The Best Salad Recipes
This Post May Contain Affiliate Links. Please Read Our Disclosure PolicySometimes you can’t beat a delicious salad recipe. Today I’ve rounded up a few of my favorite salad recipes for you. Whether these recipes are used as a full meal or a side dish, there’s something you’re bound to love.

Salad comes in many forms. There are the classic leaf salads, pasta salads, potato salads, chicken salads, panzanellas (bread salads), and even dessert salads!
Knowing that I’m always looking for unique and delicious salad recipes, I decided to put this list of my favorites together just in case you need a go-to list yourself.
Whether you need a side for a weeknight dinner or want something special to take to a picnic/event, I’m certain you can find a salad recipe in this list that will work perfectly for any occasion. Enjoy!
Leafy Green Salad Recipes:

Summer Berry Spinach Salad
If you’re looking for an easy and fresh salad that you can assemble in minutes, this Summer Berry Spinach Salad is a winner. It’s topped with fresh berries, mandarin oranges, candied walnuts, and poppyseed dressing.
Roasted Carrot Salad
Arugula, blue cheese, dried cranberries, almond, and roasted carrots come together to create this delicious and fresh Roasted Carrot Salad.

Shaved Brussels Sprout Salad
Mixed with Honeycrisp apples, pecorino Romano cheese, pine nuts, and dried currants, this Shaved Brussels Sprout Salad has become one of my favorite side salad recipes. I think you’re going to love it too!

Broccolini Salad
Made with broccolini, fresh greens, sliced onion, golden raisins, and pumpkin seeds, this fresh and crisp Broccolini Salad is an easy and tasty side dish that will complement any meal.

Butternut Squash Fall Salad
Made with arugula, dried cranberries, goat cheese, walnuts, and a homemade apple cider vinaigrette, this Butternut Squash Fall Salad is a delicious and seasonal way to start any autumn dinner. Add grilled chicken or steak and you can turn it into a meal.

Winter Brussels Sprouts Salad
Shaved Brussels sprouts are tossed with pomegranate seeds, pecans, pears, parmesan cheese, and a light dressing to create this Winter Brussels Sprouts Salad. This is a healthy, easy-to-make side that pairs beautifully with any holiday or winter meal.
Unique Salads
Bacon and Blue Cheese Potato Salad
Move over classic potato salad; there’s a new dish in town. This Bacon and Blue Cheese Potato Salad is a fresh and flavorful take on the classic recipe. In fact, I’d take this over the classic recipe any day!

Snow Pea and Chicken Salad
Sometimes a good chicken salad recipe can totally hit the spot. Whether you serve this Snow Pea and Chicken Salad for lunch or at a summer gathering, I know you’re going to love its fresh and delicate flavors.

Radicchio and Blue Cheese Bread Salad
If you’re looking for a salad to complement a late-summer or fall dinner, you’ll want to try this Radicchio and Blue Cheese Bread Salad. Bursting with bold flavor, it is so simple to make.

Avocado Panzanella Salad
This Avocado Panzanella Salad is a celebration of summer! Bursting with summer tomatoes, crusting bread, fresh basil, and creamy avocados this salad is a winning recipe!

Roasted Zucchini Panzanella
If you are looking for a delicious summer salad recipe, look no further than this Roasted Zucchini Panzanella. I mean, what’s not to love about a salad made with toasted bread?

Creamed Cucumbers
This cool and creamed cucumber salad is a classic side dish that’s perfect for a weeknight dinner or family holiday. It’s a time-honored recipe that has been a favorite in my home for as long as I can remember. You’re going to love it too.
Pasta Salad Recipes:
Pasta salad might be my favorite kind of salad. That is why I have an entire blog post dedicated to my best pasta salad recipes. It’s worth checking out as there are some really good ones! You can find those HERE.

Ramen Noodle Salad
This Ramen Noodle Salad is so simple to make, full of flavor, and always a crowd pleaser. You’re certain to love this easy and delicious pasta salad recipe!

Pine Nut and Arugula Pesto Pasta Salad
This Pine Nut and Arugula Pesto Pasta Salad contains four things I love: pine nuts, arugula, pasta, and feta. I think it’s a delightful combination of flavors that almost everyone will enjoy.
BLT Macaroni Salad
Based on one of my favorite classic sandwich recipes, this BLT Macaroni Salad is loaded with flavor. It’s a tasty and unique twist on classic pasta salad with a traditional flavor combination everyone will love!
Dessert “Salad” Recipes:
And then there’s the dessert salad recipes. Dessert salads are typically sweet and made with items such as jello, whipped topping, fruits, mayo, etc. These are a few of the dessert salads that are staples in my family – we make them over and over again!
Waldorf Salad
Although delicious anytime of the year, Waldorf Salad has been a holiday side dish in my family for as long as I can remember. Today, I’m sharing my family’s recipe for this “must have” holiday dish.

Orange Pineapple Dream Salad
Whether served as a dessert or side dish, this Orange Pineapple Dream Salad recipe is the perfect compliment to any celebration, holiday, or meal.

Strawberry Pretzel Salad
This Strawberry Pretzel Salad is an old-fashioned dessert recipe that still popular for a reason: it’s delicious! The combination of sweet, salty, and fruity is so good!

Strawberry Jello Salad
Fluffy, fruity, and full of flavor, this Strawberry Jello Salad is a dessert recipe from my childhood that hasn’t gone out of style. Twenty-five years later it’s still just as delicious! It might quickly become your new go-to treat.
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That’s a Wrap on My Best Salad Recipes:
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So many wonderful recipes over the years.
Next up will be the roasted carrots. All mad by things i really like.
Speaking of really like…the painting with the pitcher of sunflowers. A+++
Hi Michael … Thanks for the great salad recipes ! I’ll be using them for summer get togethers this summer. Just have to say how much I enjoy reading your BLOG every day. You’re so inspiring !
Delicious Salad: Bacon and Blue Cheese Potato Salad! Thanks!
Interesting recipes. Finally not tha same salad types I used to see everywhere. Lot of great idea
In this list, there is a salad for every taste!
All of these really appear to be so delicious. Right this moment, I am just craving for a chicken salad! I am most excited to try the chicken salad with apricots and almonds, and that cranberry pecan chicken salad. Thank you for sharing all these recipes!
Michael,
I have to say you do deserve the recognition as being the most followed on Pinterest. I love your posts! Keep it up!!
Thanks for your message! These are just salads that look delicious to me. I used to have a feature on my blog where I’d share a collection of some of my favorite things I found via Pinterest. This was one of those features.
xo
Michael
I’m going to make the wasabi salad tonight. Looks FAB!!!!
Alicia
Can’t wait to explore the rest. Found you on….Pinterest. YUMMY!
So glad I found you. Amazing salads. Can’t wait to explore the rest of your blog.
You have the most amazing recipes!! Thank you!
Wow! all these salads look scrumptious! definitely I will follow your blog.
love, love, love!
Chicken salad with apricot and almonds AND Cranberry pecan chicken salad are my favourites! I’ve just found your blog and you on Pinterest and I’m sooooo glad that I did. You come across as such a lovely man. Oh, I also want to say thanks for the Olive Garden recipe because when we had our honeymoon in the USA (we’re from the UK) we had a special meal in Olive Garden – you reminded me of that time 🙂
Thanks, Ellie Maggie x
Love, love your blog, Michael! I’ve been following you on Pinterest for a while, also. You inspire me all the time. Keep those wonderful things coming!! Bonnie
Michael – so great to “meet” ya!! Thank you so very much for featuring the Olive Garden salad dressing. I’m so glad you did so I could find my way to your little corner (kinda big corner actually) of the internet. LOVing your site and your inn – really inspiring!! Oh and Operation 20lbs! haha – Lord knows I have been on Operation 20 lbs for 20 years, but mine should be Operation 30 lbs…lol.
I posted a salad recipe tonight and I remembered this post. If you want to try a Curried Chicken Salad this is the one. So delicious! http://amomgetsfit.blogspot.com/2012/03/curried-chicken-salad.html
I posted a salad recipe tonight and I remembered this post. If you want to try a Curried Chicken Salad this is the one. So delicious! http://amomgetsfit.blogspot.com/2012/03/curried-chicken-salad.html
I want to eat all these salads! There aren’t enough meals in the day!