Summer Salads Recipes

Whether you're planning a backyard barbecue or a dinner on the deck, a selection of summer salads is always a must. Browse through our collection of pasta salads, vegetable salads, and more for your next summertime meal.

 
 
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Texas Coleslaw

From Better Homes and Gardens

Yes, like almost everything on a Texas menu, this cabbage and sweet pepper salad is spicy hot.

Texas Coleslaw

Spinach Salad with Corn Bread Croutons

From Food & Wine

The slightly sweet dressing on this spinach salad has just a little honey in it.

Spinach Salad with Corn Bread Croutons

Peter Frank Edwards
Rose and Berry Summer Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

Smoked fish and sheep's milk cheese make this gourmet salad one to serve when entertaining guests.

Rose and Berry Summer Salad

Aunt Pattys Perfection Salad

From The Food Channel

Nobody's perfect, but recipe-wise this dish comes close. The colorful mold presentation is unique and eye-catching--a superb selection to bring to those summer picnics and potlucks. Coleslaw never had it so good!

Aunt Pattys Perfection Salad

Melon-and-Strawberry Salad with Spicy Lemongrass Syrup

From Food & Wine

Chiles add subtle heat to this exceptional fruit salad. Grace Parisi likes using any syrup left in the fruit bowl for cocktails; she mixes a little of it into rum and pours the drink over ice.

Melon-and-Strawberry Salad with Spicy Lemongrass Syrup

Hallie Burton
Summer Fresh Vegetable Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

This side salad recipe combines 11 vegetables with a delicious herb dressing.

Summer Fresh Vegetable Salad

Tomato Salad with Pickled Red Onions

From Better Homes and Gardens

Summer-fresh tomatoes are amazingly flavorful on their own, but this recipe takes them beyond the basic with the addition of Pickled Red Onions and crumbled cheese. It's a sensational side dish perfect for al fresco meals.

Tomato Salad with Pickled Red Onions

Potato Salad with Fresh Stir-Ins

From Better Homes and Gardens

At your next cookout, surround basic potato salad with bowls of flavorful stir-ins like bacon, peppers, and garden-fresh vegetables.

Potato Salad with Fresh Stir-Ins

Tomato and Mint Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

This garden-fresh side dish features tomatoes drenched in an herb-flavored vinaigrette and topped with tangy feta cheese.

Tomato and Mint Salad

Green Bean-and-Roasted Red Pepper Salad

From Food & Wine

Private chef Michael Emanuel's late-harvest salad gets its surprisingly meaty richness from the sliced red bell peppers he roasts in a clay oven; a broiler also works well.

Green Bean-and-Roasted Red Pepper Salad

James Baigrie
Yellow Wax Bean and Radish Salad with Cannellinis

From Food & Wine

For a crunchy, summery salad, Chris Cosentino tosses yellow wax beans, radish slivers, red onion slices, cannellini beans, and fresh basil in a simple vinaigrette. To save time, you can also substitute canned cannellinis for the dried ones here.

Yellow Wax Bean and Radish Salad with Cannellinis

Cedric Angeles
Tomato and Red Onion Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

Choose a variety of heirloom and farmstead tomatoes for this recipe. Prepare them whole, sliced, and cut in wedges to make a colorful salad.

Tomato and Red Onion Salad

Barley-Vegetable Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

Red and green sweet peppers and a can of corn make this easy side-dish salad extra colorful.

Barley-Vegetable Salad

"Healthified" Creamy Caesar Dressing

From Betty Crocker

A classic goes modern when reduced-fat ingredients take center stage. It has 71% fewer calories, 79% less fat, and 75% less sat fat than the original recipe.

"Healthified" Creamy Caesar Dressing

Five-Tomato Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

Serve this simple summer salad for family-style barbecues.

Five-Tomato Salad

Butterfly Salad

From Parents

Bread is cut into butterfly shapes then toasted to make little croutons for this grape and lettuce salad.

Butterfly Salad

Tomato, Mozzarella, and Polenta Platter

From Better Homes and Gardens

Whether the tomatoes come from your garden, the farmer's market, or the supermarket, this salad celebrates summer's bounty. Along with the tomatoes, indulge in tender butterhead lettuce, creamy fresh mozzarella, and tangy kalamata olives.

Tomato, Mozzarella, and Polenta Platter

Black-Eyed Pea Salad

From Better Homes and Gardens

Black-eyed peas, which actually are beans, make this classic Southern salad a vegetarian main dish.

Black-Eyed Pea Salad

"Healthified" Blue Cheese Dressing

From Betty Crocker

Trim the fat, sat fat and calories, but keep the flavor. It has 62% fewer calories, 71% less fat, and 71% less sat fat than the original recipe.

"Healthified" Blue Cheese Dressing

Egg-cellent Asparagus Salad

From Fitness

A splash of vinegar brings out the delicate flavor of fresh summer asparagus.

Egg-cellent Asparagus Salad

Homemade Buttermilk Herb Ranch Dressing

From The Food Channel

Freshly-made ranch dressing seasoned with fresh-chopped garden dill, parsley and chives tastes great on salads, served as a dipping sauce with fresh vegetables, crispy chicken tenders and Buffalo wings or as a condiment for sandwiches.

Homemade Buttermilk Herb Ranch Dressing

Celery-and-Celery-Root Salad

From Food & Wine

This pretty, refreshing salad is one of the healthy options on Prime Meats' indulgent menu, combining sliced celery, celery leaves and thin strips of celery root.

Celery-and-Celery-Root Salad

Simon Watson
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