Salad Recipes for Your Next Backyard

California Fruit Salad
Ingredients: lettuce leaves, ripe apricots, oranges, cooked prunes, lemon, and olive oil.

Chopped Mango & Cucumber Salad
Ingredients: Dressing: fresh lime juice, honey, sherry vinegar or red-wine vinegar, garlic, olive oil, salt, and pepper.  Salad: cucumbers, Mango, cabbage, and head romaine lettuce.

Cheese and Wild Rice Salad
Ingredients: wild rice, water, salt, medium-size tomatoes, jalapeno chile, green bell pepper, scallions, shredded Monterey Jack cheese, shredded sharp Cheddar cheese, cilantro, and Cilantro sprigs to garnish.

WVU Golden Apple Salad
Ingredients: yellow apples, lemon juice, dates, hickory-nut meats, heavy cream, mayonnaise, orange marmalade, and salt.

Turtle Bay Papaya Salad
This Hawaiian treat includes: papaya, cucumber, carrots, garlic, cilantro, sugar, limes, salt, and fresh ground pepper.

Texas Corn Salad
Ingredients: water, ears white corn or frozen white corn, cucumber, ripe olives, plum tomatoes, red onion, red wine vinegar, olive oil, garlic, fresh ground pepper, salt, sugar, and avocados.

Fruit Antipasto Salad
Ingredients: fresh pineapple, firm, medium bananas, oranges, thinly sliced red onion, low fat sharp cheddar cheese, jars (6 ounces each) marinated artichoke hearts, green or red leaf lettuce, and fat free or light prepared Italian salad dressing.

Mahantongo Tomato Salad
When wanting a tasty tailgate salad, this recipe calls for tomatoes, vinegar, water, sugar, onions, and black pepper.  

Pasta Shells and Tomato Salad
Ingredients: large shell pasta, diced tomatoes, sliced ripe olives, green onions, green bell pepper, yellow bell pepper, carrots, Italian-style salad dressing, and grated Parmesan cheese.

Chicken Salad With Apples
The flavors of romaine and kale mix nicely with chicken, apples, walnuts and feta cheese in this refreshing salad.

Mango & Mixed Greens Salad
Dressing Ingredients: vegetable oil, raspberry vinegar, and honey. Salad Ingredients: Butter, chopped pecans, fancy mixed salad greens, mango, red bell pepper, and celery.

Blue Cheese & Pepper Salad
Dressing Ingredients: Light Sour Cream, milk, chopped fresh garlic, and salt. Salad Ingredients: mixed salad greens, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, frozen green peas, red onion rings, crumbled blue cheese, and fresh ground black pepper.

Easy Homemade Caesar Salad
Ingredients: Caesar dressing, bunches romaine, Caesar or garlic-flavored croutons, freshly grated Parmesan cheese, and Freshly ground pepper.

Black Bean Chili Salad
Ingredients: Chili Vinaigrette Dressing: red wine vinegar, vegetable oil, chili powder, ground cumin, and garlic. Salad: frozen whole kernel corn, diced jicama, tomato, green onions, and black beans.

Easy Homemade Caesar Salad
Ingredients: Caesar dressing, bunches romaine, Caesar or garlic-flavored croutons, freshly grated Parmesan cheese, and Freshly ground pepper.

Caesar Salad with Cilantro and Green Chile Dressing
Ingredients: fresh cilantro leaves, mayonnaise, vegetable oil, Diced Green Chiles, red wine vinegar, feta cheese, garlic, salt, ground black pepper, head large romaine lettuce, seasoned croutons, Whole Green Chiles, and raw pumpkin seeds, toasted.

Blackberry Salad with Avocado And Pecans
Ingredients: Fresh Frozen Blackberries, Spring Mix or other variety, Celery, pecans, Avocado, raspberry vinaigrette, and feta cheese.

Chopped Mango & Cucumber
Ingredients: Dressing: fresh lime juice, honey, sherry vinegar or red-wine vinegar, garlic, olive oil, salt, and pepper. Salad: cucumbers, Mango, cabbage, and head romaine lettuce.

Arizona Avocado Salad
Ingredients: medium tomatoes, avocados, onion, chili powder, Tabasco Sauce, salt, and lettuce leaves.

Chipotle Quesadilla Salad
Ingredients: salad greens, Oven Roasted Chicken Breast, Quesadilla cheese or Monterey Jack cheese, Avocado, Roasted red pepper, and Cilantro. Dressing: fresh lime juice and Chipotle Mayo.

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