25 Summer Salads That Go Beyond Lettuce and Dressing
When it’s hot out, no one wants to cook—and that’s where summer salads come in. These recipes are cool, colorful, and easy to throw together without heating up the kitchen. Packed with seasonal produce and simple ingredients, they work as a side, a light meal, or the main event. No sad lettuce here—just fresh, bright salads built for summer days.
Panzanella Salad
This glorious panzanella salad is a combination of the very best Italian flavors. Sweet tomatoes, garlicky croutons, and creamy mozzarella.
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Watermelon and Cucumber Salad
This Watermelon and Cucumber Salad is a great way to celebrate a warm summer day. This healthy salad is full of watermelon, cucumber, feta, avocados, and mint. It’s perfect for a party or neighborhood get together.
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Keto Cucumber Salad
Summer in a bowl! This Keto Cucumber Salad is light, refreshing and so EASY to make. It’s perfect for meal prep, picnics, cookouts and potlucks.
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Strawberry Feta Salad
This Strawberry Feta Salad is one of the best summer salads for healthy eating. It is packed with flavor and texture and made with simple ingredients like baby kale, fresh strawberries, crunchy pecans, and creamy feta. Coated with a simple balsamic vinaigrette, this salad will surely be a hit at your table.
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Shrimp Quinoa Salad
This shrimp quinoa salad is a protein-packed, refreshing, and nutritious meal perfect for lunch, dinner, or meal prep.
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Supergreens Salad with Cherries and Feta
This Supergreens Salad with Cherries and Feta will become your new favorite salad. Perfect for a healthy lunch or to bring to a cookout.
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Strawberry and Pecan Spinach Salad
This fresh Strawberry and Pecan Spinach Salad is easy to put together, healthy, gluten-free and a great way to show off summer strawberries.
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Cucumber Tomato Salad
This Cucumber and Tomato Salad is super simple and packed with flavor. Summer in a bowl! {gluten free, keto, whole30, vegan}
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Summer Berry Salad
This summer berry salad is the perfect refreshing salad, full of fresh berries and candied almonds.
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Summer Salad With Fruit
Summer salad with fruit is a healthy, vegetarian lunch idea for hot summer days! Add a burst of flavor and sweetness with fruit in your salad.
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Mid Summer Dream Salad
A loaded summer salad with the season’s best produce! Top your greens with peaches, green beans, corn, cherries, and basil.
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Tomato Cucumber Salad
This Greek-inspired Cucumber Tomato Salad is made with fresh tomatoes and cucumbers mixed with a red wine vinaigrette dressing.
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Creamy Cucumber Salad
Make this easy, creamy cucumber salad recipe with sour cream, lemon juice, onions, and dill. It’s crisp, refreshing, and ready in 10 minutes!
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Broccoli Pasta Salad
This Broccoli Pasta Salad is loaded with broccoli and other veggies the tossed creamy parmesan dressing! The perfect flavor and side dish for your summer gatherings.
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Cucumber Tomato Salad
Cucumber Tomato Salad is a classic Greek salad made with cucumbers, tomatoes, and red onion tossed in a tart vinaigrette dressing.
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Avocado Caprese Salad
A flavorful, easy avocado Caprese salad recipe with just 7 simple ingredients! You’ll make it over and over, all summer long.
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Olive Garden Salad Recipe
This speedy Copycat Olive Garden salad recipe is loaded with fresh flavor and your new favorite dressing! We’ll use my secret ingredient to make it perfectly creamy and zesty.
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Cajun Chicken Caesar Salad
Cajun Chicken Caesar Salad is a quick and easy salad that has a homemade cajun caesar dressing that makes this salad delicious!
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Fresh Summer Salad
This simple salad combines all the flavors of summer into one delicious dish. It is so simple yet so fresh & summery!
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Summer Spinach Salad
Delicious & simple, the Summer Spinach Salad is an easy and healthy lunch. It has spinach, and berries and is topped with almonds &….
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Summer Panzanella
A delightfully light and refreshing summer panzanella salad for your dinner table! This is a great way to use up all the abundant summer produce.
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Tomato Peach Burrata Salad
This tomato peach burrata salad is the ultimate mix of summer produce! It can be made in 15 minutes and is the best appetizer or side dish for any meal. It’s a beautiful dish, that will be a new summer favorite! It will be the first thing to go at your summer BBQ or potluck!
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End Of Summer Orzo Salad
This end of summer orzo salad is a great way to use up the summer’s finest ingredients (zucchini, corn, tomatoes, and basil), but also great year-round!
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Easy Tossed Salad
This simple, quick, healthy, super Easy Tossed Salad goes well with almost any dish or by itself. You can easily customize it to your liking.
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Summer Kale + Blueberry Salad
Easiest ever summer salad recipe with a simple honey lemon vinaigrette, crunchy sunflower seeds, sweet blueberries and massaged kale! It’s gluten free, vegan, plant based, paleo and tastes amazing!
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