Looking for some epic summer salad recipes for an easy breezy summer? Find 12 easy summer salads recipes and ideas by 12 contributing bloggers. We have summer salads with fruit like mango salad, summer citrus salad, and summer berry salad. You can find salads with chicken – perfect summer salads for BBQ! Whether you want healthy salads for clean eating, summer lunch ideas, or recipes for salad meal prep for the week, you will find them here!
What Makes an Epic Summer Salad?
As you will see from the recipes below, an epic summer salad develops from the seasonal produce. You need to have a healthy salad that shines with summer produce that we all love and crave!
Types of Seasonal Produce in Summer
No doubt, seasonal produce varies by month. According to Whole Foods Market’s simple guide on summer produce, you will easily find berries, cherries, and fruits with pits (peaches and apricots, for example).
For vegetables, you will easily get your hands on summer squash, corn, tomatoes, and okra.
Obviously, some of these things can be found year-round in grocery stores. But if you are a farmer’s market kind of guy or gal, you will have more luck in these months for those items.
Enjoy our Epic Summer Salad Recipes
This year, I decided to try to branch outside my usual norm with some new epic summer salad recipes. We gave a treasure trove of refreshing leafy greens here for you – enjoy mango salmon salad, melon salad, chickpea salads, BBQ chicken salad, and mango kale salads to name a few.
Luckily, twelve fellow bloggers helped me by contributing a recipe to this blog post to spread these awesome recipes around!
Refreshing Summer Salad Recipes
If you are looking for more healthy salad ideas for summer, you have found the right place! We have rounded up the tastiest summer salads. Get ready to salad meal prep and plan to try them all!
This roasted chickpea salad brings together avocado, heirloom tomatoes, feta cheese and crisp cucumbers with roasted chickpeas and spices. Top this Mediterranean salad with a blackberry feta dressing!
BBQ Chicken Salad with Greek Yogurt Ranch Dressing-The Heirloom Pantry
BBQ chicken salad with Greek yogurt ranch dressing is a fresh and colorful salad featuring tender BBQ chicken with crisp romaine, red onion, sweet corn, cotija cheese, cherry tomatoes, black beans, ripe avocado, and Crunchy Garlic Tortilla Strips. Toss it with healthy Greek Yogurt Ranch Dressing for even more flavor!
Enjoy this healthy watermelon salad with basil. It's a fruity leafy green salad topped with a refreshing watermelon reduction vinaigrette.
This delicious spinach salad is packed with protein-rich leafy spinach, sweet mango, and healthy fats from avocado. Perfect as a summer salad!
This Mediterranean salad with orzo is easy to make and comes together in less than 20 minutes. It's so versatile, and is the perfect side to any family dinner!
This kale mango quinoa salad is a vegan salad with kale, mango, quinoa, avocado. It is dressed with cashews, radishes and a refreshing lemon vinaigrette!
Enjoy this sweet prosciutto and melon salad in summer - made with cantaloupe and balsamic reduction Italian prosciutto.
You will love this mango salmon salad - full of amazing flavors: ripe mango, avocado, feta cheese, and a lemon-honey dressing.
This garlic kale salad is dressed with pecorino cheese, toasted pepitas, and a green, and a tasty garlic confit dressing.
Enjoy this summer salad - made with fresh strawberries, goat cheese, spinach, walnuts & pine nuts. Top it with a homemade balsamic vinaigrette with a hint of cinnamon.
Enjoy a Sandwich with Your Summer Salad
Choose a quick sandwich to go along with your fruity salad or easy leafy salad for light kitchen duty this summer! After all, there is summer fun to be had!
English Muffin Breakfast Sandwich
Air Fryer Turkey and Cheese Sandwich
Deluxe Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Cranberry Turkey Sliders with Hawaiian Rolls
Air Fryer Peanut Butter and Jelly
Grilled Ham and Cheese in the Air Fryer
Cheese and Ham Panini Sandwich
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