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Ten of our best recipes for healthy, satisfying, and easy main course salads!
After all the delicious splurges that come with holiday eating, we're always ready to get back on track when a new week starts. A big, fresh, healthy salad is one of our favorite ways to do that! We've rounded up some of our very favorite main course salad recipes. They all feature a protein from salmon, steak, chicken to shrimp, there's something for everyone. Be sure to put these on your meal plan this week!
Served warm or at room temperature, this Israeli Couscous Salmon Salad is light, fresh and delicious. It comes together in right around 30 minutes!
This delicious Provencal Roasted Chicken Salad has bright, delicious flavors that hearken back to a trip to the Provence region of France.
A fresh, yet hearty entree, this Steak and Potato Arugula Salad is easy enough for every day, elegant enough for a dinner party!
It doesn't get much better than this Grilled Chicken Tomato Cucumber Salad! It's light, lean, healthy and incredibly delicious!
Roasted Shrimp, Tomato and White Bean Salad always brings rave reviews and features a Whole Lemon and Thyme Dressing.
This Asian Glazed Salmon Salad is both delicious and beautiful! It makes a fabulous dinner party entree!
This  Warm Chicken and Roasted Potato Salad is fresh, healthy and loaded with delicious seasonal flavor!
Arugula Chicken Salad with Honey Lime Dressing- A fabulous power salad full of lean protein and delicious fresh produce. The sweet-tart dressing is a perfect finishing touch!
Mexican Grilled Chicken Salad- This fresh salad, bursting with south-of-the-border flavor, is a great way to keep meals healthy and delicious!
Grilled Steak Salad with Sweet Cherries and Lemongrass Basil Dressing- A perfect summer salad; it's fresh, healthy, hearty, and super delish!
You won't feel like you're missing anything with these delicious, super flavorful main course salads! So join us as we eat a little lighter this week and get ready for swimsuit, flipflops and short sleeve weather!
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I didn’t see any recipes ida;preciate there pie for the Shrimpsalad andthe recipe for the roasted chicken,tomato, cucumber salads!
Thank you, DeeLavers
Hi Dee, I'm not quite sure what you're asking for.
Saving all these lovely main course salad ideas, for lots of great Summer eating ahead! So many delicious options 🙂
Each one fresh and beautiful - but the salmon is really calling my name. I could eat like this everyday. Pinning!
I'm thinking even Bill would be on board with some of these salads!!! There's plenty of protein to go with all the other delicious goodies! Perfect meals for spring and summer dining.
Salads are my fave so will be trying several this summer! Pics are always so enticing.
Thanks, Vicki! Hope you enjoy them as much as we have!