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These easy healthy salad recipes brimming with textures and flavors will bring a lot of variation to your summer lunches and dinners. They can be quickly on your table, leaving you plenty of time to enjoy the season!
Easy Healthy Salad Recipes: 22 Ideas for Summer
1. Honey Lime Grilled Chicken Salad
Everything about this grilled chicken salad is delicious and it uses the same honey lime mixture for the marinade and for drizzling over.
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2. Cucumber Tomato Salad
Perfect for a casual summer dinner or for feeding a crowd at a potluck!
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4. healthy lunch salads
Super nourishing and packed with flavor, the perfect side dish to you BBQ menu.
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5. Strawberry Salsa Tomato Cups
A light and healthy starter, perfect for a summer cookout.
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6. Cabbage Grilled Chicken Salad with Raspberry Balsamic Dressing
Who says summer ultimately says salads and grilling; and this grilled chicken salad brings them all together! This one-bowl meal is an amazing formula to keep you both refreshed and satisfied throughout hot summer days.
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7. Spring Roll Noodle Salad
Healthy and packed with vitamins — perfect for hot summer nights nights.
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8. Mint Cucumber Chickpea Salad In a Jar
This crisp and refreshing lunch salad in a jar is ready in 10 minutes and full of protein and fiber.
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9. Carrot and Daikon Noodle Salad
Hit up the Korean market and try this crisp, fresh, and delicate salad.
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10. Healthy Avocado Salad with Peanut Sauce
f you’re all about getting simple and eating clean this summer, this avocado salad is light, cool and ready in 5 minutes with no cooking involved. The flavorful thai-style peanut dressing and the freshness of cilantro make it the perfect lunch when you’ve got no time to cook!
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11. Summer Avocado Chicken Salad with Peanut Dressing
This summer avocado chicken salad is crunchy, healthy and filling all at the same time!
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12. Raw Chioggia Beet Salad
This colorful beet salad is ideal for summertime alfresco dining and dinner parties. Delicious on its own as a light meal, you can also serve it with grilled fish or meat.
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13. Quinoa and Cucumber Noodles Salad With Avocado Dressing
A protein-rich salad that will quickly become a weekday staple.
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14. Rainbow Quinoa Salad with Avocado Cilantro Lime Dressing
This roasted veggies quinoa salad is easy to make in advance and highly portable — perfect for summer picnics and lunchboxes. Bring it to perfection with a creamy and zesty avocado lime cilantro dressing.
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15. Greek Pasta Salad with Grilled Vegetables
This Greek pasta salad is so easy to throw together—loaded with fresh veggies and feta, it makes for a healthy and delicious meal, not to be missed!
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16. Orange Pepper Cucumber Salad with Lime Garlic Vinaigrette
Here’s a light and refreshing salad that will elevate your lunch routine. Jalapeño brings a kick of spice while cucumber offer crunch and springy freshness to this quick dish. The very thin slices allow the salt and lemon to penetrate the vegetables and draw out their juices.
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17. Ham and Cheese Barley Salad
This flavor-packed barley salad is sure to keep you full until dinner. Fresh, crunchy and high in fiber, it works great as a healthy lunch you can bring to work or at school.
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18. Melon and Napa Cabbage Slaw
Bursting with ripe, colorful fruits and vegetables, this vivid melon cucumber Napa cabbage slaw is the perfect combination of savory and sweet flavors. Super refreshing and done in 10 minutes!
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19. Caprese Salad with Pesto Dressing
Nothing says Summer quite like a fresh and zesty tomato salad! This combo of juicy tomato, creamy mozzarella and green pesto is so simple to make and offers a delicious twist on the classic Caprese salad.
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20. Fennel Celery and Radish Salad
This light, crisp and refreshing combo with crisp fennel, celery and radish is your new got-to healthy salad.
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21. Cucumber Sesame Salad
This spiralized cucumber salad with asian accents is the perfect compliment to any lunch or entree. Bursting with sweet, tangy, umami flavor, this paleo, healthy, and low carb salad takes only ten minutes to throw together!
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22. Simple Sesame Beet Salad
Reset with this healthy beet salad using only uses beets, scallion, sesame seeds and sesame oil. It’s as simple as it is crunchy and refreshing!
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