before serving.

Citrus-Jicama Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

Serve this salad of barley with garden-fresh vegetables and herbs as a side dish with grilled meats or fish.

Vegetable Barley Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

This salad can be prepared in 10 minutes. Making the dressing in advance saves additional time and allows the flavors to mellow and blend.

Mixed Greens with Cardamom-Curry Dressing

From Food & Wine

Leeks turn sweet and luscious simmered in salted water and dressed with a simple red wine vinaigrette. Chef Armand Arnal heightens the flavor with fresh toasted walnuts and shavings of the firm farmstead sheep's-milk cheese Tomme de Brebis.

Leek Salad with Walnuts and Tomme de Brebis

From Better Homes and Gardens

A creamy walnut-garlic vinaigrette is drizzled over layers of pork tenderloin and vegetables and then refrigerated for this summertime salad recipe.

Pork & Potato Stack

From Betty Crocker

Garlic salt and fresh chives are all you need to flavor naturally delicious vegetables in a 20-minute side dish.

Garden Patch Saute

From Betty Crocker

Wheat berries are whole, unprocessed kernels of wheat. Look for wheat berries in the cereal, self-serve bulk foods or natural-foods section of your supermarket.

Wheat Berry Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

Fresh, moist mozzarella is a real treat. This delicate cheese is soft, light, and creamy--quite a contrast from hard shredded or powdered mozzarella.

Fresh Mozzarella Salad

From Fine Cooking Magazine

Cooking brown rice by the pasta method is quick and results in tender, separate grains with a nice chewy bite. The golden raising in the dressing give this dish a hint of sweetness.

Brown Rice Salad with Basil & Pistachios