Salads

A simple and cooling salad made with an increasingly trendy spring green that's capturing the attention of home gardeners and restaurant chefs across the country.

Crisp onion and creamy white beans turn tuna into a light dinner, courtesy of the always impressive Stanley Tucci.

Sure, this vegan roasted chickpea salad is healthy. More intriguingly, though, it’s brimming with earthy, warming spices and can’t-stop-at-just-one roasted chickpeas.

Satiating and healthy-ish, this salad is a vibrant and quick dinner. No peeling required. Just a little chopping and cooking.

Elevate Caesar salad by roasting the lettuce. Yes, roasting the lettuce. It'll draw out flavors and textures you’d never expect. Impressively easy.

Crisp celery aligns with mildly bitter, frilly frisée for an unexpected yet surprisingly satisfying salad that's certain to cure your salad ennui.

This kabocha squash and black rice combo could impress with its stunning looks alone but takes extra merits for being layered with Middle Eastern flavors galore.

The traditional Parmesan and anchovy dressing of a classic Caesar. But this little number swaps in charred sprouts for romaine, caraway bread crumbs in place of croutons, and adds pickled onions. Wowza.

Not your typical salad, this is made with nutritious celery root that's cleverly blitzed until minced so finely it could stand in for couscous. The perfect balance of sweet, salty, sour, and surprise.

Looking to shake up your salad? This even-healthier rendition adds kale to the usual romaine and swaps out carb-laden croutons for seriously the crispest roast chickpeas we've ever had.

A grain bowl that stands out from the rest thanks to the addition of warm spices to the bulgur and a sweetly tart blood orange vinaigrette. Healthy at its most enticing.

Easy. Elegant. And, more importantly, with tastes and textures meld so seamlessly the entire salad just seems intuitive.

Sufficiently stunning enough to convert even the staunchest sprout haters with its sprightly citrus smack. Swear.

The perfect excuse to justify the return of iceberg lettuce to your life.

Get your aggression out in genteel fashion by making smashed cucumbers and then letting them soak up some sesame and soy goodness.

Blissfully simple. Outrightly old-fashioned. Sigh-inducingly cooling. Even righteously healthy. Say hello to your latest summer obsession.

Sensual. Sumptuousity. Sexy. Just a few of the lovely words we’re hearing in conjunction with this stunner of a summer supper. Can't quite be described. Just experienced.

This brashly untraditional panzanella grills the bread so you can dispense with waiting for stale bread. Still frugal. Still stunning. Still more than the sum of its parts.

This is not your mom's potato salad recipe. It relies on tangy Dijon vinaigrette and soft-boiled eggs for dressing with runny yolks that spill into the salad to form an unparalleled richness.

Roast beets until sweet enough to be considered dirt candy. Plonk on a place with tangy goat cheese, peppery greens, and a generous drizzle of honey. Lunch is done.