Best Summer Salad Recipes
Now that summer has officially arrived, it’s time to focus on lighter meals and side dishes. When the weather is hot and sultry, you’ll be happy my blogger friends and I have shared our Best Summer Salad Recipes. They will definitely hit the spot!
These Easy Summer Salad Recipes are terrific for side dishes or entrees on a sultry day! These are some of the Best Salad Recipes hand selected by some of the top food bloggers and are guaranteed to be delicious!
Why You’ll Love These Salad Recipes
- These recipes will inspire you to try something new instead of your usual salads.
- You will be a hit at your next potluck with a unique, delicious salad!
- Topping with grilled salmon or a boneless skinless chicken breast will transform some of these salads into an entree.
Cool and refreshing summer salads are perfect for those nights when it’s too steamy to spend any time over a hot stove. Whether used as a side dish with a quick grilled entree or as the entree itself, we have loads of marvelous easy salad recipes to share with you for the dog days of summer. Let me know your go-to warm-weather salad recipe in the comments!
Frequently Asked Questions
Use fresh seasonal vegetables like tomatoes, cucumber, zucchini, corn, radishes, and greens like lettuce and spinach. Fresh berries, summer fruit like peaches, cherries, and apricots, dried fruit, and cheeses along with grains like pasta, quinoa, and farro are all delicious options.
First, you’ll want to avoid perishable ingredients like salami, chicken, mayonnaise, and sour cream unless you can keep the salads chilled to prevent them from spoiling. Instead, try a pasta salad or coleslaw with a vinaigrette dressing. If you have a cooler, then potato salad, caprese salad, and other salads with creamy dressings or ingredients that must be chilled are terrific options.
I hope you’ve found some terrific inspiration to try over the next few months among these wonderful Summer Salad Recipes! Don’t forget to pin to have instant access to all the links. Which one do you want to make first? I’m going to start at the top and work my way down. There’s not one that I’m not dying to try! Check back in July when we’ll be sharing our favorite summer desserts and treats.
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- Easy Orzo Salad
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- More of the Best Salad Recipes
Best Summer Salads
These delicious summer salads are perfect for picnics, potlucks or just used to shake up your dinner menu!
All the flavors of Mexican Street Corn in an irresistible salad!
A delicious chicken salad recipe with cranberries, apples, and pecans. Eat as a sandwich or serve in a lettuce cup!
A classic wedge salad with homemade blue cheese salad dressing.
Broccoli Salad is a summer classic!
This chicken salad on toasts is a fun appetizer for summer entertaining!
A healthy pasta salad filled with your favorite Mediterranean ingredients!
This Couscous Salad makes a delicious dinner or lunch!
One of my favorite summer salads with pasta, tomatoes, basil and two types of cheese!
A twist on the classic potato salad that uses roasted potatoes along with fresh herbs.
Cool and refreshing, this summer fruit salad is always a hit at picnics and potluck meals.
This pasta salad has all your favorite ingredients found in a traditional Greek salad plus pasta!
A tasty shaved Brussels sprouts salad with apples and almonds.
A chopped vegetable salad with a delicious creamy dressing.
A delicious salad with bacon and cheese that's topped with BBQ chicken!
A delicious side dish with all your favorite antipasto ingredients!
This flavorful salad starts with a macaroni salad base but also has all your favorite jalapeno popper ingredients!
Olives, bacon, tomatoes, and your favorite pasta make a delicious potluck salad!
Another delicious pasta salad featuring orzo, tomatoes, cucumbers and feta!
This apple and brown rice salad is full of crunch from fresh fruit and veggies!
14 Comments on “Best Summer Salad Recipes”
Yeah its officially salad season and this is a great list 😀
This is great list of really gorgeous salad recipes! There a little bit of everything. I want to try them all 🙂
You were’t kidding when you titled your post Best Summer Salads. Indeed, each one looks like it’s something you’d pick up at a Beverly Hills restaurant…The chicken salad on the croissant brought back memories of modeling at the once-upon-a-time LA icon department store, Bullocks =)
So many delicious salads to choose from! Can’t wait to try each and everyone of them this hot and steamy summer. Lighter fare is always welcome!
Each one of these salads looks better than the next. What a great assortment to alternate throughout the summer. Love these. Thanks for sharing them.
Lovely…I can see a few that I would gravitate towards! Thanks for the great ideas. Have a good weekend, Liz. 🙂
What a fantastic roundup Liz, I like every single one of these!!!
I just love your cobb salad, I have made it a few times (with minor alterations) and have had rave reviews! The wedge salad is also a winner here, except we grill the wedge for texture and smoke! It really is awesome. Nice little round up, Liz.
I want to try them all! Have a great weekend Liz!
Thanks for all the wonderful salad suggestions. I saw quite a few that I would love to make, starting with the wedge and blue cheese- yum!!
Wow – what a fantastic collection of salads! I will be looking back at this post many times for salad recipes. Summer salads are SO wonderful and I can’t wait to try many of these. Your fruit salad looks perfect.
These all sound great, especially the wedge salad!
I really love them all but very fond of Bleu cheese so that would be my first go too!
Another great roundup, Liz. We eat lots of salads, esp. at this time of year. Awesome!