Summer Salads

A Variety of Flavorful Summer Salad Recipes

The red, yellow, and orange tomatoes make this stunning salad extra flavorful and beautiful. Feel free to use fresh-from-the-garden red tomatoes to make this salad.

This is a delicious pasta salad recipe and it's hearty enough to be served for dinner or lunch. Try to prepare this in advance and chill for several hours or overnight for best flavor.

This green pea salad is as pretty as it is flavorful, with bright green peas, shredded carrot, bell pepper, red onion, and celery. Serve this salad with any summer meal or cookout, or take it along to a potluck event or picnic. Make this a few hours in advance and chill thoroughly for best flavor.

This easy carrot salad is flavored with mayonnaise and honey, and the pecans and dried cranberries or raisins give it extra texture. I used multi-colored carrots from our local farmer's market, giving it even more appeal.

This potato salad is made flavorful with the addition of dried dill and chopped dill pickle, along with a tangy mayonnaise and sour cream dressing.

This is one of my favorite cole slaw recipes, with a tangy sweet but creamy dressing.

This is a simple cucumber salad recipe with chopped fresh dill and cucumber. For best flavor, chill this salad for at least 2 hours before serving.

This is a nicoise-style main dish salad, and it's inspired by a salad I often have at a local restaurant. Use good quality fresh tuna or try it with the premium packaged cooked tuna or canned tuna.

A little goat cheese or blue cheese is also delicious crumbled over this wonderful, flavorful salad.

This is a flavorful salad, made with a light or regular mayonnaise and sour cream dressing, and it's suitable for just about any meal. Serve this salad with a cup of soup for a delicious and satisfying meal. I used a grill pan to cook the chicken breasts, but precooked grilled chicken, sliced fried chicken, or broiled chicken could also be used.

This portobello mushroom salad is easy to make and very tasty, a refreshing lunchtime or dinner salad. Serve it with soup or a sandwich for a full meal. I grilled the sliced mushrooms in a stovetop grill pan and sprayed with the Balsamic Breeze Salad Spritzers, but feel free to saute them or grill them on a charcoal or gas grill and use a drizzling of balsamic vinaigrette.