Start Your Meal Off Right. 14 Satisfying Salad Recipes

Easy Garlic-Sesame Green Beans

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This versatile dish goes well in a wide variety of settings, including salads, soup, and pasta. This recipe serves 8.

Salad Of Watercress, Watermelon, Ricotta Salata And Pine Nuts

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We all love sweet juicy watermelon. Here’s a great recipe for a luncheon or light supper that uses fresh, seasonal ingredients.

Asparagus Artichoke Salad

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A light springtime salad of grilled or roasted asparagus with marinated artichoke hearts and cherry tomatoes. This recipe has a prep time of 10 minutes, a cook time of 12 minutes and serves 6 to 8.

Broccoli Salad

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Broccoli salad, blanched fresh broccoli tossed with toasted almonds, bacon and peas, topped with a homemade honey vinegar dressing. A favorite picnic salad. This recipe has a prep time of 20 minutes and serves 4 to 6.

Roquefort Pear Salad

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Tangy Roquefort blue cheese, fruity sliced pear, creamy avocado, and crunchy candied pecans are all pulled together with a mustard vinaigrette. This recipe is ready in 30 minutes and serves 6.

Fruity Curry Chicken Salad

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A healthy and tasty chicken salad with a fruity twist – great on a croissant or in a honey pita. Note: This salad is best if eaten the day after preparation. This allows the ingredients time to mingle, giving a fuller flavor. If desired, use nonfat mayonnaise

Evolution Carrot Salad

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Toss shaved carrots with clementines, herbs, and seeds to re-create this bright salad. This recipe has a prep time of 30 minutes and serves 6.

Salad With Warm Goat Cheese

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Warm goat cheese adds a wonderfully creamy texture to this fresh salad. If you can’t find the crottins, use a log of fresh goat cheese and cut vertically into slices. This recipe has a prep time of 10 minutes and serves 4.

Chopped Salad With Bacon And Fried Garbanzo Beans

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Fried garbanzo beans add unexpected flavor and crunch to a chopped salad you can serve family style. This recipe serves 6.

Shaved Fennel, Grapefruit And Arugula Salad With Avocado Oil Vinaigrette

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The tart flavors in a salad of baby arugula, grapefruit, and fennel are beautifully balanced by an avocado-oil vinaigrette and crunchy black pepper croutons baked with the same ultrahealthy oil.

Loaded Spinach Salad

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Like many spinach salads, this one features lots of chopped-up hard-boiled egg. But since most of the calories in an egg are in the yolk, this recipe uses just two whole eggs, plus the whites from six additional eggs, for a satisfying spinach salad that keeps the calories in check.

Spring Chicken & Blue Cheese Salad

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This main-dish chicken salad has bright flavors of tarragon in a creamy blue cheese dressing with just a touch of sweetness from honey. This recipe has a total cook time of 55 minutes and serves 4.

Warm Cauliflower And Herbed Barley Salad

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Gigante beans are creamy and buttery, and their size adds a dramatic look to this Warm Cauliflower and Herbed Barley Salad. This recipe has a total cook time of 35 minutes and serves 4.

Escarole And Seared Radicchio Salad With Pecan Vinaigrette

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The browned edges of the radicchio adds depth of flavor to this winter salad. This recipe has a total cook time of 25 minutes and serves 8.