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12 fresh, healthy, and delicious salads to welcome Spring! They're perfect for light dinners or easy entertaining.
A beautiful and fresh salad is one of our favorite ways to welcome a new season. These delicious salads are a great way to start spring.
Whether you're hosting a shower or Easter dinner, or just looking to eat lighter and healthier, these recipes are perfect for all those things. Add a protein for a satisfying meal. These salads come together easily and are full of delicious flavors that everyone will love. Give them a try and enjoy!
Strawberry Kale Salad with Honey Lemon Dressing
Fresh, healthy and delicious this make-ahead Strawberry Kale Salad is perfect for summer picnics, potlucks and parties. The honey lemon dressing and candied pepitas take it over the top!
Blueberry Arugula Salad with Honey-Lemon Dressing
This beautiful Blueberry Arugula Herb Salad is super healthy and probably the freshest, most delicious salad that you'll ever have the pleasure of meeting... or eating! It's perfect for a crowd, great for parties, potlucks and picnics!
Strawberry Clementine Salad with Red Wine Vinegar Dressing
With an easy, sweet, tangy dressing and a topping of caramelized pecans, this delicious, fresh salad will add a splash of pizzazz to any meal.
The BEST Greek Salad with Fresh Herb Greek Dressing
If salads seem a bit boring to you, you haven't tried this delicious, vibrant Greek salad that's loaded with texture, color and fabulous flavor. The fresh herb dressing is the crowning glory!
Roasted Carrot Salad with Honey Cider Poppy Seed Dressing
This delicious Roasted Carrot Salad with Honey Cider Dressing is a perfect (and gorgeous) side for just about any entree. It also makes a fabulous vegetarian meal on its own!
Orange Fennel Spinach Salad with Honey White Balsamic Dressing
This Orange Fennel Spinach Salad is fresh, healthy and super delish. It's also a beautiful sight to behold and the Honey White Balsamic Dressing ties all the ingredients together with a bow!
Strawberry Spinach Salad
This Strawberry Spinach Salad is pretty as a picture. The Basil Dressing and Sweet, Spicy Glazed Pistachios are the crowning glory!
Provencal Roasted Chicken Salad
This Provencal Roasted Chicken Salad has a wonderful Mango Curry Dressing. It's fresh, healthy and loaded with delicious flavor!
Ballymaloe Quinoa Sweet Potato Salad
This Asian-inspired, Quinoa Sweet Potato Salad is super healthy, can be prepped ahead and simply bursts with bright, fresh, delicious flavor!
Classic French Bistro Salad
This simple Classic French Bistro Salad, served at cafés, brasseries and bistros all over France, is beyond easy and one of those recipes you'll be turning to again and again (especially when you want to feel a little "fancy") - with minimal effort on your part.
Pepita Pecorino Kale Salad (Hillman's Pub Copycat Recipe)
A bright, vibrantly flavored salad, this Pepita Pecorino Kale Salad pairs deliciously with pizza, burgers, roasted or grilled entreés and it makes a healthy, hearty meal topped with grilled chicken. The easy brown-butter-roasted pepitas are the crunchy crowning glory!
Thought for the day:
Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord:
though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red like crimson,
they shall become like wool.
Isaiah 1:18
What we're listening to for inspiration:
Romaine Stout says
Thank you for this recipe I will be making this dressing it sounds great and I am hopeful that it is the one I am looking for. Thanks again
Romaine Stout says
Great looking salads. Wonering if you have a recipe for the apple vinegret dressing. I have looked in the stores to purchase it but they only sell it in the gallons and it would spoil before I was able to use it all. Just asking. Thanks,
Lindsay @ The Café Sucre Farine says
Hi Romaine, the dressing for this salad could work- https://thecafesucrefarine.com/chopped-kale-chicken-and-apple-salad/#wprm-recipe-container-25202