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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

  • Hawaiian Macaroni Salad

    Hawaiian Macaroni Salad

    Hawaiian Macaroni Salad is a staple in a Hawaiian plate lunch. This classic side dish features elbow macaroni smothered in a mayonnaise dressing with grated carrot and onion.…

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  • Cucumber Salad

    Cucumber Salad

    This salad is somewhere in between a tangy, vinegar-based cucumber salad and a rich and creamy one made with sour cream dressing. And that’s all thanks to the…

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  • Marinated Beans

    Marinated Beans

    Ingredients 2/3 cups dried beans 2 Bay leaves 1 1/2 Tablespoons toasted cumin seeds (Divided) 3 Tablespoons toasted coriander seeds (Divided) 4 Garlic cloves lightly crushed and peeled…

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  • Basil Oil

    Basil Oil

    This vibrant, super-flavorful oil doubles as a dressing for salad, roasted veg, grilled chicken, fish, you name it. It’s dreamy over beans with some shaved pecorino, or as…

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  • Peach Salad

    It’s true that jello salads seem to have fallen out of style in the last few decades, but we see no reason why we shouldn’t do our part…

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  • Olive Garden Salad Dressing

    Ingredients Salad Dressing 1/2 cup olive oil 3 tablespoons white vinegar 2 tablespoons mayonnaise 3 tablespoons grated Parmesan 2 teaspoons lemon juice 1 teaspoon sugar 1 teaspoon garlic…

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  • Orange Dreamsicle Salad

    Orange Dreamsicle Salad

    Ingredients 1 box orange Jell-O 1 box instant vanilla pudding 1 cup boiling water 1/2 cup cold water 1 Cool Whip 8 oz. 1 can 14-ounce can mandarin…

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  • Cranberry Millionaire Salad

    Cranberry Millionaire Salad

    Cranberry Millionaire Salad! If you love Ambrosia salad, you’re going to go crazy for this dish! Perfect served along side turkey dinner! Ingredients 1 8-ounce tub cool whip,…

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  • Holiday Cranberry Salad

    Holiday Cranberry Salad

      Ingredients 1 10-ounce package fresh cranberries 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 small package cranberry jello 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice…

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  • Caesar Salad Dressing

    Caesar Salad Dressing

      A classic dressing with tangy flavors and creamy consistency made without preservatives. Ingredients 6 large pasteurized egg yolks 3 Tablespoons red wine vinegar 3 garlic cloves, peeled…

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