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These summer salad recipes are delicious and full of healthy seasonal ingredients such as peaches, mangoes, watermelon, and strawberries. They are perfect by themselves or you can have them as a side at any bbq or potluck.


1. Rosemary Chicken and Peach Salad

rosemary chicken and peach salad
image and caption by damndelicious.com

Peach slices, grilled rosemary-thyme chicken, charred corn kernels, and crisp bacon with the creamiest balsamic dressing!

2. Blackberry Goat Cheese Salad

Blackberry Goat Cheese Salad
image & caption by themodernproper.com

This salad is perfect in late summer when blackberries are dripping off their stems. Pistachios, chèvre, and honey-mustard vinaigrette pair perfectly with peppery arugula and sweet vine-ripe fruit.

3. Honey Mustard Chicken Salad

Honey Mustard Chicken Salad
Image & caption by damndelicious.com

Made with the juiciest, tender honey mustard chicken, romaine, strawberries, avocado, and corn. And the dressing is perfection!

4. Honey Garlic Shrimp, Corn, and Avocado Bacon Salad

Honey Garlic Shrimp, Corn, and Avocado Bacon Salad
image & caption by harvestkitchen.com

Honey Garlic Shrimp, Corn, and Avocado Bacon Salad…the perfect quick-fix salad. Almost no cook, comes together in minutes, and is so easy! 

5. Strawberry Spinach Salad

Strawberry Spinach Salad
image & caption by thepioneerwoman.com

Say hello to fresh veggies and bright colors in this strawberry spinach salad! It’s simple, delicious, elegant, and perfect for lunch, or even for dinner topped with grilled chicken!

6. Easy Fruit Salad

Easy Fruit Salad
Image and caption by damndelicious.com

Simply the best and easiest fruit salad! You can use fruits in the season but the BEST part is the dressing!

7. Watermelon Salad with Feta

Watermelon Salad with Feta
Image and caption by loveandlemons.com

This delicious, refreshing watermelon salad recipe is meant for hot summer days. With feta, avocado, mint & lime, it’s the perfect mix of savory & sweet.

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8. Broccoli Salad with Strawberry and Avocado

Broccoli Salad with Strawberry and Avocado
Image & caption by carlsbadcravings.com

This Broccoli Salad is one of my favorite salads – ever.  It’s the perfect easy, make-ahead, texture-packed side dish or potluck favorite that’s crunchy, fresh, sweet, and savory!   It’s packed with fresh strawberries, creamy avocado, crunchy pears, crisp apples, salty sunflower seeds, sweet dried cranberries, and tangy feta! The textures and flavors of this Broccoli Salad are out of this world and so is the dressing!!! 

9. Black Bean and Corn Salad

Black Bean and Corn Salad
Image & caption by delish.com

This easy salad comes together quickly and works as a side dish, a great topping for tacos, or as an appetizer with tortilla chips. Think of this as a medley of the most exciting parts of a vegetarian burrito bowl, unadulterated by rice, and hyped up by a little honey-lime action. 

10. Cobb Egg Salad

Cobb Egg Salad
Image and Caption by delish.com

Egg salad is wonderful as is. But add bacon, blue cheese, avocado, and tomatoes, and you’ve got a lunch that you’ll be dreaming about for days. 

11. BBQ Chicken Salad

BBQ Chicken Salad
Image & caption by wellplated.com

This fresh, filling BBQ Chicken Salad is quick to make and a family favorite! With juicy grilled chicken, black beans, tortilla chips, and creamy ranch.

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12. Avocado Tomato Salad

Avocado Tomato Salad
image & caption by delish.com

Don’t confuse this colorful salad with guac—there’s way more depth of flavor and variety of texture, which makes it one of our favorite summer sides of all time. But the real beauty?

13. Grilled Steak Salad

Grilled Steak Salad
image & caption by modernproper.com

Seared skirt steak, grilled romaine, and onions meet bright cherry tomatoes, avocado, and creamy homemade blue cheese dressing for a grilled steak salad that’s sure to be your new summer staple.

14. Cobb Salad

Cobb Salad
image & caption by countryliving.com

Make this elegant, easy dinner salad in less than 30 minutes!

15. Broccoli Salad With Cranberries And Almonds

Broccoli Salad With Cranberries And Almonds
Image and caption by thechunkychef.com

The ultimate broccoli salad is made with crunchy almonds, bacon, sunflower seeds, tart cranberries, and a creamy citrus poppyseed dressing!  Easy to make ahead (in fact it tastes better that way), it’s great to make for potlucks, BBQs, and other Spring/Summer gatherings!

16. Corn, Tomato, Avocado Pasta Salad

Corn-Tomato-and-Avocado-Pasta-Salad-1
image and caption by dailyharvest.com

Corn, Tomato, and Avocado Pasta Salad. If you’re going to eat a salad today, it should probably be this salad. It’s the perfect quick-fix salad that’s almost no-cook and comes together in minutes.

17. Sun-Dried Tomato & Arugula Lentil Salad

image & caption by jaroflemons.com

Sweet, sun-dried tomatoes, creamy goat cheese, savory lentils, fresh arugula, and fresh tomatoes. All topped with a wholesome Turmeric Ginger Dressing! Perfect for a small summer gathering with friends or as an easy, inspired weeknight meal. This easy-to-make arugula lentil salad is full of summer flavors that truly make it next level!


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15+ Best Summer Salad Recipes You Have To Try!

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Jun 27, 2022

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