From crisp green salads with veggies and fruit to tangy potato salads, healthy quinoa salads, bean salads and everyone's favourite pasta salad, here's a list of more than 20 best summer salad recipe ideas! These are the easy summer salads we look forward to making all winter. They're the ones we can never get enough of, the best potluck salads to feed a crowd!
Why is it that food always tastes so good when you eat outdoors? Dinners on the deck, picnics on the beach and snacks on a wharf are always so tasty and so much more fun to eat! Summertime dining begs for ALL the salads.
These all-vegetarian salads make perfect sides for your grilled foods. They're the ones you'll want to load up on to fill your plate and then come back for seconds.
Searching for summer salad ideas? I've sorted this collection into sections to make it easy to find what you're looking for. Scroll all the way through, then enjoy every healthy bite!
If you're looking for the best summer salads to feed a crowd, you'll find lots of ideas here. While these salads are great for sharing with friends, they also make an easy light dinner when it's too hot to cook.
The recipes in this round-up are all vegetarian. You'll find lots more summer salad ideas including those with shrimp, salmon, or chicken in my Salads and Dressings category.
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Favourite Green Salads
Strawberry Spinach Salad with Strawberry Dressing
Strawberry Spinach Salad with Strawberry Dressing
This beautiful strawberry spinach salad with strawberry dressing is made with tender baby spinach leaves, arugula and strawberries. Add red onions, cucumber, avocado and a handful of roasted sunflower seeds, then toss it with a sweet and tart strawberry vinaigrette for the best summer salad!
Strawberry Spinach Salad with Strawberry Dressing
Mixed Green Salad with Berries and Balsamic Dressing
Triple Berry Mixed Green Salad
This Triple Berry Mixed Green Salad with strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, feta cheese (or goat cheese) and toasted almonds is perfect for a potluck, deck party or any occasion. A fresh and tasty spring and summer salad with a creamy balsamic dressing that always gets devoured!
Triple Berry Mixed Green Salad
Blackberry Kiwi Salad with Oranges
Blackberry Kiwi Salad with Oranges
This Vitamin C-rich Blackberry Kiwi Salad with Oranges is full of antioxidants! It combines baby spinach, arugula, fruit and berries with a smattering of feta cheese. Tossed with a simple honey-citrus dressing, this salad is as tasty as it is pretty!
Blackberry Kiwi Salad with Oranges
Strawberry Mango Arugula Salad with Goat Cheese
Strawberry-Mango Arugula Salad with Goat Cheese
This Strawberry-Mango Arugula Salad with Goat Cheese combines fresh sweet strawberries, mango, spicy arugula, creamy avocado and goat cheese and is drizzled with a flavourful honey-citrus vinaigrette.
Strawberry-Mango Arugula Salad with Goat Cheese
Kiwi Cucumber Salad with Walnuts and Fresh Mint
Kiwi Cucumber Salad with Walnuts and Fresh Mint
This Kiwi Cucumber Salad with Walnuts and Fresh Mint is definitely green, but it's not your typical green salad! Tender butter lettuce, crisp cucumbers and heart-healthy kiwi fruit are drizzled with Lime Vinaigrette in this tasty salad!
Kiwi Cucumber Salad with Walnuts and Fresh Mint
Strawberry Kale Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing
Strawberry Kale Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing
This Strawberry Kale Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing is packed with delicious flavours. Strawberries, creamy avocado, tangy feta, toasted sunflower seeds and a sweet dressing will make this baby kale salad your new summer favourite!
Strawberry Kale Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing
Savory Summer Fruit Salads
Blackberry Honeydew Salad with Basil
Blackberry Honeydew Salad with Basil
Sweet honeydew, tart blackberries and pungent basil combine to make this fresh Blackberry Honeydew Salad with Basil as appetizing to look at as it is to eat.
Blackberry Honeydew Salad with Basil
Greek Watermelon Salad with Basil
Greek Watermelon Basil Salad
This summer watermelon salad with fresh Greek flavours from vine-ripened tomatoes, olives, red onion, feta cheese and basil is quick to make and needs no dressing.
Greek Watermelon Basil Salad
Mediterranean Cantaloupe Salad with Olives
Mediterranean Cantaloupe Salad
This Mediterranean Cantaloupe Salad with olives and red onion is a refreshing summer salad. It's sweet, salty and spicy, all in one bite! Quick and easy.
Mediterranean Cantaloupe Salad
Peach and Tomato Salad with Grilled Halloumi
Grilled Halloumi, Peach and Tomato Salad with Croutons
This delicious heirloom tomato salad has sweet grilled peaches, crisp croutons and grilled halloumi cheese. It's topped with fresh basil and a simple balsamic dressing.
Grilled Halloumi, Peach and Tomato Salad with Croutons
Heirloom Tomato Salad with Basil, Capers & Feta
Heirloom Tomato Salad with Basil, Capers and Feta
Basil, capers and feta cheese enhance the natural flavours of late-summer tomatoes in this simple recipe for Heirloom Tomato Salad.
Heirloom Tomato Salad with Basil, Capers and Feta
Mango Avocado Chili Lime Salad
Mango Avocado Chili Lime Salad
Sweet mango and buttery avocado flavoured with chili and lime make this healthy mango avocado chili lime salad one to remember! It's Vegan, Whole30 and Paleo-approved.
Mango Avocado Chili Lime Salad
Honeydew Blueberry Salad with Blue Cheese
Honeydew Blueberry Salad with Blue Cheese
This honeydew blueberry salad with blue cheese makes an impressive starter or side. With cool, crisp cucumbers and a mint lime dressing, this melon salad recipe is healthy and refreshing!
Honeydew Blueberry Salad with Blue Cheese
Potato Salads
Potato Salad with Pickled Shallots
Potato Salad with Pickled Shallots
This Potato Salad with Pickled Shallots is bursting with flavour from fresh snipped chives, grainy mustard, capers and best of all, pickled shallots! Ideal for picnics and deck parties.
Potato Salad with Pickled Shallots
Green Bean Potato Salad with Anchovy Dressing
Green Bean Potato Salad with Anchovy Dressing
Mediterranean flavours dominate in this potato salad with tender green beans, tomatoes and olives in a pungent anchovy dressing. An ideal potluck salad!
Green Bean Potato Salad with Anchovy Dressing
Pasta Salads
Summer Veggie Pasta Salad with Feta Dressing
Summer Veggie Pasta Salad with Feta Dressing
This vegetarian Summer Veggie Pasta Salad with Creamy Feta Dressing is perfect for potluck or bbq parties. Easy and always popular.
Summer Veggie Pasta Salad with Feta Dressing
Easy Tabouli Pasta Salad
Easy Tabouli Pasta Salad
All your favourite Middle Eastern tabouli flavours, now in an easy tabouli pasta salad! Toss fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, parsley and mint with pasta and toss it all with fresh lemon juice and olive oil. Easy and incredibly delicious.
Easy Tabouli Pasta Salad
Favourite Broccoli Salads
Honey-Dijon Broccoli Salad
Honey-Dijon Broccoli Salad with Cranberries
This vegetarian Broccoli Salad is mayo-free but tastes even better with Honey-Dijon Dressing. Great for potlucks and parties!
Honey-Dijon Broccoli Salad with Cranberries
Asian Broccoli Salad with Peanut Dressing
Asian Broccoli Salad with Peanut Sauce
This Asian broccoli salad with peanut dressing combines shredded broccoli, carrots, edamame and red onion. It's tossed with peanut sauce and garnished with crunchy salted peanuts. Simply satisfying with amazing flavours!
Asian Broccoli Salad with Peanut Sauce
Protein-Rich Quinoa Salads and Bean Salads
Quinoa Black Bean Salad with Peaches
Quinoa Black Bean Salad with Peaches
A quinoa black bean salad with a difference! Sweet, juicy peaches with crunchy red pepper, nutty quinoa and creamy mild black beans makes this quinoa salad one you'll want to make on repeat! Add smoked paprika pumpkin seeds and toss with a sweet peach vinaigrette for extra layers of flavour!
Quinoa Black Bean Salad with Peaches
Garden Fresh Mediterranean Quinoa Salad
Garden Fresh Mediterranean Quinoa Salad
This garden fresh Mediterranean Quinoa Salad with Feta and Lemon Dressing makes a protein-rich summertime meal-in-a-bowl! Combine quinoa, tomatoes, cucumbers, Kalamata olives and fresh basil and serve for dinner or lunch.
Garden Fresh Mediterranean Quinoa Salad
Tomato Avocado Black Bean Salad
Tomato Avocado Black Bean Salad with Cilantro Lime Dressing
This healthy Southwestern Salad is perfect for potlucks, as a side dish or for lunch! It's a vegan Tomato Avocado Black Bean Salad tossed with a tangy cilantro lime dressing.
Tomato Avocado Black Bean Salad with Cilantro Lime Dressing
When you make one of these healthy summer potluck salads, please leave a comment below! I love hearing when you've made one of my recipes. Thanks in advance! Subscribe to my weekly newsletter and have new recipes delivered straight to your inbox.
ANA LUISA QUIÑONES
¡Excelentes recetas y que disfrute de verduras y frutas!
Elaine
Gracias!