15 Salads For Summer

Summertime and the living is easy!  When the temperature rises,  we start grilling and living on salads in this household.  Lots and lots of salads.  Here are 15 of my favorite from the blog’s archives. Some are entrée salads. Many of them can easily be turned into a meal by adding a favorite grilled protein. They all lend themselves to substitutions of a preferred green or a more seasonal ingredient as the garden starts producing.  There are several grain-based salads as I find they hold up well in the summer heat and can be assembled in advance.  Again, feel free to substitute a different grain of choice. Make your salads come alive wth infused oils and vinegars and flavored salts.  Click on the highlighted titles to access the recipes.  Happy summer!

1- Roasted Honey Balsamic FIg Salad with Goat Cheese and Pistachios

Don’t like figs? Grill peaches for an equally dazzling salad.

2-  Warm Roasted Tomato Israeli Couscous Salad

3-  Roasted Butternut Squash Couscous Salad with Apricots and Mint

4-  Strawberry Chèvre Arugula Salad with Orange Poppy Seed Dressing

5-  Golden Beet and Blueberry Chèvre Salad with Caramelized Maple Hazelnuts

 

6-  Roasted Sweet Potato Rice Salad with Cherries and Toasted Hazelnuts

7- Beet Blood Orange Salad with Blue Cheese, Mint and Pistachios

8-  Roasted Beet Salad with Cumin Vinaigrette

9- Mediterranean Chicken Couscous Salad

10-  Citrus Avocado Salad

Substituting sliced peaches or nectarines for the citrus would also be good in this salad.

11-  Shredded Carrot Salad with spicy mustard and lemon

When zucchini is in season, you can toss zucchini ribbons or noodles in the same dressing.  Really great also!

12-  Niçoise Salad

With planked grilled salmon fillet

With seared tuna steak:

13-  Pea and Edemame Salad with Shaved Pecorino

14-  Grapefruit, Salmon and Avocado Salad with Watercress

15- Grain Salad with Citrus, Dates, Cabbage and Cranberries

Bon appétit!