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Salad Recipes

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Salad. Rita E. / Pixabay.com / 2016 / CC0 1.0

Salads come in many forms — composed, bound or simply tossed — and can be refreshing on a hot summer’s day, or warming in the dead of winter.

While many salads are now improvised by opening a bag of salad greens and removing the top from a bottle of salad dressing, there are set recipes for many classic salads. We have included some of them here.

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  • Salad Recipes

    • Anchovy and Caper Salad Dressing

      This is a robust salad dressing with sharp, strong, savoury tastes. It’s particularly good with salads made out of milder-tasting items such as pasta, potatoes, beans, etc.

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    • Asparagus Wreath Salad Recipe

      Asparagus Wreath Salad

      This asparagus salad is easy to make, but very sophisticated. It looks fantastic on the table or on a buffet table, particularly around Christmas time, too, as it resembles a wreath.

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    • Avocado & Shrimp Spinach Salad

      Avocado & Shrimp Spinach Salad

      This avocado & shrimp salad is a fabulous rich-tasting salad, but lighter in calories than you would imagine. Serve with something off the grill, and perhaps another plainer, leafy salad.

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    • Bacon and Egg Salad Recipe

      Bacon and egg salad

      This is a composed salad; arrange it on a platter and supply spoons for people to use in serving themselves. Nice served with a good crusty bread.

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    • Black Bean & Corn Salad

      Black Bean & Corn Salad

      This salad looks dramatic, tastes amazing, and is an ideal make-ahead recipe. The combination of the beans and corn also provides a complete protein.

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    • Blender Mayonnaise Recipe

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      Tastes great, with little work.

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    • Caesar Salad Dressing

      Caesar salad dressing

      This version of Caesar Salad Dressing, which hails from the 1940s, is considered one of the more acceptable close-to-authentic versions. It’s easy to make — just assemble it all in a blender, and whiz. Make up to a day ahead and store in fridge.

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    • Caesar Salad Dressing (low-fat version)

      Caesar salad dressing (low-fat)

      Caesar Salad is usually incredibly fattening, sadly. This incredibly delicious version is very close in taste and composition to the 1940s classic versions, while lightening the salad up a fair bit.

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    • Cannellini Salad with Shaved Parmesan and Roasted Tomatoes

      Cannellini salad

      This a sophisticated bean salad with the warm Mediterranean flavours of lemon, olive oil, rosemary, balsamic vinegar and delicate Parmesan cheese shavings. It may cause even the most curmudgeonly bean-salad haters to change their minds on bean salads.

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    • Chèvre and Walnut Spinach Salad

      Chèvre and Walnut Spinach Salad

      This is an easy, tasty salad with great colours, and it’s hearty enough that people won’t call it rabbit food.

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    • Corn & Tomato Salad Recipe

      Corn & Tomato Salad

      This is a perfect summer salad: very colourful, refreshing, and easy to throw together. It’s great as a side to barbequed meats, a cheese and bread dinner, etc.

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    • Creamy Anchovy, Dijon and Caper Salad Dressing

      Creamy Anchovy, Dijon and Caper Salad Dressing

      This is a tangy, savoury, thick dressing. It is oil and sodium free, so you can enjoy your salads guilt-free.

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    • Creamy Bean Salad

      Creamy Bean Salad

      This is a classic salad from the days of potluck picnics with a tableful of summer salads to choose from. This salad is a man-pleaser, with its combination of beans, pickle, egg and cheese.

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    • Creamy Coleslaw Dressing

      Creamy Coleslaw Dressing

      This recipe has all the classic sweet and tangy taste that you expect from a coleslaw dressing, with a fraction of the calories. With this dressing, you can turn your slaws back into a food that truly is healthy.

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    • Creamy Marinated Cauliflower Salad

      Creamy Marinated Cauliflower Salad

      This cauliflower salad is a great make-ahead addition to any summer salad selection or a great snack or meal add-on to have to hand in the fridge week-long.

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    • Crispy Tofu and Black Sesame Seed Shirataki Noodle Salad

      Crispy Tofu and Black Sesame Seed Shirataki Noodle Salad

      Serve this noodle salad chilled or at room temperature as a side salad, or in more generous portions as a main noodle dish, with a slice or two of avocado and a few shrimp perhaps on the side for a meal.

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    • Dijon Salad Dressing Recipe

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      You always have a dressing on hand within minutes if you have these simple ingredients.

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    • Dilled Bean and Pepper Salad

      Dilled Bean and Pepper Salad

      This bean salad has a refreshing tangy bite to it for appetites wilting in the summer heat. It’s easy to make ahead, and great to keep in the fridge to reach for as a quick side salad to complete a meal.

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    • Eastern Carolina Coleslaw Recipe

      Eastern Carolina Coleslaw

      This is a typical salad made to accompany barbeque in the eastern Carolinas area of America. More than that, it’s a good old-fashioned, sweet and sour creamy coleslaw that will have you smacking your lips in satisfaction.

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    • Fennel, Watercress & Walnut Salad

      Fennel, Watercress & Walnut Salad

      If you’re jaded and think you are bored of fresh salads, try this. It’s got every flavour and texture happening.

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    • Grilled Eggplant and Feta Salad

      Grilled Eggplant and Feta Salad

      This salad looks as fantastic as it tastes; just looking at it, with the grilled veg, hummous, pine nuts, olive oil — makes you think of the Eastern Mediterranean.

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    • Grilled Eggplant with Parmesan

      Grilled Eggplant with Parmesan

      Thin strips of eggplant brush with olive oil, grilled till crisp, then garnished with grated parmesan cheese. Many people say they hate eggplant, but that this is the only eggplant dish they will eat.

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    • Grilled Halloumi Cheese & Spinach Salad with Tapenade

      Grilled Halloumi Cheese & Spinach Salad with Tapenade

      Halloumi is that miracle cheese that doesn’t melt when you heat it. This salad takes thick slices of that cheese, fries them up till golden brown, and serves them with a warmed tomato, lemon and olive sauce on top of spinach leaves.

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    • Insalata di Rinforzo

      Insalata di Rinforzo

      This healthy pickled vegetable salad is more like an antipasto. It’s traditional in Italy on Christmas Eve, but it’s also made throughout the year and it makes a great summer salad.

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    • Ketchup Coleslaw Recipe

      Ketchup Coleslaw

      This is coleslaw as made in the Piedmont area of North Carolina for barbeques, where it is referred to variously as BBQ slaw, Red Slaw, Red Coleslaw, Barbecued Coleslaw, etc. The ketchup gives the salad a dusty pink hue.

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    • Lemon & Oil Dressing Recipe

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      Because this dressing omits vinegar, you’ll find that salad greens with it on last far longer.

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    • Lemon and Anchovy Dressing Recipe

      Lemon and Anchovy Dressing

      This is a creamy dressing with a very light lemony taste and texture — very refreshing in the summer. And it’s also incredibly light on your waist line, coming in at just 26 calories per tablespoon.

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    • Mushroom and Blue Cheese Salad

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      This is a great winter or fall salad because the mushrooms and blue cheese are hearty flavours, and the salad is served with a warm topping on it.

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    • Notato Salad

      Notato salad

      Your mouth won’t believe this isn’t a good old-fashioned, classic North American eggy potato salad, with a ray of country summer sunshine in every bite. And you can have lots of bites — at just 2 Weight Watchers PointsPlus® per each 1 cup (175 g) serving,

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    • Pepper and Anchovy Salad

      Pepper and Anchovy Salad

      This can be served warm or cold. It’s great to have in the fridge as a quick side to reach for to liven up dinner plates during the week.

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    • Pickled Beets, Sour Cream and Dill Salad

      Pickled Beets, Sour Cream and Dill Salad

      This beet salad is nice to have in the fridge as a mid-week side addition to a summer salad plate, and as an addition to relish trays. It only takes seconds to knock it together.

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    • Ranch Dressing Recipe

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      A great ranch dressing recipe.

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    • Salad Dressing Base

      Salad Dressing Base

      This recipe provides a fat-free, sugar-free and sodium-free base for salad dressings that you use to replace oil in salad dressing recipes. It’s reminiscent of pre World War Two salad dressings, before the heavy marketing of oils for salad dressings began.

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    • Sour Cream and Bacon Potato Salad

      Sour Cream and Bacon Potato Salad

      A very simple potato salad to make, but the pieces of crispy bacon and crispy bread that garnish it give it wow factor. A bowl of this will disappear in no time flat.

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    • Stilton Dressing Recipe

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      A gusty dressing that can hold its own.

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    • Strawberry and Olive Salad

      Strawberry and Olive Salad

      This is an easy and interesting salad (or relish) for the side of a plate. With a combination of sweet, sour and salty tastes, it’s very much along the lines of Medieval or Roman food.

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    • Sweet and Sour Green Bean and Water Chestnut Salad

      Sweet and Sour Green Bean and Water Chestnut Salad

      This green bean salad has a great blend of flavours and textures; it’s a great side salad or addition to any salad assortment. Lasts for a week in the refrigerator.

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    • Tomato, Mint & Lemon Salad Recipe

      Tomato, Mint & Lemon Salad

      A fantastic, refreshing salad that you can treat as a relish on the side of the plate; it really livens up a meal with its bright flavours. The mint gives a nice balance to the taste.

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    • Tuna and Chickpea Salad Recipe

      Tuna and Chickpea Salad

      The tastes in this salad are amazing, It does not taste heavy like a bean salad at all; it tastes light and refreshing. Easily doubled, tripled for a crowd.

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    • Tuna Cashew Pasta Salad

      Tuna Cashew Pasta Salad

      This pasta salad is a real crowd pleaser, and one of the best summer salads going. People will hoover up plates of it.

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    • Tuna Pasta Salad (Light)

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      Despite the fancy, curly pasta, this is a good, old-fashioned tuna macaroni salad, right down to the pickle snuck in at the end to hit the flavour out of the park. It’s very low fat, so you enjoy it as part of a weight-management scheme.

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    • Tuna Pasta Salad with Pesto

      Tuna Pasta Salad with Pesto

      This is a tuna pasta salad that uses a jar of pesto as the dressing: it looks and tastes sophisticated, yet is dead easy to toss together, and very, very good.

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    • Walnut and Carrot Salad

      Walnut and Carrot Salad

      A gorgeous looking and gorgeous tasting salad. Allow your guests to dress it themselves with the salad dressing served separately.

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