Salads
A salad can be a fresh accompaniment or the center of a meal, depending on its ingredients and serving. Leafy vegetables, fruit, grains, beans, pasta, and potatoes give this collection several starting points. Dressings provide another browsing path, helping you choose how to bring the components together in the finished dish.
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Coleslaws & Slaws
Slaws combine cut vegetables and a dressing to create texture in a shared bowl or alongside a meal. This collection offers different seasonings and additions for that style of salad.
Fruit Salads
Fruit brings sweetness, acidity, and moisture into a salad, sometimes alongside vegetables or savory ingredients. Strawberry-tomato preparations and other combinations offer different balances within this collection.
Grain & Bean Salads
Beans, grains, and couscous bring body to these salads, with dressings and other additions changing their character. Marinated beans and cranberry-pecan couscous offer contrasting starting points.
Green & Vegetable Salads
Leafy greens, Brussels sprouts, tomatoes, and other vegetables provide the structure for these salads. Fruit, cheese, or other additions can bring contrast, while the dressing ties the serving together.
Main-Dish Salads
Beef salad, Cobb salad, and crab-stuffed avocados offer salads substantial enough to anchor a meal. Browse the ingredients and serving size to choose a dish for the table you are planning.
Pasta Salads
Pasta gives these salads a base for vegetables, dressings, and other additions. Cherry bruschetta, tortellini, and ginger-sesame shrimp variations offer different flavors for a bowl to share.
Potato Salads
Potato salad can be warm, cool, creamy, or dressed with acidity. Ranch, lemon-garlic, and mustard vinaigrette preparations offer different approaches to a familiar meal accompaniment.
Salad Dressings
A dressing brings seasoning, acidity, and sometimes creaminess to the salad bowl. Carrot-ginger and cilantro preparations offer different starting points for pairing a sauce with the ingredients you want to serve.
In this collection

Heirloom Tomato Frico Cups
Ingredients For Heirloom Tomato Salad 1 pound cherry heirloom tomatoes, quartered 1/3 cup roasted red bell pepper, thinly sliced 2 tablespoons capers 1/4 cup roughly chopped parsley leaves…
Cucumber-Basil Dressing
Tomatoes, meet a new best friend. Ingredients 4 cups peeled, seeded, and thinly sliced cucumbers 2 teaspoons table salt 1 1/2 cups Greek yogurt 1 1/2 cups mayonnaise…
Crab, Corn, and Tomato Salad with Lemon-Basil Dressing
With a full pound of crabmeat, this is a luxurious dish that captures the fresh flavors of summer. It’s a great way to highlight heirloom tomatoes from your…
Lemony Cucumber Salad
Don’t forget that something fresh, vibrant, and crunchy is often missing from potluck gatherings; this easy salad will get gobbled up quickly because it satisfies on those levels.…
Mango and Shrimp Salad
Mango goes well with any kind of protein for more reason than just its taste: It contains an enzyme that tenderizes meat. Mango’s sweet-sour flavor combines well with…
Thai Watermelon Salad
Fresh, bright and full of flavor, this salad is the perfect way to highlight fresh summer melon. Ingredients 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice 2 tablespoons fresh orange juice…
Bacon Caprese Salad
Ingredients 1 pound fresh mozzarella cheese, cut into 1/4-inch slices 3 plum tomatoes, cut into 1/4-inch slices 1-1/2 cups fresh baby spinach 8 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled…

Heirloom Tomato, Summer Peach, and Fresh Herb Gazpacho Salad
If you’re hitting the farmers’ markets in late summer, sooner or later you’re going to wind up with a bowl of peaches and a bowl of tomatoes next…
Zucchini with Feta, Walnuts & Dill
Raw zucchini is wonderful when sliced very thin, carpaccio-thin. In this recipe it’s topped with feta, dill, and walnuts for a Greek spin, but it would be equally…
Crunchy Asian Ramen Noodle Salad
Ingredients Salad Ingredients 1 (16-ounce) bag coleslaw mix 2 (3-ounce) packages of ramen noodles, crumbled (you will not use the seasoning packet) 1 cup shelled and cooked edamame…
