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18 Salad Recipes That Make Eating Your Veggies Fun

Published: Jul 15, 2019 by Kit · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

These salad recipes are delicious ways to serve fresh summer produce and healthy meals to serve your family.

18 Salad Recipes That Make Eating Your Veggies Delicious

You are going to love these salad recipes. A good salad will turn eating your vegetables into something that you look forward to.

Salad Recipes

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  • Salad Recipes
    • Summertime Asparagus Salad
    • Superfood Salad Bowls with Crispy Chicken
    • The Best Spinach Salad
    • Steakhouse Style Wedge Salad
    • The Allis Chopped Salad
    • Shopska Salad (Balkan Salad)
    • Shaved Brussels Sprout Salad
    • Ranch Chicken Salad Bowl
    • Sugar Snap Pea and Corn Salad
    • Steak and Fried Goat Cheese Salad
    • Brussels Sprout and Apple Salad with Crispy Prosciutto
    • Balsamic Chicken and Sweet Potato Salad
    • Butternut Squash and Brussels Sprout Salad
    • Chicken, Roasted Veggie, and Pesto Salad Bowls
    • Ranch Chicken Cobb Salad
    • Avocado Caesar Salad

These salad recipes can be served as meals or side dishes. Pack them up and bring them to work for lunch, or eat them for dinner. Many of these recipes lend themselves to meal prepping.

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Summertime Asparagus Salad

Light summery flavors make this salad stand out. It has tomatoes, mandarin orange, asparagus, chicken, and greens with a light lemon tarragon yogurt dressing.

These incredibly delicious Superfood Salad Bowls with crispy chicken, beets, butternut squash, rice, goat cheese, and ranch dressing are a delicious way to pack vegetables into your meal.

Superfood Salad Bowls with Crispy Chicken

The goal was to combine as many superfoods as possible in one salad. This salad has beets, butternut squash, and spinach along with rice, crispy chicken, and a homemade ranch dressing.

The Best Spinach Salad | A spinach salad topped with chicken breasts, tomatoes, thinly sliced mushrooms, crumbled blue cheese, hard boiled egg, and crispy prosciutto. Perfect for meal prepping.

The Best Spinach Salad

Inspired by a salad my parents would make when I was growing up, this spinach salad has hardboiled egg, thinly sliced mushroom, tomatoes, bacon, chicken and blue cheese.

The Best Wedge Salad | A wedge salad is topped with maple toasted walnuts, thick cut bacon, grape tomatoes, caramelized shallots, and homemade chunky blue cheese dressing.

Steakhouse Style Wedge Salad

Steakhouses always seem to have the best salads. This recipe lets you make a steakhouse-style​ salad at home.​ Sometimes I add some slices of steak to the salad to turn it into a complete meal.

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The Allis Chopped Salad

One of Chicago's chicest restaurants serves this chopped salad with chicken, bacon, bell pepper, beets, cucumber, and cheddar. It's easy to make at home, and it can be meal prepped.

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Shopska Salad (Balkan Salad)

When I went to Serbia I are this salad almost every day. It's made with cucumbers, tomatoes, bell pepper, and feta. It's a nice light lunch or side dish.

Shaved Brussels Sprout Salad

Shaved Brussels Sprout Salad

Shaved brussels sprouts are a heartier alternative to lettuce. This salad combines them with cranberries, walnuts, bacon, parmesan, and a mustard dressing.

This Ranch Chicken Salad Bowl is an easy to prepare meal that is loaded with protein and vegetables.

Ranch Chicken Salad Bowl

This salad has ranch flavored​ chicken​, rice, black beans, avocado, corn, carrot, and tomatoes and is topped with ​my poblano cream sauce.​

Sugar Snap Pea and Corn Salad | This Sugar Snap Pea and Corn Salad with caramelized shallots and a citrus yogurt dressing is an untraditional addition to Thanksgiving dinner that my family loves.

Sugar Snap Pea and Corn Salad

This salad works well as a side dish; it was part of last year's Thanksgiving menu. It has grilled corn, sugar snap peas, and caramelized shallots with a citrus yogurt dressing.

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Steak and Fried Goat Cheese Salad

Charles and I had a salad just like this when we went to Provence. The fried and breaded goat cheese and slices of steak make this a complete meal.

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Brussels Sprout and Apple Salad with Crispy Prosciutto

My sister's favorite salad is made with shaved brussels sprouts, chopped apple, and a ginger yogurt dressing. I like to add crispy prosciutto too!

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Balsamic Chicken and Sweet Potato Salad

Roasted sweet potato, balsamic chicken, dried cranberries, and goat cheese atop spinach make up this dinnertime salad.

How to Make Butternut Squash and Brussels Sprout Salad - a simple recipe

Butternut Squash and Brussels Sprout Salad

Shaved brussels sprouts get mixed up with roasted butternut squash, crispy​ bacon, and cheddar cheese. It's topped with a quick homemade lemon mustard dressing, and if you want to, add an egg. It's so good!

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Chicken, Roasted Veggie, and Pesto Salad Bowls

This salad is all about Italian flavors. It has spinach, roasted tomatoes, pesto, and parmesan.

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Ranch Chicken Cobb Salad

Greens get topped with ranch seasoned chicken, slices of avocado, tomatoes, corn, bacon, and cheddar to make this salad.

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Avocado Caesar Salad

To make this salad you start with a store-bought bag of Caesar Salad. Then you blend avocado into the dressing​ and top the greens with chicken, tomatoes, and parmesan. It turns the salad into a meal.

In just in case you need dressings to pair with those salads: After years of buying salad dressing, I have gotten into making my own homemade dressings. They really do taste so much better when they are homemade. Here are my two favorite salad dressing recipes, they make these salads even more amazing:

Homemade Ranch Dressing
Blue Cheese Dressing

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