Favorite Salad Recipes

A salad is a food item generally served either prior to or after the main dish as a separate course, as a main course in itself, or as a side dish accompanying the main dish. The word “salad” comes from the French salade of the same meaning, from the Latin salata, “salty.”

• Main Dish Salad Recipes

• Bean Salad Recipes

• Tossed Green Salad Recipes

• Vegetable Salad Recipes

• Bread Salad Recipes

• Fruit Salad Recipes

• Tailgate Salad Recipes

• Pasta Salad Recipes

• Potato Salad Recipes

Salad Recipes

• Antipasto Rotini Salad

• Arizona Avocado Salad

• Caesar-Style Salad

• California Chicken Salad

• Carrot Salad

• Cheese and Wild Rice Salad

• Chipotle Quesadilla Salad

• Chopped Mango Cucumber Salad

• Classic Greek

• Cranberry-Turkey Mold

• Cucumber & Onion Salad

• Easy Summer Salad

• Guacamole Salad

• New England Coleslaw

• Papaya – Cucumber Salad

• Ritz Cracker Salad

• Sauerkraut Salad

• Scandinavian Macaroni Salad

• Smoky Ranchero Corn

• Spinach Salad with Dressing

• Summer Spaghetti Salad

• Szechwan Cucumber

• Taos Vegetable Salad

A salad is most often composed of a mixture of uncooked vegetables, built up on a base of green leafy vegetables such as one or more lettuce varieties, dandelion, alfalfa sprouts, cabbage, spinach or arugula. This is often referred to as a “green salad.”

Other common vegetables in a green salad include tomato, cucumber, peppers, mushroom, onion, green onion, carrot and radish. Other food items such as pasta, olives, cooked potatoes, rice, croutons, meat and poultry (e.g. bacon, chicken), cheese or seafood (e.g. tuna, crab) are sometimes added to salads.