Hearty, Healthy, and Delicious Salads
Do you want a healthy salad that’s also satisfying? Here are 10 salad recipes that are filling and hearty enough to be eaten as entire meals but that also work well as side dishes. These salad recipes highlight fresh fruit and vegetables, great grains, and proteins.
10 Tasty Salad Recipes
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Crunchy Asian Salad with Chicken
This salad is as tasty as it is colorful! Enjoy as a flavorful, healthy lunch or dinner.
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Photo credit: Becky Luigart-Stayner
White Bean and Tuna Salad
We recommend serving this healthy White Bean and Tuna Salad for lunch or as part of a soup-and-salad supper.
Photo credit: Becky Luigart-Stayner
Garbanzo Salad
Garbanzo beans (a.k.a. chickpeas) are the “meat” of this tasty, hearty salad.
Photo Credit: Margo Letourneau
Root Vegetable Salad
Try this colorful and hearty salad with beets, potatoes, carrots, and pickles! It’s a great detox salad.
Photo credit: Tatiana Volgutova/Shutterstock
Chicken Salad With Blue Cheese
Make this simple recipe even easier by using the meat from a store-bought rotisserie chicken.
Photo credit: Sam Jones/Quinn Brein
Potato Salad with Green Beans and Chicken
This Potato Salad With Green Beans and Chicken dish is loaded with fresh ingredients and is great for a potluck, picnic, or cookout. Enjoy warm or cold.
Photo credit: Becky Luigart-Stayner.
Tangy Turkey Salad
Looking for ways to use leftover turkey or chicken? This recipe for Tangy Turkey Salad has delicious flavor!
Photo credit: Sam Jones/Quinn Brein
Couscous Salad With Chickpeas, Cranberry, and Feta
This pearl couscous salad with chickpeas, dried cranberry, and feta has a delightful mix of textures. Eat hot or cold. Make it as a salad or a side that brightens up a basic roast chicken for a flavorful dinner.
Photo credit: Lori Pedrick
Kale Salad With Cranberry, Feta, and Walnuts
This salad recipe comes from our local general store! There’s just something about the way these ingredients blend.
Photo credit: Becky Luigart-Stayner
Easy Curry Chicken Salad
This recipe comes from our food editor, Sarah Perrault. The curry adds great flavor!
Photo credit: Sarah Perreault
Bonus Recipe: Sally’s Bulgur Salad. This one comes from our editor-in-chief’s wife, who created the recipe when she decided her family wasn’t getting enough good grains in their diet!
Tell us if you have a favorite salad recipe! We’d love to hear from you and value any new ideas. Just leave a comment below with comments or any questions.
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Coach Kelly’s Snack Cabinet Salad
Garden Salad:
Lettuce of choice (this is organic hydroponic bib)
Cucumber
Radish
Green Bell Pepper (chopped)
Red Bell Pepper (chopped)
Red Cabbage (shredded)
Carrot (shredded)
Celery
Toppings:
Fresh ground pepper
Bleu Cheese
Sunflower Seeds
Pumpkin Seeds
Golden Raisins
Slivered Almonds
Dressing: Extra Virgin Olive Oil & Balsamic Vinegar
Toss salad ingredients add toppings to taste. I’m not a big salad or vegetable fan, but I love this salad! I chose golden raisins instead of craisins because they are super sweet and have no added sugar. The seeds and almonds add crunchiness (instead of croutons) and the bleu cheese and almonds add protein!
We make it with dill for a little zing. You can add fresh dill or use pickle juice instead of vinegar. Cut salt if you do. Yummy!
I can get the first two salads to show on my computer, then the ads take over and I can't pull up any more recipes, even after deleting the ads.
My mother used to make "Farmer's Salad" (I don't know why she called it "Farmer's". No measurements. Sorry. It consists of:
sliced cucumber
torn lettuce (or sliced)
sliced onion
sliced radishes
shredded or sliced carrots
sour cream (depending on the size of the salad, either a pint or so. It depended on how "gloppy" we wanted it.
It's all up to the person who's making the salad. We would have that and a cup of tomato soup. Or ... just as a big salad.
I make this dish frequently as a one dish meal. The recipe below is the plain version, you can add popcorn shrimp, bacon, ham, etc if you wish.
2 cups cooked rice cooled to room temperature
4 green onions chopped
1 can black beans drained and rinsed
1 medium tomato diced
½ cup shredded cheddar cheese
ÂĽ cup light Italian dressing
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 tablespoon fresh clipped parsley
Combine ingredients in large bowl pour dressing and lime juice over rice and toss.
