Favorite Summer Salad Recipes
Yay, It's Salad Season Again!

Favorite Summer Salad Recipes, a collection of recipes just for summer ♥ KitchenParade.com

Bring on the summer salads! I've collected my favorite summer salad recipes all in one place. Mostly, they're great salads for the fridge, for potlucks, for quick lunches. Keep at least one handy all summer long and supper will be quick to the table. Updated every year with new recipes!

Happy summer, everyone!
~ Alanna

Simple Vegetable Salads

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Cauliflower Salad with Fresh Herbs Raw Brussels Sprouts Salad (A Veggie Venture) Raw Butternut Squash Salad (A Veggie Venture)
Old Liz's Old-Fashioned Cucumber & Tomato Salad (A Veggie Venture) Julia Child's Cucumber Salad (A Veggie Venture) Chinese Cucumber Salad (A Veggie Venture)
Power Food Broccoli Salad Chilled Green Bean Salad with Rosemary & Garlic Oil (A Veggie Venture) Green Bean Garden Salad

Salad for Supper? You Bet! Main Dish Salads

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Simple Lentil Salad with Seasonal Vegetables Chicken Greek Salad Grilled Steak with Summer Tomato Salad
Smoked Salmon Salad Asian Chicken Salad Tropical Pork Tenderloin with Tropical Salad

Crowd Pleasers

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Tomatoes & Fresh Mozzarella for a Crowd Summer Black-Eyed Pea Salad (A Veggie Venture) Bloody Mary Salad

Lettuce All Dressed Up & Ready for a Party

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Classic Seven-Layer Salad (A Veggie Venture) Seven-Layer Strawberry Salad with Homemade Poppy Seed Dressing (A Veggie Venture) Homemade Cobb Salad (A Veggie Venture)
Fattoush: Traditional Middle Eastern Salad (A Veggie Venture) Greek Bread Salad with Toasted Pita Chips (A Veggie Venture) Jerusalem Salad (A Veggie Venture)

Favorite Slaws

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Alice Waters' Coleslaw Holy Slaw! Asian Slaw with Sugar Snap Peas & Almonds (A Veggie Venture)
Mighty Perfect Cabbage & Broccoli Coleslaw (A Veggie Venture) Jicama Slaw (A Veggie Venture) Kohlrabi & Apple Slaw (A Veggie Venture)

Oodles of Noodles – Summery Pasta Salads

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Greek Pasta Salad BLT Pasta Salad Garden Pasta Salad with Mint Vinaigrette

Oodles of Zoodles!

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Zucchini Spiral 'Noodle' Salad Spiral Zucchini Noodle Salad with Homemade Catalina Dressing (A Veggie Venture) Spiral Zucchini Noodle Zoodle Greek Salad (A Veggie Venture)

Summer Salads for Blueberry Lovers!

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Raw Tomatillo Salad with Blueberries (A Veggie Venture) Roasted Beet Salad with Fresh Mango, Blueberries & Blue Cheese (A Veggie Venture) Corn & Cucumber Salad with Fresh Blueberries (A Veggie Venture)

Fancy-Pants Salads

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Wedge Salad with Homemade Low-Cal & Low-Carb Blue Cheese Salad Dressing Twice-Roasted Beets with Fruit and Avocado Feta Cream (A Veggie Venture) Creamy Feta Mousse with Greek Salads (A Veggie Venture)

Potato Salads – But Up a Notch

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Mom's Potato Salad (A Veggie Venture) Finnish Potato Salad (A Veggie Venture) Red, White & Blue Potato Salad (A Veggie Venture)

Sweet! Potato Salads

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Simple Sweet Potato with Hardly Any Mayonnaise (A Veggie Venture) Confetti Potato Salad Sweet Potato Salad with Roasted Poblano, Roasted Corn & Chipotle

Hearty with Beans & Lentils

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Quinoa & Black Bean Salad Summer Lentils (A Veggie Venture) Chipotle Chickpea Salad (A Veggie Venture)
Ina Garten's Tabbouleh Salad Lentil Salad with Tomatoes, Dill & Basil (A Veggie Venture) Cherry Tomato & White Bean Salad (A Veggie Venture)

Favorite Beet Salads
(Because You Know the "Beet Queen" Loves Her Beets)

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How to Make a Roasted Beet Salad (A Veggie Venture) Beet Salad with Sumac, Yogurt & Pita (A Veggie Venture) Borscht Beets

Old-Fashioned Salads

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Nana's Cucumbers New-Fashioned Sauerkraut Salad Wild Rice Salad

Waiting – Impatiently! – for Summer Tomatoes

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Fresh Corn & Tomato Salad Panzanella (Classic Italian Tomato Salad) Tomato Platter with Olives & Feta (A Veggie Venture)

Sweet Endings – Summer Fruit Salads

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Savory Orange Slices Cantaloupe Salad with Feta & Basil Grape Salad with Almonds & Cilantro
Five-Minute Fruit Salad Mojito Strawberries Mixed Fruit & Vegetable Salad (A Veggie Venture)

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Kitchen Parade is written by second-generation food columnist Alanna Kellogg and features fresh, seasonal dishes for every-day healthful eating and occasional indulgences. Do you have a favorite summer salad recipe that other Kitchen Parade readers might like? Just send me a quick e-mail via recipes@kitchen-parade.com. If you like Kitchen Parade, you're sure to like my food blog about vegetable recipes, too, A Veggie Venture. "Like" Kitchen Parade on Facebook!

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  1. Lucy5/25/2011

    Oh, I would love to try the summer lentil salad. I'm not sure I've ever had lentils!

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Thank you for taking a moment to write! I read each and every comment, for each and every recipe. If you have a specific question, it's nearly always answered quick-quick. But I also love hearing your reactions, your curiosity, even your concerns! When you've made a recipe, I especially love to know how it turned out, what variations you made, what you'll do differently the next time. ~ Alanna