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Best Simple Garden Salad Recipes

May 25, 2011 By admin 8 comments

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Garden salad is simple enough to serve as a side dish, but add some protein to garden salads, and you can serve them as a complete meal. Here are some of my favorite simple garden salad recipes, using fresh fruits and garden vegetables.

Simple Garden Salad Recipes

Sometimes, the best meals I make are the ones thrown together at the last minute, using what I find in the refrigerator.  I may have a hankering for something fresh and crunchy, or there is extra fruit needing to be used up.

Last night, it took me forever to get dinner on the table. I was making Greek burgers on the grill, and wanted a quick, crisp side dish to serve with them. What I came up with is my new favorite garden salad.  This is by NO means a revolutionary salad recipe, but it’s simple and clean.  My kids love garden salads with fruit, and there were no leftovers, which is how I measure it’s simple greatness!

Hearts of Romaine Garden Salad with Orange Vinaigrette

The citrus flavors are the star of this simple garden salad, and the orange vinaigrette dressing is so good, I could drink it through a straw! ????

Hearts of Romaine Garden Salad

 A simple garden salad doesn’t always have to include greens, either. I love to use fresh summer fruits to create a delicious, healthy, light lunch.

One of my favorites is this watermelon, blueberry and feta salad.

If you want to add flavor to your garden salad recipes without adding calories and fat, add a handful of fresh herbs. Dill, basil, and mint are all easy to grow and can be used to create salad dressings and meat marinades, too. Freshly chopped mint is clean and refreshing in grape, mint, and tomato garden salad.

 

Refreshing Grape, Mint and Tomato Salad, I am pretty sure you will be making this a LOT this summer!

Add cheese, beans, and grains to garden salad to provide fiber and protein. I use white beans in a lot of salad recipes because I think they have a lighter taste than some of the darker beans.

Once the Indiana sweet corn is in season, this summer vegetable chopped salad with lemon vinaigrette is a staple dinner salad at our house.

Summer Vegetable Chopped Salad with White Beans and Lemon Vinaigrette

This farro chopped vegetables garden salad is highly customizable.

Use the vegetables that are in season and on hand. Be sure to chop all of the veggies to about the same size.

Farro Chopped Vegetables Garden Salad

As mentioned earlier, many of my dinner recipes are created out of necessity. Usually, when I need to clean my refrigerator of leftover odds and ends.

This kale chopped salad was born from a need to completely declutter and clean out my refrigerator.

I was craving a garden salad with kale, and I had just enough of it on hand to make this chopped salad recipe. Chopped salads are my favorite, and my kids are less likely to pick through a chopped salad than a tossed salad. They like to add their own dressing and whatnot.

At the end of the day, the less griping I hear, the better. You  know what I mean? ????

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8 responses to “Best Simple Garden Salad Recipes”

  1. Lark (SparkyLarky) says:
    May 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm
    These are the type of recipes I see and think well gee Lark, why couldnt you have thought up that?...It just goes to show you WE all have a different "TAKE" ON RECIPES. AND I AM GLAD YOU ARE HERE TO FILL IN MY RECIPE BOX! THANKS HEATHER, You are so quick to point out the things I over look. (that IS a compliment!) :)
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  2. basilmomma: Heather Tallman says:
    May 25, 2011 at 8:15 pm
    Well, it is a simple salad and really good. Doesn't do much for your breath, though ;)
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  3. Lisa Ladrido says:
    May 25, 2011 at 10:02 pm
    Hi finally I can make comments! Whoo hoo! Those pictures are so beautiful. I love those layers of colors. Regarding the breath, if you feed everyone the salad it won't matter! Visiting again from VoiceBoks!~Lisa I am all a twitter about life
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  4. carolinaheartstrings says:
    May 25, 2011 at 11:40 pm
    If the kids like it is definitely a keeper. Wonderful pics!
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  5. Steph says:
    May 26, 2011 at 3:19 am
    That looks very refreshing... with a burger, score! the children liked it ? double score!!! :) Thanks for sharing. I love any salads so I'll have to remember this next time. I am not good at throwing things together for dinner. I get too frazzled if dinner is not set at the beginning of the week and then fixed 30 min. before hubby gets home.
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  6. Melanie says:
    May 26, 2011 at 3:24 am
    Have your kids always like salad and especially onions? I just keep pushing the salad part, and most of my kids will eat it fine, but they draw the line at onions. I figure when they get older, they'll come to appreciate them. Thanks for sharing such a beautiful salad!
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  7. Kimby says:
    May 26, 2011 at 10:53 am
    Your salad is a testament to "the simpler, the better" -- oil & vinegar, salt & pepper, a squeeze of citrus -- and CRISP! Yummy...
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  8. basilmomma: Heather Tallman says:
    May 26, 2011 at 11:35 am
    My kids have always liked salad so I use that to get a few more things in like veggies...BUTI, roo, plan my meals out at the beg. of the week but we had a crazy schedule this week due to the last week of school so I made 3 meals on Sunday. Then I just had to heat up. But on this night I had to heat, make a salad, make my meal for my article (always Sunday's post) and get some good shots in outside before the rain. So frazzled I was!
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