15 Best Healthy and Easy Salad Recipes
Easy, fresh, and healthy salad recipes that can be on your dinner table in no time!
With a birthday that just passed and my slowing metabolism, I’m finding that I can’t burn off a cheeseburger as quickly as I did 10 years ago. But thankfully enough, these hearty salads come in super handy at times like these. Best of all, they’re all so quick and easy to whip up!
1. BBQ Chicken Salad – This healthy, flavorful salad comes together so quickly, and it is guaranteed to be a hit with your entire family. [GET THE RECIPE.]
2. Harvest Cobb Salad – The perfect fall salad with the creamiest poppyseed salad dressing. So good, you’ll want to make this all year long. [GET THE RECIPE.]
3. Bacon and Avocado Macaroni Salad – Loaded with fresh avocado and applewood smoked bacon tossed in a lemon-thyme dressing. [GET THE RECIPE.]
4. Whole Food’s California Quinoa Salad – A healthy, nutritious copycat recipe that tastes 1000x better than the store-bought version. [GET THE RECIPE.]
5. Asian-Style Cobb Salad – This salad serves as the perfect light meal, full of protein and veggies with a simple sesame vinaigrette. [GET THE RECIPE.]
6. Greek Salad – This healthy Greek salad is absolutely amazing when tossed in a light and refreshing lemon vinaigrette. [GET THE RECIPE.]
7. Quinoa Fruit Salad – This protein-packed quinoa salad is balanced with a tart vinaigrette and refreshing mint. [GET THE RECIPE.]
8. Taco Salad – All the flavors of a taco in a healthy salad with a refreshing, tangy lime vinaigrette. [GET THE RECIPE.]
9. Chinese Chicken Salad – Restaurant quality that you can easily make right at home, except it’s healthier and a million times tastier. [GET THE RECIPE.]
10. Kale Salad with Meyer Lemon Vinaigrette – Perfect as a light lunch or even a meatless Monday dinner option. [GET THE RECIPE.]
11. Asian Quinoa Salad – A quick and easy healthy quinoa salad dressed in sweet and tangy Asian flavors, loaded with tons of veggies. [GET THE RECIPE.]
12. Shrimp Cobb Salad – A light, filling salad loaded with roasted shrimp, bacon bits, and avocado in a tangy, refreshing vinaigrette. [GET THE RECIPE.]
13. Caprese Avocado Salad – A refreshing salad loaded with mozzarella, tomatoes, basil and avocado with a sweet balsamic reduction. [GET THE RECIPE.]
14. BLT Chopped Salad – All the goodness of a BLT in a healthy salad form with a refreshing lime vinaigrette. [GET THE RECIPE.]
15. Southwestern Chopped Salad with Cilantro Lime Dressing – A tex-mex style salad with an incredibly creamy Greek yogurt cilantro dressing. [GET THE RECIPE.]
yum yumm yummm….It is looking damn delicious.
I will surely try it.
Thank you
Wow, i love salad the most. It keeps my healthy as well as give me good taste. Whenever i came late from office, first thing i do is to make salad. I did try few from above list, i will try few more now!
OMG #11 is making my mouth water just looking at it. I know what I’ll be making for dinner tonight 🙂
My friend Nancy loves cooking and always I see her reading different recipe magazine or blog etc. She must be happy seeing this post.
I like Shrimp Cobb Salad!! So taste me… Try it at once.
Salad is always healthy, and this recipes will definitely bring a lot of variation while it is a regular food who want to lose weight.
I love this recipe and your site in general. I have also made your one pan mexican quinoa recipe which was delicious. Thanks so much for the great recipes!
I am always on the go and chopping up salads and all that just sounds so tedious! That is until I discovered the mason jar trick. Put the salad toppings in the bottom of the jar (onions, tomatoes, almonds, etc.) and then stuff the remaining space with whatever leaf you’re using. Seal and store the jars in the fridge. Will stay fresh for up to two weeks! Easy to grab and take with you. When you empty the jar on to the plate it becomes a perfect salad.
so delicious! there are some dishes I have never eaten as Harvest Cobb Salad. I love salad. I learn processing quite a lot of recipes. . I must try to do it. yum!
Oh my God. I want to eat salad immediately. attractive image. I’m addicted to eat salad. I learn processing quite a lot of recipes. in this list, there are some dishes I have never eaten. eg taco salad. I must try to do it. yum!
I have been making one of these salads each night as part of scaling back on carb-heavy meals and sweet snacks after Christmas. I have three fussy eaters and each dinner someone has said “this is the best salad I’ve ever had.” The dressings really make the salads special. Nice job. Thank you.
BBQ chicken salad, ahhh! Must… make… immediately! It’s been too long since I’ve had a proper BBQ chicken chopped salad of sorts. New England food is… lacking, to say the least. Oh, how I miss thee San Francisco. This salad, I’m sure, will make me feel right at home here in the northeast. It’s not California Pizza Kitchen (CPK), but it’ll do, I’m sure 🙂
I’m looking for a recipe for Pasta Fagioli that was previously published.
Here it is: https://damndelicious.net/2014/05/17/olive-garden-pasta-e-fagioli/. You can also use the search bar located on the top of the right sidebar.
Thank you yet again. I love the look of your site but more importantly I find your recipes very good, easy qnd tasty which i think shows your bubbly personality and passion. Keep giving us the good inspiration.
For the most part, your salads look delish! But why must everyone use so much cilantro; I can’t stand the stuff! In any event, I look forward to summer and trying these. And I hope Butters is all better.
Marilyn, if you are not a fan of cilantro, you can omit or substitute parsley.
I need to try that BBQ Chicken Salad!
I really love salad. Not only is it a healthy option, but it always fills me up. I think the hardest part about this post will be choosing which one I want to make first. The BBQ Chicken Salad and Caprese Avocado Salads both look devine!
These look great. Thanks!
these salads look wonderful, cant wait to try them!!
Indeed… I really want eat them now!