Best Ever Salad Recipes

Get your salad bowls ready! Here are some of the Best Ever Salad Recipes. Summer is the perfect time of year to try new salad ideas. A good salad is always a staple with potlucks and BBQs. Here are a few favorites you must try. I have included all types of salads from fruit salad, to vegetables salad and the good old classic green salads, there are a million ways to serve a salad!

This salad combines so many amazing things. The salad ingredients include apples, dried cranberries, and avocados which make for an amazing combination. This is a healthy salad.

cranberries pecans apples oranges avacados and spinach before tossing into salad — Apple Cranberry Spinach Salad with Pecans, Avocados

This broccoli salad is so good with summer sweet grapes and bacon! You are really going to love this. Need to serve a crowd, it is easy to turn this into a large salad.

wooden bowl full of broccoli salad with grapes — Broccoli Salad

If you want to skip to mayo and sugar try this healthy broccoli salad. A couple sneaky swaps and you won’t miss the fat and sugar!

healthy broccoli salad in blue bowl — Healthy Broccoli Salad

This honey mustard dressing is the star of the show in this salad, use a dressing whisk and combine all these amazing ingredients and enjoy. Be careful sharing it, you will be asked to print the recipe.

platter of avacao tomato bacon chicken salad with honey mustard dressing — Honey Mustard Chicken Avocado Bacon Salad

Feta is a great addition to any salad recipe and it makes this one especially good. It is also low in saturated fat.

apple pecan spinach salad — Apple Pecan Feta Spinach Salad

This unusual combo comes together to make one amazing salad. Growing a garden? Garden fresh veggies, especially the cherry tomatoes make this recipe out of this world.

tomato and cucumber salad in white bowl — Tomato Cucumber Avocado Salad

Got lettuce? Are you ready to try something new? This recipe will be a great salad to add to your rotation and it’s nice because it both filling and different.

orzo pasta salad on white plate — Mediterranean Orzo Salad Recipe

Have you ever had pea salad? Done correctly it will become one of your new favorite recipes. Try garden fresh peas or visit your local farmer’s market to take it up a notch. This is great if you need to skip a tomato.

pea salad with hard boiled egg on top for garnish — Pea Salad

This salad is gluten-free and vegan. Look at this review…

“I made your vegetarian Italian chop salad recipe. I loved it. The Italian dressing was better the second day. Great recipe! I added some chopped grilled chicken for my husband who is not vegetarian. It is one of the best vegetable salads I have eaten. I will make it often” – Donna

“Love, love, love this potato salad! This recipe is definitely a keeper. The flavors are spot-on. Didn’t change a thing. My husband, who has always been a mayo potato salad kind of guy, says he will be making this for his company’s next potluck cookout.” – Susan

potato salad in a glass bowl — Mayo-Free Red Potato Salad

Lemon juice makes this one full of flavor. You will love the layers of flavor and color. Sub Lime juice in a pinch.

Arugula, Dried Cherry and Wild Rice Salad with a Zippy Lemon Dressing

Pasta Salads

Looking for a way to serve the best pasta salads? These pasta salad recipes are both filling and unique. A little bit of red onion sets of the flavor perfectly. This makes a perfect side dish.

tortellini salad with grilled chicken — Tortellini Salad with Grilled Chicken

My post on Spring Salads include a few more amazing recipes that will become family favorites.

adding dressing to mandarin orange salad — Mandarin Salad

The crowd-pleasing salad of crisp romaine leaves, crunchy croutons, and a little or a lot of anchovy, as you like.

If you are a fan of chicken salads give this a try. I am always asked for the recipe!

chicken salad recipe — Chicken Salad Recipe

Make Ahead Salads

If you have lost interest in leafy greens try bell peppers! You will love this salad with its red onions and peppers. Just be sure to have a large bowl.

pepper salad in glass bowl — Mediterranean Pepper Salad

southwestern salad from Skip to my Lou recipe in a glass bowl — Southwest Salad

This recipe from my sister-in-law is a crowd pleaser. She calls it, “So Good Men Will Eat It Salad.”

Related: Six more easy summer salad recipes all made within 30 minutes.

Fruit Salads

Silver fork holding a bite of Watermelon Salad, by Skip to my Lou. — Watermelon Salad

watermelon panzanella salad in a wooden bowl — Watermelon Panzanella Salad

Secret Fruit Salad This salad comes together so easily and is perfect to throw together when you are short on time. Just because you don’t have a lot of time doesn’t mean it is not amazing. You will love this recipe.

Salad Dressing Recipes

My homemade ranch salad dressing is a delicious way to top any salad. Feel free to claim it as yours. You can sub in sour cream in a pinch.

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